The Celtics Draft (I know it's early)

RondoGreen9 · Post #1 » by **RondoGreen9** » Thu May 22, 2008 8:54 am

Good Luck to the Celtics in the playoffs, and while it may be too soon to be looking at the draft if you aren

BillessuR6 · Post #2 » by **BillessuR6** » Thu May 22, 2008 10:34 am

You make our pick sound like it is a lottery one. It is not. And we really have no big assets to move up far in the draft or to trade. We only have Davis and Powe. Tony is expiring. Some of these deals you made are terrible for the other teams and make no sense for them. At all!

Danny should just draft the best player available with our pick. Or if he doesn`t like anyone at that spot try and package the pick+Scal+3 mio+2nd rounder to a team with cap space...

P2 · Post #3 » by P2 » Thu May 22, 2008 11:53 am

Everybody thinks Danny will draft a player who can contribute right away (and he actually said that), but I think it's a lock that we'll trade the pick along with one or two other players (Pruitt, Tony S&T, Powe, Davis) for a quality bench player.

Post #4 » by **darrendaye** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:11 pm

P2 wrote:Everybody thinks Danny will draft a player who can contribute right away (and he actually said that), but I think it's a lock that we'll trade the pick along with one or two other players (Pruitt, Tony S&T, Powe, Davis) for a quality bench player.

I was under the impression that the Celts had to draft someone in the 1st round this year per the CBA's mandate on not trading away consecutive 1st round picks.

If I'm correct on this, I agree with birdman on BPA.

BillessuR6 · Post #5 » by **BillessuR6** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:42 pm

darrendaye wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

I was under the impression that the Celts had to draft someone in the 1st round this year per the CBA's mandate on not trading away consecutive 1st round picks.

If I'm correct on this, I agree with birdman on BPA.

Since we traded away our 2009 pick in the deal with Minny, we can˙t trade this years pick before the draft. But we can draft a player and then trade him, so that shouldn`t be a problem. We would basically just pick for another team...

Egregious Blunder · Post #6 » by **Egregious Blunder** » Thu May 22, 2008 1:57 pm

a high 2nd round pick is worth more than the 30th pick. at least a 2nd round pick isnt a guaranteed contract.

hickfromfrenchlick · Post #7 » by **hickfromfrenchlick** » Thu May 22, 2008 2:55 pm

Interesting suggestions but that projected Pacers lineup is not "scary." It's awful.

ermocrate · Post #8 » by **ermocrate** » Thu May 22, 2008 3:05 pm

Egregious Blunder wrote:a high 2nd round pick is worth more than the 30th pick. at least a 2nd round pick isnt a guaranteed contract.

Dannig Ainge can pick up a great player with that pick, I bet he is better with picks from 15 to 45 than with pick from 4 to 15... I'll just trade up the second round pick, for a 40-45th spot. Perk, Powe, Gomes, Tony Allen and Davis are ALL good players and were picked up from 25 to 49, all of them are or have been CONTRIBUTOR to this team, plus there are ALOT of solid to talended Big Men who will be drafted in the late first/early second round....

LongTimeFan · Post #9 » by **LongTimeFan** » Thu May 22, 2008 3:51 pm

This is DA's expertise. He's shown a profound ability to get talent from 15 to 60. No way we trade the picks unless we are moving to a more advatageous drafting position.

I expect at a minimum we come away with at least one top ten player out of this draft, possibly a top five player. Recall we got Rondo, a top five player, for cash and a future mid round first pick.

We need more talent. We need another athletic big. We need a defender. I'm assuming Pruitt will be the future backup PG/SG. In any case we need more and better trading chips.

Truthiracy · Post #10 » by **Truthiracy** » Thu May 22, 2008 5:02 pm

I hope Boston makes a trade for a 2009 first round pick, I hate when the Celtics don't have a first round pick on draft night.

LongTimeFan · Post #11 » by **LongTimeFan** » Thu May 22, 2008 6:05 pm

You guys don't get it. We can always buy a pick. We got Rondo a top five player for cash and Clevelands' future first. It turned out to be a late first.

The cash is fungible and as the quality player drops, DA can turn the cash into the required pick. It doesn't really matter. DA sees the playing field much better than his competitors. For whatever reason, and I suggest there is a religious component, he sees the future better than the nominal GM.

For DA the draft is like shooting fish in a barrel. For us it is something to enjoy.

P2 · Post #12 » by P2 » Thu May 22, 2008 7:17 pm

LucerneStDoggz wrote:I hate when the Celtics don't have a first round pick on draft night.

Those are the drafts when Danny trades for the Rondo's and Powe's of this world.

celticfan42487 · Post #13 » by **celticfan42487** » Thu May 22, 2008 9:05 pm

Egregious Blunder wrote:a high 2nd round pick is worth more than the 30th pick. at least a 2nd round pick isnt a guaranteed contract.

And Danny loves playing with the second round pick's contracts to boot.

I don't know how many more rookies we'll need on the team next year. We need a replacement for PJ and Sam. One we can probuly get with the MLE.. but either we need to find a PG or a good defensive C that can hit from midrange for cheap :-?

We'll we did it this year so who knowes. On top of it all, maybe Pruitt will be good enough next year that he will be our bring up the ball insurance guard and we won't need Cassell.

We could also use to find a reliable back-up SG.

Draft Wants Because we don't have any needs!!!!!
1)Backcourt pressure PG [maybe Pruitt if we re-sign House?]
2) Good back-up Center
3) Reliable back-up SG [we could also just take a chance with Tony again]

What a short list! Hopefully Eddie,Posey will be here next year!