Why are we getting injury prone guys when the recent losses can all be attributed to losing guys due to injury? It's not a coincidence the defense slipped when Brooks, Tari and Bari all missed time, and now you wanna add even more guys who spend more time injured than playing? Rox should just get Biyombo and call it a day. We keep all our picks and get the player Landale was supposed to be. If we wanna upgrade the the backup SG should be the play.
I’d pick up Robert Williams as a trade asset to flip after one rehab season (next season). They can work heavily on his game with light minutes, start him off on very limited minutes and gradually increase. Not a good pairing with Sengun so I don’t see him fitting for a few years until Sengun can shoot really well. However I’d only be happy with that if they first acquire a backup C that can play well immediately. Williams and Robinson even if they can return towards the end of this season, they won’t be in game shape (much like Landale at the beginning of the season). 2 x 2nd rounders + expiring contracts for backup C. Top 8 protected HOU 2025 pick for Williams. I expect this pick to land in the early to mid 20’s.
Two centers is what I want: a 3pt shot blocker in the low post, and Sengun at the high post. Run the offense through Alpi; as soon as he gets the ball, the big moves out to 3pt land. Lopez does this pretty well. Anyone obtainable in this mold?
The right back up center could play a lot more than that. Udoka was known to play two big lineups in Boston. So, for example. a guy like kelly olynyk who can spread the floor could play at both power forward and center, beside both Jabari and Sengun and maybe even provide the flexibility for big lineups where Jabari moves to the 3. He's certainly capable of guarding small forwards. Now of course, the problem with that is there would be less minutes for a guy like Eason at the 4 and we certainly won't be reducing his minutes, so that would need to be figured out.
Sign Hartenstein as a backup in the offseason. He's still only 25, and unlike Boban, he'd be playable for consistent minutes as a backup. Also like RoCo was in 2014, he should have never been waived by Morey/D'Antoni in 2017.
Time Lord is pretty cool/funny. I mean in a league that's had people named "Pooh" Richardson, "Blue" Edwards, "Spud" Webb, etc., I can think of worse.
WTF is even a "time lord" though? Per Wikipedia - His reputation for missing flights and video meetings caused him to earn the moniker "Time Lord" on online Boston Celtics fandoms. Celtics fans are weird and that isn't even a good thing to get a nickname from. Call me old fashioned but I'll take "Pooh" and "Spud" over whatever this is.
It started off with flights and meetings, and stuck because they say he stops time to go cover the shots he blocks...from his teammates.
Let's go ahead and let that one die in Boston. Celtic fans in their obnoxious Boston accents, "TIME LAHHHWD"
The "Ime is intrigued by Robert Williams ' thing is pretty cliched but also funny as hell. The Robert Williams to help defender coaching gambit was the cause of the greatest 2 months of Ime's very brief, hormonally truncated Celtics coaching career, and when Williams got hurt and couldn't come back in the same way the Celtics looked (and eventually were) way more beatable. That said I understand Ime going back to dance with the girl that brung ya - so to speak. Im just unsure if that applies when the girl has glass knees and is out for the season.
Right at the end you just talked through why our backup center wouldn't (or at least shouldn't) see more than 10-15 mins a night. Both forward positions are the one part of our team where we really need no help. We're all set with Brooks/Jabari and Cam/Tari. Sure, you can get a 4/5 that can shoot but there's really no good reason to waste assets to bring in someone that would eat into the minutes of good young forwards. I don't think Jabari is a good fit at SF but even if he was you're then eating into one our other true SFs minutes or trying to force fit them into a guard position they don't have the handle or playmaking ability for.
