I think we overrate how much Championship teams rely on "veteran rotation players".
The Lakers had Kuzma and Caruso in their top 8 for minutes, Raptors had Anunoby and Terrence Davis in their top 7,
The Celtics will likely be more than fine with the current bench, and certainly will be fine for most of the regular season. If all of the young guys look bad they can go get someone in the buyout market or in a trade mid-season.
There is no compelling reason to go get someone now unless they are a probable major contributor, and those guys already moved.
Edit- this is to me a better and deeper team than the one that we saw in most of the playoffs (with Hayward out), and it doesn't need to sacrifice flexibility to bring in a new 8th man. We have tons of the kinds of players who on most teams would be clear rotation pieces to see what they have, we have been lucky enough to not need them, but at some point you're ill served not letting the kids play some regular season basketball, and in this year in particular the regular season is not as important, seeding isn't going to matter much.
The Lakers had Kuzma and Caruso in their top 8 for minutes, Raptors had Anunoby and Terrence Davis in their top 7,
The Celtics will likely be more than fine with the current bench, and certainly will be fine for most of the regular season. If all of the young guys look bad they can go get someone in the buyout market or in a trade mid-season.
There is no compelling reason to go get someone now unless they are a probable major contributor, and those guys already moved.
Edit- this is to me a better and deeper team than the one that we saw in most of the playoffs (with Hayward out), and it doesn't need to sacrifice flexibility to bring in a new 8th man. We have tons of the kinds of players who on most teams would be clear rotation pieces to see what they have, we have been lucky enough to not need them, but at some point you're ill served not letting the kids play some regular season basketball, and in this year in particular the regular season is not as important, seeding isn't going to matter much.
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