I doubt his role would be any different than the 16th pick. While the 16th pick has more value, the player that was picked will probably be worse than Brown. The returns on those picks aren't great and were used to defend Ainge's draft history before Nesmith (and Langford) started to play better.Listen Brown is a nice piece to take a look at and decide if he can be your 14th/15th man (Tacko and Waters aren't comps, they weren't on the roster), and being able to cut him for nothing but the 50K guaranteed as part of the trade is nice. I just think we need to be far more reasonable about his likely role/upside than the "really he's just as good as having the #16 pick" stuff which is kinda silly to me. Nobody on this board would have seriously traded 16 for Brown. He's an intriguing throw-in to make the salary match, and he'll get to compete for the end of the bench with our 2nd rounder and the guys currently deep on the bench in SL and camp.
They did it to move on from Kemba, but as a filler, Moses Brown is an interesting add.
Where are people saying his likely role is anything more than "Portland Center" or "Kornet/Wagner." I think one poster compared him to DJ. Most won't even agree he's better than Kornet.