Comments on: Trade Rumor: Celtics interested in Nocioni?

By: Mauricio

Mauricio — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:41:58 +0000

Indeed it is Mev, figured the Argentina comment would give me away. I’m doing OK; glad to see your blog is still going strong!

Also nice to see the Celtics back in the win column tonight. Now let’s see how they do vs Orlando!!

By: Thomas Halzack

Thomas Halzack — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:34:35 +0000

Hey wait…that is Mev isn’t it?

It’s been too long, my friend. Hope all is well.

By: Tom Halzack

Tom Halzack — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:19:38 +0000

Thanks for the comments Mauricio.

A true green Celtic fan I see. You’re right about the cap room.

I’m not so sure our reserve unit is a playoff team, but they’d be pretty good, especially against other second units.

We wouldn’t have cap space, but we’d have the expirings for a trade. The question is…is this the guy we want to spend that kind of money on?…even if he is from the great country of Argentina!?

I’ll roll with Danny’s decision either way, but I’m hoping we could do a bit better for those dollars.

Tom

By: Mauricio

Mauricio — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:37:37 +0000

I personally liked the sound of this trade; and not just because he is from Argentina!! Even if Boston held onto Scal, JR and Tony, and let all their last-year contracts expire, we are still over the cap with the 6 contracts that are still on the books. So we wouldn’t have cap space to pick up a major free agent anyway. It makes much more sense to give up 3 guys who are not part of the regular rotation anyway and get a versatile player ready to contribute both as a physical defender and on the offensive end.

You can never have too much depth, and with Nocioni, House, Daniels, Wallace, Big Baby and Sheldon Williams, we would have a reserve group that could probably make the playoffs on their own. And we would free up two roster spots to add a “true” point guard off the bench, if that were ever needed.

But this is the real world, and the one writing the checks has to be on board.