Celtics roster still Tiny

[Hoopvortex]

I've been on here a few times urging people to pay attention to Toronto - as I'm sure you already are, since they're amazingly long. Now I realize that you're talking about height here, but I've seen you elsewhere talk about wingspan so I assume that that's in your thinking. I'm recalling you proposed trading Grant for Boucher for example.

The Raptors have the extreme version of length in the history of the NBA; not awesome height, but they've got a rotation's worth of 6'7, 6'8, 6'9" guys with 7'2" or greater wingspans. Looking forward to a Banton/Barnes/OG/Siakam/Birch lineup taking the floor. Only OG in that group is as short as 6'7".

But note something weird about the Toronto roster: they don't have anyone as tall as 6'10". Yes, a pro basketball team whose tallest player is 6'9".

It’s lame quoting yourself but the Raptors game last night was a great input for the discussion about height.

The Raptors don’t have anyone over 6’9”! What they do have is great quickness and great length, and those were on brilliant display in Boston.

They had 18 more field goal attempts than the Celtics, and ten more free throws. They had an eye-popping 16 steals.

I think that they’re a playoff team.

[KG Living Legend]

I've been on here a few times urging people to pay attention to Toronto - as I'm sure you already are, since they're amazingly long. Now I realize that you're talking about height here, but I've seen you elsewhere talk about wingspan so I assume that that's in your thinking. I'm recalling you proposed trading Grant for Boucher for example.

The Raptors have the extreme version of length in the history of the NBA; not awesome height, but they've got a rotation's worth of 6'7, 6'8, 6'9" guys with 7'2" or greater wingspans. Looking forward to a Banton/Barnes/OG/Siakam/Birch lineup taking the floor. Only OG in that group is as short as 6'7".

But note something weird about the Toronto roster: they don't have anyone as tall as 6'10". Yes, a pro basketball team whose tallest player is 6'9".

It’s lame quoting yourself but the Raptors game last night was a great input for the discussion about height.

The Raptors don’t have anyone over 6’9”! What they do have is great quickness and great length, and those were on brilliant display in Boston.

They had 18 more field goal attempts than the Celtics, and ten more free throws. They had an eye-popping 16 steals.

I think that they’re a playoff team.

 Im. I'm. You 100% if I built the Celtics roster it would look closer to the Raptors than the Cs. Grant Williams for Boucher was my idea on Here.

 I love Siakam, Scottie Pippen,  I mean Barnes. Masai is the man every guy besides Fred as long Strong, Athletic.  Toronto just needs Tatum.

[Vermont Green]

I think it is interesting to track how we are doing with 1 big line up vs 2 big line ups.  I may not be catching everything, but these are the two big line ups and their results:

Horford + RWill       23 min    +8
Horford + GWill       18 min    +13
RWill + GWill           46 min    -9
Parker + GWill         17 min    +3
JHern + RWill          4 min      -3
Kanter + JHern        4 min     -12

That nets to 112 min and +0 for two big units.  That leaves 80 min and -15 for 1 big units (we are a total of -15 on the season).  Without that horrible 4 minutes with Kanter and JHern, the 2-big line ups are doing very well.

Horford is making a big difference.  He is +21 in 41 minutes as the second big and -10 in 13 minutes as a 1 big.  He has been better with GWill than with RWill (but good in both cases with a small sample size).  I would like to see how he does with Parker.  RWill is +5 in 2 big line ups and a very impressive +11 in 1 big line ups.