I saw this stat on Twitter, so I am not 100% sure it is true, but it sounds accurate. When the starting lineup is healthy, we are 16-6 which over a full year works out to 60 wins.
At 37-20, we are on a 53 win pace.
Danny is going the slow and steady route because it is flat out working.
We have the perfect coach in Brad Stevens with the skill set to teach "kids" how to become top NBA players.
If we were going to go a more traditional route of exchanging pu pu platters for divas (consolidation, moving chips all in), we'd have a different coach.
Perhaps one of the oldest cliches sums up the current situation: If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
Yet, we are lacking a true big. On the other hand, Danny and Brad don't want to upset the current bigs' pace and space apple cart. They don't want to shoot a mosquito with a bazooka gun.
I still think Larry Sanders might be the one to add. He wouldn't cost anything. But perhaps for the same reason we don't have Cousins, the C's are going to pass on Mr. Sanders.
I don't lose any sleep over this.
Danny either adds a big or doesn't. If not, then we go to war with the army we have. Amir seems to have found the fountain of youth, so he might be the added big from within.
Our team is set up to grow, surprise and delight as long as we get a fair shake from the refs.
So why not kick back and enjoy the ride? Wouldn't it be better to try to become the future new Golden State or San Antonio than to change course and attempt to recreate 2007-08 or Miami's recent Big Three?
We are already an established top ten team and knocking on the door or already in the top five.
Granted, it will take a bit more than what we have to seriously contend, at least on paper. Yet, that bit more may simply be a matter of patience rather than forcing the issue. Fireworks can backfire. If some bloggers here ran the team, we would potentially end up stuck with a mess and then prematurely be heading back again to the middle and then bottom of the standings.
Danny doesn't have to do a thing. He just needs to keep breathing. He has set us up into a situation in which it looks impossible to fail. It could take another two or three years to win it all, but Michael Jordan spent a lot of his early career getting knocked around in playoffs.
Don't forget the big picture which includes many personalities and the salary cap. Talent in itself is only one part of the equation.
Topic: Reality Check: With a healthy starting lineup, the Celtics are on a 60 win pace (Read 598 times)