Jay’s Sports Blog™

So everyone is up in arms about James Posey leaving. Now I’m not going to act like his departure doesn’t upset me or try and talk down his contributions but instead try and find a silver lining.

In a thread of emails yesterday some friends and myself all agreed that the fourth year was too much and after reading John Hollinger’s piece I felt even better about not bringing him in given the expected decline. So who’s going to fill the void?

Sure Scal didn’t sniff the floor in the playoffs but this guy gets the biggest pop out of everyone not named Pierce or Garnett anytime he touches the ball. The Garden goes crazy when he drains a three. And does anyone box out better on the rebound?

The thing with Posey was the stats are very deceptive (only 7 points a game?). It seams every time he had an open look at a three he would drain it. The playoffs just let the rest of the NBA see what we’ve been looking at all season. Also, on defense, he was the shut down defender the C’s needed off the bench against the likes of Kobe and LeBron.

So will Scal fill those minutes? Not likely although we can all dream that a great white hope will one day return to the NBA to the likes of Larry Legend. What will the Celtics do to fill the void?

They’ll probably resign Tony Allen as Hollinger suggests, who was a good defender and a decent scoring option, he just needs to lose the fear he got after the injury. Between Tony, Scal and the rookies the Celtics should be able to fill the void in the regular season. What they’ll miss most is having a money guy off the bench come playoff time.

To quote Da Guy, “I’m not worried.” Danny built up his assets and won a Championship, I’m sure he has a plan here as well. In Danny We Trust.

But on to the Red Sox and the West Coast road trip. Let’s play ball!