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[Who]

I don't care about Paul George.

If he can give us quality role player production, I am good. If he only gives us half season, that is fine. I mean what more can we expect given his injury record of the past 7 seasons.

What does it matter anyway? He gets hurt then the young wings step up and replace his minutes. Is that a downgrade? Is that big of a downgrade? It is significant but it is not huge.

How much difference does Paul George even make to a team these days? Is a guy who improves a team by 10 wins? Nah. Not healthy enough. Even if he was healthy for a whole season, is he a 10 win a season impact player? Probably not. When is the last time he has added 10 wins to a team? It has been years. Probably closer to 7-8 wins at 36yo.

Let's say 8. So we get half a season. 4 wins. Lose out on the other 4 wins because he is injured for the other half but the young wings come in and replace him. They can't give us those 4 wins but they can probably give us 2 wins. So we get 6 wins instead of 8. Again, who cares. It is 2 wins. It doesn't matter greatly if we only get half a season out of him vs a healthy season.

PG13 is not important to the success or non-success of this team. He is a useful addition but he is not driving any major impact here. He plays, fine. He doesn't play, fine.

He is our 5th most important player. Tatum, D White, Pritchard are all core players. PG13 is just a rental. A mercenary. Heck, I'd say Queta is more important than PG13. Hence, 5th in the list. M Robinson might even challenge him for 5th.

PG13 is not important. He is just a role player.

The only thing about PG13 that matters is that he is the "new Theo Ratliff".

[Who]

PG is our guy now, like it or not (and apparently there are some that don't like it).

Who does like it, compared to JB?

Two different things.  Paul George cannot replace Jaylen Brown but that does not mean he won't contribute to the team in his own way.  I have accepted the trade and now I want to focus on what PG can do to help the Celtics.

I have said many times that I don't like the trade, that I do not think the trade made the team better.  But that does not mean I don't like PG.  I am not going to dwell on this.  I like what I saw from PG in the playoffs and I hope he keeps that up for the Celtics.  And we will see if Management is able to do anything with the picks or otherwise to help the team.

I didn't see much from PG13 in the playoffs. The guy got on a hot streak and had a larger impact than expected because of it. Without the hot streak, he would have been a peripheral figure - as he has been throughout most of his 2yrs in Philly. 

[LilRip]

I am going to root for Paul George too.  I root for the team, not individuals.

Same here. TP

[Neurotic Guy]

PG is our guy now, like it or not (and apparently there are some that don't like it).

Who does like it, compared to JB?

Two different things.  Paul George cannot replace Jaylen Brown but that does not mean he won't contribute to the team in his own way.  I have accepted the trade and now I want to focus on what PG can do to help the Celtics.

I have said many times that I don't like the trade, that I do not think the trade made the team better.  But that does not mean I don't like PG.  I am not going to dwell on this.  I like what I saw from PG in the playoffs and I hope he keeps that up for the Celtics.  And we will see if Management is able to do anything with the picks or otherwise to help the team.

I didn't see much from PG13 in the playoffs. The guy got on a hot streak and had a larger impact than expected because of it. Without the hot streak, he would have been a peripheral figure - as he has been throughout most of his 2yrs in Philly.

Peripheral player is fine.  The thing I?d like is for him to be a consistent peripheral player.  Play smart, be a positive force defensively and an efficient 13-17 ppg with an occasional 20+ shooting game.  Jrue was a peripheral player, so was Al.  The Cs will make up JBs 29 points by committee.  Will be interesting if someone emerges as the prime JB offensive *replacement*.  PP or DW are first thoughts but I don?t know if either has more to offer moving forward than in the past.  I think Baylor has a chance to kick things up.  Smart player who may be putting things together in a better more efficient way in year three. 

I was a big fan of JB and I would not say he was a dumb player, but I think this years team has a chance to improve its overall bbiq. If they do, it will be fun to watch.

[Roy H.]

