Time for a change?

[Moranis]

I think some sort of change is needed because what is the alternative, have a good regular season and then lose in the 1st or 2nd round again.  How does the team get past that point keeping the core 3 together?

[Who]

2. Sign Timelord to the full MLE

I think Timelord is closer to a minimum contract guy than an MLE guy. He would be worth the MLE if he reliably stay healthy but he can't. I can't see anyone offering him that much money with his injury record.

Maybe the taxpayers MLE. Around $6mil per year. Around half of the full MLE. Just under half. That seems like Timelord's price range.

[ozgod]

I think some sort of change is needed because what is the alternative, have a good regular season and then lose in the 1st or 2nd round again.  How does the team get past that point keeping the core 3 together?

I think there will definitely be some changes...what we don't know is the scale of the change. Breaking up a combination that helped win a championship in 2024 and has been together for 9 years would qualify as a big change. Making changes around the margins, to strengthen our post options or point of attack defense would be a smaller change, but still a change. I don't know Brad's mind, but I'm guessing he's thinking more on the latter - unless the reports of JB being unhappy are true, in which case it would make sense to move on from that Jays partnership because it's better for both parties to try something new. Bigger changes are always riskier, and you generally do them as a last option or if you want to reset everything.

And it's worth remembering we just made a big change last season - we moved on from KP, Al, Kornet and Holiday. That's a pretty significant change if you think about it.

[ozgod]

I've seen people propose Jaylen + more for Giannis on social media, but I'd still like to know what other teams are offering. I'm assuming the Spurs and Rockets won't go after him. Maybe the Knicks do if they don't reach the Finals, idk. But otherwise, is the best offer out there from Miami basically with Ware, Herro and picks?

I'd say the Knicks and Blazers are the best bets, and they could outbid us OR force the C's to send Jaylen Brown back. But otherwise, if there isn't a bidding war, I think you could get it done without Jaylen. We've seen disgruntled superstar players go for a lot less than expected and Giannis' age + injury history might add some intrigue. But I also think Giannis himself is done at MIL

Giannis's time in Milwaukee is over after all that locker room drama stirred by Doc Rivers and management.

But wow, Miami's package of Ware, Herro, and picks? Sounds meh lol. Give 'em Jaylen Brown straight up. Or, tell them to also throw in Myles Turner and the C's can throw in a couple more.

And why would we want Myles Turner? He?s getting paid $27m to do sweet FA. One of the worst contracts in the league. I?m sure.The only image people we can trade for him would be Hauser and another $17m of contracts when most of our remaining contracts are $2.7m vet mins. We would lose half our roster on a player who is even worse than Vucevic.

Turner is uninspiring, but we can actually just absorb him into our Simons TPE without sending back anything. It'd put us well into the tax, but it might serve as an incentive to make MIL choose our deal over the many others that will be out there. Turner does also fill a need, can defend the rim, and shoot 3s, so it's not a useless trade from our side.

We definitely should not be giving up anything to get him, though, In fact, it should lower the price drastically, meaning we send out no picks in a Jaylen deal.

That's the contraint I was working with. I really think that Brad will do everything possible to stay under the tax this season, because we're going to be well over it in 2027-28 just signing extensions for existing players. What will be interesting is to see if he just lets the Simons TPE expire or if they do something similar to the Simons-Vuc trade where they used the KP TPE to bring back Vuc and created the Simons TPE, so we have a TPE in 2027 when we are going to have a huge spending window coming.

So if the price to get Giannis would be taking on Turner's crappy contract, using the TPE, they might pull the trigger, with the expectation of shipping out surplus salary later on to get under the tax. I haven't looked to see how they could possibly do that though, because Turner is on $27m and I don't think we have the mix of salaries on our end to send out later on make that up.

[jambr380]

I've seen people propose Jaylen + more for Giannis on social media, but I'd still like to know what other teams are offering. I'm assuming the Spurs and Rockets won't go after him. Maybe the Knicks do if they don't reach the Finals, idk. But otherwise, is the best offer out there from Miami basically with Ware, Herro and picks?

