Been saying this since the beginning and will keep saying it. We would be a significantly better team if we could switch out two players for shooters that aren’t completely useless on defense; rozier and brown.
I think Rozier is the big one. JB has too much potential, and now that he is (seemingly) healthy his touch has been better.
If we had JJ Barea or Fred VanVleet instead of TRoz I would think we'd be a really strong team right now.
I think we would be a better team since I like those players better than Rozier, but Rozier isn't the reason we struggled so much this year. So yeah, adding in a better player for Rozier makes this team better, that player would still only be 8th and sometimes 9th on the depth chart and Boston would probably have their same current record.
Brown has obviously turned things around. He needs to stay on this team. So far in their careers when both Tatum and Brown are playing at their best, because of his defense, Brown has been the better player. Tatum has a higher ceiling, of course, and is younger but since being Celtics, Brown has shown he can take it up to a notch that Tatum hasn't demonstrated he can reach yet.