What are our options?

[2dark]

Amidst all this gloomy armaggedon threads I find this common bottom line...We re too old, have short bench and we re deffinately not a championship caliber team any more.

Time to blow it up, trade few remaining chips we have, and go to rebuilding phase as soon as we can, because this is "Bird-McHale" situation all over again, and we can't ride it out to sunset and have 20 more years of mediocre basketball.

Ok, lets think about it for a second...
For people wanting a change till the deadline, what is it that you re looking for?
We have loads of big contracts about to expire (JO, Ray, KG), and only real asset in Rondo, whose trade value (correctly or not) is not as high as we would assume it is.
Do you hope to get better players than either KG or Ray if you trade them?
If not what is the point of trading them?

"Better start rebuilding sooner than later!"
Beside possible high pick if we sell out and tank remaining season, what do we get if we blow things out now?
A year of even worse basketball that it already is, and nothing to hope for in the immidiate future. Oh right, and a pick in 5-10 range. That will save us, cause we all know the players we drafted in that range in past few years (Jeff Green, Randy Foye...-All current superstars).

I understand that we got spoiled in Big3 era, but my opinion is that there is nothing better to do this year than to ride it out.
After this year we will probably get stuck in the middle of pack for years comming, with little to no chance of going up soon.
We re no LA, there is no big FA comming our way probably (unless Danny manages to pull a rabbit out of his hat again), so all we can do is sit back in our chairs, and remember that this team still has a heart of a champion, and hope for the best once playoff comes knocking; be it from 4th or 8th seed, and enjoy in sunset of players that brought us many unforgetable moments these past five years.

 

[Marcus13]

It is possible that a star player will be upset with his team and look to get traded around the deadline and a team would take some expiring contracts and a pick for them....but nothing to count on.

The most likely scenario is we let everybody's contract run up...let a majority of them go, and begin the re-build process with loads of CAP room.  As mentioned in another thread, Pierce's play will probably be heavily evaluated at the end of the year and him being cut is an option IF a star player is agreeing to come to Boston

A SOMEWHAT nice part for us is that we have a PG to build around and that's it.  So whatever all-star we can get our hands on at the 2-5 would be key building pieces