The thing is this offseason is the scheduled rebuild year
Ainge isn't the type of person to hope for a better future, he wants to contend now
he had the pieces in place to land some major players
If he was interested in actually developing talent we would've kept Gerald Green, traded pierce for the #3 pick and chris paul, and kept al jefferson
Ainge has quietly managed to pull together some assets and nobody is truly untouchable as Ainge says
As a result, it wouldn't shock me if a major roster overhaul is done this offseason
KG and Ray came over last time to team up with paul
This time around we have guys like
LaMarcus Aldridge, David Lee, Dwight Howard, Josh Smith, OJ Mayo, Rudy Gay, Deron Williams, Roy Hibbert, Eric Gordon, Andrew Bogut, and Al Jefferson
It would shock me if 2-3 of these guys WEREN'T wearing a celtics jersey come next season
We could be going
Rondo/Rivers/Josh Smith/Aldridge/Stiemsma Next year
with Jeff Green 6th man.
I think there's a good chance we might make a push for aldridge or david lee, they might come cheaper than we expect, especially if we are willing to take on a bad contract in return which we can, Biedrins would actually be serviceable for us
or something come next year
I have a strong feeling Rivers is going to find his way into boston, Doc was going to leave coaching to "be closer to his son" and then he went on to sign an extension, obviously the premise behind it was possibly working together
If we don't get Rivers, Eric Gordan and OJ Mayo are there to fill in the SG void
I'll be willing to risk all the assets we have
and try to end up with a lineup of
Rondo/Eric Gordon/Josh Smith/David Lee/Steamer
We try to outbid for Gordon if not pay for Mayo, whoever's cheaper. I'm also going to take pierce's word on retiring, we may amnesty him to allow for this
We can sign & trade Ray Allen a Pick and Bass for Josh Smith
We package S&T KG, throw in JJJ to land David Lee and Beindries
The kicker is we can throw the MLE to get andrei Kirlienko or something