Your starting guard rotation until Rondo comes back

[ScoobyDoo]

For discussion sake, let's assume Rondo doesn't return until January 1st.

What is your guard rotation and why?

Here is mine:

PG - Bradley / Pressey / Crawford
SG - Brooks / Lee / Bogans

Here is why:

1. Bradley isn't the most natural PG in the league, but he's "Ok" on the offensive side of the ball and dominant on the defensive side of the ball in a league dominated by highly talented, offensive PG's.

2. We can move Bradley back to the 2 spot when Rondo comes back. Meanwhile, he's our most experienced PG - he starts

3. I think Paul Pressey has a real chance at becoming a "very" solid, spark plug type back up point in this league for a long, long time. He's small but very physically tough and active. On offense he has the potential to be a real terror off the bench pushing the break and on the drive and dish.

4. Marshon Brooks is the most "typically" built off guard we have on the team in terms of height and weight. Ideally you'd like your off guard to be a very good scorer and also be able to play at least reasonably solid defense. Brooks can score and he will likely get better and better at it as he gets more experience at this level - if he gets the defensive side of the game down and his shot selection improves - he could very well become a 15-20 point per night guy, with decent defense. He and Rondo could be a load on the break. I start brooks at the two.

5. Lee and Bogans are solid back ups. If Lee is not in our long term plans, I certainly wouldn't start him. Even if he "is" in our long term plans, it can't be as a starter, it has to be as a solid veteran back up - which I would be fine with. He can back our starter up and can certainly step in to start for stretches, if guys go down. But he's not a long term starter, so i don't start him now either just because he has more experience.

6. Brooks has the most potential - we need to find out as quickly as possible if he can take the steps he needs to to become a permanent starter in this league. If he ultimately just doesn't get the defensive side of the ball, he slides into Courtney Lee back up level mode and we need to go find a true starting two in the draft or through trades, free agency...

Long term, I wouldn't mind:

Rondo / Pressey / another bigger point
Bradley / Brooks / Lee or a Bogans type.
or
Brooks (if he gets it) / Bradley / Lee or Bogans type

Thoughts?         

[D.o.s.]

Offensively:

PG:Crawford/Pressey
SG:Bradley/Lee/Brooks-Bogans.

Last year provided us with little evidence that Bradley can reliably run the pick and roll as the ball handler, make successful passes into the low-post, consistently hit the open man in a rhythm for him to make his shot, or create his own shot. Those are the things I look for a point guard in roughly the order that I look for them.

Hating on Crawford is justifiable, and he's absolutely not a long term solution (or even a desireable band-aid) at the one, but he's probably our most proven ball-handling guard on offense until Rondo gets back  . I have reservation's about Pressey's game based on the fact that he went undrafted in a very weak draft class, but hope that he can be a solid back up point--I don't think that will be a reliable option on day 1.

Lee and Bradley both had some success as spot up, floor stretching shooters last year. I hope Lee rediscovers his three point shot from his time with Houston and that Avery shows his uptick in offensive production last year was not a fluke.

Defensively:

PG:Bradley/Pressey/Crawford
SG:Lee/Bradley/Bogans/Brooks


This one's much easier. I like the Pit Bulls at the 1 and 2 on the defensive side of the ball. Crawford and Marshon haven't shown that they play defense at all, and Pressey's got a rep for defense, but again, he's a rookie.

[Eric M VAN]

Offensively:

PG:Crawford/Pressey
SG:Bradley/Lee/Brooks-Bogans.

Last year provided us with little evidence that Bradley can reliably run the pick and roll as the ball handler, make successful passes into the low-post, consistently hit the open man in a rhythm for him to make his shot, or create his own shot. Those are the things I look for a point guard in roughly the order that I look for them.

Hating on Crawford is justifiable, and he's absolutely not a long term solution (or even a desireable band-aid) at the one, but he's probably our most proven ball-handling guard on offense until Rondo gets back  . I have reservation's about Pressey's game based on the fact that he went undrafted in a very weak draft class, but hope that he can be a solid back up point--I don't think that will be a reliable option on day 1.

Lee and Bradley both had some success as spot up, floor stretching shooters last year. I hope Lee rediscovers his three point shot from his time with Houston and that Avery shows his uptick in offensive production last year was not a fluke.

Defensively:

PG:Bradley/Pressey/Crawford
SG:Lee/Bradley/Bogans/Brooks


This one's much easier. I like the Pit Bulls at the 1 and 2 on the defensive side of the ball. Crawford and Marshon haven't shown that they play defense at all, and Pressey's got a rep for defense, but again, he's a rookie.

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[Celtics18]

I like the idea of a starting unit of Bradley and Brooks.  Marshon is at least big enough to guard twos, and we know that Avery can hassle opposing point guards.  I think that offensively, Green and Brooks would end up being the primary ball handlers, with Avery as sort of a default, defensive, spot-up-for-threes, and make-cuts-off-the-ball point guard.

So, basically, Brooks as the point guard and Bradley at the two offensively, and the reverse defensively.   

[2short]

Split the pit bulls so there is always a very good man on defender on the court.  Posted on another thread is the lee brooks starting unit, bring Bradley off the bench to dominate a tired starter or second string pg.  he should have an easier time with offensive guard duties on this role