Couldn’t agree more with Doc, Scal and Gabe should be getting more regular rotation minutes. Both play strong D and both can spread the floor.

Meaningful minutes should equate to increased confidence and consistency for these two. The more they play, the more our opponents will learn to respect their 3pt shooting.

According to Rivers’ bizarre rookie policy, (Pruitt and O’Bryant are essentially rookies) It’s way too early in the season for Pruitt to see meaningful playing time.

We’ve heard these things before from Rivers.

The Tony Allen can replace James Posey experiment is over. Ainge and company blew it.

Doc is an infuriating coach.

doc thinks playing scal more minutes is a good thing. sigh.

 i have no doubt scal is smart and plays good team bb. but on a championship level team a coach should not honestly think such things.

If the team continues on the same path it has been then we might need a new coach. I think Doc is great but lately he has only been making us look bad. First we need to get the bench more involved and with Big Baby, Powe, House, Scalabrine, and Cassell all playing together. If he doesn’t want play rookies that much then there’s nothing can be done he just has a different way of developing young players. Look at Rondo and how great he has became I think the same with Gabe if we give it time.

It’s wise to insert Scal into the regular rotation at this point of the season. Once (and if) things become more stable, he can go back into his role.

I wrote that Doc should do this a couple of days ago in a comment to Steve’s post::
http://www.celticsblog.com/2009/1/5/709217/thanks-for-playing-scal

…is useful in that he’s the only player coming off the bench who will instinctively defend perimeter-oriented PFs out on the perimeter. When Doc plays both Powe and Davis at once, that’s been a problem: both instinctively head toward the paint, and often have to run out to contest the long jumpers fired up by guys like Harrington, Murphy, etc. What I wish is that Doc would manage the rotations a bit differently so that the two play together less frequently — or just make a choice to give one of the two the majority of the minutes.