Maybe a playoff team but without KG their would be no defense because Cliff Ray and Tibs wouldn't have come. That's not a championship team on paper. I don't think Rajon Rondo would be as good with those players as he is now with the Big 3. Brandon Roy is a step or two below Paul and Al Jefferson doesn't have Kevin's length or nastiness on the floor. However with all these young power forwards playing on the perimeter, Al Jefferson is willing to bang with any1 in the middle. He has a sick hook shot too. And Perk without KG would be nothing. No one cared about Perk until KG came.
brandon roy will no longer be a step below any 2 guard or SF following this season.
cliff ray was
already there. that's why big al was, and remains, willing to bang against other big fellas (on the offensive end, anyway - imagine what could have been with another year). if this was the roster going forward, Doc would never have been given his 1 year leash and, no, tommy t. never would have been brought on to teach Doc's Dfense.
I cared about Perk before KG came, sir. Hold your tongue. I cared about Perk when Lebron came. I even mouthed off to a boston globe reporter that all the folks at that summer league were there to see Perk and not Lebron who was running away from Perk for an ESPY.
Call me delusional, but even ESPN the Mag had Perk as the next Shaq, if you remember correctly, long before Lebron hit his tattoo covering patch stage.