To Danny: make something happen

[Papa Irish31]

why not try to revamp our bench through the draft, we could easily fill our backup wing, and pg options for cheap through this supposedly weak draft, where teams are practically giving away picks

I would feel pretty comfortable adding anyone of these guys and keeping either walker or giddens as potential backups to pierce and allen

1. Terrence Williams
2. Dajaun Summers
3. Earl Clarke
4. Wayne Ellington
5. Chase Budinger
6. Sam Young
7. Dionte Christmas
8. Danny Green
9. Jonas Jerbenko
10. Jodie Meeks

although i would recommend danny sign a reliable free agent option

perfect scenario; Grant Hill for vets min and danny trades into the 1st round and takes terrence williams while getting rid of tony allen, and JR Giddens or Bill Walker, id base this decision on who would want either of these guys, and what type of guard you add to your team, if you add a shooter who doesnt play strong D (a la chase budinger), i would keep walker, if you add a athelete or guy who is converting from playing post, (sam young, dajaun summers, earl clark) i would look to keep giddens

now on to the back up point guard position, actually not as important of position now that we are sure rondo is the guy and can handle the playoffs

its not two years ago when sam cassell was viewed as being desperately needed to win a title, and its different than when we added stephon last year

this is mainly because last year we didnt need so much of a backup point guard as we did scoring off the bench, since we could not fill that void by getting a guy who could play sg and sf like we really needed we were forced to settle for getting a scoring point guard, and the plan was for him to spell either pierce or allen at the 2 guard while matching up with smaller guards that teams like cleveland tend to play

my point is having a rookie at backup point would not be the end of the world, in fact it might even be beneficial

the main question most would have would be why take a rookie point, late and in the 2cd round of the draft (not necessarily with our pick) instead of handing the rains over to gabe pruitt, a guy who has spent two years in the system, has good size, a good shot, and plays fairly good D

my answer would be that a. gabe has not shown anything in his two years here b. he has lost some trust with off the court incidents and c. (the most important) he hasnt had a full year of running a team from the point guard position

lets skip to c. gabe came out of USC as a combo guard, he didnt play point full time there, combine this with the his troubles to produce in his time in boston, and you would have cause for concern with him running your backup spot

from his in game play it has looked to me like his ball handling coach is eddie house, not good news for a aspiring young point guard

but with that being said i would exercise his option and let him compete for the backup job, because he has enough talent to do so

these are the guys i would look to grab in the second round to try to fill the backup point guard spot:
1. AJ Price, the thing i love about price is that he would be the perfect change of pace point for rondo: his strengths center around much of rondo's weaknesses - height, shooting ability, also he has valuable experience of running an elite college basketball team, in an elite conference, there is no reason to think he could not be successful backing up rajon

2. pat mills, played great in the olympics, in my eyes would be a steal anywhere in the second round, knows how to score, him and eddie together would definitely be a strong scoring 1 2 bench

3. Tony Douglas, could be a sleeper, carried florida st the whole time he was there, good ball handler and shooter, and plays good D

4. Jerel Mcneal, good ballhandler and has the size to allow eddie to guard the point why he guards the 2's, really good three point shooter, experience playing in the big east

any of those guys would do extremely fine its just up to danny to find which ones would fit our team the best

[Al-Haqq]

How many more young players do we need that Doc refuses to play ,....? I don't like this idea, sorry. We need a big man veteran.

[GreenGrizz]

We should look at that little beast from Pittsburgh named Blair I thought he played like a 6'10". I couldn't believe that he is not rated inside top 10 until I found out that he is only 6'6" or maybe 6'7". I think he is worth purchasing a pick for us. He reminds me of that player with Philadelphia who just got traded to Toronto.

[phoolishly_insane]

How about we sign Kevin McHale for Vet Min since he's out of Wolves as per ESPN article?

[recruiter]

No more projects.

Bring in quality vets at the 5 and 3. No more projects and suspects.

[Avalanche]

Im all for bringing on a project.... but only if Pruitt or Giddens are off the team and replaced with vets first