What should the starting five look like?

[LatterDayCelticsfan]

How about Pressey, Bradley, Wallace, Olynyk, Faverani?

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I understand the concerns with the spacing, but you still have to put the best talent on the floor.

What if the Celtics had the sort of roster where putting the best talent on the floor results in an under-sized three-guard lineup?

Then you role with it. Small ball's not a bad option, especially with our hole at the 5.

Top-5 probably leaves us without a PG.  Small ball would be tough that way. 

Our best would also be our best passers and read-react guys, so maybe we could be an interesting team...get killed in close games, but a good team to watch anyway.

Pressey is not one of our best talents, though, is he? 

Rondo
Bradley (defense is all-NBA)
Wallace (former All Star)
Sully (pass, shoot, rebound)

Bass probably has among the better all-around games, along with JGreen, but are they our best talents?

Easier to go by position than try to even figure out who the best 5 "talents" on the team are.

Rondo/Pressey
Bradley/
Green
Wallace
Sully (man-up, buddy)

KO and Vitor off the bench with your choice of guard (I actually like Crawford a bit these days, more than the others).  We might need Bogans for shooting?

Best talents might be:

Bradley
Green
Wallace
Sully
KO

an all-Forward lineup, with Bradley the only guard.

Bass would probably come off the bench as 6th man, too.

[jay]

I would go:


Pressey  Crawford
Lee      Bradley
Green    Wallace
Bass     Olynyk   Sullinger
Humphries  Faverani

I think that 2nd unit would be a very good defensive unit with Bradley and Wallace out there and hopefully the two 6-11 guys can protect the rim a little. 

My reason to start Humphries/Lee/Bass would be more to spread the minutes out and keep young bigs out of foul trouble.  After 5-6 minutes, I would start subbing.

This might be your best 6 players and I would try to get any combo of these together as much as possible:

Pressey
Bradley
Wallace
Green
Olynyk
Faverani

[kozlodoev]

I would go:


Pressey  Crawford
Lee      Bradley
Green    Wallace
Bass     Olynyk   Sullinger
Humphries  Faverani

I think that 2nd unit would be a very good defensive unit with Bradley and Wallace out there and hopefully the two 6-11 guys can protect the rim a little. 

My reason to start Humphries/Lee/Bass would be more to spread the minutes out and keep young bigs out of foul trouble.  After 5-6 minutes, I would start subbing.

This might be your best 6 players and I would try to get any combo of these together as much as possible:

Pressey
Bradley
Wallace
Green
Olynyk
Faverani

Crawford and Bradley seem like a good combo off the bench. Crawford has some size to guard SGs, and despite his limitations with the ball can see cutters to the basket well.

Olynyk may play himself out of the rotation pretty quickly. He looked a bit timid yesterday.

[AB_Celtic]

Just based off of last night, I'd say Faverani has the confidence to start and Olynyk clearly does not. That could change, but for the time being I'd start Faverani. Also when the two were on the court together the offense stalled, so I'd bring Olynyk off the bench.

The only obvious starter is Jeff Green. And maybe Sully. I like Wallace starting because of his defense and playmaking. Bradley is a starting SG, so when Rondo comes back he should slide there, but for now we need a better ball-handler in the starting lineup, so I'd go for Crawford.

Crawford-Green-Wallace-Sullinger-Faverani
with Pressey, Bradley, Lee, Bass, and Olynyk getting the majority of the bench minutes.

[D.o.s.]

I understand the concerns with the spacing, but you still have to put the best talent on the floor.

What if the Celtics had the sort of roster where putting the best talent on the floor results in an under-sized three-guard lineup?

Then you role with it. Small ball's not a bad option, especially with our hole at the 5.

Top-5 probably leaves us without a PG.  Small ball would be tough that way. 

Our best would also be our best passers and read-react guys, so maybe we could be an interesting team...get killed in close games, but a good team to watch anyway.

Pressey is not one of our best talents, though, is he? 

Rondo
Bradley (defense is all-NBA)
Wallace (former All Star)
Sully (pass, shoot, rebound)

Bass probably has among the better all-around games, along with JGreen, but are they our best talents?

Easier to go by position than try to even figure out who the best 5 "talents" on the team are.

Rondo/Pressey
Bradley/
Green
Wallace
Sully (man-up, buddy)

KO and Vitor off the bench with your choice of guard (I actually like Crawford a bit these days, more than the others).  We might need Bogans for shooting?

Best talents might be:

Bradley
Green
Wallace
Sully
KO

an all-Forward lineup, with Bradley the only guard.

Bass would probably come off the bench as 6th man, too.

If you wanted to go with small, I'd probably go Crawford, Bradley, Green, Wallace, Humph and hope they can score enough to offset the lack of big man in the middle.*

*If Lee had any semblance of his outside shot left, I'd consider plugging him in here off the bench for Crawford or Bradley. Once upon a time he was a great three point shooter.


Full disclosure: I loved the 7SoL Suns.

[slamtheking]

Just based off of last night, I'd say Faverani has the confidence to start and Olynyk clearly does not. That could change, but for the time being I'd start Faverani. Also when the two were on the court together the offense stalled, so I'd bring Olynyk off the bench.

The only obvious starter is Jeff Green. And maybe Sully. I like Wallace starting because of his defense and playmaking. Bradley is a starting SG, so when Rondo comes back he should slide there, but for now we need a better ball-handler in the starting lineup, so I'd go for Crawford.

Crawford-Green-Wallace-Sullinger-Faverani
with Pressey, Bradley, Lee, Bass, and Olynyk getting the majority of the bench minutes.

a pretty solid assessment.  I'd swap out KO for Hump though based on last night's game and bury Lee on bench if at all possible. 

I'd consider a rotation of:
- Crawford-Green-Wallace-Sullinger-Faverani starting
once in the flow:
- subbing AB for Wallace, slide Green to SF, leave Craw as playmaker
- rotate in Hump for Sully -- Keep a rebounder on the floor at all times
- rotate Bass for Fav, slide Hump to center,
- rotate in Pressey for small minutes for Craw, keep AB out of the PG spot
- rotate Wallace in for Green
- rotate the starters back in as the game/matchups warrant

no specific timing or order to it but that would be the general rotation until things shake out.  KO and Lee are only used when necessary until they show they can contribute.  KO might play better once Rondo comes back but I'm coming around to the thought Lee is a lost cause at this point.

[TheTruthFot18]

Lee, AB, Green, Sully, Fav

Pressey, Brooks/Crawford, Wallace, Bass, KO

[Celtics18]

I think he should stick with the unit that he put out there last night for a little while.  I'm not to keen on seeing him changing the lineups on a nightly basis. 

[LatterDayCelticsfan]

How about a best guy for that particular position approach? e.g Crawford, Bradley, Green, Humphries, Faverani for instance