Poll: Is this year's bench better than the 2007-08 Celtics bench?

[nickagneta]

I know its only 4 games and this season could go in any direction. But before that championship season, that team's bench was considered by most pundits to be awful. Turns out they were dang good, maybe the best the team had had since the late 80's.

This year I think some thought this team was missing a bunch off the bench(centers and outside shooters) and had a lot of question marks as well(injury prone Daniels, black hole Bass, little defense Wilcox, Pietrus signed while hurt, basically 4 rookies) but had a few good players.

So what say you? Which bench is better. BTW I will leave the poll so that you can change your vote if as the season goes on you want to change it.

[mqtcelticsfan]

I'd be willing to go with the 2007-8 group simply because of Posey. 2007 James Posey was the absolute perfect 6th man for Boston's defense, and there's simply nobody outside of maybe Bass that can have that type of effect on the team.

[Roy H.]

You forgot Scal!

[nickagneta]

You forgot Scal!

HOW COULD I FORGET SCAL!!!!

Sorry BassThumper, it will never happen again. Promise bro!!!

[nickagneta]

Personally, I think once Pietrus is here, healthy and he gets time with Dooling, Bass, Daniels, and either Steimsma/Wilcox/center-to-be-brought-in-later, I think they will be 6 through 12 the better quality bench with more tools to go to.

[BudweiserCeltic]

I know its only 4 games and this season could go in any direction. But before that championship season, that team's bench was considered by most pundits to be awful. Turns out they were dang good, maybe the best the team had had since the late 80's.

This year I think some thought this team was missing a bunch off the bench(centers and outside shooters) and had a lot of question marks as well(injury prone Daniels, black hole Bass, little defense Wilcox, Pietrus signed while hurt, basically 4 rookies) but had a few good players.

So what say you? Which bench is better. BTW I will leave the poll so that you can change your vote if as the season goes on you want to change it.

I thought our 2007-2008 bench sucked personally. What we did have was a great 7 man rotation, 8 when Doc finally played House, but he was used in spots. This became true though once Brown finally established himself for us during the Cleveland series, 2nd round of the playoffs, so we could go away from Davis and Powe who were highly inconsistent for us.

[nickagneta]

I know its only 4 games and this season could go in any direction. But before that championship season, that team's bench was considered by most pundits to be awful. Turns out they were dang good, maybe the best the team had had since the late 80's.

This year I think some thought this team was missing a bunch off the bench(centers and outside shooters) and had a lot of question marks as well(injury prone Daniels, black hole Bass, little defense Wilcox, Pietrus signed while hurt, basically 4 rookies) but had a few good players.

So what say you? Which bench is better. BTW I will leave the poll so that you can change your vote if as the season goes on you want to change it.

I thought our 2007-2008 bench sucked personally. What we did have was a great 7 man rotation, 8 when Doc finally played House, but he was used in spots. This became true though once Brown finally established himself for us during the Cleveland series, 2nd round of the playoffs, so we could go away from Davis and Powe who were highly inconsistent for us.

Is it just me or weren't Powe and Baby consistently inconsistent at opposite times so that one of them always seemed to be making some positive type of contribution at the PF spot that year from about mid December on?

Maybe I am misremembering.

[BudweiserCeltic]

I know its only 4 games and this season could go in any direction. But before that championship season, that team's bench was considered by most pundits to be awful. Turns out they were dang good, maybe the best the team had had since the late 80's.

This year I think some thought this team was missing a bunch off the bench(centers and outside shooters) and had a lot of question marks as well(injury prone Daniels, black hole Bass, little defense Wilcox, Pietrus signed while hurt, basically 4 rookies) but had a few good players.

So what say you? Which bench is better. BTW I will leave the poll so that you can change your vote if as the season goes on you want to change it.

I thought our 2007-2008 bench sucked personally. What we did have was a great 7 man rotation, 8 when Doc finally played House, but he was used in spots. This became true though once Brown finally established himself for us during the Cleveland series, 2nd round of the playoffs, so we could go away from Davis and Powe who were highly inconsistent for us.

Is it just me or weren't Powe and Baby consistently inconsistent at opposite times so that one of them always seemed to be making some positive type of contribution at the PF spot that year from about mid December on?

Maybe I am misremembering.

You're correct, I'm mainly focusing on what went on during the playoffs. But as far as the season went, our bench was [dang] good, but with that weakness of missing a real PG which hurt us plenty of times, and also the lack of a big guy on the bench to help balance out rotations, instead of forcing us into small ball every time.

It's a shame about Pollard, he would have been really awesome for us.

[Eja117]

07-08

[Bankshot]

I know its only 4 games and this season could go in any direction. But before that championship season, that team's bench was considered by most pundits to be awful. Turns out they were dang good, maybe the best the team had had since the late 80's.

This year I think some thought this team was missing a bunch off the bench(centers and outside shooters) and had a lot of question marks as well(injury prone Daniels, black hole Bass, little defense Wilcox, Pietrus signed while hurt, basically 4 rookies) but had a few good players.

So what say you? Which bench is better. BTW I will leave the poll so that you can change your vote if as the season goes on you want to change it.

I thought our 2007-2008 bench sucked personally. What we did have was a great 7 man rotation, 8 when Doc finally played House, but he was used in spots. This became true though once Brown finally established himself for us during the Cleveland series, 2nd round of the playoffs, so we could go away from Davis and Powe who were highly inconsistent for us.

Is it just me or weren't Powe and Baby consistently inconsistent at opposite times so that one of them always seemed to be making some positive type of contribution at the PF spot that year from about mid December on?

Maybe I am misremembering.

You're correct, I'm mainly focusing on what went on during the playoffs. But as far as the season went, our bench was [dang] good, but with that weakness of missing a real PG which hurt us plenty of times, and also the lack of a big guy on the bench to help balance out rotations, instead of forcing us into small ball every time.

It's a shame about Pollard, he would have been really awesome for us.

I think we had just enough that year.

[BudweiserCeltic]

If I'm being honest, I thought our 2007-2008 bench might have been our weakest of all the years. What really helped us is that everyone just about stayed healthy throughout that season. That's been our main difference from them until now.

[bfrombleacher]

Too early to tell but you can't deny the talent this year. Everything fell into place when it came to the bench for the 08 run though.

[Celtics17]

Until I see a reserve from this years squad do what Posey did I will have to go with 07-08. Posey managed to often make just the right play at just the right time. It may seem easy or even insignificant in the overall scheme but it's very hard to find a player capable of that. In my opinion he was way underrated.

[nickagneta]

Funny thing. I originally forgot Scal. But everyone has to remember that 9 game stretch were he filled in for a hurt KG and started and was amazing in his limited minutes. That was what that bench was like. They just seemed to shine in the right spots at the right time with really only Posey ever being a consistent force.

This year might see 2-4 guys with very consistent roles and production. So we will have to see but I think this year's team is much more talented overall.

[BudweiserCeltic]

Funny thing. I originally forgot Scal. But everyone has to remember that 9 game stretch were he filled in for a hurt KG and started and was amazing in his limited minutes. That was what that bench was like. They just seemed to shine in the right spots at the right time with really only Posey ever being a consistent force.

This year might see 2-4 guys with very consistent roles and production. So we will have to see but I think this year's team is much more talented overall.

I thought Scal since the big-3 era was always great for us when we used him as a stretch 4-5, particularly when KG was on the floor. Sadly, he was mainly used as a SF if I recall correctly, which made him look like crap often enough. I still believe that our best 5 man unit was Rondo-Allen-Pierce-Scal-KG, really loved how our offense flowed without losing much defensively.