Of Course...(our rotation hasn't played together)

[Celtics17]

I am in 100% agreement with whoever posted this. You can't judge this team until they have played at least 10 games together and even that is ridiculous. Would you judge the quality of any team after they played that few games as a unit? Sure, we should have kicked New Jersey all over the court and have lost too many games. The thing is though, until this unit is healthy and cohesive we will never know what  we have. Of course, that may never happen this season too.

[BballTim]

Please with the excuses. They should have been able to beat the Nets by 20 points yesterday without the captain. I believe that when they won by 30 plus in New Jersey that Garnett was not playing (or one of the top players was out). It is simply ludicrous to excuse a loss to the Nets, regardless of who was missing.

On another note, what does having the core of 8-9 players play together have to do with the fact that this team is the worst rebounding club in the league? That it constantly stands around and watches the opposition get to the ball before it does. What does it have to do with the fact that they appear not to care or try in many games? What does it have to do with the fact that they have lost 12 double-digit leads since Christmas? Sorry, but the answer to all of these questions is nothing.

I will remain optimistic that Danny will get off to a good start this summer in changing the makeup and direction of this team.

  We're not the worst rebounding team in the league.

Well we are tied for last in rebounds per game as a team, 23rd in rebounding differential, 28th in offensive rebounding rate, last in offensive rebounds per game, and 23rd in total rebounding rate

We may not be the absolute worst rebounding team in the league, but we are [dang] close to it

  True, we're 23rd, but if we grab one more rebound a game we'd be 12th. If we grabbed another 2 boards a game we'd be 3rd. Is getting 1-2 more rebounds a game going to solve our problems?

It would solve one of our problems

  No it wouldn't. All it would do is give people here one less thing to harp on. Five of the top 10 teams in the league are in the top 10 in rebounding, the other 5 are 19 or lower.