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Given the prior situation with Law, and whether he needed more minutes to develop, or needed to develop more in order to earn more minutes, I thought our approach to Teague might be pertinent. Rather than putting down exact numbers for average minutes per game, I chose to provide general strategies for how we play Teague, since the actual minutes that those strategies produce is rather speculative. Feel free to post exact numbers if you like though.

For my own 2 cents, I would only play Teague in games that have already been decided, during the first half of the season or so. After that, if he has shown that he takes care of the ball well, and limits turnovers and bad shots, I would begin trying to incoporate him into a regular role of playing a few minutes a game or so against point guards I thought he would match up favorably against. As Bibby ages, Teagues minutes would increase over the next 3 years.

I'd probably play him in the 2nd quarter for 5 minutes and if he is playing well reward him with some time in the second half as well. Of course if the game is out of hand play him heavily.

That's a good idea, meanwhile, I still see a big problem coming.
It's a contract year for Woodson, so he won't like to play the rookie, and moreover, if the team is not able to build some big leads, allowing to play Teague with some responsibilities, Woodson will let the veterans on the floor as long as the opponent are leading.

I am sure it was a big part in the improvement of the young guys in BOS.
IMO, Teague playing time will depend on what the starting lineup is doing, more than what Woodson would like to do in a ideal case, or other thing.

I hope Teague is a film junkie. If he has a strong work ethic and makes few mistakes Coach Woodson will give him an opportunity. I hope to see him average between 8 an 10mpg by the end of the season.

...at years end 10-12 minute average is my guess.

The worry I have is that Crawford and Teague overlap a ton. Both on paper should fit the Flip Murray scorer off of the bench role but its hard for me to imagine Woodson preferring Teague over Crawford. I thought that Crawford was being brought in as Bibby's replacement and Teague was being Given Flip's role. With Bibby, Crawford, and Joe all healthy its tough to see where Teague's minutes will come from.

If Teague is decent....give him Mo's minutes and play Joe more minutes at the 3.

My hope is that the presence of Crawford will allow for less minutes per game for Joe (maybe 35) and Bibby (maybe 30). Personally, I like to see Teague be ready to handle steady albeit limited minutes. If he's ready then a commitment to get him at least 4 minutes in the 2nd quarter of games would be nice. His role can be expanded as deserved or when favorable match ups exist. If given some steady minutes I think it will be better for the team than be thrust into the top bench scorer role. My big fear is that because Woodson is in a contract year that he'll try to squeeze the absolute most minutes out of his top players without a focus on the big picture. That would likely result in few minutes for the rookie at all which may set his development back. Of course this depends on Teague being ready. If not, then he'll wind up watching and learning.

I'm looking for consistency in providing minutes to Teague. Yeah, he can average 15 minutes/game at the end of the season but if it's because he got 20 minutes here and there and the rest is 3 or 4 minutes with lots of DNP(or 18 seconds cameo)... it doesn't mean anything. I'd rather they give him 5 minutes every game then what Woody was doing to Law and Solo.

He will earn minutes no matter what the plan is going into the season, this guy isn't Acie Law he actually has quite a bit of actual NBA level talent.

Personally I think its kinda unlikely that Bibby, Johnson and Crawford all avoid the injury bug all season and once that door opens to get him extended minutes that it will not be easy to shut the door on him afterwards.