Glen Davis drove Boston Celtics crazy, says Jackie MacMullan
It appears I wasn’t the only one frustrated when Glen Davis repeatedly missed outside jump shots, stopped crashing the offensive glass and generally appeared lost during the latter stages of last season. According to Jackie MacMullan, Davis drove the Celtics crazy. (WEEI)
On Glen Davis’s struggles last season and if the Celtics will re-sign him: “You have wonder what was going on inside his head. He had a weight clause in his contract and he had to keep a certain weight. You take a picture of Big Baby from November to April and it’s pretty startling. … So what that tells me is, he had this weight clause and he kept missing it and he kept paying them out, fine after fine after fine. He drove them crazy over there, there’s no question about it.
“Shaq had some insight to that, they considered him somewhat of a selfish player trying to get his numbers in his free agent year. Clearly he did not live up the conditioning rules and regulations that they set for him. I think there’s a high level of frustration over there about Big Baby about what he did, or more appropriately, what he didn’t do for them, especially in the postseason. Now having said all of that, if you get him for dirt cheap, do you take him back? I don’t know how perturbed Doc Rivers is about him because I haven’t really asked him about Big Baby for a while. My gut is that he won’t be back.”
Re-signing Davis is a risk. He eats too much. He fights with Doc Rivers. He admittedly mentally collapsed at the end of last year. Committing long-term money to Davis could end badly. But he might be Boston’s best chance to add a reasonably-priced, semi-reliable big man. Sigh.
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A lot of people screwed up a lot at the end of last season, especially one Danny Ainge. Predictably, everyone continues to scapegoat the Fat Man. Anyone who ever thought that Glen Davis was a Bill Russell upstairs was missing something upstairs. He can help us. That’s all.
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OK paul…time to lighten up on Danny. No need to bash him like you did all last year. He hasn’t even made a move yet for God’s sakes. That said, and after reading all the Davis ripping, what GM is going to say ‘hey let’s get Davis’??? Cs should give him a one-year deal and if he performs as he used to then give him a 3-5 year deal. Otherwise, if he performs like last season get rid of him. And how about Doc growing a pair this year? Oh, it’s great to be back. Where’s my buddy, Nick??? Go Cs…
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