Darius Miles

I blinked my eyes and - poof - the Darius Miles experiment was over.

The Celtics waived the lanky forward this week, after a mini-audition throughout the pre-season that featured short bursts of minutes. He may have never amounted to anything legitimate, but now we'll never know. Everyone said the Celtics were "taking a gamble" by signing Miles in the off-season, but what kind of gamble is it if you never let the guy have a chance.

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Add to the mix the athleticism of J.R. Giddens and continued rebirth of Darius Miles' career, and you have a bunch of interesting story lines.

And then you have Cassell and Scalabrine.

Here's an exercise we can all take part in: Make a list of the characterstics that pair has that will be necessary to the success of the Boston Celtics. Are you ready? OK, pens down. Here's mine:

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>I've done nothing but bemoan the loss of James Posey since it happened, and I still hold firm that Darius Miles, despite his status as a no risk-high reward signing, is not an adequate replacement for the quintessential unselfish glue guy (two phrases that have only been mentioned in conjunction with Miles to describe things he is NOT).  Needless to say, the Celtics are paper thin at the wing, lacking a bench player with enough size to guard legitimate NBA small forwards and still be quick enough and enough of a perimeter threat to hang with the quicker, smaller 3s that are everywhere in the NBA these days.  Posey did all of those things, as well as provide championship level experience, reliable outside shooting, rebounding, and tough as nails defense.  The lowest common denominator for the Celtics wings this year would be having a few reliable bodies to eat up minutes (and fouls) while Paul Pierce is on the bench and resting.  At this point, they don't even have this locked down yet, which scares the living crap out of me more than the thought of having to watch another Manning championship run.

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s drafted straight from high school that were not and are not ready for life in the NBA, names like Darius Miles, Gerald Green, Kwame Brown and Sebastian Telfair all affirm that assertion.  While it is true that those players as well as several more were definitely not ready for the NBA, the same could be said for countless college ball players that tried to make the leap to the NBA.  The cold hard reality is that with only 30 teams and two rounds in the draft, a minuscule number of players actually make it into the Association when compared with the immensely diverse and deep pool of talent that the NBA draws from (not even every draft pick ends up getting signed either).

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