My Reaction To The Perk Trade

I certainly didn't expect Perkins to be traded in the start of yesterday so when I found the news out, I was shocked. Danny decided to make a series of trades yesteday headlined by Kendrick Perkins and Nate Robinson to the Thunder for Jeff Green, Nenad Krstic, and a top 10 protected Los Angeles Clippers 1st round pick.

I first hated it, because I was emotional. We all love Perk, we saw him grow from a fat high school kid to the player he is today. He embodied the Celtics way of doing things, he was a hard worker, a tough kid and gave his all to get back from the MCL injury. And now that he's gone it's if one of your best friends moved across the country, all of us are just a little sad.

But if you lay the trade down on paper, you come away with a couple things. We received the best player in the trade in Jeff Green, Krstic and Perk aren't that far apart, and the difference between Nate and Jeff are gigantic.

People also forget that this team was the best team in the league and beat the Heat twice without Perk, and Perk just injured his knee, is coming off knee surgery and who says we can possibly sign him after this year? Actually the fact is that the Celtics were 33-10 this season without Perkins and only 4-3 with him as a starter. Also, a lot of people forget when the Celtics were in the championship they had James Posey playing the 4, and KG playing the 5. And in crucial times in games this year, Baby has been playing at the end of the 4th. The thing I'm worried about the most is team chemistry, these players have been together for a while now and I heard they were shaken up after the deal. However, they are veterans and professionals, I'm sure they will be able to get over it.

Jeff Green brings a lot of to the table coming off the bench, he's 6 foot 9, a long 6-foot-9, which means he easily fills the role as a backup to Paul Pierce. He has 3-point range. He can play the power forward spot, as well. Krstic also is unique in his own way with him being more of an offensive player then Perk. He has range, his rebounding numbers are gross for his size, but his offensive game give more room for Rondo to penetrate and dish instead of getting clogged up with Perk and his defender.

Also, if we can somehow get a Troy Murphy and Anthony Parker via buyout what do people think of the trade then? I know it's kind of bogus to say wait and see, but trust me, let this develop before you jump the boat because Danny could have just pulled a fast one.