This stuff needs to be ironed out before Cleveland, Detroit and/or Orlando come to town.
Right. And the end of the regular season would have been the perfect time to do it, rather than playing five man bench squads. But I digress.
I think Powe needs to get consistent minutes, regardless of whether he's struggled in his six minutes of playing time up until that point. I mean, we don't sit Pierce, KG, Allen, or (thankfully) Rondo due to a poor six minutes of time, and we shouldn't do the same to Powe. Every player is going to have stretches of time where he struggles, and a young player shouldn't be worried that if he has a couple of poor minutes, he's going to the bench for the rest of the game.
Also, it's not like Powe played terribly. He played a 3.5 minute stint in the first quarter where the Celts outscored Atlanta by 1 (with Powe not really contributing statistically) and he played for three minutes at the end of the first / beginning of the second quarter, in which the two teams played evenly. Powe was +1 one the game, so it's not like the reason the Celts were behind was in any way due to him. (BBD was -8, including -10 in the second half).
Powe, Perk, and House all need to see more minutes in the playoffs. Powe's lack of time was hopefully a one-time deviation, while House's and Perk's depressed minutes are simply unacceptable under any circumstances.