Our bench really sucked this past season

[cfan79]

I had no beef with how marbury performed. He wasnt anything great, but he had his moments.

Yep, but still he didn't add that much. There wasn't one player off the bench that was consistent. Last year instead of Tony and Eddie we signed Posey, then later in the year we signed P.J and Sam instead of Mikki and Marbury.

Posey especially was a consistent contributor who also knew what it took to win a title. If we would have added a P.J./Posey-like duo we might have gotten the top record. Thus we wouldn't have met up with Orlando in the 2nd round. Or at least we would have had a better chance of winning.

[Havlicek17]

I agree, our bench really sucked this past season. It was built by resigning TA and House, the rest were either vet minimum or rookie contracts and nothing else.

I doubt Danny will sit on his hands this offseason, especially with all the trade rumors circling the Celts right now. I don't believe 90% of what's being said, but the sheer number of rumors leads me to believe we will see some things happen this offseason, and they will likely start happening during the draft later this month.

I personally don't believe we will see any of the starting 5 get traded this offseason. But, considering that the Celts are seeing 90% season ticket renewal rates, and are adding sponsorships in this tight economy, we may be able to take advantage of other teams who are less fortunate financially and swing a lopsided deal or two. Instead of screwing with the starting 5 however, I'd rather we used our hard earned cash on the bench.

Every single bench player we have is expendable in my mind, if it will allow us to upgrade their positions. I also think we will spend the MLE, LLE, and whatever it takes to get the bench in better shape than it was last season.

The teams that gave us the most trouble in the last couple of years were the young athletic teams. Because of this I would prefer if we added some youth to the group instead of just 32 to 35 year old veterans. The list of FA players I am interested in getting includes: Paul Millsap, Brandon Bass, Von Wafer, Carl Landry, Chris Anderson, Ryan Hollins, CJ Watson, and Anthony Morrow. There's also a long list of guys we could get who also fit into this category via trade.

Let's see how it starts playing out on June 25th.

[Red2]

yes. our bench sucked no question. we got a little unlucky with injuries ( scal, tony etc) but going into the season I think we all knew that Danny hadn't done enough and that we were hoping for too many longshots to pan out. POB was a longshot and it was also a longshot to think that tony would replace posey or that pruitt was going to be the back up pg. Heck, we never had a backup small forward the whole season which wore both pierce and ray out. we also never had a bona fide backup center which forced baby to play center as well as leon. I don't pin the whole thing on Danny though. I really think that ownership got cheap after we won the championship. It should have been obvious to them as well as to danny that last year was a perfect storm and that in order to repeat we needed to add depth as opposed to losing it. to me it all started with not signing posey. signing tony allen was a mistake that was forced by not signing posey

[recruiter]

http://hoopshype.com/general_managers/danny_ainge.htm

Danny's has had some bad signings.

2008-09

O'Bryant
resigned Tony Allen
resigned Eddie House
resigned Sam Cassell
Darius Miles
traded cash for a 2nd rounder we won't get
Mikki Moore
Stephon Marbury

When you break it down like that it's quite bad.

Ainge put this team behind the 8-ball with a horrific summer, passing on players like Andersen, Pietrus, Barnes, Ross, etc who could have helped us. Then, the injuries finished off a team that likely wasn't going to repeat anyway.

Sorry for interrupting the Ainge man-crush with the facts. However, we really don't have to make any changes in the starting 5 to contend. Just need Danny to pull his head out and stay out of the league's dumpsters.

And BTW, Danny: Pierce needs a competent backup. You were wrong about that one, too. Now, fix it.

[Barry Lird]

http://hoopshype.com/general_managers/danny_ainge.htm

Danny's has had some bad signings.

2008-09

O'Bryant
resigned Tony Allen
resigned Eddie House
resigned Sam Cassell
Darius Miles
traded cash for a 2nd rounder we won't get
Mikki Moore
Stephon Marbury

When you break it down like that it's quite bad.

Ainge put this team behind the 8-ball with a horrific summer, passing on players like Andersen, Pietrus, Barnes, Ross, etc who could have helped us. Then, the injuries finished off a team that likely wasn't going to repeat anyway.

Sorry for interrupting the Ainge man-crush with the facts. However, we really don't have to make any changes in the starting 5 to contend. Just need Danny to pull his head out and stay out of the league's dumpsters.

And BTW, Danny: Pierce needs a competent backup. You were wrong about that one, too. Now, fix it.

He did an excellent job of turning the garbage he inherited into a championship team, but no arguing that he had a bad year last year. Facts is facts.