Great Trade Danny!

Shaq is still not healthy and his return seems to get pushed back further and further, leaving you wondering if he will ever see the court. Jermaine O'Neal is supposedly close to coming back, but lets be real, how much will he really effect the game and how long until he gets hurt again? Kristic has come back down to earth after his honey moon phase and turned into the defensive liability that was expected. The great hyped Troy Murphy has looked horrible every single time he has stepped on the floor and is now hurt with no return date. Celtics do not have one legit healthy center on the team. This was all painfully obvious to see coming when Ainge pulled the trigger on this trade. Other teams are getting more second chance opportunity's then ever and any big man with any type of offensive skill can score at will (Hibbert just dropped 26). Big Baby is not meant to be guarding 7 footers.

As the great GM Danny Ainge said, this trade was also so Pierce could get some rest and give the team more depth. Pierce is avg 34 mpg the month of March, two less minutes a game then February, but also two more minutes then January. Rest does not look like it is in his immediate future either as they keep slipping and now have to fight just to get the 3rd seed in the East. Jeff Green, who I do like a lot and think will be a very good player in the future, does not instantly turn a mediocre second unit into a great one. Besides for the Indiana game in Boston, the second unit has been absolutely terrible, letting every lead the starters get slip away whenever they touch the floor. It is not too often you take a look at the box score and every single starter for one team is positive in +/- and on other side every single starter is negative... and the negative team wins. The best part of all is the biggest reason you can call this team more deep is because West has come back energized and has been playing great, something that would of happened regardless if the trade went through or not.

Imagine for a second the Celtics did not trade Perkins but did the Daniels trade and the Erden and Harangody trade. They would have the same starting five, including Perkins, they have had from 07-08 season and still have 3 open roster spots. They could still go after Arroyo, Pavlovic, Troy Murphy in free agency and give the team the 'great depth' that Ainge insisted the trade gave us. Is it hard to say which team would be in better shape right now?

On the other side OKC is 6-1 since Perkins started playing and the team has not looked better all season.