The only picks worth more than cap space is lottery picks. You really have little chance of landing a franchise player, or even an impact player outside of the lottery. At least with cap space you get to chose the players you sign; for the most part you already know what they bring to the table. Even with lottery picks you never really know who's going to make it and who's going to be bust.
that's not necessarily true. the point is to acquire as many assets as possible. that way you develop them, maybe you'll get lucky and one of them turns out to be really good, or you trade those assets for a more established player. you can have all the capsapce in the world but it wont do you any good if no great fa's dont want to come to boston.
Mid to low draft picks (which is what we have) will not land you anything of value. Having a bunch of lower picks just means you'll end up with more garbage. It's certainly possible to get lucky and strike gold with a later pick, but the odds are stacked against you. Just look at what WAS in the NFL gave up to get the #2 overall pick in the draft.
we traded a bunch of mid level draft picks and ended up with kg so i'm not exactly sure where you are coming from.
The idea that those mid-level draft picks became value for Garnett and Allen is one of the most over-used pieces of nonsense on this board.
Ainge did NOT trade "value" for Garnett and Allen. He traded a lottery pick, a scorer who can't guard me and a bag of garbage to two franchises selling superstars for pennies on the dollar.
That's called luck. Not assets.
Hey, remember that scorer who can't guard you (I'm assuming you mean Big Al) is the same guy people have been pining to get back since the Celtics traded him.
I agree and this is why the draft pick argument is just as flawed as the salary cap argument, you need to see how the offseason plays out in order to evaluate properly. Honestly, if you have the space why in the hell wouldn't you pursue Dwight Howard? No one saw the Heat coming for LeBron until about a week before the "decision". Wade was going to become Derrick Rose's favorite teammate, John Calipari was going to jump from Kentucky back to the NBA, and LeBron was going to light it up for the Knicks as they returned to glory.
My whole point is that this board feeds off speculation, mostly negative. Any particular story that comes out that supports this franchise sucking for the next 5 years would be taken as gospel, meanwhile if a player genuinely says that they would entertain playing here that is automatically "oh well, he's just playing up to the local media, he really has no interest because he can make more endorsement money playing in XYZ market."
My favorite argument is the weather, "because its a cold weather city Boston will never attract free agents, so lets bury this team in bad contracts and draft picks and hopefully we become the Bulls in 5-7 years." Listen its 2012 players have offseason homes anywhere they want, this isn't football where most of the games are played outside, the weather has zero effect on the game.
But again Boston fans NEED to be Negative, its our predisposition to be negative if you are from this city. Its like when you don't go up to that girl at the bar who has been eyeing you the whole night, because she'll have no interest so why bother. If you're going to believe that you will fail at your goal. Its not the right mentality for a GM that is trying to compete year in and out.
Unless if a deal for Josh Smith comes along or something that makes absolute sense for the Boston Celtics you do not bury yourself in bad contracts to get draft picks. That's what teams like the Wizards do, hell that's what the Celtics used to do. Eventually they found a taker for all of those "tremendous assets" that they accumulated over the years and the rest is history.
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