David Lee to Celts - Celts bigs available to Pacers?

[Scoot McGroot]

What you call "an edge" I call dirty, scuzzy, and completely uncalled for. He didn't try and startle Love. He downright went into that trying to tear his shoulder out, and then called to Stevens to get out of the game and left Crowder to get demolished by Perkins.

If you watch the entire sequence Love does the same tug to Olynyk, then elbows him, then gets a taste of his own medicine. Love is an instigator and he paid a huge price on that play. Both sides did things they shouldn't have, but I felt like that was Olynyk being so fed up that we finally took out all his frustrations on one play.
I don't remember him calling to leave the game, but if he did, that's a p-word move.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ31539Cg04[/youtube]

No. Love did nothing similar to Olynyk. He put his arm out as he was racing to a rebound and Olynyk reached around his arm, grabbed, and tore his shoulder up.

Olynyk then left the game. He was about to come back in, when Blatt sent Perkins to the scorers table to "return the favor". When Olynyk saw Perkins come to the table, he returned to the bench and sat down, and let Crowder take the punishment.

[Solid]

I don't see a strong starting 4 out of the Celtics squad.
Lee's a turnstile.
Olynyk is a nice back up 5.
Sully is fat, weak D, injury problems are likely.

[MNPacersfan]

No. Love did nothing similar to Olynyk. He put his arm out as he was racing to a rebound and Olynyk reached around his arm, grabbed, and tore his shoulder up.

Oh yeah, the initial Love tug happened before the shot even went up. Unfortunately, ESPN removed the video that I referenced here:
https://andysnba.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/kevin-love-is-an-instigator-and-a-crybaby/
The baseline replay showed Love starting what Olynyk would finish. In barroom terms, Love tends to talk when he should be listening.

Check out the slomo at 50 seconds into the vid that you posted. you can see clearly that Love still has Olynyk locked. This wasn't about one play though, this was a game's/series's worth of frustration with Kevin Love. Maybe it's more evident in person? I watch enough K-Love in MIN to see his... tactics, would you call them?

[pacers33granger]

I don't see a strong starting 4 out of the Celtics squad.
Lee's a turnstile.
Olynyk is a nice back up 5.
Sully is fat, weak D, injury problems are likely.

Same. I'd be fine with Lee as a one year stopgap, but don't really want him longterm. Olynyk and Sullinger are bench bigs and neither has done much to improve so far during their time in the league. And I wouldn't want to be the team paying Sullinger big bucks after next year.

I'd really rather just give Allen the starting job and use PG, Turner, Rudez, and Whittington as the backup 4 depending on matchups. Allen's better than both Sully/Olynyk right now and there's a good chance he's better longterm too. That doesn't even bring into the equation the price Ainge would want for them.

[GregB]

Hey guys,

Reading the tea leaves. Sullinger is the likely player to be moved. He doesn't seem to have the mindset to get his weight right. For that reason, I don't expect us to resign him.

He's a good player though. He's currently a solid rotation player who could be your 4th or 5th starter or first big off the bench on a contender. He's really solid offensively and a great rebounder. If he ever got his head out of his ass and lost the weight like K love, He would be an all star.