Terry Coming Up Rozes

[InstaFace]

I wish him all the T-Rosé he can drink. Dude willingly played his ass off on a role the team wanted him to play, despite thinking himself suited for something bigger, and didn't make a big public stink out of it (even if those who closely followed the team learned he wasn't super happy). His 2018 playoff run was the stuff of minor legend. I'm even happier that someone else will be paying him what he thinks he deserves.

 

[DourDoerr]

Also can't hurt the C's rep as a place where an up and comer might want to play. They developed TR, offered him solid coaching, gave him a place to shine and he's now cashed in. If the word is that players notice how things go around the league, Rozier's story is a positive one for the C's.

 

[reggiecleveland]

Also can't hurt the C's rep as a place where an up and comer might want to play. They developed TR, offered him solid coaching, gave him a place to shine and he's now cashed in. If the word is that players notice how things go around the league, Rozier's story is a positive one for the C's.

It can be spun either way. may not fit the narrative we like but, guy carries the mail to the ECF then gets shit out for the coach's boy is probably just as strong in the gossip.

 

[DourDoerr]

It can be spun either way. may not fit the narrative we like but, guy carries the mail to the ECF then gets shit out for the coach's boy is probably just as strong in the gossip.

I'd be surprised if anyone's going to argue playing Kyrie Irving over Rozier was favoritism. Irving just made 2nd team All-NBA. And it didn't prevent TR from getting paid. If Rozier ended up with, say, a 5 mil 1+1, then there'd probably be some grumbling.

 

[Cesar Crespo]

I'd be surprised if anyone's going to argue playing Kyrie Irving over Rozier was favoritism. Irving just made 2nd team All-NBA. And it didn't prevent TR from getting paid. If Rozier ended up with, say, a 5 mil 1+1, then there'd probably be some grumbling.

Kyrie isn't the coaches boy. That would be Hayward. I'd argue the lack of playing time may have MADE Rozier some money.

 

[Captaincoop]

After he dropped like 35 points in a late season game in Sacramento a few years ago, Terry was being interviewed on court and saw my 6 year old son out of the corner of his eye, standing by the court wearing Celtics gear.

He ran over to my boy, pulled off his arm sleeve, gave it to him, fist-bumped him, and made a fan for life.

I'll always root for Terry.

 

[lovegtm]

After he dropped like 35 points in a late season game in Sacramento a few years ago, Terry was being interviewed on court and saw my 6 year old son out of the corner of his eye, standing by the court wearing Celtics gear.

He ran over to my boy, pulled off his arm sleeve, gave it to him, fist-bumped him, and made a fan for life.

I'll always root for Terry.

Love him as a person, wish him the best, glad I’m not paying him 19M/year.

 

[mcpickl]

It can be spun either way. may not fit the narrative we like but, guy carries the mail to the ECF then gets shit out for the coach's boy is probably just as strong in the gossip.

Except he didn't really lose many minutes, if any at all, to Hayward.

He lost minutes from the last years playoffs to a healthy Kyrie, which he should've.

In games he came off the bench in 2017-18 he averaged 24 minutes.
In games he came off the bench in 2018-19 he averaged 21 minutes


It's wild to me people just want to keep blaming Hayward(or Stevens for playing Hayward) for the young guys not getting the minutes they got in the playoffs last year.

Was he just supposed to not play this season? Take another year off? They added two max contract level players to their rotation and these young dudes just think they should be gifted the minutes they were forced to play with them out injured?

If these young dudes aren't mentally tough enough to earn and fight for their minutes, they're not guys you're going to want longterm anyway.

 

[reggiecleveland]

1. It can't be argued that Hayward was not given too much time, too many shots, based on his level of play early in the season.

2. Not to replow the 19-19 ground but I was discussing the rose colored glasses view that Rozier's time with the Cs was an imaginably positive for future free gents.

 

[HomeRunBaker]

All minutes aren’t created equal. Rozier didn’t lose raw minutes on the floor but many of them were spent with the ball in Kyrie’s hands which may as well be Terry, or any PG, sitting on the bench. Then when he was the only PG on the floor, much of the offense ran through Hayward.

I hate when people say a coach is “screwing around with so and so’s minutes” and in this case it wasn’t Brad’s fault in that he tried to get him minutes......but Rozier’s role on this team was as bad for a player as it can be. The fact that it was in a contract year after showing he is a starting PG in the league made it worse.......Ainge not trading him after his Tweet about wanting out made it purely dreadful for the kid.

 

[DourDoerr]

I see 3 years, $58 million and can only think the C's won't get dinged for their treatment of Rozier. 3 years, $58 million for a backup PG drafted 16th is the story and takeaway for a player who came off the bench behind Kyrie Irving. Tough role for Terry last season, no doubt, but he got payday. Don't really understand the linkage between TR and Hayward - one player is a point guard and the other is a forward. If Brown or Tatum had gone away relatively empty-handed, then yeah, fingers would be pointed at the coach's boy and it's a bad look.

3 years, $58 million for a PG who backed up PG Kyrie Irving is a success story for the C's. It was a crappy season, super un-fun for us to watch, but TR was positioned for this haul by his time with the C's.