Celtics NET PER Rank by Position Relative to League

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According to 82games.com

thru December 14, 2008

the Celtics had the following overall rank for each position in NET PER

Shooting Guard
1. Miami
2. Boston (Ray Allen, Tony Allen)
3. Lakers
4. Chicago
5. Atlanta
6. Portland

Small Forward
1. Cleveland
2. Portland
3. Boston (Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, Tony Allen, a bit of Brian Scalabrine)
4. Denver
5. Washington
6. Utah

Point Guard
1. New Orleans
2. Denver
3. San Antonio
4. Nets
5. Chicago
6. Boston (Rajon Rondo, Eddie House, Gabe Pruitt) Rajon Rondo is actually rated higher than Derrick Rose, but the other Chicago PG's rate higher than Eddie House & Pruitt

Power Forward
1. Cleveland
2. Dallas
3. Washington
4. Lakers
5. Utah
6. New Orleans
7. Boston (Kevin Garnett, Leon Powe, Brian Scalabrine, some Glen Davis)

Center
1. Lakers
2. Cleveland
3. Orlando
4. Phoenix
5. Toronto
6. Denver
7. Utah
8. Knicks
9. San Antonio
10. Minnesota
11. Clippers
12. Boston (Kendrick Perkins, Glen Davis, Patrick O'Bryant)

The surprising thing is mostly people would probably have said that league wide,
power forward was the Celtics best position, but it turns out to be shooting guard.

The second thing, when you actually look at the individual NET PER's, is that the drop off
after the top 8 players (starters + Tony + Eddie + Leon)
is so great is that if the Celtics can get
decent improvements over Glen Davis (Mutombo)
and a bench scorer to replace Scalabrine or Pruitt;
then they would be exponentially more difficult to deal with.
Right now, the weak links are Davis, Scalabrine and Gabe Pruitt;
who are the 9th, 10th and 11th men,
but who are a marathon behind the 8th man (Leon Powe).