Steps to a successful offseason/season for the C's

[cman88]

I think Nazr Mohammad would be a decent center to target...he shouldnt take more than 3million, is durable and could provide a good backup to JO

[toneskeet]

I guess i wouldn't mind Nazr. My hopes without a trade and keeping it cheap would be

Rajon Rondo / Avery Bradley
Ray Allen / Delonte West / E’Twaun Moore / Gilbert Brown
Paul Pierce / Jeff Green / Josh Howard
Kevin Garnett / JuJuan Johnson / Earl Clark
Jermaine O’Neal / Kwame Brown / Kurt Thomas

[diconzo]

I guess i wouldn't mind Nazr. My hopes without a trade and keeping it cheap would be

Rajon Rondo / Avery Bradley
Ray Allen / Delonte West / E’Twaun Moore / Gilbert Brown
Paul Pierce / Jeff Green / Josh Howard
Kevin Garnett / JuJuan Johnson / Earl Clark
Jermaine O’Neal / Kwame Brown / Kurt Thomas

I actually like the idea of Kwame coming to Boston. I don't care who eats up the regular season minutes as long as JO is healthy for playoffs. Kwame can stay healthy and stand in the middle for 36 minutes a night. The only thing I would change about that roster is Nazr instead of Kurt, and if Earl decides to go back to Orlando, resign T.smurf. Josh Howard might cost a bit too much, cosidering Jeff and Pierce can each play 30 minutes a game easy

[jc3celticsphan]

i would look for a big man that can stretch the floor. this team played so well with rasheed. also doc said that this team needs shooters. and shooting was the reason doc picked mavs over the heat.

we can take a look at Okur maybe and also a scoring wing jamal crawford.

[KGs Knee]

The most important thing we need to do this offseason is make sure we don't compromise our cap space for 2012 (unless we can get an elite player capable of being the #1 option on a championship contender).  This most likely means signing players to one years deals.  Not many quality players are ever willing to do that unfortunately.

We have a lot of needs.  2 C's, a PF, a SF, a SG, and a PG. If I had construct a bench within these parameters I would do something along the following lines:

SG/PG- Resign West to a minimum contract using our non-bird rights (basically a slight raise from last year)
     - Give Bradley more playing time
SF- Hopefully convince J. Green to take the QO, if not, a short deal (3yrs) at around $6m per
  - Resign Wafer to a minimum contract using same non-bird rught scenario as West for depth at the SF/SG position
PF- Sign Leon Powe to a minimum contract.  Johnson should be given a chance to show what he has, but we'll need a vet to be there as insurance in case he can't cut it.  Powe should be cheap, and is a great team player who will be ok with limited minutes while always being ready for when he's called upon.
C- I have no idea to be honest.  We're going to be forced to live with whoever will take a 1 year deal (if we want to maintain our cap flexibility-A MUST IMHO)

Our roster would look like this:

PG-Rondo/West/Bradley/Moore-(most likely Portland bound)
SG-Allen/West/Wafer
SF-Pierce/Green/Wafer
PF-Garnett/Johnson/Powe
C- J.O'Neal/???/???

Is this a championship roster?  IDK?  Probably not.  If we try to add any significant players, we're going to jepordize our 2012 cap flexibility, which must be maintained above all else.  It's unfortunate, but true (obviously just my opinion)

[stylo617617]

step 1 :was the draft & i thought it went rather well i think triple J will be used sparingly this season if kg gets in early foul trouble or if him & jeff are injured

step 2 :is the cba crap that needs to get sorted out

step 3:after the new cba is set we'll probably resign jeff 1st to an extension or just the QO,& then resign delonte to the 10% raise we can offer delonte

step 4: probably the most stressful part as in miami has the same money we'll offer so we'll lose out dalmeburt for them
but theres about 4-7 roster slots open we need to fill atleast 4 so i see those 4 slots going all to bigs ,theres no stand out center that will play 30-35 mins & be affective so out center position will have to be played by comitee so i see us signing guys like aaron grey for the vet min & splitting the MLE on guys like pryzbilla & kwame brown ten filling out the roster with maybe marquis & arroyo & steps 5& 6 below

step 5 :who do we use that trade exception on? we have 900k from clevland from luke & semih(though im not sure if we can combine them someone will have to clear that up for me) & also 2.3 from the marquis trade your guess is as good as mines

step 6: s&t glen? hey if a team is willing to lets try n get as much as we can for him

