And I hope that when Lee gets healthy he gets really limited minutes, strong performances by him do absolutely nothing good for this team in the long run.

And Kanter could be resigned with us at a much more reasonable contract.

You yourself said that Mitch is the future. If Mitch gets 30 mpg at center and KP plays 10 mpg at center (20 mpg at PF), how much are you willing to pay for a guy to play at most 8 mpg at center? If Mitch plays 32 mpg at center and KP 13 mpg at center that leaves only 3 mpg. It doesn’t make sense to pay a guy 7m/yr for that. Now Vonleh is able to play PF and center so it might make sense to pay him more than we would have paid Kanter. We need a PF/C type not a center only type like Enes.

He expires this year and could maybe be traded at the deadline for something.

That’s a long shot to find a team that has large enough expiring contracts to take his 20m. And some of the contenders are in the luxury tax which would make it even harder to match salaries.

If we kept Noah I am 1000 percent certain he would not be here with us past his current contract.

I didn’t want Noah here from Day 1 even on a 2-year deal so I don’t want him after his current contract expires. But Enes is leaving here through one door this summer. Noah, had we kept him, could have exited through one of two doors and one of those doors might have been a franchise-altering departure in the right circumstances. I’ve detailed this in my discussion with Hubert.

I love this. I was cautiously optimistic when they hired Fizdale and I was a bit scared when he came out talking about changing the culture etc, because we’ve heard that so many times already with nothing working, but this is a very good step in the right direction.

The starting lineup was playing like garbage, he changed it around, went with the young guys and is keeping his plan of developing these guys and enforcing a defensive system. They should start looking for trades for Kanter right now and see how the situation develops with Lee’s injuries, as most signed players will be able to get traded after December 15th. Ideally we would get to the deadline with Kanter being traded for whatever asset and without Lee’s contract. Whatever happens for the rest of the season in terms of wins and losses is fine to me if there’s a clear plan in place, and there appears to be one.

Deep, I know.

For the first time, Fizdale didn’t mention anything about “revolving doors” regarding Robinson’s status. Fizdale wants this to stick, saying, “Let’s get this generated now,” and adding that the 7-foot shot-blocker embodies the team’s defensive mindset.

For once in our history we lost out on him because we didn’t win enough meaningless games. If we’d had the 8th worst record in the NBA we’d have gotten Sacramento’s combinations and would have moved up to 3rd.

Some further ramifications: Sacramento had to go down from 3 to 5 because Philadelphia had pick swap rights. If we had won two more games that year, we’re third, Philadelphia is 5th, Sacramento is 8th. Philly loses the benefit of the pick swap. More importantly, they might have been too far out to make the terrible Fultz/Tatum trade.

Does Boston end up with Fultz instead of Tatum? Does Boston make the trade anyway and end up with Josh Jackson at 5 because we took Fox at 3 and Phoenix took Tatum at 4?

So many possibilities. All I know is one thing never fails in the NBA: the Celtics get lucky and we don’t.