How about keeping Bass and see how he does under a new coach. The guy is a physical freak.
So you want to keep his 6 million a year for the next three years to play a few minutes a game behind Sully and KO?
It's not yet certain that Olynyk can play NBA-level defense. It's not certain that Sullinger will be healthy. It makes sense for the Celtics to have a third-string power forward behind them and I'd rather use Bass than Humphries.
Yikes, so Bass is a starting pf on a contending team, but a third stringer on next year's [supposed] lottery team. I really think we would be doing Bass a favor by shipping him to Hou or Mem rather than him wasting away on our bench. If he is going to stay, he should be getting at least 24 minutes a game - not fair otherwise.
Bass wasn't starting PF on a contending team. He got the job because the players in front of him got injured. So he's really a bench player who landed on the starting spot out of necessity, not based on his skill level.
Jermaine O'neal and then Wilcox were starting prior to Bass getting the chance out of necessity.
What are you talking about? Bass was the 4th leading scorer on the team that year both in the regular season (ahead of Rondo) and in the playoffs (ahead of Allen). He also averaged the 4th most minutes on the team, barely ahead of Garnett (15 more than Wilcox and 9 more than Jermaine). I know that Wilcox and Jermaine's corpse were shoe-ins for the all-star game, but Bass had solidified himself as the 5th 'player' on the team prior to those injuries and deserved to start when he did.
Any team we are discussing trading him to now is a bonafide playoff team where he would start. Making the guy a third stringer on a crappy team isn't the best use of his talent for us or for the value we could receive. He is a very good basketball player.
I wasn't talking about who's better than who. I'm talking about the role he fits in a roster. His role is a big coming of the bench who can score. That he can play starter, sure. I really have little problem with that, in a vacuum.
But the assertion that Bass was a starting PF in a contender, while true, it's flawed. He really wasn't.
In that year, he was more productive as a bench player. That's his role, it should remain his role. In part, because he's a lousy passer )and a blackhole - No Pass Bass), has butter hands, and is inconsistent defensively.
His asset is the midrange shot, which is perfect for a first big off the bench to give a us a scoring punch.
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