Job one is to get KG healthy. No KG, no title next year.
Job two is to find a competent three. Pierce cannot go these kinds of minutes, and the proof is in the playoffs. Sounds like Nocioni's going to be out there again, and he intrigues me if he can be induced to defend. He appears to have the skills and the quickness to be a younger - and more expensive - version of the unfairly reviled James Posey.
As a postscript, miss you, Pose. A lot.
Job three ... quit experimenting at the backup 5 and the backup 1. Get out the checkbook and find a couple of decent veterans. They don't have to be stars. But they need to do a few things fairly well. Perhaps you can buy a late first rounder and find that backup 5 in the draft. Some competent youth ... not the reaches we've been drafting like Pruitt, etc.
Job four is to end the Tony Allen experiment. It's over. He cannot help a championship team. Buy him out, trade him, waive him, release him, whatever. He has to go. So does Mikki Moore and Steph. We have to do better at both positions.
Job five is to get through to Rondo. His game has improved. His game can improve some more. His attention to detail and his commitment to the game aren't there yet, as tonight clearly showed.
Job six: Davis. I'm interested, but only at the right price. $10 large for three sounds about right. Any more, and I have to allocate the resources to more pressing needs.
Disappointing end. Disappointed in all the injuries, and all the doubt that will shround KG's future all summer. Man, I don't want to think about that knee.
Disappointed in the season-long lack of effort by management to adequately equip this team to repeat. Would MUCH prefer eating crow on this subject.
Disappointed in a lack of focus that has plagued this team the second-half of the season. Not all that uncommon, actually, in title defenses, but you expect better.
We have a LONG way to go to make a Finals run next year. We are not close. Bill Walker's not going to make a difference next year. Gabe Pruitt isn't the answer at the backup one or two. Five solid starters if KG is healthy - but nothing remotely resembling the depth it should be VERY clear now that we have to have.
Ainge and Grousbeck have a lot of work ahead of them this summer. I hope they don't let the coach, players and fans down again.
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