What's our actual depth look like right now, assuming health?
Starters:
Smart
Jaylen
Tatum
Al
Timelord
Playoff rotation:
White
Grant
Brogdon
Deep rotation:
Pritchard
Kornet
Hauser
...Griffin?
(all others have been garbage-time-only)
So, with 10 or 11 legit NBA players on the roster, are we actually using that depth to load-manage our health-risk players (Al, Timelord, Brogdon, perhaps Smart) better than other teams? If I were to sort our roster by total 2022-23 minutes played, and sum up the minutes played of #s 8-11 on that list, how does that compare to other contenders?
BOS (Hauser, Kornet, Pritchard, Griffin): 1596
GSW (Lamb, Kuminga, Moody, Jerome): 2239
MIL (Connaughton, Nwora, Beauchamp, Matthews): 1958
DEN (Braun, Green, Cancar, Jordan): 1791
MEM (Clarke, JJJ, Bane, LaRavia): 2322
BRK (Watanabe, Sumner, Thomas, Warren): 1706
...ok, so those are just the ones I looked up, but from a quick glance it seems that the Celtics are using their "deep depth" way less than other contenders. You might point out that ranked #12 by minutes for BOS right now is Robert Williams, and he will be shooting up the minutes rankings, but has been protected from minutes thus far this season. And, sure, but similar things have happened up and down the roster at most NBA teams, so we can't go cherry-picking. Either way, while our #s 1-7 might get more of a relative break now that Time Lord is back, it doesn't change the fact that we've ridden our top 7 like rented mules thus far this season, by comparison to the rest of the league.
Gotta say, I went into this expecting the opposite, that we were able to better rely on our depth and protect our starters. Maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way?