PG is our guy now, like it or not (and apparently there are some that don't like it).

Who does like it, compared to JB?

Two different things.  Paul George cannot replace Jaylen Brown but that does not mean he won't contribute to the team in his own way.  I have accepted the trade and now I want to focus on what PG can do to help the Celtics.

I have said many times that I don't like the trade, that I do not think the trade made the team better.  But that does not mean I don't like PG.  I am not going to dwell on this.  I like what I saw from PG in the playoffs and I hope he keeps that up for the Celtics.  And we will see if Management is able to do anything with the picks or otherwise to help the team.

I didn't see much from PG13 in the playoffs. The guy got on a hot streak and had a larger impact than expected because of it. Without the hot streak, he would have been a peripheral figure - as he has been throughout most of his 2yrs in Philly.

Peripheral player is fine.  The thing I?d like is for him to be a consistent peripheral player.  Play smart, be a positive force defensively and an efficient 13-17 ppg with an occasional 20+ shooting game.  Jrue was a peripheral player, so was Al.  The Cs will make up JBs 29 points by committee.  Will be interesting if someone emerges as the prime JB offensive *replacement*.  PP or DW are first thoughts but I don?t know if either has more to offer moving forward than in the past.  I think Baylor has a chance to kick things up.  Smart player who may be putting things together in a better more efficient way in year three. 

I was a big fan of JB and I would not say he was a dumb player, but I think this years team has a chance to improve its overall bbiq. If they do, it will be fun to watch.

I think that's a reasonable expectation.

I'm just not sure that an NBA team can win without a reliable second scorer.

[JBcat]

PG is our guy now, like it or not (and apparently there are some that don't like it).

Who does like it, compared to JB?

Two different things.  Paul George cannot replace Jaylen Brown but that does not mean he won't contribute to the team in his own way.  I have accepted the trade and now I want to focus on what PG can do to help the Celtics.

I have said many times that I don't like the trade, that I do not think the trade made the team better.  But that does not mean I don't like PG.  I am not going to dwell on this.  I like what I saw from PG in the playoffs and I hope he keeps that up for the Celtics.  And we will see if Management is able to do anything with the picks or otherwise to help the team.

I didn't see much from PG13 in the playoffs. The guy got on a hot streak and had a larger impact than expected because of it. Without the hot streak, he would have been a peripheral figure - as he has been throughout most of his 2yrs in Philly.

Peripheral player is fine.  The thing I?d like is for him to be a consistent peripheral player.  Play smart, be a positive force defensively and an efficient 13-17 ppg with an occasional 20+ shooting game.  Jrue was a peripheral player, so was Al.  The Cs will make up JBs 29 points by committee.  Will be interesting if someone emerges as the prime JB offensive *replacement*.  PP or DW are first thoughts but I don?t know if either has more to offer moving forward than in the past.  I think Baylor has a chance to kick things up.  Smart player who may be putting things together in a better more efficient way in year three. 

I was a big fan of JB and I would not say he was a dumb player, but I think this years team has a chance to improve its overall bbiq. If they do, it will be fun to watch.

I think that's a reasonable expectation.

I'm just not sure that an NBA team can win without a reliable second scorer.

Pritchard averaged 17 PPG last year. If he bumped that up with White and George settling in as 3rd and 4th options would be good. A little more scoring from the Baylor, Hugo, Jordan trio would be helpful too.

[jambr380]

Tatum missed like 80% of the season last season. We just need Tatum to replace Brown's scoring, and George to replace Tatum's' scoring. Everybody else can stay about where they were and we'll have similar output to last year.

I realize things will likely shift a little bit, but not having Brown doesn't mean we now need Pritchard to put up 26ppg or Baylor to bust out and average 16ppg.

Edit: I suppose we need to make up Simons' 14ppg, but that is a lot easier than making up 29ppg on super high usage for Brown. I'm going to assume that George will play more than 16 games, as well...hopefully.