The Celtics shouldn't be 4-8 period. They have the talent, experience, and chemistry. I think its time for Doc to experiment a little. Find the right mix of players.

Trotting 5 bench players without true point-guard hurting the team. Insert Rondo with bench unit. Lessen his time with starters take him out early, and bring him back with the bench. How about speeding up the tempo even for short stretches? Run Rondo Run. Rondo + 4 best athletes on the team, and run.

Stiemsma the one active big who provides energy shouldn't be buried on the bench. Was his breakout game a fluke or a sign of things to come? We need answers. There isn't better way to find out if you don't experiment.

Quote from: Change on January 18, 2012, 04:11:48 AM

The Celtics shouldn't be 4-8 period. They have the talent, experience, and chemistry. I think its time for Doc to experiment a little. Find the right mix of players.

Trotting 5 bench players without true point-guard hurting the team. Insert Rondo with bench unit. Lessen his time with starters take him out early, and bring him back with the bench. How about speeding up the tempo even for short stretches? Run Rondo Run. Rondo + 4 best athletes on the team, and run.

Stiemsma the one active big who provides energy shouldn't be buried on the bench. Was his breakout game a fluke or a sign of things to come? We need answers. There isn't better way to find out if you don't experiment.

You are asking Doc to do something creative, not in his resume.

Quote from: Change on January 18, 2012, 04:11:48 AM

The Celtics shouldn't be 4-8 period. They have the talent, experience, and chemistry. I think its time for Doc to experiment a little. Find the right mix of players.

Trotting 5 bench players without true point-guard hurting the team. Insert Rondo with bench unit. Lessen his time with starters take him out early, and bring him back with the bench. How about speeding up the tempo even for short stretches? Run Rondo Run. Rondo + 4 best athletes on the team, and run.

Stiemsma the one active big who provides energy shouldn't be buried on the bench. Was his breakout game a fluke or a sign of things to come? We need answers. There isn't better way to find out if you don't experiment.

I think experimenting with lineup changes would hurt us more than help us. We already have too many new faces and that is distrupting the chemistry enough. Let the starters get accustomed to playing together and let the bench guys fall into their roles. Changing their routines only 12 games into the season certainly wouldn't make sense when youre trying to find a certain chemistry with a group of players.

Didn't he try Bass with the starting lineup?


Didn't he try Pavolic as a starter?

Didn't he give Moore 20 minutes in the Pacer game?




Let's be honest, only one player on the Celtics have not gotten a chance to get on he floor this year, the raw 1st year player.

Quote from: kozlodoev on January 18, 2012, 07:47:03 AM

Stiemsma has run out of steam, forgive the pun, after a couple of good games.

I seriously doubt Steamer would solve what's wrong with this team, but let's be honest about things.  Here are Stiemsma's minutes so far this season.

20
16
12
21 (starting and put up 13 pts, 7 rebs, 2 asts and 2 blks)
12
7
3
1
9
1

Again, not to say that Steamer playing more would necessarily fix anything with Boston, but to suggest he's not playing because he's not playing well is BS.  The guy played one of the best games any Celtic big has this season and after one more game was essentially in scrub duty, even though our regular starting center doesn't play over 23 minutes a game and our only other backup 5 has been hurt most of the season.

And again, this isn't to say Stiemsma would the answer to any of Boston's problems, but the reason he's not playing is simply because Doc has decided not to play him and not due to some lack of performance.  There are plenty of young players who are not doing any better then Steamer playing more minutes for teams who are as good or better than the Celtics.

Quote from: MBunge on January 18, 2012, 10:27:35 AM

Quote from: kozlodoev on January 18, 2012, 07:47:03 AM

Stiemsma has run out of steam, forgive the pun, after a couple of good games.

I seriously doubt Steamer would solve what's wrong with this team, but let's be honest about things.  Here are Stiemsma's minutes so far this season.

20
16
12
21 (starting and put up 13 pts, 7 rebs, 2 asts and 2 blks)
12
7
3
1
9
1

Again, not to say that Steamer playing more would necessarily fix anything with Boston, but to suggest he's not playing because he's not playing well is BS.  The guy played one of the best games any Celtic big has this season and after one more game was essentially in scrub duty, even though our regular starting center doesn't play over 23 minutes a game and our only other backup 5 has been hurt most of the season.

And again, this isn't to say Stiemsma would the answer to any of Boston's problems, but the reason he's not playing is simply because Doc has decided not to play him and not due to some lack of performance.  There are plenty of young players who are not doing any better then Steamer playing more minutes for teams who are as good or better than the Celtics.

Um, ever considered that Doc has decided not to play him mostly because of lack of performance?