TP to you Feckless for this post. I made a post late last year or during this past summer that were I coach, I would give serious, serious consideration to starting Jeff Green this year, with either Pierce or Allen come off the bench.
I would have told Pierce to slim down and be prepared to play more Off guard, bring Ray off the bench.
1. Gives Rondo someone to really run with
2. Gets Green integrated faster
3. Thought it would help our rebounding with Pierce and Green rather than Ray and Pierce...
4. Increased athleticism - Vet presence off the bench.
We need to be forward thinking at this point with who's going to be carrying the load next year and beyond - that is not Ray.
Naturally, I got roundly skewered for a completely assinine suggestion to bench Ray Allen.
Bottom line - I'm the coach, your the player. "Ray, your going to be our sixth man now. You don't like it, we can trade you, no problem, grow up, you're making $10mil a year and you're an employee..."
Obviously, you can do it more tactfully than that, but the underlying sentiment is exactly that and the result if not taken graciously by the employee would in fact be a trade, period."
Anyway, this team needs a real injection of youth and energy mixed in with the vets, it's time. I LOVE KG, Ray and Pierce - but, it's time.
If we don't trade Ray for Josh Smith, this would be a no brainer for me as coach. Team becomes much stronger.
I'd still like to get another big man banger though. Where I don't know...
Again, TP.
