God please no PJ Brown.. unless he takes over Pollard's role as Mr. Formal Wear. I wouldn't be able to take it.
You don't like stout post defenders who rebound well, protect the rim and take hard fouls, and hit timely shots, while being a great locker room leader and mentor to Powe and BBD?
Maybe Danny can figure out a way to bring Tim Duncan off the bench. Would that please you?
TP, i just don't get the rampant Pj hate. he was our most reliable big off the bench. he gave us good minutes, rebounded well, and didn't allow layups, and hit timely shots. thats pretty much the definition of veteran presence off the bench.
i mean, he only won us an elimination game with a clucth shot and played well in dozens of other games, but apparently alot of people thing he's the plague 
I wish more basketball fans had gambling backgrounds. There's something we like to call "being results oriented". It refers to when you praise yourself for a bad move, just because it turned out OK. For instance putting $10K on red at the roulette wheel and winning. It's a sucker move you just got lucky. I'm about as big a Celtics fan as you can be. I was jumping and singing PJ's praise when he went 4-4 in game 7 vs CLE too, just like I was yelling "Go PJ!!!" when he had an awesome game against LA after being absolutely AWFUL versus Detroit. But like LeBron said after the game, we'll live with PJ taking jumpers with the game on the line.
All the data, everything I've seen, says PJ is way below average, and he's not like some defensive guru. He's not Duncan out there. He's not even Kurt Thomas. He's old and slow and has to foul a lot because of it. It happens. We've got a unique talent in Leon. I don't want him only getting 10 mpg and racking up DNPs. Because there are other smart GMs out there who see his #s, see what a sick rebounder and offensive talent he is compared to his worth on the FA market, and they'll gobble him up and offer him first big off the bench role. And he wouldn't think twice about walking for the money, either, because he gets buried behind worse players here in Boston, even when Mike Zarren (front office stats guru) is in Doc's ear saying "PLAY POWE".
I don't want to make the same mistake Miami did. PJ got brought in to win a ring, and we accomplished that. He's old, he's been on a fast decline for a few years now. I think he probably retires anyway, but should he want to play another year, it's time for Danny to use his head, not his heart.
You might want to watch the games more and study the data less. The defense in rebounding in the playoffs between Powe and PJ was minimal. Powe's numbers were better offensively, but he pretty much disappeared after his breakout Game 2 of the Finals, and didn't reappear until garbage time in the clincher. One could argue that it was from lack of playing time, but Powe shrunk in Games 3 and 4 in LA, and was so lousy in the first quarter of his Game 5 start that he only saw five minutes of playing time that game. PJ wasn't much better out in LA, but Doc went with his veteran, and it's tough to argue with the overall result.
I'm a huge Powe fan, and I'm kind of his lucky charm. I was at his breakout game against Philly early in the year. I was at his breakout road game in Miami. I was at his breakout Finals game. Powe is a great guy to root for, but I'm not going to downgrade another Celtic because of my like for him, and I'm not going to gloss over the flaws in his game either. Powe was a second year player who got overwhelmed in the road games in the Finals. He might have played better with more minutes, but he's on a team with a stocked roster, and if he's struggling, he isn't going to get time.
I sat right behind the basket for the Finals game, and I got a great look at the Cs defense. PJ Brown was really good at pushing the Lakers bigs off their spots as they tried to set up mid post in the triangle offense. That's the first key to slowing down the triangle, and PJ was very good at it against the Lakers.
I've been touting Powe on various blogs, siting his instant productivity off the bench, but when you're a team playing for a championship, nurturing second line players takes a back seat to winning right now. I don't think Powe is as upset at not getting a ton of playing time as you might be for him. He seems to be the kind of guy who works his butt off and stays ready for when his number is called. The Cs are going to have another big body on their roster, regardless. If he doesn't get time, that would mean that Powe is tearing it up, which works for me.
