Brown and Tatum are natural SFs, but forced to play other "positions" since we play positionless basketball. Not sure if that was part of the consideration for this sub-par article.
I don't think it was in the original article, but it's very relevant to the recent discussion. Last year our starting "PF" was our backup "C" and our starting "SG" was our backup "SF"
If the C's were fully healthy they could have a rotation like;
Smart 32, White 16
Brown 16, Brogdon 32
Tatum 32, Brown 16
G. Williams 24, Gallanari 24
GWIII 24, Horford 24
With Pritchard, Kornet, Houser, Thomas, Davison, Kabengele, Vonleh, and Caboclo
It's position-less but Pritchard isn't going to replace GWII.
I pasted this over from another thread that had drifted off topic. The discussion became more about the rotation and the final roster spots so I thought I would try and pick it up in this thread.
I think the 9 person rotation that Grogan shows is spot on. This is exactly what I expect to see, plus or minus a few minutes here and there. The point is that this rotation 1-9 is rock solid. If you consider Pritchard as the 10th, that is very solid too and he is guard insurance, not even needed in the regular rotation. No team is going to have a better 5th guard than Pritchard. The 6th guard (if they fill this, this may be the slot they leave open) is probably going to be a glorified G-Leaguer like say Brodric Thomas or Denzel Valentine and that is fine.
In the bigs, we have 4 solid bigs and Kornet right now. I don't know if the Celtics see Kornet as an actual viable 3rd center, they may, or he could just be keeping a slot warm with the hope that a more established vet becomes available. I actually think Vonleh is going to be better than Kornet. The good news is that both have actual NBA resumes. Vonleh is about 5/5 in 339 NBA games, Kornet is 5.5/2.5 in 148 NBA games. You could do worse with your 5th and 6th bigs. Vonleh as a PF/C and Kornet as a C/PF.
If we carry 5-6 guards and 5-6 bigs, that would mean we would need 3 SFs to give us 14 or 15 total. Right now we have Tatum and Hauser. Not sure that Bruno Caboclo is the right guy for that slot but maybe. To me, this slot is the most in question and the biggest need.
Smart White Pritchard
Brown Brogdon
Thomas(?)Tatum
Vet (?) Hauser
Gallinari Grant
Vonleh(?)RWill Horford Kornet(?)
I can live with that if we actually do find that vet SF.