Surgery for Rob (out 8-12 weeks)

[JSD]

This is such a disaster from a team building perspective by ownership and management. Truly ridiculous. They have one legitimate big man on the roster who is any good and he’s 35. The decision to not use the $17 mil TPE is an abject disaster.

Yup!!! Sell the team Wyc

[liam]

This is such a disaster from a team building perspective by ownership and management. Truly ridiculous. They have one legitimate big man on the roster who is any good and he’s 35. The decision to not use the $17 mil TPE is an abject disaster.

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[celticinorlando]

This is such a disaster from a team building perspective by ownership and management. Truly ridiculous. They have one legitimate big man on the roster who is any good and he’s 35. The decision to not use the $17 mil TPE is an abject disaster.

Yup!!! Sell the team Wyc

Wyc said he told Brad to spend what he needed. It’s on Brad at this point that the bench is such trash.

[MaxAMillion]

This team has major problems. Once Brogdan suffers his yearly injury, you are really screwed.

[liam]

This team has major problems. Once Brogdan suffers his yearly injury, you are really screwed.

That's why you need a deep bench.

[celticinorlando]

Boston heads into training camp with Al Horford, Grant Williams, Luke Kornet, Noah Vonleh, Mfiondu Kabengele and Bruno Caboclo.

Al won’t play back to backs. Rob won’t make it through the season after this injury healthy.

Grant can only spell one of those guys. Then you have Kornet, kabengale and maybe vonleh to do it? Gross. All three of those guys are not worth anything. Counting on Kornet is just idiotic.

[JSD]

This is such a disaster from a team building perspective by ownership and management. Truly ridiculous. They have one legitimate big man on the roster who is any good and he’s 35. The decision to not use the $17 mil TPE is an abject disaster.

Yup!!! Sell the team Wyc

Wyc said he told Brad to spend what he needed. It’s on Brad at this point that the bench is such trash.

All the evidence points to ownership. If you were given the greenlight to spend at Will, why are you not using the TPE, even for an expiring contract? It just makes no sense

[JSD]

Stevens letting the $17 Million traded player exemption expire last month, is proving to be a big mistake.

[Moranis]

This team has major problems. Once Brogdan suffers his yearly injury, you are really screwed.

Brogdon, Smart, Brown, and Horford will all miss at least 10 games if prior history is a gauge.

That is why I never understood not using the TPE.  It is why I've been saying for the last couple of months that Boston wasn't acting like a team trying to contend.  If you want a good locker-room guy like Kornet and a young prospect you like like Hauser on the roster that is fine, but you can't then have 3 more spots of players of equal or lesser quality than those guys.  There were just too many open roster spots on the roster for the team not to use at least a portion of the TPE to get some quality vets in.  Basically from the moment Brogdon was acquired, Boston has stopped acting like a contender and instead has been acting like a rebuilding team.  It is a real problem.

[celticinorlando]

Agree about Hauser and Kornet. Those two should be like guys number 13 and 14. Now those two have to be counted on to contribute. This doesn’t include the injury prone players as well as five or six spots on the bench to guys that just aren’t good enough for a contender

[hodgy03038]

Why wait this long? This is stupid Rob & Celts.

[JSD]

Any medical people in here? Why would they wait until now to “ clean the knee”, this close to the season. Couldn’t they have done this, say six weeks ago?

[bdm860]

Was hoping this was an old thread that was bumped, no such luck.

Yeah, that's not good.  Haven't we been told all off-season that the leg was doing great, no long term effects, etc.?

Ya my first thought too.  So what was up with this report from last month?

Williams has no long-term concerns with his knee and he should be 100 percent for the start of training camp, Brian Robb of MassLive.com reports.

[PAOBoston]

This is such a disaster from a team building perspective by ownership and management. Truly ridiculous. They have one legitimate big man on the roster who is any good and he’s 35. The decision to not use the $17 mil TPE is an abject disaster.

Yup!!! Sell the team Wyc

The owner shouldn’t publicly says things like “We told Brad to spend whatever he needed.” It’s a lie. Brad didn’t spend it because they didn’t want to pay it. And for yet another season, this team has a subpar bench.

[Who]

No need to use the TPE. They just needed to sign real vets, vets with legit playoff experience, to fill out the end of their bench instead of a bunch of NBA hopefuls & reclamation projects.