It's the Final Countdown Trade Thread

Celts17Pride · Post #1641 » by **Celts17Pride** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:01 pm

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TommyForever · Post #1642 » by **TommyForever** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:02 pm

I am personally elated that Robert Williams is finally our center.

pac213up · Post #1643 » by **pac213up** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:02 pm

There was no future for Theis here. Timelord is the future and his development is far more important.

GoGreen · Post #1644 » by **GoGreen** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:02 pm

themoneyteam2 wrote:Why would you go into the tax with this roster? It's smart to avoid the repeater tax. Bitching about that is just asinine.

It is fine to say dumping Theis for another expiring was not a good move

They rarely go into the tax. They consistently avoid it. If you want to defend multi billionaires, then you go ahead and die on that hill.

Curmudgeon · Post #1645 » by **Curmudgeon** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:02 pm

Well Kornet and Wagner are both tall and both expiring. I hate losing Theis, but would hate paying the repeater tax even more.

zoyathedestroya · Post #1646 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:02 pm

Duke4life831 wrote:
themoneyteam2 wrote:If this means seeing what you have with Nesmith and Langford and actually being forced to play them this year I'd be happy. Sadly, we all know Semi will still be playing more than them

Why bring in Fournier then? You still have Kemba, Smart, Fournier, Brown, Tatum who are all going to get big minutes.

Doesn't make sense.

Same straddling of trying to win but not really while also loading up on young guys without really getting them PT.

BigTrade92 · Post #1647 » by **BigTrade92** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:02 pm

TommyForever wrote:I am personally elated that Robert Williams is finally our center.

Just wait till Tristian Thompson starts tomorrow :lol:

Ernest · Post #1648 » by **Ernest** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:03 pm

Sucks that Theis went to a bad team. My ideal trade this morning was Theis to the lakers for their first. Let hit get a ring and play on a good team- he deserves it. Class act, good teammate, never got a break from the refs.

Marley2Hendrix · Post #1649 » by **Marley2Hendrix** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:03 pm

gocelts wrote:
Celts17Pride wrote:

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And Thies picked up his 5th foul waving goodbye.

Part of his legacy is how much refs disrespected him.

JediMasterRevan · Post #1650 » by **JediMasterRevan** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:03 pm

TommyForever wrote:I am personally elated that Robert Williams is finally our center.

Brad will still play tristan more.

LondonCeltics · Post #1651 » by **LondonCeltics** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:04 pm

Just logged in after a long/distracting day at work. How uninspiring. I cannot say whether a Vucevic deal could have happened for us/been on the table but to see him go and us get Fournier (who I rate btw, as a bench player) and not Gordon... and then dump Theis and Green (not a world beater but genuine slasher who was a nice to have on a low salary imo) for Mo Wagner....

What the hell is this? Where are we going? This has to be the beginning of the end for Ainge. Shambolic.

The window is closed ladies and gents.

drs123310 · Post #1652 » by **drs123310** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:04 pm

BigTrade92 wrote:
TommyForever wrote:I am personally elated that Robert Williams is finally our center.

Just wait till Tristian Thompson starts tomorrow

If that happens we riot

Ben-N1ce · Post #1653 » by **Ben-N1ce** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:04 pm

Well I do think the J's Fornier and Kemba skills be able to score but defend 0_0

31to6 · Post #1654 » by **31to6** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:04 pm

truth18 wrote:
Dangit wrote:
bisme37 wrote:I probably shouldn't even say this but here I go lol... There's this running "joke" that Boston and Utah like white dudes but I can't help noticing Dallas sure loves them some white dudes. They just got Redick and Melli to add to Doncic, Porzingis etc.

.....

FORUM IS TRASH EXCITED TO SEE IT BREAK

oh boy, truth18

enjoyed having you here for a bit, but man if you've got bigger and better things going then by all means go on and get back to them, no need to worry about us

TommyForever · Post #1655 » by **TommyForever** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:04 pm

BigTrade92 wrote:
TommyForever wrote:I am personally elated that Robert Williams is finally our center.

Just wait till Tristian Thompson starts tomorrow

JediMasterRevan · Post #1656 » by **JediMasterRevan** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:04 pm

Ernest wrote:Sucks that Theis went to a bad team. My ideal trade this morning was Theis to the lakers for their first. Let hit get a ring and play on a good team- he deserves it. Class act, good teammate, never got a break from the refs.

Bad team? Chicago is better than us now.

Fierce1 · Post #1657 » by **Fierce1** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:04 pm

Just wait a few hours when Ainge will tell everybody "I like our new guys."

zoyathedestroya · Post #1658 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:04 pm

I do think Fournier stays in Boston beyond this season, possibly as Smart insurance once Marcus leaves to get paid.

Andrew McCeltic · Post #1659 » by **Andrew McCeltic** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:04 pm

Kornet’s percentages, Jesus. So much for Danny Ainge needing to win every trade

Post #1660 » by **Duke4life831** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:04 pm

jfs1000d wrote:
hugepatsfan wrote:Wagner is a downgrade from Theis... duh. But it was a necessary second step to overall improve the team with Fournier.

Obviously they have a directive from ownership to duck the tax because anyone with a brain sees that it makes sense to. You don't want to end up in repeater rate taxes in '22-23 where a vet min player ends up costing you lie $6M after tax. A tax payers MLE player costs you like $15M. Smart will be a FA that offseason.

They wanted to improve the team this year so they did that with Fournier. Moving Theis is part of the sacrifice for that. You can't pull the Theis deal out of that context.

Fournier is the type of player we need. Scorer, shooter with size. Hope he resigns.

We got rid of Theis and got more of a stretch 5. Meh. Not a huge fan. But this opens up minutes for Rob.

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To be clear, you got rid of Theis for a guy that will sit on the bench. Mo is not a stretch 5, he is a 30% career 3pt shooter. Mo struggled to get consistent minutes on a horrible Washington team for a reason. If Mo sees consistent playing time for you guys, thats really bad news, that means things have gotten very ugly and desperate.