DA getting criticism for Green contract. So tell me: who has DA overpaid before?

[celtsfan84]

The criticism is misguided, as other thoughtful posters here have pointed out, because Green remains the only possible youthful value for the Celtics available, especially at that price.

Green is probably going to be doomed forever in Boston anyway as the man who was acquired for Celtic Fan's beloved Kendrick Perkins, never mind that Perkins' production has dropped off the face of the Earth and he's an amnesty candidate in Oklahoma City as a result.

I suspect Green could put up 25 and 15 a night and some fans would still be crying about his contract.

I'd be comfortable with production near what a 9 million player typically provides.  We'll see if we get that.

Him being young and him being traded for Kendrick Perkins are irrelevant to what his true value is.  Gerald Green is still young, and nobody is saying he is worth 9 million a year.

My opinion is that he is a slight overpay, we will see if his production merits his salary.  Why is nobody patient enough to actually watch the next NBA season?  No jumping to conclusions about him being the next Michael Jordan.  Let's just watch it happen, if it does.

[GreenFaith1819]

The criticism is misguided, as other thoughtful posters here have pointed out, because Green remains the only possible youthful value for the Celtics available, especially at that price.

Green Ray is probably going to be doomed forever in Boston anyway as the man who was acquired for Celtic Fan's beloved Kendrick Perkins, never mind that Perkins' production has dropped off the face of the Earth and he's an amnesty candidate in Oklahoma City as a result.

I suspect Green could put up 25 and 15 a night and some fans would still be crying about his contract.

I think that Ray Allen fits that title now, unfortunately.

But I agree with the rest of your post wholeheartedly.

I strongly believe that Jeff Green will be fine, and he will start earning that contract immediately.

[hardlyyardley]

Has not overpaid nearly as much as Theo.....sure there re more chances in baseball for a 25 man roster vs 13, but wow!!

Blount and JO are two worst signees under Ainge

[Brendan]

Yes. JO was a bad signing.

It wasn't a huge overpay, but it did limit our ability to use the MLE in other ways. We needed talent from the MLE signing in 2010, but we didn't get it. That hurt us in 2010-11 AND in 2011-12.

[LooseCannon]

Yes. JO was a bad signing.

It wasn't a huge overpay, but it did limit our ability to use the MLE in other ways. We needed talent from the MLE signing in 2010, but we didn't get it. That hurt us in 2010-11 AND in 2011-12.

The MLE should be used on short contracts.  The worst MLE signings are the max-length MLE contracts handed to young players based on potential.

[SHAQATTACK]

We were sorta over a barrel.  Rarely ,I agree with the TV experts, but every last one of them said the signing of Green is totally critical to the C's. 

I have to agree with this.  I feel we need his size and speed , experience , athletic ability to defend the latest core of his size superior players .  Paul has to many miles on his body to hols up to the "young bucks" .

We needed him bad , he has what we need at his postion to offer. 

Seems like the right move by DA . I AGRRE .. Feels too expensive to me too, I was hoping since we signed BASS, Green had been sick and we were so good to him , he'd sign a bit cheaper.... so we didn't get a discount on his services.

Getting him signed was critical, couldn't afford to have him walk, we would have been in Deep DOO-DDO

[Fred Roberts]

I think this contract will be a big win, potentially huge. Sure, it would have been nice to get him on a great discount but it's not happening.

[Josh88]

I think it was a slight overpay, and as others have said I hoped we'd get a discount due to his year off and the way the organization handled his medical issue. I'd be curious to find our what other teams were offering though, I didn't hear of anyone else being interested.

I think the Bass contract was the worse of the two but again not a huge overpay. I just think he's quite a limited player, a jump shooting PF with no post game and a mediocre rebounder who put up decent numbers in a contract year.

[celtsfan84]

I think it was a slight overpay, and as others have said I hoped we'd get a discount due to his year off and the way the organization handled his medical issue. I'd be curious to find our what other teams were offering though, I didn't hear of anyone else being interested.

I think the Bass contract was the worse of the two but again not a huge overpay. I just think he's quite a limited player, a jump shooting PF with no post game and a mediocre rebounder who put up decent numbers in a contract year.

I second this emotion.

I feel that the Green and Bass contracts won't hurt us in the long run but both seem like slight overpays.  Emphasis on the word slight.

[wdleehi]

How many bad contracts did Joe Dumar pass out when he gave Ben Gordon and Charlie V their contracts?




I am still waiting to hear which team the Celtics were bidding against.

[Sketch5]

I think Greens contract is more than just playing ball. He also can recruit other young players in wanting to come here, so say DA decides to trade Bass or KG even we don't have a repeat of Mayo saying they don't want to come here. And that DA will spend money on you if you are loyal to boot.

A LOT of players get over payed this year. Bad FA. Who else would you give that money to? Plus some of it probably goes into the CAP over or under what ever they need to be in to make the numbers work on their favor. So lucky Green and Bass.

[CFAN38]

I have a really good feeling about Green this year.

His best 2 years as a pro he averaged 16pts 6rb a game playing out of position at PF in a largely isolation offense. Once Jeff gets back into game speed and clicks with rondo I expect his offense to flourish.

Ideally Green will come off the bench this season as a super sub (like odom was for LA) and the next season Pierce will transition to the bench.