Posted September 9th, 2009 by mvn
Tags: Basketball, Boston Celtics

Who Will Make the Boston Celtics’ Active Roster?

While we’re thinking deep thoughts about the deep roster, the next
question would seem to be who gets roster spots 10-12? If you’re name
isn’t Sheed, Baby, S’quisy, or E.House, you got somethin’ to prove.
What can we expect?

Lester Hudson. Out. NBDL.

Danny Ainge
has said it over and over and over. We don’t need another point guard.
We got Lemon Squisy, Eddie, and even Tony Allen. I might also throw in
Ray Allen at the point down the stretch of close games, with this lineup.(By the way, I talk a lot about the KG and the Four Guns lineup, and the obvious precedent was game four of the 2008 NBA Finals. But I just found a post that reminded me that Doc used it on the road against San Antonio
in the spring of 2008. That’s another reason there was no panic in game
4. The C’s had already come back from a 20+ deficit on the road against
a real defense). So with all these gents in front of him, Lester the
Molester won’t be up in the bigs come 10/27.

JR Giddens. Out. NBDL.

I like this kid. But as I said earlier,
the longer you watch the KG-Era Celtics, the more you become convinced
that there are Doc Rivers guys and non-Doc Rivers guys. Bill Walker is
a Doc Rivers kind of player. JR Giddens? probably not.

That was easy.

Now for the hard part.

Left
on the roster we’ve got Brian Scalabrine, Billy Walker, Tony Allen, and
Shelden Williams. Keeping both Shelden and Scals active seems
redundant, barring injuries, and let’s assume, for the sake of
argument, everyone is healthy. Doc knows that he can inactivate Scals
at anytime, and won’t get any push back. Still, Doc wants Shelden to
earn the spot. So training camp and the exhibition games will be
interesting. I’m going with Shelden active, Scals inactive, just
because inactivating Scals will cause fewer issues.

That brings
us to Sky v. TA. Again, keeping them both active seems redundant. So it
will be one or the other. The obvious choice should be Sky Walker. TA
has had his chance. Not so with Billy Boy. Moreover, TA is largely the
same player as Marquis Daniels. While Bill Walker is more of a power 3
and less of a swingman. Edge goes to Sky, and I say Danny keeps trying
to deal TA as camp wears on.

So we’ve got Lester Hudson, JR
Giddens, and either Brian Scalabrine or TA being inactivated for the
regular season opener, assuming no injuries to anyone else. Who gets
the final spot on the active roster?

If I have to choose between
Scals and TA, I’m gonna give the 12th spot to Scals as a lifetime
achievement award. There is talk on some message boards that TA will
get cut outright before 10/27. Given the number of injuries from last
year and the desire to better regulate the starters’ minutes at the 2-3
positions, I just don’t see Tony Allen getting cut from the roster.
Traded for money or a second rounder, perhaps. Cut outright–no.

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