Clean up the roster with BPA draft problems

[KG Living Legend]

 Ainge decided he's taking BPA no matter what and this is how it falls.

 Brooklyn pick #4 Kris Dunn Point Guard
 Moves up to #15 to take Buddy Hield Two guard
 With the Dallas pick #19 Valentine 2/3 is BPA
 With the Philly pouch #31 Brice Johnson PF

 We keep Amir. Sully, Jonas, Turner, Lee, Zeller are gone.

 We Sign Whiteside as are only free agent.

 So what do you do now? Who has to go. Does anyone have to go.?

 Depth Chart

 C Whiteside/Mickey
 PF  Kelly/Amir/ Brice Johnson
 SF Crowder/ Valentine/ Hunter
 SG Bradley/ Smart/ Hield/Young
 PG Thomas/Dunn/Rozier

 Package a combination of Hunter, Young, and either Rozier or Bradley to free things up.

 Positive note is with Dunn and Denzel, the ball handling and passing in the future would be top notch.

[TheSundanceKid]

I curse myself for signing Hassan Whiteside as a free agent and desperately search through the CBA to see if I can find a way out of it. Then I curse myself again for taking Dunn with the 4th pick of the draft and not Jaylen Brown or Bender or better using it to trade for someone established on draft night. I then realise I've let go of half of my playoff calibre roster and I decide it's just not worth it and I should pack up and move to Greenland to open a beachwear store.

Yep...that's about right.

[Celtics4ever]

Moves up to #15 to take Buddy Hield Two guard

Buddy will be gone by then.

I like the post though.  Great thoughts, KG Living Legend.

[pearljammer10]

No Whiteside. Thanks.

[Denis998]

We really got too many draft picks, no way we keep all the picks. I say consolidate dal and bos picks to move up and grab heild. Use #31 for Zhou qi for a draft and stash for a few years.

[The One]

KG Living Legend is wrecking the mic!

I hear you KGLL...what if I flip the script?

Keep two picks (BKN for sure, and one that nets Hield) and trade the rest for some 2017 picks.

That's solid!!   

[DrJasper]

If Dunn is the bpa on draft night and there is no trade for a star, then package some of our guards for Nerlens Noel. I would prefer not to include smart but I don't know if thats possible if we really want Noel.

But a foundation of lineup of Dunn, (smart) and Noel sounds promising to me.

[sofutomygaha]

I curse myself for signing Hassan Whiteside as a free agent and desperately search through the CBA to see if I can find a way out of it. Then I curse myself again for taking Dunn with the 4th pick of the draft and not Jaylen Brown or Bender or better using it to trade for someone established on draft night. I then realise I've let go of half of my playoff calibre roster and I decide it's just not worth it and I should pack up and move to Greenland to open a beachwear store.

Yep...that's about right.

Do you need a cashier? I'll work for whale blubber.

[sofutomygaha]

Seriously, though... what a dark, grim future you are staring at, buried up to our eyebrows in rookies and then planting a tree who has never passed the ball right in the middle of your motion offense

[Evantime34]

I just don't think we can draft 3 guy to add to the roster let alone 4.

Stevens has shown that he prefers to develop young guys slowly and not count on them to play immediately.

Next year I want our roster to have enough quality players so that we don't need to rely on any young players for rotation minutes. Let the young guys earn their minutes, but don't count on them to provide rotation minutes.

In other words, I want to have a deep enough team that we won't be screwed if none of our young guys are ready. With 7 young guys (Mickey, Young, Rozier, Hunter and 3 rookies) the C's would have to rely on one to be a rotation piece.

[KG Living Legend]

 I was hoping that someone could get creative and trade a package of guards for a big guy. Noel would be great, but we'd have to give up Smart Or Dunn.

 Would you roll the dice on Rozier, Young, and Hunter for Embiid, that would be funny.

[PhoSita]

Seriously, though... what a dark, grim future you are staring at, buried up to our eyebrows in rookies and then planting a tree who has never passed the ball right in the middle of your motion offense

I was going to post a response but this pretty much sums it up.


I'm OK with the team having a lot of young guys next year, but not if they're all at positions that already have too many guys who need time and none of the draft additions really address current weaknesses on the roster.