The Celtics season has been full of all the short-term pains that come with watching an overwhelmingly young and semi-talented team get chewed up by a league that favors neither. There have been a few bright spots along the way and some potentially optimistic long-term developments. Of these, one of the most notable might be watching the team and Paul decide that the time is right for Pierce to pull a David Robinson and sit out the season before a stunning draft. If Pierce's current “foot injury” is in fact hooey, than we can reasonably expect nobody to ever admit it in public and on the record. Either way, the result has been whole lot (more) loses and the chance for youngsters like Tony Allen, Gerald Green and Al Jefferson to get an accelerated NBA education.
This week Charlie Rosen decided to watch the Cavs game, and came away impressed. I'll offer as context that this was clearly the best game the Celtics have played in the last two weeks, and they still lost to a Cleveland team that acted like they couldn’t possibly care less for the first 40 minutes. I mean, it says something about how pathetic your team is when opponents KNOW that they can spend the first three quarters doing shots at a bar down the street, show up for the final frame and still kick your butt at home. Ladies and gentleman, we are a bad team.
But we're a bad team that just got some good PR. So let's hope that as a result of some kind of domino effect any number of dumb NBA GMs come to decide that Tony Allen is worth having as a throw-in in a larger trade and send us something with real potential.
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Maybe you keep Allen and trade Pierce, Telfair and Perkins for a good PG and a 5 (are there any left in the NBA?). Allen, Green and Jefferson will be the scorers. The problem is that it will take a few years for Allen, Green and Jefferson to get there. OTOH, you'd think you could get some real talent for Pierce.
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