What's our starting five for next season?

[aefgogreen]

Do we start Robinson over Neemias? Does Baylor have a shot of starting over Pritchard (I really like PP off the bench)? And do we start PG when he most likely won't play more than 50 games? These are the questions I ponder when I should be working.

[Goldstar88]

Pritchard, White, George, Tatum, Robinson

[Roy H.]

Queta will start.  I can't imagine that he loses his spot.

[Who]

Queta over M Robinson = M-Rob can't play long minutes. He can barely play 15-20mpg without gassed.

Pritchard to the bench = At the start of the off-season, I expected Pritchard to regain his starting spot once Stevens added a ball-handler in free agency. Stevens failed to do that. Conley is not good enough. He is just an end of bencher "break glass in case of emergency" 3rd string PG. So we have no ball-handlers off the bench.

When faced with this situation in the 2nd half of last season (after the trade of A Simons), Mazzula chose to bring Pritchard off the bench rather than start Pritchard and take D White or Pritch off after 5min or so and bring them back in late Q1 in the 2nd unit. So given this was Mazzula's preference last season, I expect it to be the same next season.

Baylor vs J Walsh / Hugo = J Walsh and Hugo will be get the nod if either one of them can prove to be a reliable 3 point shooter. If they cannot, I expect Baylor to get the nod. Right now, Baylor is the front-runner.

Hauser to resume his bench role.

[Celtics2021]

I might start Robinson because Hack-a-Mitch is less effective at the beginning of quarters.  I find Robinson and Queta relatively interchangeable, however, so I am not sure it matters too much, and Queta earned his job up until the 76ers series.

The starting lineup of White-Pritchard-Brown-Queta-Random Wing was very effective last year, so one would figure that White-Pritchard-Tatum-Queta-George (as Random Wing) would be at least effective, so that is what I expect.  However, I think it would be best if Hugo were able to win a starting spot in camp so that Pritchard can make the bench more effective.

[Silas]

D-White, Hugo, PG13, JT, and Neemias...  If Hugo doesn't work after a dozen games switch to Baylor.  I want to see how our young guns react to starting with the big boys.