[heitingas]

Our roster would look like this:

PG-Rondo/West/Bradley/Moore-(most likely Portland bound)
SG-Allen/West/Wafer
SF-Pierce/Green/Wafer
PF-Garnett/Johnson/Powe
C- J.O'Neal/???/???

moore to portland,are we trading him?

[KGs Knee]

Our roster would look like this:

PG-Rondo/West/Bradley/Moore-(most likely Portland bound)
SG-Allen/West/Wafer
SF-Pierce/Green/Wafer
PF-Garnett/Johnson/Powe
C- J.O'Neal/???/???

moore to portland,are we trading him?

Portland, Maine....as in the Red Claws, our D-league affiliate

[cman88]

I guess i wouldn't mind Nazr. My hopes without a trade and keeping it cheap would be

Rajon Rondo / Avery Bradley
Ray Allen / Delonte West / E’Twaun Moore / Gilbert Brown
Paul Pierce / Jeff Green / Josh Howard
Kevin Garnett / JuJuan Johnson / Earl Clark
Jermaine O’Neal / Kwame Brown / Kurt Thomas

I actually like the idea of Kwame coming to Boston. I don't care who eats up the regular season minutes as long as JO is healthy for playoffs. Kwame can stay healthy and stand in the middle for 36 minutes a night. The only thing I would change about that roster is Nazr instead of Kurt, and if Earl decides to go back to Orlando, resign T.smurf. Josh Howard might cost a bit too much, cosidering Jeff and Pierce can each play 30 minutes a game easy

split the mle between Kwame brown/Nazr Mohammad and we've got a pretty good center rotation.

[diconzo]

I guess i wouldn't mind Nazr. My hopes without a trade and keeping it cheap would be

Rajon Rondo / Avery Bradley
Ray Allen / Delonte West / E’Twaun Moore / Gilbert Brown
Paul Pierce / Jeff Green / Josh Howard
Kevin Garnett / JuJuan Johnson / Earl Clark
Jermaine O’Neal / Kwame Brown / Kurt Thomas

I actually like the idea of Kwame coming to Boston. I don't care who eats up the regular season minutes as long as JO is healthy for playoffs. Kwame can stay healthy and stand in the middle for 36 minutes a night. The only thing I would change about that roster is Nazr instead of Kurt, and if Earl decides to go back to Orlando, resign T.smurf. Josh Howard might cost a bit too much, cosidering Jeff and Pierce can each play 30 minutes a game easy

split the mle between Kwame brown/Nazr Mohammad and we've got a pretty good center rotation.

That would be good. Then we could try to get Chris Johnson back from Portland, I really liked him and he could contribute a lot at PF/C. Could look like this:

PG) Rondo, West, Bradley
SG) Ray, Wafer, Moore, Gilbert Brown
SF) Pierce, Green (They can each play 30 MPG, no need for a third SF)
PF) KG, Chris Johnson, JaJuan Johnson
C) Jermaine, Nazr, Brown

[paulcowens]

The single most important thing is that Rondo needs to take a quantum leap (doesn't have to be a big one) with his shooting. I don't know if it's a confidence thing or a repetition thing, but the one thing we need the most is better shooting from Rondo, and it's something that should be within our grasp.

And no, we should NOT just 'see what we can get' for Davis.  We know that Davis is a good player.  We should try to keep him, unless someone offers us something better.