<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">WALTHAM -- Doc Rivers draws up plays on erasable boards. Unless some of the Celtics' younger players assert themselves in the ongoing competition for playing time, those erasable boards also will be useful when figuring out the rotation. Or is that rotations? Based on what Rivers has said throughout much of training camp and repeated again yesterday, there will not be a set rotation this season, just as there was not one last season. According to Rivers, too many young players leave him with the only option being many options. "I'm not worried about a rotation," said Rivers. "There's going to be guys who play and there's going to be guys who aren't [playing]. That might change night to night. We're not that type of a team [that can handle a rotation]. How can you have a rotation when you have eight guys who are the same age and haven't even proven themselves? That's the point I'm trying to make."</div> Source
Total moron. "I'm a kindergarten teacher, and everyone needs a chance." This isn't little league, who's good and who's not? Those guys in the first group, they go into the rotation.
I agree, I think you at least have to have an initial rotation. Yes, there can be room for changes if a guy just wow's with his play, but you can't just decide to go random (obviosuly Pierce is set) every game based on who was most impressive in the last practice or whatever.
I think it is hard for Doc to come right off the bat and say "Hey, here is our rotation, and these are the same guys that will play day in and day out." This team has so many ifs and so many inexperienced players you cant really tell how everyone is going to perform until you play a bunch of games into the season, and even after that it might be kind of iffy with the young guys you will ware down as the season progresses. I think Doc is actually in a good position of having a bunch of young talented players he can just throw right into the mix, so I don't blame him for not having a set rotation at this point.
