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I don't care about Paul George.

If he can give us quality role player production, I am good. If he only gives us half season, that is fine. I mean what more can we expect given his injury record of the past 7 seasons.

What does it matter anyway? He gets hurt then the young wings step up and replace his minutes. Is that a downgrade? Is that big of a downgrade? It is significant but it is not huge.

How much difference does Paul George even make to a team these days? Is a guy who improves a team by 10 wins? Nah. Not healthy enough. Even if he was healthy for a whole season, is he a 10 win a season impact player? Probably not. When is the last time he has added 10 wins to a team? It has been years. Probably closer to 7-8 wins at 36yo.

Let's say 8. So we get half a season. 4 wins. Lose out on the other 4 wins because he is injured for the other half but the young wings come in and replace him. They can't give us those 4 wins but they can probably give us 2 wins. So we get 6 wins instead of 8. Again, who cares. It is 2 wins. It doesn't matter greatly if we only get half a season out of him vs a healthy season.

PG13 is not important to the success or non-success of this team. He is a useful addition but he is not driving any major impact here. He plays, fine. He doesn't play, fine.

He is our 5th most important player. Tatum, D White, Pritchard are all core players. PG13 is just a rental. A mercenary. Heck, I'd say Queta is more important than PG13. Hence, 5th in the list. M Robinson might even challenge him for 5th.

PG13 is not important. He is just a role player.

The only thing about PG13 that matters is that he is the "new Theo Ratliff".

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PG is our guy now, like it or not (and apparently there are some that don't like it).

Who does like it, compared to JB?

Two different things.  Paul George cannot replace Jaylen Brown but that does not mean he won't contribute to the team in his own way.  I have accepted the trade and now I want to focus on what PG can do to help the Celtics.

I have said many times that I don't like the trade, that I do not think the trade made the team better.  But that does not mean I don't like PG.  I am not going to dwell on this.  I like what I saw from PG in the playoffs and I hope he keeps that up for the Celtics.  And we will see if Management is able to do anything with the picks or otherwise to help the team.

I didn't see much from PG13 in the playoffs. The guy got on a hot streak and had a larger impact than expected because of it. Without the hot streak, he would have been a peripheral figure - as he has been throughout most of his 2yrs in Philly.