Williams signed for ROY / 2014

[xmuscularghandix]

Love this signing. I would love to see this kid flourish in Boston as the backup PG. His size and versatility will go nicely coming off the bench alongside Jeff Green. Not to mention his potential if he can get comfortable and grow alongside heady veterans like KG and Paul. T-Will is a winner who has been forced to play roles that don't suit him for teams that ranked as some of the worst in the league.

Let him get a taste of the Playoffs and what it's like to to play in a city that cares, along with a coach and players who will be looking to make him better.

[Mencius]

I'm glad he took the deal.

It's not like he had other options on the table right now.

Well, after the first few games, he might have. But oh well

He's had one decent game with us and it was mostly in blowout mode. Not exactly a head-turner.

So, do you regard this as a good signing?

[clover]

Conditionally?  What's the condition?

Does Woj mean non-guaranteed, or is there some sort of vesting option?

I'd think non-guaranteed deal for next season -- 'we sign you to more time, you give us options.'

As for what he's showed on the court in his time here, I don't think it's really a big factor. The Cs knew what he can do as a basketball player, it's his attitude they wanted to vet during his 10 day....

Yeah, that's what it sounds like--and not a bad deal for the C's.  Williams at least talks like he's learned from his past mistakes; Crawford sounds like he's still in unenlightened punk mode.

[ThaPreacher]

Conditionally?  What's the condition?

Does Woj mean non-guaranteed, or is there some sort of vesting option?

I'd think non-guaranteed deal for next season -- 'we sign you to more time, you give us options.'

As for what he's showed on the court in his time here, I don't think it's really a big factor. The Cs knew what he can do as a basketball player, it's his attitude they wanted to vet during his 10 day....

Yeah, that's what it sounds like--and not a bad deal for the C's.  Williams at least talks like he's learned from his past mistakes; Crawford sounds like he's still in unenlightened punk mode.

How's that?   Because he is cocky. Confident?  Or do you have a quote you would like to cite?
Crawford says things to motivate himself.  The Jordan thing.... That's silly. But read the context.
Like to hear more.  Think he is worth barbosa and Collins all day. Even with the Ricky Davis Swag!,

[slamtheking]

not a bad deal.  like having a good pick in next year's draft with a lot less guess work as to performance.

Hopefully Danny can look to go big in the draft since we seem to have a nice variety of young guards locked up through next year and longer.

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

not a bad deal.  like having a good pick in next year's draft with a lot less guess work as to performance.

Hopefully Danny can look to go big in the draft since we seem to have a nice variety of young guards locked up through next year and longer.

Ditto on everything you said here, especially the part about Danny looking more for bigs.

I like this signing. Hopefully he continues to mature; if so, I think he'll flourish here, and we sure could use a 6-6 shooting guard who can handle the ball and has very good court vision.

[ManUp]

I absolutely love this move and am very excited. I was getting nervous when I didn't hear any news. He's too talented to not be in the NBA w/ the right mind state he can be a real impact player.

[esel1000]

Our old friend Pitino has some good things to say about Williams and believes hes found the right place to further his career... hopefully hes right

http://bostonherald.com/sports/celtics_nba/boston_celtics/2013/02/pitino_terrence_williams_good_fit_for_celtics

[Vermont Green]

Seems like good value for what I assume is a near minimum level contract but I don't see him raising up the depth chart all that much. 

He is a versatile, multi-position bench guy.  I think he can play back-up PG but I don't think he is really a PG (kind of like Green is not really a PF but can play PF).

Definitely worth keeping around but I just don't see a break out coming, at least not this year.

[ScottHow]

Hopefully this makes him more comfortable which will help his play

[snively]

He is at least fun to watch, which is more than  you can say about DJ White and Shavlik Randolph.

[kozlodoev]

I'm glad he took the deal.

It's not like he had other options on the table right now.

Well, after the first few games, he might have. But oh well

He's had one decent game with us and it was mostly in blowout mode. Not exactly a head-turner.

So, do you regard this as a good signing?

I really don't care one way or the other about players whose market value is the veteran minimum.

[droopdog7]

I'm glad he took the deal.

It's not like he had other options on the table right now.

Well, after the first few games, he might have. But oh well

He's had one decent game with us and it was mostly in blowout mode. Not exactly a head-turner.

Yeah, as long and we are not stuck with him after this year, I am okay with the move.

[Mencius]

I'm glad he took the deal.

It's not like he had other options on the table right now.

Well, after the first few games, he might have. But oh well

He's had one decent game with us and it was mostly in blowout mode. Not exactly a head-turner.

So, do you regard this as a good signing?

I really don't care one way or the other about players whose market value is the veteran minimum.

Fair enough.  Sometimes guys way underperform relative to their contract, others outperform them, sometimes their play is about worth what they get paid.  I'm hoping we got a young guy with talent who will far outperform what he gets paid.  I think he's got the talent to be way better than NBA minimum wage, but time will tell.

[BudweiserCeltic]

As I've speculated, this has the potential to be a big move by Ainge, particularly if he pans out. It means that we'll have plenty of expendable guards next summer, some who can be used in a sign-and-trade with the assumption that a free-agent wants to play in Boston (I've speculated Al Jefferson and Josh Smith coming to mind).

Very quietly Ainge has been building a portfolio full of young assets, and talented ones at that.