Benchmarked

For a small ball approach, you could play Gabe, Eddie, Ray, Leon and Baby. You give up size, but at least you have some D and more than one shooter.

Tony Allen can’t be the primary scorer or ball handler on the 2nd unit. It just doesn’t work. He’s better off spelling Ray or Paul with the 1st unit.

yes, the second unit needs a quarterback.

As you’ve mentioned, you could give gabe more minutes. Problem is neither Doc nor Danny will head into the playoffs with a youngster as the #2.

So your choices are cassell or marbury or a creative third option.

Related, the second unit has no captain. Last year Posey relieved some of he quarterback issues by being the leader of the second unit.

Rudderless ship is the best way to describe the second unit!

I just looked at his fg. He’s shooting 32. Funny. The Globe and the Herald begin every article about him by saying—everyone knows he can shoot!

Yeah, you wouldn’t think that additional minutes would increase his accuracy.

Ironically, Rondo, who can’t shoot, is shooting 52%, which I believe is fourth best among all guards in the NBA…

I have two words for you:

Gabe Pruitt

He can shoot, pass and defend. He’s raw, but what do you expect for the NBA minimum?

Tony Allen isn’t the problem. He handles the ball because otherwise House overdribbles looking for his own shot.

It wouldn’t solve the QB problem, but the two kids need their turn too.

Everyone belittles Michael Smith. But he was given a chance on a West Coast Trip during his rookie year, and the Cs won 3/4.

Why?

He was the only one on the floor who cared about a game in the middle of winter.

You’d get more mileage out of the kids if you brought them up sometime soon…

It has become fashionable to bash the bench, but it was our 70 million dollar first unit that lost the Knicks game. The second unit extended the lead in the second quarter; the first unit collapsed in the fourth quarter.

The first unit also lost the Laker game, blowing a lead in the 4th quarter.

Just released by the Heat.

Doc should mix it up more, imo.
Was there ever a Championship team in the history of the NBA that relied on a complete bench unit for 8-10 minutes per game? Does anybody think we´ll see a complete bench unit in the playoffs, or even a 10-man-rotation?

You can´t look at the second unit and say “Oh, we could use Marbury, cause we have noone on the bench who can create his own shot”, since a whole bench unit on the floor is already a failure to begin with.

Doc is not a bad coach. He won CoY and a Championship. He is a very likeable guy and I give him credit for how he handled a completely new team with three superstars. The Celtics teams he coached before last season were awful, and the record wasn´t really his fault. I could bet everything I have that he knows a million times more about basketball than I do.
But his rotations flat out suck, imo.

Casperian, Let us know how you really feel! lol However, I tend to agree with you that this experiment has not succeeded. Hopefully a solution will be found before the playoffs. I was thinking the same….that complete units are not usually exchanged, people are rested in alternating stages leaving some starters on the floor. I do believe that Doc knows what he is doing and that he wants to win even more than I do. If this experiment doesn’t click soon, I feel sure that Doc will change it.