Bill Simmons isn't letting Danny off the hook for this deadline either.
https://twitter.com/BillSimmons/status/836403799468040192
Trade deadline guys that would have helped the Celtics bench...
Noel
Tucker
Bogdanovic
Ibaka
Gibson
Lou Williams
Ilyasova
Anyone
But, no, let's hoard all of these lesser assets so that we can field a D-League team and an international team.
None of those guys get us past Cleveland, let alone the Warriors. Few of them would have any long term future with the team, so we'd be giving up assets for...what? A couple more regular season wins?
And I'm not sure I'd want any of those guys over Bogut, but signing any of them would preclude getting him.
Mike
We have a milliion assets, and literally none of those players would've cost any of our main assets in the Brooklyn picks, Smart, Brown, or any of our main rotation players. We could've easily afforded it, and a couple of those players would've significantly gave us a better chance of defeating Cleveland, such as Ibaka. We can't use all of those lesser assets anyways, otherwise you're just getting a bunch more of James Youngs, Fab Melos, and RJ Hunters.
There's no point in putting out such a flawed, while still decent, team if you're not going to give them a legit fighting chance of making noise in the playoffs. At that point, you might as well get as many assets as you can and build from the ground up and look for actual franchise pieces and stars that don't have such obvious holes in their games.