prefered lineups

[Berry, Mark S]

I'm leaning toward this lineup also. I know Wally doesn't like coming
off the bench, but I keep coming back to that as the best way to balance
everything. I'd bring Wally and Tony Allen in as the 2/3 subs with
Delonte backing up Telfair at PG. Up front, I'd have Big Al as my
primary big off the bench in a three-man rotation. Gerald Green and Theo
Ratliff would be the small-minutes guys for now.

This doesn't allow much time for Rondo, but something has to give. Like
I said ... I'll be surprised if this is the roster when the season
starts.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On
Behalf Of Steve Ouellette
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 2:21 PM
To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List
Cc: Mark Piotrowski
Subject: Re: prefered lineups

I think I would go with C:

Telfair
West
Pierce
Gomes
Perkins

Unless Big Al can beat out Gomes (I hope he can) on merit in training
camp. 

If the starting lineup includes Wally and Pierce, both of whom are
really small forwards, I'm worried that the defense will never be up to
par. I think Delonte is our best guard; he's a little small for the 2,
but I think he can do better defensively againt the league's shooting
guards than Wally can.

Steve O 

--- Mark Piotrowski <markp at pop3.coe.ufl.edu> wrote: 
> Assuming -- which i did in my last post -- that we stay with the 15 
> guys we have and that Allen Iverson isn't walking through that door 
> (is that comment the best contribution of Pitino duirng his tenure?), 
> what do people think should be our lineups?
> 
> Im sort of torn between 2 options:
> 
> Lineup A
> ----------
> West
> Szczerbiak
> Pierce
> Jefferson
> Perkins
> 
> with a 2nd unit of:
> 
> Telfair
> Allen
> Green
> Gomes
> Ratliff
> 
> This gives us the most convential offensive firepower in the 1st 
> unit, and has a fast, running 2nd unit.
> 
> 
> Lineup B
> ----------
> Telfair
> West
> Pierce
> Jefferson
> Perkins
> 
> Telfair/West/Rondo
> Szczerbiak
> Green or Allen
> Gomes
> Jefferson/Perkins
> 
> this is a bit trickier, but I like the starting backcourt of Telfair 
> and West b/c i think it would encourage a lot more ball movement to 
> ahve them plaing together (even more than we saw when Wally first 
> came over from MIN).  Wally could come in for Telfair like Davis used 
> to and West could move to the 1;  Gomes could come in for either 
> Jefferson or Perk with the remaining guy playing the 5.
> 
> I'm leaning toward B -- but like others am terrified on what Rivers 
> will come up with as "C".
> 
> (the other) mark
> 
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