BigDaddyG wrote:CrushAlot wrote:Ira wrote:It just seems that Celtics players who leave either by trade or free agency don't play as well with their next teams.
That certainly was the case for Crowder and Thomas. Crowder seems to be bouncing back a bit in Utah but he again is playing for one of the best coaches in the league in a non dysfunctional situation.
Yeah, Snyder and Stevens have shown they can occasionally make chicken stew out of chicken crap. Smart and Rozier are very flawed players who would get killed on a daily basis if they played in NY. Rozier has been to up and down in his career to throw big bucks at. I'd like to see us show some restraint if we strike out in 2019 free agency.
If a player is available, it's usually for a reason. Occasionally you'll get a situation like Harden, Irving, Shaq to the Lakers, but it's rare.
The more talent you have, the more you can hide the flaws/trade offs for some of your players.
Melo, if he got drafted instead of Darko with the Pistons, it could have been a whole different story ( that team was built to defend and needed a volume scorer) Even when the Bulls ( with younger Noah, Rose, Deng) were decently suited for Melo's skill set.
Rozier is playing with a lot of talent around him. Take that away, and ask the player to do more, and things start to look differently.
Knicks would better off "renting" the cap space out to take in a short term bad contract for more draft picks. But those kind of deals are drying up as more and more teams enter the tax zone.