How good could this team have been with David West + Jeff Green?

[chambers]

I don't like to dwell on the past, but darn we were close to getting David West for a day or two there.
Seemed like he was a Celtic for a day.
As polarizing as Jeff Green is, I think everyone here would admit that he would have made us a better team.
I've thought lately about the combined 30-35 points these two would have provided us each night.
Throw in another 12-15 from Bass, and we really get so much more of scoring that we are lacking now. Even their combined rebounding could have given us some desperately needed possessions.
Jeff would've been able to trot with Rondo and Wilcox and it just seems like yet another case of bad luck for the Celtics.
I can't complain too much considering how we ended up with a GM who had the smarts to conspire the KG+Ray trades, but still.

Our record is currently 15-16.
I really think with David West and Green that we could have been something around 5-8 more wins at the point, especially with our dreadful start, in a perfect world maybe sitting on 21-10 or something similar.

What's so annoying is that a team like Orlando, who I feel we are far better than, are sitting in third in the East at 21-12.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and I don't know if we would have been contenders, but we'd at least be a shot to perhaps upset one of Miami or Chicago. Get past one of them and anything can happen if we are clicking.
That being said, if we finish 8th, we move up the draft and get a better shot at a better future piece.

Not having both of them (West+Green) reminds me of KG going out in 2009, leaving us just too weak to make a serious run, when all is said and done.

Hindsight isn't such a wonderful thing I guess.

[Roy H.]

Yeah, third place in the East in the regular season sounds about right.  More importantly, I think we would have been a legit contender, maybe a half-step behind Miami and Chicago, but capable of beating either. 

In some alternate universe, a Celtics team with CP3, West, and Green is on its way to a title this year.

[SHAQATTACK]

Yeah, third place in the East in the regular season sounds about right.  More importantly, I think we would have been a legit contender, maybe a half-step behind Miami and Chicago, but capable of beating either. 

In some alternate universe, a Celtics team with CP3, West, and Green is on its way to a title this year.

I agree , with CP3 and David West ... we would have been right in the thick of things again.

Again ....it this Lady Luck deal that keeps bitting the Celtics in the tail.

What ya gonna do ?