Rather keep Rozier through next year to go all in for a title next year. Injuries happen, as we all know, and having Rozier around to be insurance to play a bigger role due to injury to another player, in a year you are going for it all, is huge. We can deal with either resigning him or sign and trading him after next year's playoffs.
Exactly. I feel like a lot of the Smart/Rozier talk around here is all-nothing, either we sign them long-term or let them go. But we could do lots of other things. We could re-sign Smart and trade him next summer, and then re-sign Rozier, for example.
plus what’s the point of trading for a middle of the pack draft pick ? I get having assets but we are beyond that point of asset collection, we have a good amount of draft picks remaining that we don’t even know what to do with. Roll with rozier and see what happens
I get this sentiment, im just not sure keeping Rozier makes all thay much difference in a title run, hes not gonna be a starter, closer, sixth man, and he will likely be what the fifth option at best? If you can get a long term big man to replace Horford for Rozier than do it. Chicago at 7, New York at 9 strikes ne as teams that wont want to wait and could use a shooting point. Somebody like Bamba or Carter will slip there. Im all foraximizing winning, but I also want to see a long term dynasty and replacibg Horford is a big part of that.
you don’t see how being an insurance policy for kyrie is a good thing? How many healthy seasons has kyrie had? If we want a serious title run, we need serious insurance
Its gonna be very close next year between us and GS assuming health. The point I am making is losing Irving with or without Rozier means the title is out of reach, keeping him is nice insurance but it doesnt get you were u need to go. And if Irving is healthy Rozier doesnt have the same bug role.
Now of course I could be wrong, I need to see how we stack up against GS this year to have a better idea. I just dont know if keeping Rozier for 1 extra year to increase our win chance by some small percent and then losing him is better than picking up a long term piece. Think of how important Horford is to our team, he will be 32 next year. If we can find the next young big I think about it.
Of course so.mych depends on how Ainge evaluates Rozier, draft propects, Smart, our title chances, ect. Im just saying you think about it.