A Big F-You to Us Celtics Fans
Hooray! A crappy season to play for the right to draft high next year. Not "opportunity", not "chance to win one of the top 2 spots in the lottery," it was a "F-You Boston!"
Last time we had this high of a chance, we ended up with 2 good players, which we gave up on too early (Ron Mercer and Chauncey Billups)...and San Antonio ended up with Tim Duncan. Those players ened up with 4 titles (3 for Duncan, 1 for Billups...actually 2005 it was Billups VS Duncan) in 10 years. We ended up with 5 playoff appearances. Hooray.
True, there's still talent. There's Yi Jinlingaling Jianlian, the 7-0 forward from China. He ways about as much as a fly sitting on a paperweight. He wants to play outside (Vladamir Radmonvic, anyone?). There's Brendan Wright and AL Horford everyone talks about...But I think we need a big man. A 7-footer with a desire to rebound. I'm thinking Joakim Noah. Sadly, he won't go at 5, but he's vastly underated as an athlete. Think a more motivated Marcus Camby. Or, Roy Hibbert - a 7-2 monster who appears to enjoy playing defense. of course, that's all he can play (ha!), but still... The draft's always fill of big men who go bust, so maybe they are better off just drafting a guard, like Corey Brewer or Mike Conley.
Oh well. We're getting the 5th. Why? Because of all the times we supported a company (not team), that's drafted ineffectually, given up on good players, won't give up on bad ones, traded for the same player twice, and is always willing to...you know what? I'm so mad with the Celtics, I dont' think they deserve any more words!
(hire me)
Last time we had this high of a chance, we ended up with 2 good players, which we gave up on too early (Ron Mercer and Chauncey Billups)...and San Antonio ended up with Tim Duncan. Those players ened up with 4 titles (3 for Duncan, 1 for Billups...actually 2005 it was Billups VS Duncan) in 10 years. We ended up with 5 playoff appearances. Hooray.
True, there's still talent. There's Yi Jinlingaling Jianlian, the 7-0 forward from China. He ways about as much as a fly sitting on a paperweight. He wants to play outside (Vladamir Radmonvic, anyone?). There's Brendan Wright and AL Horford everyone talks about...But I think we need a big man. A 7-footer with a desire to rebound. I'm thinking Joakim Noah. Sadly, he won't go at 5, but he's vastly underated as an athlete. Think a more motivated Marcus Camby. Or, Roy Hibbert - a 7-2 monster who appears to enjoy playing defense. of course, that's all he can play (ha!), but still... The draft's always fill of big men who go bust, so maybe they are better off just drafting a guard, like Corey Brewer or Mike Conley.
Oh well. We're getting the 5th. Why? Because of all the times we supported a company (not team), that's drafted ineffectually, given up on good players, won't give up on bad ones, traded for the same player twice, and is always willing to...you know what? I'm so mad with the Celtics, I dont' think they deserve any more words!
(hire me)
posted by Coolhand at 9:00 PM
1 Comments:
As much as I hate to say it, you can't blame the Celtics for the way the balls came up. They had the odds in their favor for #1/#2, but it wasn't a guarantee.
If anything, Danny Ainge's strong suit is drafting well -- Gerald Green had a decent second year, while we finally saw what the big deal was with Al Jefferson. Even that idiot Tony Allen was beginning to shine. It's Ainge's lack of ability to evaluate talent once it's been in the NBA a while (trades involving Raef LaFrentz, Wally Szerbiak, Sebastian Telfair) that kills the team.
If the Celtics actually end up drafting at #5 -- that's when I'll be pissed. Drafting at #5 means that they haven't made a trade; it means they may have traded Paul Pierce instead, which is stupid. His talent window is closing, but it's not closed yet.
This team needs to hope there's a ton of buzz generated for the projected top five draftees, and then trade the pick, Green, Telfair and Ratliff for a proven veteran that can immediately contribute along with Pierce, Al Jefferson, Wally Szerbiak (I can't believe I just typed that), Delonte West and Ryan Gomes. If they avoid injuries next year, they make the playoffs as a #7 or #8 -- Atlanta is the only other East Coast team that drafts higher than the C's, and you can make the argument that the #3 pick on Atlanta won't stand up to the result of the Celtics dealing their pick.
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