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chrisab123 wrote:GoGreen wrote:Ime is really putting Dennis back to the bench? Is he not going to close games for us? I hope not because that's a terrible idea. Dennis has been our best closer by far this year.
Keeps the locker room glued together so I get it. Smart probably wouldn't take well to being benched.
Parliament10 wrote:Fierce1 wrote:GoGreen wrote:Assuming the Cs continue playing well and don't trade Dennis at the deadline, I feel like it's going to be vital to re sign this dude.
Watching him play, he fits way too damn well. He's not just instant offense, but instant energy and aggression. Idk if Udoka is telling these guys to drive to the rim more, or if Dennis is rubbing off on them, but either way, it's beautiful ball to watch and losing him would be a gut punch.
The problem is the Celts would need actual cap space to re-sign Dennis.
If not cap space, the max the Celts can offer is the MLE.
With the way Dennis is playing right now, there will be a number of teams who will easily offer him 20m per year.
That may end up being the decision that Schröder makes.
But who do you envision with have $20M in extra Cap Space, and needs to sign a Starting PG?
The Non-Tax MLE, will be about $10M. He may take that, if he likes the fit here.
After 3 years, we'll have Bird Rights for him. No one else will have that.
Green89 wrote:29 of 30 teams would start Schroder over Smart. Let's not be the only standout when Brown returns. Schroder is miles better than Smart this year. Start him. As they were mentioning on the broadcast the other night, teams have a high percentage of winning games when gaining first quarter leads. Schroder has been a killing it on offense to open games lately. Starting Smart would be wrong for this team's success. So many of our losses last season were first quarter leads we couldn't recover from.
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