Doc Was Confident No Deals Would Be Made

By: Greg Payne

We're pretty much beating a dead horse at this point, but allow me to get one final whack in before I kiss this specific topic goodbye forever. From the Herald:

Doc Rivers sounded confident that Rondo and Ray Allen - the two players most often attached to recent trade rumors - weren’t going anywhere.

“Oh yeah, absolutely,” the Celtics [team stats] coach said before last night’s draft. “I have no doubt about that. There’s always the chance someone could get traded, but it would have to be an amazing deal. But I like our team.”

And we were worked up over Darius Songaila and Etan Thomas?

I found this quote from Doc very interesting:

“You can be a loner as long as you’re not a loner on the floor,” Rivers said. “One thing I’ve told Rondo is that they don’t have to love you off the floor. They don’t have to respect you all the time, but they have to love playing with you.

“He’s still working out how to be a great player, and sometimes there’s some growing pains. I have no problem with that.”

I would love to get the entire Celtic team in a room together, without any cameras or anything, just to see how they interact with one another. At this point, with everything that's gone on, wouldn't that be a fascinating experiment? And we can stick Bill Duffy and Danny Ainge right next to each other!

Okay, I know this horse is dead, but even I feel bad that we continue to beat on it. It's done now.

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