Good highlight Jsaad. When I read the article on the Home page I thought maybe Rondo, Perkins and Pierce were suggesting that the guys personalities just didn't match up as well and some players were more focused on their own production.

But when you look at it in terms of multiple guys playing for upcoming contracts...then you have a real possiblity of guys pushing personal agendas to insure they get a bigger contract, perhpas by trying to put up bigger numbers of their own...

Ironically though, Posey received his fat contract because he was perceived to be a guy who helps you win a ring..because...he won a ring in Boston.

Translation...the best way for all these guys to get good contracts? Help the team win a ring, everybody's value goes up when that happens.

TP for the highlight, I didn't read it like that until you mentioned it.

I think the most important thing is how Doc, as a coach, "sells" the fact that winning a ring will trump personal numbers when contract time comes. Because I don't think this issue being raised by Perk, Rondo and Pierce has to do with guys who barely see the floor, it is going on with a few guys who are key rotation guys, otherwise it wouldn't affect the team "that much".

Does the silence in this thread translate to people agreeing that contracts might have something to do with the teams morale?

Just because someone doesn't state "I disagree with statement A" doesn't mean that they necessarily concur that "statement A" is true.

I think it has a lot more to do with KG's injury and decline. It was his team in 2007-2008. Last year it wasn't anyones because the C's were waiting for him to come back. This year it's still KGs team, but he's no longer the best player every night. So the situation is in a lot of flux as far as leadership goes.

Besides each team is different, 2007-2008's team was special. You don't have chemistry like that all that often, just not how the NBA works. Could the impending break up of this team have a part in it? Sure it could, I think its a minor factor though.

Does the silence in this thread translate to people agreeing that contracts might have something to do with the teams morale?

No, disagree entirely. I don't think contracts are playing into anything.

I also don't think individual agendas are hurting the team. Not too a large degree anyway. A minor problem if even that and one that will correct itself as the C's get + stay healthy for a prolonged period.

  As we learned this fall, there wasn't a lot of unbuntu last year, at least after KG went down.

Ubuntu wasn't the real reason they won anyways.

The Celtics were the most talented team in 2007-2008. What do you know they won!

Which is one of the reasons I was very confident they would have won if not for KG's knee last year. They had more experience as unit, and were still the most talented team.

Still are actually.  Here's too hoping everyone is healthy.

If KG could get to back 2007-2008, sure.

But he won't.

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