SparringPartner wrote:Common sense....sure. I "think" you miss my point though.
Do you want to win now and have quite a long window for that winning or do you care about an individual players success? Is that player so good that you'll start winning without other great players (LeBron, Shaq, Duncan,etc). I'm not saying championship level winning, but 50 games a year. I don't think Drummund is that good.
Believe it or not Boston went through this with Al Jefferson before the KG trade. Hindsight is 20/20 of course and they know now that it was the right move, but it was a hot debate at the time. Remember KG was 31 at the time.
This brings me back to the S5 of;
Rondo
KCP
Green
JSmooth
Monroe
Ages - 27, 20, 26, 27, 23
Smith would be locked up
Rondo would sign long term deal because of Smith
KCP is on rookie deal
Green's locked up for 3 years
Sign Monroe to a non Max deal which should be very possible
That's an amazing team for easily the next 5 years!
Drummond unfortunately doesn't fit with this team. With Rondo and Smith you'd have to keep Monroe IMO.
With that being said I think the Celtics should take the above deal I proposed with either player (Monroe/Drummund).
I "think" you should pay attention and realize that Drummond already has a greater defensive impact than anybody on both rosters by a great deal. That's NOW. While you look at Monroe and see he can put up better offense and consider him win now, his defense as an anchor ain't win now. It would take longer for him to develop as great a defensive impact as Drummond would to develop as great an offensive impacr. By year 3, and still on his rookie contract, Drummond very well could be putting up 15-16 ppg like Moose. But Moose will likely NEVER have Drummond's defensive impact and will be on a $12+ million/year salary in one more year. So common sense once again dictates if you had to choose one, you choose Drummond. Luckily we have both.
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