2026-27 Celtics Off Season Discussion

[Who]

Last thing on the Bulls ...

I am looking at Buzelis' shot chart. He took 447 shots inside of 10 feet and 495 threes. Only 21 shots in between 10 and 24 feet.

Almost 1,000 shots on the season so Buzelis took midrange shots (21 shots) on roughly one fifth of one percent of his total attempts!!

That is insane.

Welcome to modern basketball.

[Vermont Green]

According to veteran NBA reporter Gery Woelfel, the Heat have made a trade offer to the Bucks for Antetokounmpo that includes Tyler Herro, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kel'el Ware, the 13th overall pick in this year's NBA draft, and two future first-round picks.

That is a strong offer, but not sure Tyler Herro is what MIL would want to take back.  I suppose he could be flipped to another team.  A MIA team headlined by Giannis and Adebayo seems a bit mis-matched.

[DefenseWinsChamps]

According to veteran NBA reporter Gery Woelfel, the Heat have made a trade offer to the Bucks for Antetokounmpo that includes Tyler Herro, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kel'el Ware, the 13th overall pick in this year's NBA draft, and two future first-round picks.

That is a strong offer, but not sure Tyler Herro is what MIL would want to take back.  I suppose he could be flipped to another team.  A MIA team headlined by Giannis and Adebayo seems a bit mis-matched.

It is a good offer for sure. But I see a few problems.

If I'm Giannis, do I think that Bam and I can win a championship together, and do I think that we will get in each other's way a lot?

If I'm the Bucks, it gives me talent, but no all-star talent. What's Herro's value around the league? What is a skinny scoring guard who doesn't get to the free throw line and doesn't play defense get me? Is he basically CJ McCullom? Ware is an interesting piece. He probably is a starting quality big in the NBA for a lot of years, but it also means that my team has to trade Turner, or Portis, or Kuzma. It loses me leverage over those deals. I'm a fan of Jauquez, but he's a good role player on a winning team. He has little value on a lottery team. The 13th pick in this draft is interesting, but those future picks don't mean a whole lot.

It's a fine trade package. It's probably even somewhat fair value. But if I'm the Bucks, I'd have to be excited about at least one thing I'm getting back. Nothing in that trade package is exciting. It's assets that lead to a road of mediocrity.

[Vermont Green]

Massive change speculation

Reality--not much change happens.

Probably.  But with Brad it could go either way. None of us really predicted the summer of 2023.

I see the limiting factor being that it has to be one extreme or the other in all likelihood.  Either there is something big where Brown is traded, or if not that, they resign Vucevic and run it back.  I don't see much happening in the middle.

So with that said, yes, more likely for not much change over a big change, but I see either as very much in play.  And there is no reason to doubt that Stevens would make a large deal if he thought it was a good deal.

[tenn_smoothie]

Is there a preference by our management to wait til the summer of 2027 to make any big moves because we will be in a much stronger position salary cap wise then ?
Will the Celts, in fact, have much better options and more money to make beneficial trades or free agent signings a year from now ?

I know that it would be disappointing to have to wait another season before we are serious title contenders again, but maybe it is the best option.
With what we are seeing in OKC and San Antonio, we are not going to win anything with a very good, but not great team.
Maybe best to wait one more season and then go all in to strengthen what is still a very good core in an effort to get at least one more title in this era.

One of Red's strengths as GM was his ability to be patient while putting together 3 separate championship groups.
He was famously questioned about the wisdom of drafting Larry Bird as a junior-eligible because he would have to wait another season to repair all the damage done by John Y.
Red's response was that one year was a relatively short amount of time to wait to build a championship roster. In two years he completed the moves that gave us the core 4-man frontcourt that was the backbone of teams that won 3 titles. He was also a genius at adding the right player in the middle of a championship era to regain an edge. (Paul Silas, Bill Walton, Dennis Johnson, John Havlicek).

[Birdman]

I really believe Celtics are going to keep brown, Tatum & white

[Vermont Green]

The following is the net rating for BOS, regular season vs. playoffs:

Reg   Playoffs   Change   PLAYER
11.3    -5.8     -17.1   Derrick White
 8.8    -5.2     -14.0   Sam Hauser
 6.5    -4.9     -11.4   Jaylen Brown
13.2     3.2    -10.0   Neemias Queta
 7.3     0.7     -6.6   Baylor Scheierman
10.3     3.9    -6.4   Nikola Vučević
10.5     6.6     -3.9   Jayson Tatum
 8.0    10.0      2.0   Payton Pritchard
 5.8     9.0      3.2   Luka Garza
 5.1    22.3     17.2   Jordan Walsh

Things don't line up so well but you can see the players who went way down in the playoffs vs. the regular season.  Derrick White leads the way with Hauser, Brown, and Queta not that far behind.  You expect all players to be down some as the team did worse overall.

[Goldstar88]

The following is the net rating for BOS, regular season vs. playoffs:

Reg   Playoffs   Change   PLAYER
11.3    -5.8     -17.1   Derrick White
 8.8    -5.2     -14.0   Sam Hauser
 6.5    -4.9     -11.4   Jaylen Brown
13.2     3.2    -10.0   Neemias Queta
 7.3     0.7     -6.6   Baylor Scheierman
10.3     3.9    -6.4   Nikola Vučević
10.5     6.6     -3.9   Jayson Tatum
 8.0    10.0      2.0   Payton Pritchard
 5.8     9.0      3.2   Luka Garza
 5.1    22.3     17.2   Jordan Walsh

Things don't line up so well but you can see the players who went way down in the playoffs vs. the regular season.  Derrick White leads the way with Hauser, Brown, and Queta not that far behind.  You expect all players to be down some as the team did worse overall.

So JB had the worst net rating of the starters during the regular season. Has to be the turnovers.