young ones

[CelticPride2016]

No one has a crystal ball, but it seems an easy call to say James Young won't be on the team next year.

Sully, Zeller, and Amir are big question marks. We are missing one true center.

I guess it boils down to Kelly Olynyk. He is the second half added energy to look forward to. We need every one of the top ten guys to be healthy and ready to go for the playoffs. I would like to see Jordan get a few plays going for him on offense that he has for his go to move. He is definitely ready made for defense.

Hopefully Danny doesn't flinch and get some non-center big who provides offense and no defense. I'd take Noel over that kind of player, a Kevin Love. But if it happens, I'll fall in line and root for the title.

We are stacked with players and draft picks. We need one more Isaiah Thomas caliber player on offense. I doubt Crowder can carry us much like Pierce did. It's possible. Avery Bradley can get on incredible hot streaks. We really are hurting without Kelly. It puts too much pressure on Amir's feet and Sully's gut. Some of these guys no way will they be traded. Most were drafted by Danny. This Coty guy seems pretty good. Too bad there wasn't a PJ Brown type player out there. We needed a rim protector. Or start playing Mickey. I lucked out and missed the last game. I'm still saying 50 wins. We'll maybe hit a bump or two, but I bet we win most of them somehow.

[PhoSita]

I understand the James Young pick in theory, given what I think was known at the time, but it seems that the Celts were not a great situation for him.

Seems he's probably the sort of player who needs a lower-pressure environment where he can gain confidence doing what comes naturally to him without worrying about getting yanked because he messes up dribbling the ball or misses a defensive rotation. 

Back when the team picked him, they were coming off a major losing season, though, so perhaps that was part of the plan.  Young's not gonna break the rotation on a playoff team anytime soon.

[2short]

Funny thing as the season plays out James young goes from offensive prospect to China bound.  Hunter looks like a maybe with work (I love his nba skills, needs shot to fall) rozier recently has shown some good nba skills, add in youth and he could develop.  Mickey....weird signing to long terms for his draft level but it would be funny if he ends up the guy to stick with and help the club in the long run. I for one see sully moved this off season.  More minutes for KO, JJ bulks up and becomes stretch pf who plays good d and solid rebounding (off bench).  So there are those extra minutes and Mickey gets them.  Nice man on defense, great shot blocking, nice rebounding, raw to say the least offense. 
Like where it's going and let's add in the new young ones coming uo

[rollie mass]

young had another sub standard shooting night 2-8 on threes and only 10pts  but had 6 rebounds  5 assists and two blocks-coty clarke did not play must be staying in boston gettin some pracice looks-

[BornReady]

tough to just give up on young
but the way i see it
he is at the bottom of our depth chart with rozier

he does a bit of everything but not one skill stands out enough
like rookies mickey has shot blocking and rebounding, while hunter has shooting

he's supposed to be a scorer
but doesnt have the handles to create his own shot

He needs to show something to Danny in these last few games or he may be traded to make room for next seasons rookies

[Celtics4ever]

while hunter has shooting

Has Shooting?? He is shooting 31% from the field and .25% from the three. Get yourself some glasses man.

http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/2983727/rj-hunter

Even in Maine he is not shooting that hot.

http://basketball.realgm.com/dleague/teams/Maine-Red-Claws/5/stats

[billysan]

Funny thing as the season plays out James young goes from offensive prospect to China bound.  Hunter looks like a maybe with work (I love his nba skills, needs shot to fall) rozier recently has shown some good nba skills, add in youth and he could develop.  Mickey....weird signing to long terms for his draft level but it would be funny if he ends up the guy to stick with and help the club in the long run. I for one see sully moved this off season.  More minutes for KO, JJ bulks up and becomes stretch pf who plays good d and solid rebounding (off bench).  So there are those extra minutes and Mickey gets them.  Nice man on defense, great shot blocking, nice rebounding, raw to say the least offense. 
Like where it's going and let's add in the new young ones coming uo

This makes a lot of sense to me.

The other thing to consider is that if we add Al Horford, we may keep Sullinger around as a backup if the money is right. If we get rid of Sully, we have to replace him with a rotation ready big that can rebound. That is a FA unless we score in the draft. Of course adding a Zach Randolph cheap would be nice and solve this problem.

Then we use KO and JJ as our stretch PF's. When we go small Crowder is our PF.

Mickey becomes the 5th big like Zeller is this year.