trade Pierce talk again? fuck that. the rest of the stuff is pretty good. We'll see how it all shakes out. At this point I have no clue, but I don't care!!!
Dickau makes sense for a lot of reasons. First and foremost is that if you trade Pierce, you NEED to replace his offense. No one is going to give us a top seven scorer for him, so we need to get it else where. Dickau is a scorer. He is good for 12 points a game and few dimes. Now instead of bringing in a guy who needs to score 25 to replace the offense, you can bring in a guy who grabs 14 boards and scores 16 from trading Pierce and you have a net positive.
I am not advocating one way or the other for a Pierce trade, or for anyone else to be traded. I just can't imagine where 18 guys are going to find playing time on this roster. Especially 18 guys who all think they should be starters.
As for Scalabrine... I have no fucking idea who this guy is. What a waste. They would have been better off giving that money to a children's fund than to him. Our bench is full, we don't need another Yogi hanging out on it. He is embarrassing...
Either way, Danny just needs to make some fucking trades and get it over with. Either we keep Banks and Pierce or we don't, but we've got to do something.
sorry Willie, we're still on the trade Pierce thing, if only to refute those who speak the gospel of the PER stat. haha.
rickyd, you articulated much better than I did the concern about having these 18 guys who all want to play and who, (atleast IMO) are pretty much around the same level of talent/accomplishment. I'd trade Pierce simply to clear time at the 2/3 and let the young guys fight it out. I doubt any of them will end up being as good as PP circa 2001, but if we can instill a more workable team offense with PP gone, that's called progress. Otherwise, there really is no point to trading him.
Exactly! I also think you can win without a "superstar". I would take 5 blue collar guys to grit and grind every night over some "stars" in the league. We've just got to figure out who is the future and who is not getting there contract renewed. Green, Greene, Gomes, Jeff, et al can't prove a thing unless their on the court.
What is the average age of our team now anyway? It has got to be getting down to the youngest in the league.
It's got to be either us or like Atlanta. Even our vets are fairly young, I keep forgetting that Raef isn't even 30 yet.
My wish for this year is simply to see who is the real deal, and who we don't need to give a shit about. Reed is a good example - we keep hearing about how great he is in practice, he had that awesome defensive display against Kobe, and he seems to be able to play. But is he a poor man's Artest or quasi-Bowen or just a taller Erick Strickland? We won't find out, as you point out, unless he plays.
Agreed,Doctor Chestnutt. We've got that loaded word 'potential' either as a starter or #1 back-up at every position. Time to shit or get off the pot. I'm just glad we've flushed the toilet and gotten rid of the crap we had? ( Has Waltuh found a team yet )?
Waltuh hasn't been picked up yet by anybody, AND he's got lousy titties.
I seriously had a nightmare a few weeks ago that Waltah re-signed with the Celtics.
I can't wait until he plays against us this year (for whatever team) and has his one good game of the season against us, and like breaks Gerald Green's hand or something in the process. Just to prove he's a fucking curse.
I would doubt Walter signs anywhere... He is probably done. Hopefully every game goes into triple overtime so there will be enough minutes to spread around. Without that we might as well just shoot dice...
CelticsBlog and a Steaming pile of dogshit. Are they analagous? Discuss.
Jeff is a fucking moron. Go check his Ricky=Manny comparison. Not only does this guy no dick about hoops he knows dick about baseball as well. What a fucking hack.
Too bad I'm banned from posting or else I'd get banned again replying to that stupid subject.
Hahahahaha
I just read it willie, what a douche. Those guys jumped ALL over him, too. They better watch it, he'll ban them too.
Tony Allen, Will Bynum and one more unnamed Celtics player involved in a night club shooting
holy shit. That's fucked up. Looks like our logjam at the 1 and 2 is clearing up. Tell us if you hear more RickyD
Wow, what the fuck is with Celtic players staying out until 3:30am?
supposedly the police say Allen is not a suspect they just want to talk to him, which means he's guilty as hell and on the run.
Yeah... Typically you don't tell someone that they are a suspect if you don't have them in custody yet.
My take on this is TA WB and the yet unnamed player got it on with some playa (in a different game) from Chicago because only so many young rich kids can hang out in the same bar. He may have been a bit tougher than the boys in green so one of their "associates" handled it for them. Complete speculation at this point but circumstantial evidence is usually telling.
Witnesses put them fighting, and then by reports, 20 minutes to two hours later the guy winds up shot.
sadly, yr assessment seems very likely, RickyD. Talk a bunch of shit and have yr posse handle it for you. He just better not pull a Lil' Kim and lie and then get his ass in more trouble for perjury.
Fuck it, was he that good anyway? And who the Hell is Bynum??? People are sucking him off all over the place, I have never heard of the kid. I keep getting him confused with Andrew from the Lakers.
