PG aside, the rotation is crystallizing

[stiles21]

Picture subbing in House and Sheed for Rondo and perk. This could be the perfect situation for Peirce and K.G on offense. Spread Sheed, House and Ray Allen around the 3 and Kevin in his Mid-Range spot and in theory Paul will have half the court to take his man 1on1, and if they try to double Peirce is a good enough passer to find the open man. Or PP Spreads out too and you let K.G go to work in the post. I could also see Rondo and Daniels working pretty good together.

[cfan79]

As I said I misspoke I meant we have solid shooters in our top 7.

If Perk/KG and Ray/Paul come out we'd have Rasheed and Daniels coming in for them. That's enough capable scorers in at all times.

[CelticFaninLBC]

Eddie House is expendable now, we need to bring in a real point guard. I think too many people have a hard on for him.

Time to fire up your Barbosa idea...

[sweatdog]

What exactly is the problem with having 4 outside shooters in the rotation rather than 3? Ray, Paul, Eddie, Rasheed. Thats less than half of our probable rotation who can shoot the 3, so I dont think we are overdoing it. If we signed Tim Thomas like so many people were pining for, THEN we would have issues with redundant skill sets.

And if Rasheed gets to start (which i think is a horrible idea and unlikely) AND House is gone, then who shoots the 3 off the bench?

[cfan79]

Time to fire up your Barbosa idea...

Yeah, I'd love to have Barbosa on the team. He can score and defend, but I don't know if Phoenix is willing to do it. They seem like they actually want to try to win this year.

[GreenMachine]

Eddie House is not expandable. We need his shooting...TA, Scal, the young guys are expendable but not Eddie...

If Eddie was "expandable" - say by 5 or 6 inches (vertically)... we would be all set.

[No1CeltsFan]

If the Celtics signed Marbury to go along w/the roster as is (w/Daniels and BBD still possible), there is no team better than us. I'm sorry, but it's true.

Marbury would be phenomonal as our backup PG. I wanted him back all along and I still hope it happens. Unfortunately, I don't think it will.

[No1CeltsFan]

Eddie House is expendable now, we need to bring in a real point guard. I think too many people have a hard on for him.

no FN way

[CelticFaninLBC]

Time to fire up your Barbosa idea...

Yeah, I'd love to have Barbosa on the team. He can score and defend, but I don't know if Phoenix is willing to do it. They seem like they actually want to try to win this year.

Yeah, they're going to try and be respectable, although they appear to have Amare on the block.... House and another filler or two wouldn't be too big of drop-off for them though...

[Ben-N1ce]

Eddie House is expendable now, we need to bring in a real point guard. I think too many people have a hard on for him.

No way. He is perfect compliment on our second unit. Especially with Marquis as more of the slasher. He's obviously one dimensional though and we need some type of point guard. He basically Derek Fisher on our 2nd unit instead of starting as far as point guard skills go.

[cfan79]

If the Celtics signed Marbury to go along w/the roster as is (w/Daniels and BBD still possible), there is no team better than us. I'm sorry, but it's true.

Marbury would be phenomonal as our backup PG. I wanted him back all along and I still hope it happens. Unfortunately, I don't think it will.

Yep, Marbury would be great off the bench. I think if we clear up some money we should sign him. Even though he didn't score that well off the bench last season he did provide some beautiful passes.

[CelticFaninLBC]

Since Portland has cap space and Boston can match any Baby deal, I think this can work...

Barbosa to Boston

Rudy Fernandez, House & Pruitt to Phoenix

Baby to Portland

[cfan79]

Since Portland has cap space and Boston can match any Baby deal, I think this can work...

Barbosa to Boston

Rudy Fernandez, House & Pruitt to Phoenix

Baby to Portland

Not bad, I think all the teams get some nice pieces. I heard somewhere that Rudy wants to leave Portland. Phoenix would fit his game and he'd play with one the best point guards.

[CelticFaninLBC]

Since Portland has cap space and Boston can match any Baby deal, I think this can work...

Barbosa to Boston

Rudy Fernandez, House & Pruitt to Phoenix

Baby to Portland

Not bad, I think all the teams get some nice pieces. I heard somewhere that Rudy wants to leave Portland. Phoenix would fit his game and he'd play with one the best point guards.

Yeah, Rudy wasn't happy about the Turk offer... I'm not sure if the money matches. My assumption is Baby would get $3-4 million from Portland and count for $1.5 to 2 million since he's BYC..