Obviously the overused and comical Gerald Green part of this makes that the focus, but you did bring up some other points. Despite the irrationality of wanting to re-sign Gerald Green, I will attempt a rationale reply to your post since its never fun to feel like everybody's making fun of you. You gotta understand though, bringing back Gerald Green is such an outrageous idea, you're always gonna get this kind of a reaction.
AINGE knows we have holes in this team,
we need a young athletic guy with decent size and speed,
Gerald can score and his defense will get better,
it's a low cost risk.
I agree with almost everything you say here. Now with Marquis out for six to eight months, it seems like a young athletic guy with decent size and speed would be just what the doctor ordered for this team. But Gerald Green is not that guy. I'm sorry man (unless this is all just a sacha baren cohen-esque joke) but Gerald is never gonna be a successful NBA player. There's a mental part of the game that he seems to be unable to break through. Beyond that, as Roy pointed out earlier, to sign anyone, we'll need to cut a player on our team. If we go that route instead of trying to deal some of our expiring for someone who already plays in the league, we better be signing someone who is better than the guys we already have on the team. This is unlikely, and I wouldn't trade Gerald for Hudson/Giddens/Walker, whom I'm not particularly attached to. If we are going to try to add a young, athletic swingman I think we need to try to pursue that through a trade , but we need something proven if we're expecting them to step in and play for this team.
Ainge made a big mistake, not resigning Leon Powe
and he knows it, that will cost him
come playoff time, but
if he doesn't get help now,
Pierce and Ray Allen will be burned out come playoff time
I'm sad about the way the Powe situation ended up, but we have no idea if Powe will ever be able to return to the form he had before. It may have not been the best karma move since he was a fan favorite, but we have to just swallow that. This was the right financial and basketball move to make for the team, and I applaud them for trying to put a team out there that will really compete for a championship. It stinks that Marquis went down, but Powe doesn't even play the same position so the two are completely separate issues. I think what we will see is the celts try to march out TA and Brian Scalabrine, and since the team has been playing so well, at the moment that might not be the worst strategy. We have a bunch of expirings and we can bide our time until the right deal or player comes along. If we're winning in the meantime thats great, but TA and Scals should be helping Ray and Paul to maintain their minutes. Paul played 1:55 more last night than he has averaged this season, Ray just 47 more seconds last night than normal. I don't want to wear down Ray or Pierce, but I think Doc can manage some minutes to make that not happen. I would prefer not to be seeing TA at all, but that wish will somehow never come true.
And we need a backup PG,
I have no clue why Ainge did not go after Iverson,
like 2 years ago, Ainge wanted him bad,
now you could get him for practically nothing
and you pass on him . . .
doesn't make sense.
A back up point guard has been on the wish list all season, but they've made due without one. I think this only becomes glaring if Rondo goes down, and if that happened the team would have been in trouble no matter what. Iverson would have not worked out. He wants a starting job and lots of minutes. If he came here he wouldn't get a starting job and he'd be taking away minutes from very functional rotation guys like House, who have our system down and play the team game. Iverson would have been a bad move two years ago, and he would have been a bad move for us now. I'm happy for him, he's back in Philly where he belongs.
Rasheed was a good pickup for them.
I agree. Rasheed was a good pick up. BTW, you have an awesome Post to TP ratio.
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