Jones & Keefe: We are going to find out what Brad Stevens is made of this offseason

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00:00Brad's been pretty good at identifying players.

00:03He hasn't had a lot of opportunity in the draft yet.

00:06You know, maybe Baylor Shireman ends up being something,

00:08but like most of his maneuverings have been traits.

00:12So if he feels that strongly about moving up in the draft,

00:15then like, yeah, I'll see what that looks like.

00:17I'm fine for that.

00:18Plus, if you do want to get down the road of adding guys to Tatum and Brown,

00:23if you hit on a pick at 14,

00:26that's another guy that could be flipped away and traded away.

00:28You see that happen all the time.

00:29Hell, Shea Gildress Alexander was one of those guys that was picked there

00:33and then traded for a team that thought they were adding a better player

00:37and all that stuff.

00:38So, yeah, no, I'm open to that.

00:40That would catch me a little off guard,

00:41but that's another way to sort of build your team.

00:43And I think something that Brad Stevens would be excited about,

00:46because I'm sure he's like, oh, man, I got to do like salary moves right now.

00:49He's like, I want to do basketball moves.

00:51Because when he took over, he was just doing basketball moves.

00:54He was getting Drew Holiday.

00:56He was getting Al Horford.

00:57He was getting Chris Dasporzingas.

00:58These were all basketball moves.

00:59Now he's being told, well, these great trades that you made

01:03and contracts that you signed, we got to get rid of them.

01:05And so now he's like, all right, well, at least the draft,

01:07maybe that's more his sort of wheelhouse.

01:09Well, let's see.

01:10And you're fair to point that out.

01:11But here's what I would say.

01:12And we talked about this a couple of weeks back,

01:14maybe even a month back.

01:16Brad Stevens, I think, is a really good GM.

01:18But the degree of difficulty for him has been very, very, very low.

01:23I mean, he pretty much was able to bring in whatever he wanted and sign whoever he wanted

01:30to extensions.

01:31Like, his degree of difficulty has been pretty low.

01:34He came in with Tatum and Brown in place.

01:36I like some of the roster retooling he did.

01:38But he was able to acquire guys and then extend them and pay them.

01:43That's not a real high degree of difficulty.

01:45Like, Porzingis is available.

01:46Holiday became available because another team made a trade.

01:49Derek Roy was a good move.

01:50He went and pounced.

01:51That's a really good move.

01:51Derek Roy was a great move.

01:52I'll give you that one.

01:54But I just, I think now the degree of difficulty is a lot higher.

01:58Oh, through the roof.

01:59We're like, man, Brad Stevens never loses a trade.

02:01Well, he just lost one.

02:02This Porzingis trade is garbage.

02:04He just lost it.

02:05Whittle Niang, though, sets up shop in the corner.

02:07He starts burying threes.

02:08And if you want to start talking about saving money,

02:10well, then you should be front row at Fenway cheering on John Henry for all the money he saves

02:16and the way they just make great, brilliant, contractual trades.

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