At some point, the Celtics have to make a trade. If your core is IT4, Horford, and you want to win now, you have to trade the pick. Maybe its right before the draft, but you MUST trade the pick.
You cannot simultaneously continue to stock pile assets, draft 18 year olds, and compete for a Title. Either you trade the pick this summer, or next year you trade Horford or IT4 and go in wait for LeBron and the Warriors to get too old to compete.
The salaries that will be required when IT4, AB, and Smart come up for new contracts will not allow the C's to re-sign all those guys. Its also not fair to Horford and IT4 to continue surrounding them with rookies. They deserve to win.
So, either trade the pick or trade away your best players next year. The time is coming. The clock is running out on the current path for Ainge. At some point in the not so distant future he will have to decide.
TP.
My position exactly.
When they signed Horford, they admitted they were finished with the forever rebuild - much to the horror of this crowd.
So now, it's time to move some of these picks for immediate, significant help - or admit you made a mistake signing Horford and tank.
Bo, you seem to be very confused on things and think teams should either tank or contend for a title. So based on that illogical assumption there should be 28 teams tanking and only 2 playing to win. That's neither realistic or practical. The truth of the matter is that we aren't "rebuilding" (I think you need to look up that word since you often cite it incorrectly), but rather consistently improving towards title contention. Which is why our win percentage has steadily increased over the past 4 seasons:
13/14 .305
14/15 .488
15/16 .585
16/17 .649
You are correct.
Mediocrity doesn't amuse me. I do not have this bizarre fascination with the draft, and I don't find Ainge's draft record sufficient to have any faith whatsoever that he can do what few have been able to do - draft a champion.
And I'd point out this team has won NOTHING of note. Nothing. Incremental improvement means nothing when what should be the constant goal of this franchise - a title - is as far away as it ever was. This team lost last night, despite the short-sighted whining of fans about the last call, because of second-chance points and a terrible performance by the second unit.
This team isn't going to do squat in the playoffs for those reasons.
So I don't really care about all the alleged "assets." They aren't winning games now, and there is no guarantee whatsoever they will in the future. All the "Danny has set us up" nonsense is just that - he's set "us" up for fans to continue to overrate assets that have not advanced this franchise a whit, and is just kicking the mediocrity can down the road.
I will leave the unrequited love for the current purgatory we're in to fans of franchises who have no real expectation of success. In the meantime, at bare minimum Ainge needs to add a rebounder at the deadline. Period. Failure to do so will reflect negatively on his competence.
And in the summer, continuing his equally bizarre fascination with tweeners with bad handles and a missing shot is completely unacceptable. It is time to move this franchise forward, and draft reaches aren't it.
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