This is a joke. "Flexibility" is a term I have seen ppl use, but it's a joke......we don't have it.
As far as ppl being okay of happy we made 0 moves.....your kidding yourself. You were the same ppl posting about how DA will "make it happen" during the deadline. We have gone too far to tank or try to do what I suggested last year(get our pick in the running for Ingram and Simmons). Looks like we are going French and banking on the future Nets picks being in the top....i don't think you can do that and preach flexibility.
All so we can win a couple playoff games....
Wouldn't want you to be a future Celtics owner...
Maybe a future nets owner
When you have a top-4 seed playoff team that's all pretty much under 27, no bad contracts, a top 5 pick and cap space for two max deals. That's called flexibility.
Drink the Kool-Aid much? Many teams will have cap space and just because we have young players does not mean all of them or even any of them will get much better....and even if 1 or 2 of them does it won't be good enough to win us a championship.
Can we agree that we all want to win a championship multiple times, keep the record away from the Lakers, and get the best coach in the league some actual dominant players that play his system.
IMO If Stevens were given the right players he could turn our team into a dynasty.
You said the same thing last year about how the guys we had (Crowder, Kelly, AB, Thomas, etc.) weren't gonna get much better. Here we are a year later, and IT is an All-Star, 20/7/3 PG. Crowder has improved so much that his 7 Million a year is almost criminal. He's clearly still improving, and it wouldn't shock me to see him improve into a constant 18/6 SF with elite level defense. Heck he's almost there now. Bradley is still improving, Kelly has improved a ton, particularly on D. Turner has gotten better, Smart's gotten better, Turner and Jerebko have gotten better and even Sully has continued to improve under CBS. We also have 3 rookies and a sophomore who I'm sure are improving even without NBA PT.
Because of that improvement, Crowder and Bradley are legit excellent trade chips that you could get quite a good amount back for. We traded Marcus Thornton's expiring and a late-20's 1st for Thomas, and if we traded him today we would've gotten back MUCH more. Crowder was a throw in for the Rondo trade and now he's a guy almost anyone would love to have, and has huge trade value. Championships are what matters, but you can't just wave a magic wand and have that happen. Putting all your eggs in one basket (draft, FA or trade) makes you susceptible to veering off the track so far that you've wasted 3 years just to "collect lottery picks", and your still years away from building something even resembling a future contender (See:Philly)
How many teams have ever been in a position where they had the leagues 5th youngest roster, where everyone who plays at all is 28 or under, where that roster is ALREADY sitting at the 3 seed, with a guy whos probably the leagues best young coach, who could very realistically win 50 games, make a run towards the ECF AND get a top-5 pick (Maybe even top-2), AND have max-cap space to sign FA's (who might actually sign here because The league has officially taken notice of Boston's rise. Idk if any team in the third year of a rebuild has EVER been able to say that
I think we should all be able to agree that Ainge is CLEARLY one if the best GM's in the NBA, has been for some time, and were very lucky to have him as our GM. That's not "kool-aid". There's not a whole lot of GM's/FO's that are better than Ainge and Boston's