Should we / could we have developed more depth?

[Roy H.]

Boogie is Roy's pipedream. This organization has never shown a scintilla of interest in Boogie....ever. He was never coming here.

Their loss, because he's way better than Kornet.  He's an actual NBA player, unlike seven other guys on the roster.

[celticsclay]

Not to let facts get in the way of bold declarations, but the oft-cited Cody Zeller, in particular, had knee surgery at the end of January:
https://twitter.com/jwquick/status/1491223315880771585?lang=en

So there's a strong likelihood that this specific player would not have been better than anyone on our current roster, especially as he wasn't set to be evaluated for playing until the end of March anyway - that's objectively not enough on-court and practice time to meaningfully learn the playbook, defensive schemes, etc. even if he recovered without issue, which is no guarantee.

There's also the fact that Cody Zeller-type is not a 'clear' net positive anyway against a slightly more tired Jason Tatum (or whatever). It's a bit of a unsubstantiated claim to say that as a given.


To be a bit speculative, I don't think the team was expected to do as well as they have by management (if we'd signed Wes Matthews on December 8th he would have joined a team playing .500 ball and looking to continue last year's disappointing season), and by the time we began to rattle off a serious win streak and generally put it all together -- post trade deadline -- the scrap heap of players available was, in all likelihood, unlikely to 'objectively' move the needle for us.

Believe he was expected to be available mid April health wise, and certainly reasonable to think he would have been the third week of may. Again the take that we couldn’t have possibly done something slightly better than a bench with 7 guys that can neither play now or are viewed as having much upside is basically ludicrous. Really don’t understand it.

[celticsclay]

Boogie is Roy's pipedream. This organization has never shown a scintilla of interest in Boogie....ever. He was never coming here.

I agree we traditionally haven’t, but to be fair that was all under ainge in the past and I think he became particularly conscious of chemistry after the kyrie experience. Stevens very well could have felt the same way but this is a difference front office than the best (last year it was rumored we wanted to avoid him because of the risk but don’t know if that was ainge, brad or both.