Hahaha, RickyD. I know, Bynum was just fodder to cut at camp so everyone who made the team felt like they actually beat someone out. Granted TA isn't the second coming, but I'd hate to see his trade value completely undercut by a conspiracy to commit murder charge. I've been thinking basketball-wise he's a taller Eric Strickland with more hops and less brains.
I'm still high (and so he is probably) on TA. Watched him a lot in college and loved his game. Problems with his 'focus' though are tremedously concerning.
Problems with the law are pretty concerning too. The Herald is reporting him as fingered by the victim. Probably not how Will bynum thought he would celebrate his contract. Although, Ricky looks a lot more like a starter right now.... 
get rid of him outright. he's not that good anyway, cut the fucker. any asshole that is stupid enough to be involved in something like this should just have his ties with the team cut. i can't think of anything more stupid than being young and rich and then destroying it all because someone came after you.
al jefferson, perkins, and green would never be dumb enough to involve themselves in something like this and they are fucking 19 years old.
we shouldn't jump to conclusions and he's presumed innocent of course but the idea that he's involved in this crap is just pathetic.
amen Willie. Well said.
Yeah... I agree too. I would pick up Iverson even though he has some gun problems, but TA is no Iverson. I guess we will just have to wait and see but the whole thing is ridiculous.
It will be interesting to see what happens. the story is so far under the radar at this point because of the Patriots and Red Sox but it could be a huge public relations hit for the Celtics. Why is this guy hanging out with a bunch of assholes carrying guns?
Who doesn't hang out with a bunch of gun toting assholes? I know I do... Those burger king employees better listen next time when I say "NO MAYO".
Well... Now we don't have to cut anybody. The Chicago penial system will do the dirty work for us.
I said NO FUCKIN' MAYO BITCH!!! DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND ENGLISH!!
ALL YA ALL BETTER GET THE FUCK OFF MY DICK AND MAKE SURE I GET A SUPER SIZE FRY WITH THAT OR I'M GONNA UNLOAD THIS PEACE-MAKER ON YOUR PIMPLY ASS!!!
tittyfuck needs to step it up and make a penal joke.
yeah, where is tittyfuck?
Can't make my mind up about Tony Allen. Haven't seen his titties yet.
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CDers Happy Labor Day,
Thanks for a great comments section and Thank God for some honest dialogue on Tony Allen, who seems to have slipped under the radar in the Boston Papers, WEEI, and places on the Internet like the Celtics Stuff Group, which I generally like; and the Celtics Blog, of course, is a lost cause on the issue along with Real GM and their anal-retentive Celtics moderators.
As already noted, if this was a Red Sox or Patriots player, the shit would have hit the fan big and hard: no ducking out of the way - lots of splattering - full back cover Herald and Front Page Globe coverage.
But since he's a member of the lowly Celtics, there's minimal interest in his story, which probably makes Danny, Wyc, and Trust Fund Steve quite happy, though I suspect third-stringer Shira will probably be or already has been dispatched to the Windy City by the Globe, and the ever sockless Bulpett might do a piece on Tony, if the Herald remembers they have a Basketball section.
If you want to know what the biggest problem with the Celtics is, it's that they lack anyone at the level of a Duncan, Garnett, Kobe, LeBron,
Iverson, Kidd, Nash etc. and until they get one of those guys (which Pierce and Jefferson are not), they're really screwed.
People cite Detroit as an example of TEAM, rather than individual players winning the Title, but Detroit still had the first or second best defensive presence in the league in Wallace, and Larry Brown
was and is a freaking coaching genius,
which is why Knick fans should be very happy. The Knicks have less talent than the C's, but a big coaching disparity between Rivers and Brown.
And I'd offer Pierce and Jefferson for Garnett (and not lose any sleep over it) and hope that Green can be a shorter quicker dumber Rashard Lewis.
And BTW Gomes was a great pick by Ainge - I think he'll put up Al Harrington numbers in time, like 14 or 15 and 7.
Thanks for the comments Ray. It happens so much, and yet evertime I find myself saying, how can -fill in name- waste so much athletic talent by -fill in transgretion-.
You're right about the media coverage. Even if it was one of the Sox high minor leaguers, like Hanley, the papers would be going nuts.
You know, Celticsblog on version 3.0...
Just kidding... You guys are doing a great job too. In your own way of course...
Ha, I saw that RickyDfan. I think any attempts to "improve" our site would be met, justifiably so, with resistance.
Any attempt to improve Celtsblog has to start with getting rid of everyone not named Kahn. I saw that Jeff thinks the guy who was shot is out for a money grab – like he wanted to get fucking shot. What an idiot.
Kahn should just have his own Blog. That would be worthwhile.
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