How close is this Celtics team to a Ring

[KG Living Legend]

 This is what if DA was right every single first round pick drill. You can mix and match all you want. Starting from the 2013 Draft.

 2013 Olynyk.

 Options Gianni's, Schroeder, Rudy Gobert

 2014 Smart or

 Randle, Lavine, Payton, Nuric

 17th pick James Young or

 Garry Harris, Rodney Hood, Clint Capella

 2015  Rozier or

 Portis, Hollis Jefferson, Justin Anderson

 2016 Jaylen Brown or

 Jamal Murray, Bender, Dunn, Chriss

 I picked my favorite options, replace if you wish with draftable candidates and comment if they are close to a Ring.

 My squad would go like this.

 Horford_Capella
 Randle_Amir
 Gianni's_Crowder
 Bradley_Jamal Murray
 Thomas_Rozier

 That team would be tough to handle offensively. Second seed this year and might take the Cavs seven games to beat them.

 

[alldaboston]

Honestly, not that much better than this current team, and definitely not winning a ring. I seriously doubt Giannis has even half the progression he has shown in Milwaukee if he's in Boston.

[Csfan1984]

Sticking with non 20 20 foresight I was going

Giannis/Gobert. (Either one but KO and we landed KO. Smh. But KO  isn't that bad)
Smart (& Randle for Rondo via trade but that means no Crowder so it's good we didn't)
Young (huge miss on my part)
Portis ( looks solid)
Brown (still too early to  judge)

[KG Living Legend]

Honestly, not that much better than this current team, and definitely not winning a ring. I seriously doubt Giannis has even half the progression he has shown in Milwaukee if he's in Boston.

 Going to have to disagree with you, The Greek Freak would have got plenty of playing time over here, he's the best small forward we have and he said he'd be by far the most talented player we had that's something that's not 5 foot 8.

[KG Living Legend]

 Another team

 Horford Amir
 Gianni's Portis
 Crowder Hood
 Bradley Murray
 Thomas Lavine

 That's an awesome 10 man lineup. That's better than what we have now no doubt about it. Lavine, Hood, and Murray coming off the bench Is a lot more offense than we currently have on the bench.




 You must admit, that four man guard rotation of Avery, Thomas, Lavine and Murray would be awesome offensively. All those guys can Really shoot the ball.

 Throw in Hood and Crowder and you could spread the floor much much better than right now.

[Surferdad]

If we are going to play this game, go back further and put Duncan on the team.   

[Celtics4ever]

Why would someone put Bender on that list he is woefully unready.

http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4011991/dragan-bender

I am sure many here are thankful, we did not take this dud.

[Moranis]

Why would someone put Bender on that list he is woefully unready.

http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4011991/dragan-bender

I am sure many here are thankful, we did not take this dud.

Everyone knew Bender was a long term project and wouldn't be ready to really compete for at least a couple of seasons.  The fact that he hasn't played much does nothing to that.

[SHAQATTACK]

One

Boogie

Man

[Celtics18]

There is no apostrophe in the name Giannis; it's not "Gianni's."

[PhoSita]

One MVP candidate away, like most teams.

Doing your hypo, the team would have Thomas, AB, Crowder, and Zeller still, but the rest would be:

Giannis, Lavine, Hood, Richardson, Looney, Hernangomez, Bender, Baldwin, Murray, Zubac, McCaw.

Hindsight is fun, huh?

Man thats a ton of draft picks.

[Tr1boy]

Farr

Need a better player than IT and Horford. Thats how far

[trickybilly]

Great OP. TP.

Giannis is the obvious answer. He is young durant with better paint skills.

PS Gianni's comes up with auto correct on iPhone. Don't blame Trump.

[mgent]

About 7 months.

[slamtheking]

This is what if DA was right every single first round pick drill. You can mix and match all you want. Starting from the 2013 Draft.

 2013 Olynyk.

 Options Gianni's, Schroeder, Rudy Gobert

 2014 Smart or

 Randle, Lavine, Payton, Nuric

 17th pick James Young or

 Garry Harris, Rodney Hood, Clint Capella

 2015  Rozier or

 Portis, Hollis Jefferson, Justin Anderson

 2016 Jaylen Brown or

 Jamal Murray, Bender, Dunn, Chriss

 I picked my favorite options, replace if you wish with draftable candidates and comment if they are close to a Ring.

 My squad would go like this.

 Horford_Capella
 Randle_Amir
 Gianni's_Crowder
 Bradley_Jamal Murray
 Thomas_Rozier

 That team would be tough to handle offensively. Second seed this year and might take the Cavs seven games to beat them.

 

revisionist history is always cherrypicking.  would be more 'realistic' if people selected who they wanted in those drafts to see if they did a better job of picking for a better roster.

2013: wanted Dieng over KO.  Dieng's a better defender and rebounder but not the scorer. 
--> a lot of variations in who to pick were posted for that draft.  Giannis was definitely not the consensus pick despite a lot of people clamoring for him now.

2014: Of those available, wanted Smart.  Still think he's a better player than the options listed or anyone taken after him.  Doesn't score like Randle or Lavine but makes a positive impact when he's on the court.  Same can't be said for those other 2.  Nurkic and Payton weren't realistic picks at #6 never mind Lavine.  Will stick with Smart.
At the time, preferred Hood over Young but was ok with Young based on potential.  Would definitely take Hood now.

2015: Wanted Portis over Rozier.  Can see what Danny saw in Rozier now.  Portis isn't getting much burn in Chicago so he seems to have cooled off from his hot rookie start.  Probably still take Portis at this point because we'd have IT and Smart running point and we did draft Jackson this year.

2016: Wanted to trade the pick for a vet but perfectly satisfied with Brown.  I'd keep him.

roster would be:
Johnson/Dieng/Zeller
Horford/Portis
Crowder/JJ/Brown
AB/Hood/Green
IT/Smart/Jackson

Stronger backcourt I think but the front court needs veteran improvement.  I think Dieng and Portis would be better defensively than KO/Zeller but would struggle offensively.