I agree.... Brad has shadowed and learned a lot I'm sure, like we do in medical school. He is very knowledgable in this space, but being the "doctor" in charge is a whole new ball game.
Fwiw, I don't think that the analogy is precise enough. The crossover between what Brad and Danny know is much greater than your med student and 20year pro. Most of team building is about organization, philosophy, ownership backing (financial and otherwise). Brad has likely had as much input into philosophy and organization as Danny over the last few years or close to it. Yeah, at the end of the day, the ability to stare down an opposing personnel guy or agent and get what we want is an acquired skill that Brad needs to learn. But the biggest parts of the job have already been learned.
Perhaps it's not exact, but a med student has been studying medicine for 4 years and doing the job with close supervision for 2 (years 3 and 4 of medical school are mostly on the wards).
People might want to listen to the two CelticsTalk podcasts (Forsberg's) that landed immediately after the announcement. The first one had interviews with DA and Brad; the second one was with Wyc.
This is where I’m at. This isn’t the Mayor of Duxbury taking over as President of the United States. If there was any reason to believe that Brad couldn’t successfully slide over into the next seat, Wyc & Co. would be the first to know and he wouldn’t have been promoted into this role.
Do you by chance have a link to that podcast with Wyc? I looked in Forsberg's archives and couldn't find it.
I loved how Wyc danced around the question of how much input the Jays would have in selecting a new coach. Fred Astaire-like smoothness.
It's the June 4 podcast about 25 minutes in. on mobile but try the link below. not sure if it's the same as the YT video
By adding the veterans it also makes doing a pre-deadline trade for Beal much much easier. The obv salary/positional match is Smart but the Wiz would seemingly want draft picks.....since we are limited in that regard we have plenty of young players they may desire (Romeo, Begarin, Nesmith) without affecting our rotation whatsoever in the immediate process. Had Ainge tried to pull off a similar deal last year we’d be plugging in G-League guys to fill out our rotation.
Beal salary: $34.5M
That's right. Parker has a partial guarantee for this year. Edwards is guaranteed this year but next year is a team option, and he is the most likely guard cut.
Also worth remembering, that while you cannot aggregate a TPE with a player for trade purposes, you can use the TPE to acquire a player who can then be aggregated. If Wyc & Co, are willing to go reallllllly deep into the tax and Washington was more interested in clearing the books then adding Smart, PBS could go out and acquire additional matching salary to acquire Beal and keep Smart around.
I would be surprised if they keep Parker, as I believe cutting him is necessary for them to get below the tax threshold. I would not expect him to be cut until later in their preseason schedule, however (salary doesn't guarantee until 10/17). I believe they still need to make another move to get a player into another team's cap space, which I am expecting them to do.
Moving Dunn has to be the #1 option. After that flip a coin between Edwards and Parker imo.
Yeah the only way it wouldn’t is if Brad wanted to save his $5m expiring to help do a deal by the deadline.
going bad on your boy? I'd like to see them give Dunn a chance, we have plenty of developing youngsters (Romeo, Nesmith, PP, TL, Hauser, another 2-way, Begarin/Madar controlled) on this roster I'm fine with them cutting the Edwards cord. Pritchard is a better version of Carsen anyways. Can't have enough experienced players on the roster, as we learned last season.
Wishcasting but I'd love for PBS to turn Grant/2nds into Kyle Andersen...not happening
Despite the moves and the roster right now, the Cs are still trying to duck under the tax. Schroder took Dunn's spot, in play time and in salary.
Is this true? Based on Brad’s press conference yesterday they are over the tax now and free to go higher.
I suspect that “If necessary” means “If we can add Beal” and not to pay Dunn $5m to sit next to the usher.
The quote is “deeper into the tax” and we are 6.6 million over right now on spotrac. I guess they could dump guys to get under but I don’t know why that is the assumption.
The tax is calculated at the end of the season. If there is no Beal coming here at the deadline, it should not be too difficult to trade Dunn or one of the other contracts at the bottom of the roster to a team looking to add some bench depth. In the unlikely event a Beal arrives at the deadline, then they're in the tax anyway.
If they are 6.6 over they need to dump Dunn now though. Unless they dump useful pieces in season.
Good for the C's, great for TL and his agent. The Celtics must have a HEALTH PLAN with his medical history. Makes me even more optimistic with regards to how they will use him
Gotta believe--or at least hope--that the medical staff was consulted heavily on this deal.
I expect that they will simply bc he has no role here but no it isn’t necessary that he already be moved by now to get us under the tax in April. We are in August and can simply move Parker and/or Edwards first.
If he’s moved during the season does a pro rated portion of his salary count toward the tax? I assumed it did but maybe I’m wrong.
It's worth reiterating, because it's counterintuitive, but there is no proration of salaries for players that are on the team for part of the year. The only thing that matters for tax purposes is the total annual salaries for the players on the roster at the end of the year.
Sorry, I made the post above before reading this. No, there is no proration.
Yep. Hope that there's a big shoe to drop within the next year, but all of this stuff is awesome so far.
Agreed. also like how they didn't start the clock on either Madar/Begarin while they ripen.
I haven't totally thought this through, but does the fact that there's only 2 rounds now make this type of thing more likely these days? Or is it a rare occurrence made likely by the vast number of 1st rounders Ainge accumulated by offloading Pierce, Garnett, etc.?
I think the Nets trade and the 1 picks the Cs received made it more possible, (and those picks: the Js are the core of the team) but just spitballin', I'm thinking the salary cap probably works against resigning all the 1s to contract extensions and you have to let some of those guys become multi-millionaires somewhere else. Having 8 under contract (and now for several years) seems to be a real outlier.
