i have no idea why anyone would want a 31 year old at this point. this team needs to look to the future with brown and adding two more brooklyn picks. that's the ideal core going forward. the current group isn't the team thats going to win stuff.
Because Horford is by far Boston's best player. Boston didn't sign Horford to build around the Brooklyn picks.
IT is also our second best player and turns 28 this year. Bradley and Crowder (our 3rd and 4th best players) are right behind them in age. This team is built to win in the next few years. Not really sure how fans would follow this team and think otherwise...
If the Celtics play this thing right and they can have their cake and eat it too. Built to win now, built to win 3 years from now, built to win a decade from now.
Celtics certainly have the chips to do it. It's all about using them right.
Boston is only built to win now if it uses the assets that would be used to be built for a decade from now.
I am not really getting this decade stuff. In a decade IT, Horford and Amir will all be out of the league. Smart and Bradley and KO will definitely be on the back end of their career. Even Brown would be 30 and Rosier would 32. Is the decade just meant for hyperbole? Pointless negativity?
Well, lets go back.
In 3-4 years, Isaiah and Al are gone from this team. Avery and Jae might be the veterans on the team, or maybe theyre gone too. The point here, though, is that Smart, Rozier, Brown, 17 Nets pick, etc., have all grown and developed in a winning environment here in Boston (thanks to the earlier contributions of Isaiah and Al and Jae and Bradley, etc). When the time comes, the young core will be the ones to be granted the keys to the franchise. But by then, theyre also at or near their primes. Theyre gonna be winning immediately. The franchise will likely not even have a drop off, and that leads to at least 5 years of relevance and "win now" situation, probably even more.
So basically, like Donoghus said, we can have our cake now, and eat it too in 5 years, and for the next 5 years after that.
We can win for literally 10 straight years if we draft well and manage contracts correctly. The negativity by Moranis is a little pointless, if you ask me. It wont take a decade for the young guys to become the faces of the franchise. It'll take 3, maybe 4 years.