If Theis was hurt now and not Smart you would probably be shitting on the 15 million dollar wing and 7 foot 3rd string stiff. And it is almost guaranteed at some point Smart will be back and This will be out. There is only one forward playi9ng most of the time. You can't play that bum on the weakest big on the other team, like you can Semi or Nesmith or Pritchard.
It's all about Kemba. He needs to play well for the team to have a chance.
No, I wouldn't. I didn't like the move at the time man, this isn't hindsight. (though I don't know where you're getting this 15 million dollar wing. The MLE was a max of the 9.258 Thompson got) Also don't know what you mean by there is only one forward playing most of the time.
Because as I said at the time, it was more likely one of Smart/Brown/Tatum would get hurt, than Theis would get hurt, because of math. Not that it matters much anyway, injuries are fairly random. But they aren't short at the wing because Smart is hurt, they are short at the wing with Smart. Even if healthy, I think they need two wings(or whatever we're calling them now. two guys who are neither PGs or Cs) I think for a decent rotation you need 2 PGs, 2 Cs and 6 guys in between. I don't trust any of the middle guys outside of the starters.
It really doesn't seem like the hottest take to me that going into free agency, the best bench player the Celtics had was Rob Williams. Yet that was the spot they chose to fire their biggest bullet to upgrade.
Fit matters. Like, I don't think Philly made a huge talent upgrade in their starting lineup swapping out Horford and Richardson for Green and Curry. But the team fits much better having Tobias move to the spot he should be playing, and improving the shooting. In a vacuum, I'd rather have Horford/Richardson, on Philly I'd rather have Green/Curry(talking just the players, not the contracts)
I mean, if the best player available to the Celtics at the deadline is a center, is that who they should trade for? Or if there was a player not quite as good, but was a wing, would it make more sense to trade for that guy?