Thanks for thread and ideas.
If Ainge drafts Fultz he officially has too many guards.
Bradley and Smart are two of the best perimeter defenders in the NBA. They can stay relevant in the league for a long time and I assume are not specifically "max$" players. If you want three max guys some day, it would be handy to have these two playing with them...maybe.
Bradley and Smart stay.
Rozier is a cheap/solid off the bench defender. Not worth trading as there will be no return better than he and he can run the floor adequately when pg gets hurt. Dirt cheap insurance and the kid plays big in big games.
Rozier stays.
Fultz could be "the man" let's hope so.
Fultz stays.
Odd dynamic here, Jaylen Brown switches to the "2" here and there getting some minutes.
Brown stays.(in the off guard rotation once in awhile)
Crowder is a great "deal" for his solid play. He actually has some trade value because of his contract. If Hayward comes here? If someone else comes here maybe?
Crowder goes.
Thomas misses the beginning of the season while rehabbing after putting together one of the all time great PG seasons. Stevens and Ainge have a big issue to deal with here don't they? Thomas' return takes 38 minutes per game from the above guard rotation...which is the "future" guard rotation. Man the fur is gonna fly on this one here at CB ain't it? Blood in the streets.
IT 2017/18 season saviour or...odd man out.
KO gets pile of money from somewhere.
KO goes
Horford has $27 million reasons to remain.
Al stays
Zizic-Nader-Yabusele...I say one of these guys gets onto the Celtic's bench. They are cheap and have upside. I legitimately don't think it will be Zizic, but, If KO, Zeller and JJ are at the precipice and Ainge doesn't sign any bigs...Zizic gets minutes. He can't shoot threes can he? That's not going to go well in Stevensland. "Z boy? Just go out there and chuck us some treys...waddya mean you don't shoot threes? Get Danny on the phone!"
"Zadersele" stays...somehow
Ainge says "we're going to try and get Hayward" who lives in Utah and California with his wife and baby to move to Boston, play with "#1 draft picks" and get beat by Cavs. I am so unsure about Hayward, I'm not giving him a roster spot here. I hope we get him though. Gawd, if Fultz started to score early in his rookie year and we have Hayward? Dang.
Man, am I going to get hate mail for this roster move. Carmelo Anthony. Good second prize if C's can't get Hayward.
Melo stays and hits enough game winners to make Celtics fans tolerate all the other clap.
Smart is a point guard, so that is where I play him. "Let's play Smart at the two." The other title for two guard is shooting guard and using Marcus name in the same sentence as "shooting" is just plain bad form...let's have him 1)pass to players that can shoot and 2)mangle opponents who are trying to shoot. Belichick would be soooo very proud of us.
Smart/Fultz
Bradley/Rozier
Anthony/Brown/?
Horford/Zadersele
I vote we get a guy who not only CAN play center, but, actually WANTS to play center. You guys know more about potential bigs for this team than I do. Ainge might just keep Zellah, Amiah, JJ and James Young just to torture us.
Ok, so Smart and Bradley lock it down on D. Melo rains us some threes. Brown gets ready to make the jump to 38 minutes. Horford is Horford, Zadersele proves one of them is a "7th best player" and Ainge just rearranges the deck chairs so he can trade for the guy he really wants someday. "My name is Tyler Zeller, my contract was designed to be traded. I get paid a lot and never get cut. I have a video for other veteran NBA players that shows them how to pull this off it's only $19.99."
The above roster, what there is of it, would suit Danny just fine. He knows this ain't a title contender, but, it gets the gold medal for "flexibility". He just wants a bunch of guys he can trade for...anything...24/7.