Ainge declines to shut the door on Starbury

[celticinorlando]

i read in the boston paper today that danny isn't too concerned about the back up point b/c of eddie and daniels....are they bringing him to be a wing or not?

[Roy Hobbs]

i read in the boston paper today that danny isn't too concerned about the back up point b/c of eddie and daniels....are they bringing him to be a wing or not?

I think Daniels will see a lot of time next to Eddie House, and will be the primary ball handler.  House will still defend point guards, but Daniels will bring the ball up and probably get the team into its offensive set.

[celticinorlando]

i read in the boston paper today that danny isn't too concerned about the back up point b/c of eddie and daniels....are they bringing him to be a wing or not?

I think Daniels will see a lot of time next to Eddie House, and will be the primary ball handler.  House will still defend point guards, but Daniels will bring the ball up and probably get the team into its offensive set.

ok...then what? do we see bill walker with those two at the SF? Tony allen? because it sounds like daniels is going to be the primary back up for ray and rondo not pierce...which concerns me

[ThaPreacher]

Daniels will likely affect the roster spots for draft choice Lester Hudson and free agent Stephon Marbury. No decisions have been finalized on either player, Ainge said.

Link.

Yikes.  Danny hasn't made a final decision on Starbury yet?  Really?  That's disappointing to here.

Nothing is really implied other than another acquisition will effect possible roster spots, which is like saying if an apple falls off a tree, we may have fresh fruit.

Nothing will be decided until camp opens and they get a look at their squad.

[pengaloo]

Nobody said Starbury doesn't have talent, or at least nobody said that he never did.  However, his craziness absolutely has detracted from that talent, which is part of the reason why the Knicks were an absolute train wreck while he was there.  I couldn't care less about Starbury hitting a game winner; do you have youtube highlights of the literally dozens upon dozens of games the Knicks lost while he was leading them?

If sanity (or lack thereof) took away from talent, KG and Sheed (two players who are known to be a little cuckoo and are on our team) wouldn't be as good as they are. KG is my favorite player, but even I'll admit that he's a little crazy.

The difference between them and Steph is they leave the craziness on the court. I don't really trust Steph at the present time since this webcam junk seems as though it is really distracting him from putting in any effort to getting back to even a fraction of his former playing self.

I too am worried that if Steph is going to be on this team, he doesn't look like he is putting in the effort to get back into game shape. But in terms of differences in craziness, I don't think any of us know KG well enough personally to know if he is or is not "crazy" off the court...

[BballTim]

i read in the boston paper today that danny isn't too concerned about the back up point b/c of eddie and daniels....are they bringing him to be a wing or not?

I think Daniels will see a lot of time next to Eddie House, and will be the primary ball handler.  House will still defend point guards, but Daniels will bring the ball up and probably get the team into its offensive set.

ok...then what? do we see bill walker with those two at the SF? Tony allen? because it sounds like daniels is going to be the primary back up for ray and rondo not pierce...which concerns me

  We could leave Paul or Ray out there. They don't need to sub all three spots at once.

[celticinorlando]

i read in the boston paper today that danny isn't too concerned about the back up point b/c of eddie and daniels....are they bringing him to be a wing or not?

I think Daniels will see a lot of time next to Eddie House, and will be the primary ball handler.  House will still defend point guards, but Daniels will bring the ball up and probably get the team into its offensive set.

ok...then what? do we see bill walker with those two at the SF? Tony allen? because it sounds like daniels is going to be the primary back up for ray and rondo not pierce...which concerns me

  We could leave Paul or Ray out there. They don't need to sub all three spots at once.

they did that last year and it got them into trouble..

[ssspence]

i'm of the mind it was a one shot deal to begin with. now that he's officially gone overboard, there is no way the Cs are bringing the guy back to smell up the locker room.

ricky davis would make more sense at this point than the shoemaker...

[BudweiserCeltic]

i read in the boston paper today that danny isn't too concerned about the back up point b/c of eddie and daniels....are they bringing him to be a wing or not?

