Anyone who wouldnt trade the celtics roster for the sixers roster is on crack. Their players are more valuable and they have the ammo to load up quick or continue to stockpile talent and become the next OKC. Idk I guess you guys are all cool with mediocrity and trying to be the atlanta hawks this year. This is boston, and it's championship or bust. If you arent a legit contender get out.
Yeah, you beat me to it. Who wouldn't want a core of MCW, Embiid, and Noel moving forward, in addition to having Tony Wroten, KJ McDaniels (a personal favorite of mine), and even Henry Sims, who's proven to be more than capable? They also aren't saddled with any horrible contracts like we are, so, what's not to like?
We'll see about all that. Embiid and Noel have been plagued by injuries, MCW is old considering that he's only in his 2nd season and they were trying to trade him for a top 10 pick (according to reports) with no takers, Wroten and Sims look like career journeymen, and McDaniels signed a 1 year deal.
What "horrible" contracts are we saddled with? The salary cap is rising, so theoretically we could stretch Wallace out during the off-season with very little consequence, percentage wise, to our cap. Other than that one, which again isn't horrible as I've explained, which other one are you referring to?
Sorry, I was only referring to Wallace's contract, but what do you mean by stretching out his deal in the offseason? At least the 76ers have a general direction, while we seem to be torn between blowing it up and packaging guys for proven players. Plus, if Embiid can play, he could be amazing, and Noel is no slouch, either. That's 2/3 of an awesome front line down the road already, and getting big guys like them is extremely difficult because of how rare such players like Embiid are.
Using the stretch provision.
We do have a general direction, which is player development/collecting assets (don't forget the haul of picks we have including the Sixers 2nd rd pick the next 2 seasons). Plus, you're failing to account for our coach, GM, and ownership group all of which taken as a whole make me take the C's over the Sixers.
While I do think that our ownership group is fine, I can honestly say that I don't know where I stand on Stevens. There are things to like about him, like his use of the trap, and certainly we don't have a great deal of talent right now, but our offense is still non-existent unless we're making a ton of 3s, which seems to be more of a college approach than anything else, so it's tough to really see a day down the road where that strategy will pay off, unfortunately, but, again, that's just me. As for Ainge, I don't have enough time to explain why I don't like him lol, but, for once, I did agree with his draft choices lol. Now, you can point to his assembling of our championship team, but that was, imo, more due to a once in a lifetime situation where all of the stars perfectly aligned at precisely the right time, not to mention his friendship with McHale. I just get the sense that he really has no idea what he's doing. The only thing predicable about Danny is that he will trade Rondo at some point
, and that he continuously shops his guys around, no matter who they are, as if they are chess pieces, and I've always found that characteristic of his very bothersome and deeply disturbing.
Btw, I know that I'm going to lose a lot of points from you by asking this, but, since I'm not familiar with it, what is the, "stretch provision?" Does it allow the team to change a contract of, say, $4 million dollars over 2 years to $4 million dollars over 3 or 4 seasons? Sorry.