Hopefully, they don't pull a '64 Phillies with the 2 seed here.

Hopefully, they don't pull a '64 Phillies with the 2 seed here.

We still play the Nets, Kings, Suns, Hawks, Bulls, Magic so hard to see us losing to those teams actively tanking (could lose to nets) even if we have just our backups and tatum and stevens.

Once we're all done slitting our wrists because of our injury situation, I think I can see some positives. We will get to see how some of the backups do when they know they will have extended minutes and can let the game come to them rather than trying to impress in the 5-10 mins they usually have. Let's see who grabs their opportunity. Like pre-starter Rozier and post-starting Rozier:

Stats (Before and After Starts) Gms MP FG FGA FG% 3P 3PA 3P% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS
Pre Starting Tot 51 1181:33:00 168 431 0.390 77 218 0.353 50 62 0.806 37 186 223 107 53 8 39 71 463
Pre Starting Avg 51 23:10:04 3.3 8.5 0.390 1.5 4.3 0.353 1.0 1.2 0.806 0.7 3.6 4.4 2.1 1.0 0.2 0.8 1.4 9.1

Post Starting Tot 16 454:46:00 82 188 0.436 42 92 0.456 40 55 0.727 13 61 74 60 12 3 20 33 246
Post Starting Avg 16 28:25:22 5.1 11.8 0.436 2.6 5.8 0.456 2.5 3.4 0.727 0.8 3.8 4.6 3.8 0.8 0.2 1.3 2.1 15.4

Post Starting Excl Starts 13 349:45:00 60 138 0.434 32 71 0.450 35 47 0.744 8 42 50 43 8 1 15 30 187
Post Starting Excl Starts Avg 13 26:54:14 4.6 10.6 0.434 2.5 5.5 0.450 2.7 3.6 0.744 0.6 3.2 3.8 3.3 0.6 0.1 1.2 2.3 14.4

You can see the improvement in Terry after he was given his opportunity to start. Even if you take out the 3 games he actually started, his stats in the 13 games after those starts when he came off the bench are considerably higher than his stats in the 51 games before he started.

It was very unlikely that we were going to win the league this year without Hayward anyway. Just like when Hayward went down I was looking forward to seeing Jaylen and Jayson play more minutes, now I'd like to see how Guerschon, Semi and Monroe do when they know they will be assured more playing time. If nothing else we will find out who shouldn't be part of the team going forward.

Our season was lost 5 minutes into our first game!  We've been dreaming ever since, and just got slapped back into reality, losing Smart and Theis in one day.  Put Kyrie on the shelf for the rest of the season and buy out Horford and Hayward.  Get ready for rebuild with Kyrie, Rozier, JBrown, and JTatum.

Well my green glasses was thinking ECF or NBA finals this year WITHOUT Hayward.

Monroe is a very good addition, Morris seems to be healthy and looking good.  Theis will be missed.  Smart is a key, key player.

Rest of season I vote for resting smart (if he can play), Brown, Irving, give healthy guys limited minutes.  Playoffs are what matter not our remaining games, I don't see us dropping from #2 spot

We're out of all star starters. Our only healthy rotation players are 6 rookies, 1 starter

At least credit Forsberg:



@ESPNForsberg
Celtics who are healthy-ish (6 rookies, 1 starter, 0 All-Stars):

Tatum
Baynes
Monroe
Morris
Nader
Ojeleye
Yabusele
Allen
Bird

Okay...so we got

Rozier/Larkin
Nader?/Bird
Tatum/Allen
Morris/Onele
Monroe/Baynes

Nader should never be the first option on any team outside the NCAA