I think Daniels will see a lot of time next to Eddie House, and will be the primary ball handler.  House will still defend point guards, but Daniels will bring the ball up and probably get the team into its offensive set.

ok...then what? do we see bill walker with those two at the SF? Tony allen? because it sounds like daniels is going to be the primary back up for ray and rondo not pierce...which concerns me

  We could leave Paul or Ray out there. They don't need to sub all three spots at once.

they did that last year and it got them into trouble..

They also did that 2 seasons ago, and it did not get them into trouble. Wiser minute management it's all it takes, you don't need to sub them all out at the same time to accomplish that.

[amenhotep04]

i read in the boston paper today that danny isn't too concerned about the back up point b/c of eddie and daniels....are they bringing him to be a wing or not?

I think Daniels will see a lot of time next to Eddie House, and will be the primary ball handler.  House will still defend point guards, but Daniels will bring the ball up and probably get the team into its offensive set.

ok...then what? do we see bill walker with those two at the SF? Tony allen? because it sounds like daniels is going to be the primary back up for ray and rondo not pierce...which concerns me

  We could leave Paul or Ray out there. They don't need to sub all three spots at once.

they did that last year and it got them into trouble..

Geez CinO, you've got to get past this.  Rotating players is not a rocket science.  As long as Doc doesn't do what he did last year, then all your worries are explained away.  It's that simple. If Doc staggers rotating players this is a non-issue.  We're easily 11 deep right now, and if one or both of JR and Walker make a move up, we're even stronger than that.

Instead of thinking we're lacking a player, the problem we've got is that Doc is going to have to sit some people that would be playing a lot of minutes on other teams.

This is a better team than two years ago.

[Chris]

Daniels will likely affect the roster spots for draft choice Lester Hudson and free agent Stephon Marbury. No decisions have been finalized on either player, Ainge said.

Link.

Yikes.  Danny hasn't made a final decision on Starbury yet?  Really?  That's disappointing to here.

Much ado about nothing.  This is GM speak.  Danny also hasn't closed the door on signing Gerald Green, Mikki Moore, Reggie Miller, or trading Rajon Rondo for Lebron James.  It doesn't mean any of it has much of a chance to happen.

There really is no reason for him to say publically that he has shut the door on Marbury.  Danny likes to play his cards close to the vest, and he never publically closes the door on any possibility.  I would not be too worried about this.

[Quinn]

I think that, If Steph would re-sign; he would be the backup pointguard with the most potential of doing well than anyone else.
Bobby Jackson, Jason Williams, and others are solid; but Steph used to be a star.

If someone told you a few years ago that KG, Pierce, Suga' Ray, Rasheed Wallace, and Stephon Marbury were on a team together, and RW and Steph were on the bench, would you have believed them?

Sure he's crazy, but he used to be a hell of a ball player, and I say give him another season on proving that he can still play.

[Fafnir]

I think that, If Steph would re-sign; he would be the backup pointguard with the most potential of doing well than anyone else.
Bobby Jackson, Jason Williams, and others are solid; but Steph used to be a star.

If someone told you a few years ago that KG, Pierce, Suga' Ray, Rasheed Wallace, and Stephon Marbury were on a team together, and RW and Steph were on the bench, would you have believed them?

Sure he's crazy, but he used to be a hell of a ball player, and I say give him another season on proving that he can still play.

I'd rather not. Between his antics and his second worst in the NBA field goal percentage we should declare the Marbury experiment over.

[Jon]

The thing with Starbury is that if he is as cracked as he appears to be on his webcasts, he's been that way for at least the past few years.  If it's all just an act, then it really doesn't matter.  Either way, it means that there's nothing in those webcasts to suggest that he can't come back next year and provide at least what he did last year. 

[amenhotep04]

The thing with Starbury is that if he is as cracked as he appears to be on his webcasts, he's been that way for at least the past few years.  If it's all just an act, then it really doesn't matter.  Either way, it means that there's nothing in those webcasts to suggest that he can't come back next year and provide at least what he did last year. 

Isn't that the point?  A lot of people don't want him to provide what he did this past season.  They want substantially more, as last year was not good.