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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2251385, member: 488"] Were they the second best team in the East? I would have had Toronto ahead of them, and honestly, I think coaching was the only thing separating them from a team like the Hornets (and that's a testament to Brad more than it is a dig at Clifford) with Dwight now in the fold. Now I think they're definitively the second best team in the East (Washington and Milwaukee also had arguments) and closer to Cleveland's zip code. They didn't give up any of their "assets" to acquire him, either. But it's still a weird team. I would have traded Isaiah Thomas yesterday, and Horford is set to make a lot of money over the next three seasons for a player who was limited athletically at his peak (good player, got exposed by Cleveland) and unlikely to be particularly useful providing resistance to LeBron. Crowder was a lame duck before they signed Hayward. Hell, he was a lame duck before they drafted Tatum. That's going to be all sorts of confusing to figure out at the wing - it's great to hear about how beneficial it is for young players to be on a good team, but at some point they need to actually play. There's a legitimate logjam there now. Avery Bradley is the one guy on that roster I really, really like. If I were the Celtics, I'd be negotiating like hell with him right now to try to extend him at less than the max. He's good enough now to not compromise your efforts to build a contender and young enough still that he'd jive with the long-term plan of peaking post-LeBron. Thomas and Hortford don't fit so neatly into those plans. [/QUOTE]

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