Thanks to the high-end activity from Brad Stevens and the Boston Celtics front office this past summer, fans and media alike came into the year with the hope that their lowly performance from the previous campaign would wind up being known as just a mere fluke and, in turn, they’d be heading back to their regularly scheduled successful ways with their new-look roster.
Through five games, however, it would appear that despite showing glimpses from time to time of having ample potential, the Cs are allowing similar flaws and inadequacies that tanked their 2020-21 season flow right along into 2021-22.
From shoddy point guard play to inconsistent offensive production off the pine, bad habits that were thought to have been improved upon this offseason are still proving to be a very real concern for the organization during the early stages of this year.
With this, it’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility that we could see more roster shakeups take place moving forward during the year and, with their several TPEs at the ready, some might even say that mid-season moves are all but a guarantee.
When a transaction such as a trade is made, aside from the obvious that a team ultimately ends up adding assets, they also end up giving up a few in the process as well.
Sometimes the commodities sent packing range from being as insignificant as cash considerations to as valuable as future draft capital.
And more often than not, players are seen being included in deals in order to match salaries and/ or to simply increase the return value for the other participating team.
On the Boston Celtics, we believe that there are 2 players, in particular, that could actually be playing themselves towards being included in a potential trade at some point this season due to their production: