Sure could use Evan Turner right about now

[soxfan2003]

I wish Turner the best but I think their is near 100% unanimity that Ainge would have been making a major mistake to come close to the Portland offer. Turner was a little underpaid with Boston since he was a decent rotation player but Portland, even given the cap increase, in my opinion paid him a little too much.

I hope Ainge stays disciplined and let's KO go if he commands significant money.

[Tiny ball]

First of all i don't love Kelly Olynyk, but i think often he is unfairly criticized on this board, that's a difference. But what does Evan Turner have to do with Olynyk?

Fair enough but, Olynyk doesn't seem to have a huge impact on a games. ET was a gamer. Granted not a guy worth 70 mill. Signing him for that would have been a treadmill move.

To me Evan's visual appearance of contributing outweighed his statistical effect on the outcome of the game. In other words, Evan was the opposite of Olynyk (someone who seems to have a higher impact on winning than you would think by watching him play).

KO spreads the floor, hits a great 3-point %, and his ball movement opens up good shot for team mates.

Evan Turner causes the D to sag off him at the 3-point line because he's terrible from 3, dominates the ball, getting "ball-dominator assists" and shoots low-efficiency 2-pointers well, but not well-enough to make up for their inherent low-efficiency.

He hit so many of those two points shots that broke the other teams back and killed their will. He was one of our best players last year.

[ParticleMan]

Fair enough but, Olynyk doesn't seem to have a huge impact on a games. ET was a gamer. Granted not a guy worth 70 mill. Signing him for that would have been a treadmill move.

To me Evan's visual appearance of contributing outweighed his statistical effect on the outcome of the game. In other words, Evan was the opposite of Olynyk (someone who seems to have a higher impact on winning than you would think by watching him play).

KO spreads the floor, hits a great 3-point %, and his ball movement opens up good shot for team mates.

Evan Turner causes the D to sag off him at the 3-point line because he's terrible from 3, dominates the ball, getting "ball-dominator assists" and shoots low-efficiency 2-pointers well, but not well-enough to make up for their inherent low-efficiency.

He hit so many of those two points shots that broke the other teams back and killed their will. He was one of our best players last year.

whoa dude lol. if you had said best bench player i might be with you. otherwise even tho i kinda like ET that's

yeah sure evan could have helped us right at this very moment with all our injuries. but we would be seriously bummed paying ET that kind of money in a year or two, while taking minutes away from our young guys.