I'd say the Knicks and Blazers are the best bets, and they could outbid us OR force the C's to send Jaylen Brown back. But otherwise, if there isn't a bidding war, I think you could get it done without Jaylen. We've seen disgruntled superstar players go for a lot less than expected and Giannis' age + injury history might add some intrigue. But I also think Giannis himself is done at MIL

Giannis's time in Milwaukee is over after all that locker room drama stirred by Doc Rivers and management.

But wow, Miami's package of Ware, Herro, and picks? Sounds meh lol. Give 'em Jaylen Brown straight up. Or, tell them to also throw in Myles Turner and the C's can throw in a couple more.

And why would we want Myles Turner? He?s getting paid $27m to do sweet FA. One of the worst contracts in the league. I?m sure.The only image people we can trade for him would be Hauser and another $17m of contracts when most of our remaining contracts are $2.7m vet mins. We would lose half our roster on a player who is even worse than Vucevic.

Turner is uninspiring, but we can actually just absorb him into our Simons TPE without sending back anything. It'd put us well into the tax, but it might serve as an incentive to make MIL choose our deal over the many others that will be out there. Turner does also fill a need, can defend the rim, and shoot 3s, so it's not a useless trade from our side.

We definitely should not be giving up anything to get him, though, In fact, it should lower the price drastically, meaning we send out no picks in a Jaylen deal.

That's the contraint I was working with. I really think that Brad will do everything possible to stay under the tax this season, because we're going to be well over it in 2027-28 just signing extensions for existing players. What will be interesting is to see if he just lets the Simons TPE expire or if they do something similar to the Simons-Vuc trade where they used the KP TPE to bring back Vuc and created the Simons TPE, so we have a TPE in 2027 when we are going to have a huge spending window coming.

So if the price to get Giannis would be taking on Turner's crappy contract, using the TPE, they might pull the trigger, with the expectation of shipping out surplus salary later on to get under the tax. I haven't looked to see how they could possibly do that though, because Turner is on $27m and I don't think we have the mix of salaries on our end to send out later on make that up.

If you send out Hauser into cap space and then trade off a couple of minimum contracts at the deadline, you can probably get there. We only have just over $13M in cap space as it stands, but it is more like $20M if Brad wants to get creative again at the deadline like he did this year.

We wouldn't be using the MLE in this case, but I'm just looking at options to get Giannis here and this one seemingly gives us a pretty big edge compared to offers from other teams. I wouldn't say it's my preference, though. Hauser and a legit MLE big gives us more flexibility and depth moving forward.

[Celtics4ever]

Adding people at the deadline, does not always work out.  Vooch, never meshed here as a deadline addition.

[Moranis]

I think some sort of change is needed because what is the alternative, have a good regular season and then lose in the 1st or 2nd round again.  How does the team get past that point keeping the core 3 together?

I think there will definitely be some changes...what we don't know is the scale of the change. Breaking up a combination that helped win a championship in 2024 and has been together for 9 years would qualify as a big change. Making changes around the margins, to strengthen our post options or point of attack defense would be a smaller change, but still a change. I don't know Brad's mind, but I'm guessing he's thinking more on the latter - unless the reports of JB being unhappy are true, in which case it would make sense to move on from that Jays partnership because it's better for both parties to try something new. Bigger changes are always riskier, and you generally do them as a last option or if you want to reset everything.

And it's worth remembering we just made a big change last season - we moved on from KP, Al, Kornet and Holiday. That's a pretty significant change if you think about it.

the changes last year were done for salary purposes and made the team worse.  The 2024 team was already broken up and the end result is a worse team.  A few minor changes on the edge of the roster is only going to yield similar post season results.   Boston simply isn't good enough to win a championship without major changes.   The team has proven that the last 2 playoffs.  We can add on the fringes and next year will be having the same conversation (maybe after the 2nd round instead of 1st). I simply don't see a path forward to true contention mostly holding firm. Boston just isn't good enough.