Summer League 5

[Piotrowski, Mark A]

Celticsblog is passing along that the C's have chosen the vets being sent to 
the summer league -- 
there's some heartening news therin IMO....

Orien Greene -- This to me suggests he's in our plans next season... even if 
it's in the D-League.  I'm in 
the camp that sees no harm in sticking him and Dwayne Jones in the D-League 
and going w/ 13 guys in 
the NBA.  Centers and PGs don't grow on trees and these guys both look like 
capable (if not spectacular) 
guys for an NBA team.

Dwayne Jones -- see above.  He's a legit 6-11 and has shown an ability to 
rebound.  Can he do it 
consistently in the Bigs?  who knows but what's the harm in taking another 
year to see.

Al Jefferson -- i thought you were ineligible after your first 2 years, but i 
guess i also remember 
somethign about if you missed a significant portion of the previous season to 
injury you can play.

Gerald Green & Ryan Gomes -- no surprises there, but i'm guessing we see Gomes 
at the 3 for long 
stretches.

More and more i think we may go into next season pretty much with the same 
team as the end of last 
season:

West / Greene / Dickau
Szczerbiak / Allen 
Pierce / Green
Jefferson / Gomes / Scalabrine
Perkins / LaFrentz / Jones

That's 13 guys.  #1 pick makes 14 and for #15 my guess would be we either add 
a vet PG (like Jacque 
Vaughn, Darrick Martin, David Wesley) or possibly even resign Olowokandi for 
the minimum (anything 
above that I'm against... but for the min?  sure, why not?)

(the other) mark