celticfan42487 wrote:NuckyPowell wrote:Hal14 wrote:C Sengun
PF Jabari
SF Dillon Brooks
SG Jalen green
PG Vanvleet
Bench: Amen, Eason, Whitmore, Jeff Green, Londale, Mills
From the worst team in the league to be...maybe the 7 seed?
They'll be no walk in the park anymore, and you know Ime will have them competing hard.
Idk honestly that still looks pretty walk in the parky.
That Celtics team got Brad fired so they played all out to prove Ime right and were a .500 team that almost forced the hand on blowing up this core 2 years ago by all star break.
It was only the heavy amount of talent on the team and horrible results tha turned it around as Ime was forced to change his defense and let TimeLord be a free safety instead of a switch everything.
Sengun certainly can't switch everything on defense and that's still some young talent.
Neither VanFleet nor Dillon Brooks were exactly efficiency monsters shooting the basketball last year. I could see this team just unfortunately being shot out of the game by those vets often enough without the bigs to play proper defense regardless of FVV and Brooks being good perimeter defense.
As we've seen when we don't have TimeLord on the floor and our defense falls apart even when Smart won his DPOY... if your bigs aren't great on D your ceiling is dramatically capped on that end no matter how good your guards and wings are on defense.
Eh, I'm not saying they'll be world beaters, just probably not punching bags where you can expect an easy night, and if things hit right for them, I could see them making a push for the playoffs. They're awfully young for the most part, but they did bring in some vets. We'll see.
