Patrick O'Bryant?
I liked the idea of giving Patrick O'Bryant the Scot Pollard Memorial roster spot before the draft but before the draft i was also thinking that we might walk away with one or possibly no new players. Talk was that the C's could trade their first rounder and take a Euro to stash away overseas with the second pick. Now with two rookies as well as Gabe Pruitt, I'm not so sure about having over a quarter of our roster being unproven young guys.
On the other hand, I really like the idea of Clifford Ray getting to work with the athletic O'Bryant and I could see him doing enough in this one year to fool someone into thinking that he could be the next big thing. Maybe we could then move O'Bryant along with Ray Allen's expiring deal for a younger player. I wouldn't put it past Rick Sund (of Robert Swift, Johan Petro, Saer Sene fame) to get all hot and O'bothered about Patrick and think about shipping Joe Johnson back to Beantown.
In the end, it's an interesting move by Ainge but it also makes the rest of the roster spots all the more important. I really hope we aren't relying too heavily on one or two of our unproven commodities.
