I'm loving Green right now, but I feel like if we kept Perk that year, we would've had a much better shot at winning the title. Pierce and Ray were having superb shooting years, Rondo kept improving, and KG was beginning to fully recover from the knee surgery. Perk, while a shell of himself, was still an effective defender, and he was definitely better than an injured Shaq, a hobbled Jermaine, and Kristic.
Plus, IIRC, we were going to sign Dahntay Jones to back up Pierce after Quisy went down. He would've been a decent backup, bringing good defense and sold shooting.
If we could've found a way to trade Perk that offseason, I would've been happy, because we might've had an eighteenth banner by then.
Again, I'm loving Green's play right now, though.