The new year has come and gone, and with it, most of us have made a bunch of resolutions very few of us will actually keep. But on the other side of the same coin, many of us also have regrets lingering from what we did last year, and in the eyes of Bleacher Report’s Grant Hughes, the Boston Celtics are potentially going to be no strangers to such a perspective.
In a recent article breaking down what every ball club in the NBA will regret most from 2023, Hughes pinpoints a specific area the team’s front office may not have paid enough attention to this past offseason, leaving the Celtics’ rotations thinner than a true contender would normally prefer.
Still, Hughes is cautious in his assessment of the team, noting that we “need to be careful discussing regrets for a team as good as the Boston Celtics.”
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“Any changes to the recent past might result in a different present, and this top-flight contender shouldn’t want anything different than what it has right now,” he clarifies.
“That said, a lack of wing depth behind Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown looks like it could be an issue, relatively speaking. Sam Hauser is a capable seventh man whose elite 3-point shooting and better-than-you-thought defense work well during the regular season.”
“But is he up to the task in the playoffs, when matchups get tougher and opponents are even more likely to pick on weak(er) links?”
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“The other options, Oshae Brissett and Dalano Banton, barely play,” notes Hughes. “They don’t figure to see upticks in minutes when the games matter more.”
“The minimum-signing market is always a crap shoot, but the Celtics would be in a better spot if they’d grabbed Derrick Jones Jr., Malik Beasley or Lonnie Walker IV on the cheap.”
Of course, one has to convince those players that the money, playing time, or opportunity is worth more than they would get elsewhere. But we are inclined to agree that the team could use a bit more reliable depth on the wing to have their best possible odds of winning a title.
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