Quote from: green7 on December 06, 2011, 05:40:46 PM

leon powe
shane battier
deshawn steveson

a few more

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2011-2012 champions

boston need to sign top defenders

Defense has never been the issue. It's scoring in the fourth quarter when the games are tight.

with deshawn and battier we can get scoring to

It's all moot if we don't have a center with some size to knock down the Lebron's and dwades of the world.  JO isn't intimidating anyone at this stage of his career.

I feel like building a defensive team would mean replacing the Big 3. They proved to be too old/slow to defend a strong athletic team like the Heat in a 7 game series. Signing defensive players is not going to do anything for our noticeable scoring deficiencies in the fourth quarter. In fact, trading for CP3 would help our offense a lot, but it's not going to make old tired legs young again on defense. Everything is up in the air until we see what our Big 3 has left in the tank. Sorry for the negativity...

Quote from: birdwatcher on December 06, 2011, 06:16:05 PM

I feel like building a defensive team would mean replacing the Big 3. They proved to be too old/slow to defend a strong athletic team like the Heat in a 7 game series. Signing defensive players is not going to do anything for our noticeable scoring deficiencies in the fourth quarter. In fact, trading for CP3 would help our offense a lot, but it's not going to make old tired legs young again on defense. Everything is up in the air until we see what our Big 3 has left in the tank. Sorry for the negativity...

that's why a strong defensive/offense bench can take over that load and lower the big 3 min to

I think every team is looking for a "strong defensive/offense bench". the problem is we can't afford a full compliment of players like that.

rebounding!

yeah, our defense has been consistently very good throughout the big 3 era . . . but only in '08 was our offense and rebounding good enough to go all the way -- and it's not like our offense was explosive in '08, either.

We have good "D" ..........we need a LEADER and PLAYMAKER and man who can MAKE A CLUTCH basket when the game is on the line or the game is slipping away.

PP and RAy are getting older and used to do this all the time ..we need an offensive "PUNCH" to get the team going when the chips are gown.  Rondo is not that type of clutch player.  We need YOUNGER offensive spark.

I suggest Mr Chris Paul