Power Rankings
Overall rank: 20th
Tier: Playoff Hopefuls
Projected Seeding: 10th in East
Boston is a trendy pick to make the playoffs this season, given their success after the trade deadline last year, where they acquired PG Isaiah Thomas from Phoenix. Thomas turned the Celtics’ middling season around, willing them into the playoffs, where they were swept at the hands of the mighty Cleveland Cavaliers. And although they did also add a couple nice pieces like SF/PF Perry Jones and PF Amir Johnson this summer, I just don’t see the talent here. The backcourt is overcrowded after the beyond questionable use of the #16 pick in the draft on PG Terry Rozier, who will be thrown on top of the heaping pile of Celtic guards that can do almost everything… besides shoot! There’s talent and upside (as well as approximately 3,500 future first-rounders) on this young, somewhat confusing, Boston roster, but with no clear source of offense other than from Thomas, it would be ill-advised for me to put the Celtics in the playoffs this year over other deserving teams.
Overall rank: 20th
Tier: Playoff Hopefuls
Projected Seeding: 10th in East
Boston is a trendy pick to make the playoffs this season, given their success after the trade deadline last year, where they acquired PG Isaiah Thomas from Phoenix. Thomas turned the Celtics’ middling season around, willing them into the playoffs, where they were swept at the hands of the mighty Cleveland Cavaliers. And although they did also add a couple nice pieces like SF/PF Perry Jones and PF Amir Johnson this summer, I just don’t see the talent here. The backcourt is overcrowded after the beyond questionable use of the #16 pick in the draft on PG Terry Rozier, who will be thrown on top of the heaping pile of Celtic guards that can do almost everything… besides shoot! There’s talent and upside (as well as approximately 3,500 future first-rounders) on this young, somewhat confusing, Boston roster, but with no clear source of offense other than from Thomas, it would be ill-advised for me to put the Celtics in the playoffs this year over other deserving teams.