No Afflalo, no Asik. What's happening

[ctrey]

We seem to standing on the side of the road while everybody else makes a move. Which leads me to think that the other teams in the NBA think we have no real assets. Even Rondo is tainted. This is not good to say the least.

I think we may be in for a long rebuild folks. I am just very nervous that nothing is happening on the Celtics front. Not even any smoke, let alone fire.

[BigAlTheFuture]

Yeah, things are looking that way. I don't mind if we can get Embiid or Smart.

[Waew]

There is smoke. You dont think "looking to buy 2nd rounders" is smoke? Embers maybe? Lol

[TwinTower14]

I have a weird feeling that Rondo will be a King by tomorrow morning and Embiid and Smart / Payton will be in Green...

[Roy H.]

We seem to standing on the side of the road while everybody else makes a move. Which leads me to think that the other teams in the NBA think we have no real assets. Even Rondo is tainted. This is not good to say the least.

I think you're reaching an incorrect conclusion here.  Rather, I think the answer is that Danny just isn't interested in the players in question, or isn't interested in them at the price being asked.

With Asik, my guess is that Danny wouldn't put #17 on the table, so Houston went with New Orleans' offer.  Regarding Afflalo, we obviously could have trumped that deal, but decided against it.

I think that that suggests that Danny is going a different direction than the "win now" route.  I would expect that this means we're rebuilding in earnest.

[BballTim]

We seem to standing on the side of the road while everybody else makes a move. Which leads me to think that the other teams in the NBA think we have no real assets.

  It doesn't say that at all. Danny could have outbid the offers in either trade as easy as he can cross the street. The interesting thing is that he didn't choose to.

[Schiller]

Patience everyone, patience...

We'll all know a lot more in a few hours come draft time.

[WeMadeIt17]

Yeah we need to not lose our heads cause we missed out on two guys. Danny may not have even had these guys on his radar.

[cman88]

We seem to standing on the side of the road while everybody else makes a move. Which leads me to think that the other teams in the NBA think we have no real assets. Even Rondo is tainted. This is not good to say the least.

I think you're reaching an incorrect conclusion here.  Rather, I think the answer is that Danny just isn't interested in the players in question, or isn't interested in them at the price being asked.

With Asik, my guess is that Danny wouldn't put #17 on the table, so Houston went with New Orleans' offer.  Regarding Afflalo, we obviously could have trumped that deal, but decided against it.

I think that that suggests that Danny is going a different direction than the "win now" route.  I would expect that this means we're rebuilding in earnest.

why "win now" when you dont have a star in hand? Only make sense to trade for players to "win now"  if you grab kevin love.

otherwise you lose out on love and are too good to tank, but not good enough to compete.

[joepatsfan]

Why... no worries.. yet at least...

There are guys like Gortat or even Okafor that we can acquire in FA..

Affalo may have been a guy that DA doesn't like..

The only thing that scares me about that AA deal is Denvert can offer AA and Faried to Minnny plus 13... but still I think we're in it

[pearljammer10]

My number 2 and 3 offseason targets gone. With those offers how could we not go after them?

[SHAQATTACK]

Another tanking season with Wallace's contract wrapped around the Celtics throat.

Nothing great happens till Wallace is gone

In the meantime Rondo leaves....rather traded

No looking good here


Fireworks is looking more like a Fizzle ..

[MBunge]

I think that that suggests that Danny is going a different direction than the "win now" route.  I would expect that this means we're rebuilding in earnest.

Affalo has next season and then a player option at about $7.5 mil each.  I don't think passing on that says anything other than Ainge has no deal in place to bring in Love, so he's not going to commit to anything like Morey just did by shipping out Asik for bupkis.

Now, if Gortat goes somewhere else for a deal that Boston could easily match or surpass...THAT'S going to scream Rondo getting traded and a long-term rebuild.

Mike

[Donoghus]

We're not panicking.  That's whats happening. 

Multi-year rebuild.  This isn't happening overnight.

[rondoallaturca]

My number 2 and 3 offseason targets gone. With those offers how could we not go after them?

I'm thinking the same thing. Both Asik and Afflalo were had for offers we unquestionably could have matched or beaten. The fact that Ainge didn't make a move leads me to believe he has something else lined up. Clearly he's looking to preserve cap space or avoiding to take on competitive pieces, which means it's 100% boom or bust. Either we're looking at some new stars in Boston, or Rondo is out. I definitely pray it's the former.