“I don’t think this was a one-off,” Zach Lowe said Wednesday on his Lowe Post podcast. “I don’t think this was a let’s see how this looks. He may end up starting a ton of games. Injuries, nights off, matchups, just being so good that we have to start him. I think this has some legs potentially and the reason I think it has legs because they trotted it out in the first game. They didn’t play great but you could feel the spacing and the impact of a real quick trigger center with Kristaps Porzingis. I think they liked Tatum out, Holiday in with Jaylen Brown on the floor because like the Curry on the bench minutes in Golden State, Tatum on the bench has been a problem now for a lot of years.”
They are going to close games with Jrue Holiday on the floor. I think (bringing him off the bench) has some legs.”
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So this is just complete speculation lmao. Really weird that he is basing this opinion almost entirely off Jrue being the 6th man in a preseason game like a week after he got to the city
Joe before the game: “Don’t look into who is starting and who isn’t “
Zach Lowe: “This isn’t a one off”
I very much doubt it
Zach Lowe was great for a number of years, but just seems to create his own fan fiction storylines/speculation anymore.
eh i doubt it happens, id just like to see one of holiday/white on the court pretty much at all times. however you make that work.
for me i don’t care who starts and who sits or who comes off the bench as long as it contributes to team wins. team success is the only metric i follow. do not care about the other stuff except as it contributes to team success and adjustments are made to make the team better.
i’m also not sure how important starting lineup is given we can swap players in situationally at any time. what matters is that the right players are in the court at the right time, and a predetermined standard like awarding starting positions as a rank assignment, rank achievement, feels a bit dated. i like the mindset that whatever the other team throws at us we have a matchup to come back with…. versatility in the roster can be a big strength. good vibes up and down the roster is essential to competing for a championship.
teams don’t win it all without good vibes all around so all players have to buy into the system. so i’m not sure this starters vs bench mindset builds us that chemistry or works against it. time will tell tho.
No shot. Veteran, NBA champion, one of the best defenders in the league, hasn’t come off the bench in the last 7 seasons and they put him on the bench in favor of Derrick White?
Sorry, I just don’t see it.
I’d prefer Horford come off the bench just because our bench bigs kinda suck and staggering him and KP makes more sense for roster balance. Plus KP won’t play every game, and Horford will start all 15-30 (please not more than this) of those games he misses. If he can’t accept that at age 37 then that’s kind of lame, but I get wanting to play double big.
If KP misses 20 games, and say Horford sits back to backs, that automatically slots White into the starting lineup. As does Brown or Jrue missing any time.
I think it makes the most sense to bring White off the bench and he should still start about half of the games if he’s as available as last year.
It makes much more sense to have white and al trade off coming off the bench, situationally depending if Al is playing. Or just have Al come off the bench
This only makes sense because of Jrue statement to Abby saying he’d be fine coming out of the bench even though the coaching staff didn’t ask him about it. It also makes sense age wise for Jrue to keep a high level for longer.
From a roster perspective though, this is weird. That’d make Brisset and Kornet really important pieces of rotation that I don’t know we can afford to.
We essentially have 6 starters. Al needs/wants a lot of rest and who knows how KP will hold up?
I wouldn’t read too much into it but I have to think that during most matchups, Al and PP are the first ones off the bench.
If we are play a big lineup, I can see both Al and KP starting.
Zach Lowe reporting on the Boston Celtics just is never good since he went mainstream leaving Celticshub. Always has to have some controversial and/or baseless hot take about the Celtics.
This is stupid. We gutted our bench and left us with no flexibility. Trying force a situation where we have a killer 6th man makes no sense.
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Just accept the NBA2K roster moves that Brad made and roll with the top heavy talent of the team. If our starting 5 can’t win the game, then we aren’t winning the game
I’d rather Jrue than Derrick White honestly. But I still think Al should just accept coming off the bench.
There’s also a chance that ego wise it’s better to have Horford start and then have him be okay with not closing games unless we specifically want to go double big
There’s always one dumbass that completely ignores what Coach says
Isn’t it the exact same thing if white comes in for Tatum instead of jrue? Lol his point makes zero sense
Same was reported on the Windhorst podcast.
Mazzulla’s going to sit one of the league’s Top 50 players and the team’s 2B option because he spent the summer preparing a game plan and can’t adjust.
r/zachlowe
Like a lot of things basketball related Zach is wrong. Joe said not to read into the lineups. Jrue is a starter.
I’m gonna be honest, our lineups are so dynamic I think different games are going to have different starters
It doesn’t matter who starts the game but who finishes it
It was weird he came off the bench the first preseason game.
Abby did say Jrue was open to it
I’m kind of in the camp that doesn’t hate if very good players start on the bench so that we always have a good core of guys on the floor at all times. Thabo Sefalosha used to start above James Harden on OKC, when they had Westbrook, Durant, Perk and Ibaka already on the floor. As long as our stars get their minutes, at least during the regular season, I like saving some talent for the second unit.
Lmao I generally don’t mind Zach Lowe, but this is stupid. We just traded two starter level players and multiple frp and he’s like “yea jrue is going to be the 6th man” when Jrue slots perfectly into our starting 5 beside White, Brown, Tatum and Zinger
Lowe does know you can stagger Jrue and Tatums minutes while also starting both right?
If that’s the case, they gave up way too much
If he does, that’s 6MOTY in the bag
I am 100% on board with Al starting. But I think white is the one that needs to come off the bench.
Honestly just going to come down to matchups.
His logic is flawed he can only play when jayson is on the bench if he didn’t start. Couldn’t they both start and just stagger their breaks?