Trading away the worst offensive player in the league and a guy that his team is going to amnesty is the reason we couldn't compete for titles the last two years? We were up 3-2 on Miami 13mths ago despite Jeff Green missing that series (an actual asset, unlike Perk), but we couldn't win a title after trading Perk?

32-35 wins.

take our time ,develop new coach and young players, mold the team and set direction to take it.

then sit back and Cruz to a lotto pick

Young guys play a lot, and improve noticeably over the course of the season.

Danny makes one or two moves to shed some more long-term salary and maybe add another future asset of some kind.

Quote from: Boston Garden Leprechaun on July 09, 2013, 08:13:06 AM

Quote from: Celtics18 on July 09, 2013, 07:48:19 AM

My expectations are a minimum of 35 wins, hopefully more and a trip to the playoffs.

nah we were stuck in that mediocre land last year. we have a plan now. get worse to get better long term.

I disagree.  Another year in the playoffs doesn't necessarily mean that we are going to be "stuck" in mediocrity for a long time.  We are in a situation where we can rebuild this team without having to tank for Wiggins or Parker.

agree

DA could make this a 35-40 win team easy,  he could have added Milsap or ASik ,  but he didn't ....

this  avoiding players like that at this time to me indicates , he is in full rebuild mode,  he can 't publicly ever mention tanking, as its not ALLOWED . 

Going for an future all star player is the way to go , now that the course is set....I think he holds course to get a shot at the top 4 picks in the draft.

We'll know for sure If Rondo is out playing early and alot.

Pressey might be the point guard he needs to look good and tank.( without ever saying as much...... if you have tickets, just suck it up and wait , the C's will be good again one day

My expectations are a minimum of 35 wins, hopefully more and a trip to the playoffs.

youre hoping we miss out on the best draft crop ever? interesting.

This season should be about:

Getting Rondo completely healthy and not rushing him back (assuming that you don't trade him).

Allowing Jeff Green to develop into a leader on this team and become more consistent as the premier scorer and PP replacement.

Allowing Sullinger to come back completely healthy and see if he can continue where he left off. Figure out what his ceiling is.

Allowing Olynyk to have a lot of time out there to see what he can become. It was just summer league, but you can't say you haven't seen Dirk flashes in the kid so far.

Determine if we have anything at the true center position in Melo, or Iverson, or another possible big. If not we will need to search for that elsewhere.

Sort through all the other guys to see if any of them can fill roles on a contending team. Send the other ones packing.

Allow the expiring contracts to go away.

Allow Brad Stevens to put his stamp on this team and develop along with the other Rookies.

Be in a position to have a shot at drafting a superstar. Preferrably Wiggins in a perfect world.  The worst thing we could do is to barely miss the playoffs.

Wallace is a backup SF who may see 20 minutes per game if we keep sliding Green to PF. So I don't see how he can be the X factor, given that he plays the primary position of our best offensive player.

Imagine Wallace becoming the veteran lynchpin of a surprisingly effective bench unit that doesn't automatically give away leads earned by the starters by getting guys like Jordan Crawford to play defense instead of just being a chucker.

I could see Wallace showing some leadership in getting players to get in line with the reported defense-first philosophy of Brad Stevens.