He was injured practically all year. He never fully recovered from the hand injury and how do you know he wants nothing to do with the Celtics. I had not heard that. source?

I'd re-sign Marquis, but preferably not as the third wing.  I'm really hoping we can find a way to land Rasual Butler, although I'm doubtful that can happen.

I wouldn't re-sign Marquis Daniels. The combination of his poor or uneven play with this team last season + the injury risk ... kills my interest in him as a player.

I would rather use the roster spot on one of the minimum contract player options.

Do we even have his bird rights?

The big reason to try to re-sign Marquis is that we can offer him more than the minimum (a certain % raise on the LLE), thus we can possibly offer him more than other teams are going to.  Unfortunately, with other wings, we can't offer more than other people. 

It wasn't too long ago that we were all thrilled to have him be our 3rd wing.  I think that's still possible, and even if it's not, he'd make a heck of a 4th wing behind Howard or the like. 

Quote from: Roy Hobbs on July 17, 2010, 09:49:32 AM

I'd re-sign Marquis, but preferably not as the third wing.  I'm really hoping we can find a way to land Rasual Butler, although I'm doubtful that can happen.

Is Rasual Butler any good? I'd have to look up his stats. I admit I don't know much about him.

As for Marquis, I would love to have him back here. Maybe I am the only one but I think he's alot more talented than people think. He's tall, athletic and can rebound & shoot.

If he comes back healthy and finds his niche on this team, he would be a HUGE asset for the Celtics.

As for the poster who said Marquis doesn't want anything to do with the Celtics, I've never once heard that at all.

Rasual Butler is a good role player as a big shooting guard and a liability as small forward (mainly due to his inability to rebound the ball).

Butler is a good defender at when he has a size advantage (shooting guards) but an average one against comparable or larger players (small forwards).

Offensively, Butler is good perimeter shooter who provides hardly anything else. His shooting ability is pretty good but quite inconsistent. His lack of alternative ways of scoring and the inconsistency with his jumper leads to mediocre scoring efficiency numbers (only one season above 54% TS% and half his career was poor at or below 50%).

If you check out his three point shooting percentage by year you'll see it's all over the map. Two of the past three years he is down around 33% and in between he was at 39%. Before that it was 37-38% and a year prior at 46% (with Dwyane Wade). He generally shoots the ball well once he gets good service (which he should have here in Boston) but falls off without it. I'd expect him to be at or above his career three shooting percentage of 36%.

To repeat the first line -- Butler is a good role player as a two guard (good perimeter shooting + good defense) and a liability as a small forward (very poor rebounding + decent defense + good perimeter shooting). That is what you'll get from him.

As I've said before, I'm fine with resigning Daniels. Not going to reach a definitive conclusion on him, based on one injury-plagued season - especially not when we've had a track record of waiting YEARS on other flawed players, such as TA.