People on this board don't understand the problem with the C's - there offense STUNK in the fourth quarter. Teams lock down and our old3 slow down, and we can't score. We got plenty of stops against LAL in the fourth, just no buckets. I think Al can give you bigger version of Powe. You won't get good perimeter D, but you will get some decent help D (blocks, charges) and I think he'll body up OK. Ray Allen was viewed as an elite scoring wing with no D when he came on board. He's been a plus defender since.
You put him in the Perk role with the starters (catching dump offs and trailing the breaks, plus some ISO) and our offense would be tremendous. He could also carry the offense when Rondo is out, something Pierce cannot do consistently anymore.
I think they can pickup the Perk sub at the vet minimum.
They need a SF with some size behind Pierce.
A pretty good offseason would be:
Trade Sheed, BBD, S&T TA to Minny for AlJeff
Trade S&T Nate to CLE for Delonte
Sign Gomes at 3 mill for a year with a team option @ 3 mill
Sign a vet min center
Resign Ray for two years @10 with a team option
Jefferson / Vet Min / Perk
KG / Gomes / Harangutan
Pierce / Gomes
Ray / West
Rondo / West / AB
Total salary:
Pierce $21,513,521
KG $18,800,00
Jefferson $13,000,000
Ray $10,000,000
Rondo $9,000,000
West $4,658,500
Perk $4,390,208
Gomes $3,000,000
Bradley $1,546,560
Harangody $500,000
Vet Min Big $900,000
Vet Min Wing $900,000
Vet Min Guard $900,000
That's a 70.3 million dollar payroll.
They were at 87 this year, plus you'd still have 3 mill of MLE in case you needed to add someone else.
