Boston Celtics: 5 moves to improve each position in the starting lineup

After five straight years coming into a season viewed as hopeful title contenders, the Boston Celtics head into 2021-22 with rather unpredictable expectations.

Finishing off their last campaign with a mere .500 record and a Quarterfinals exit, the shamrocks made it a point to take a step back and try and retool the organization with the hope that they can better position themselves for a brighter tomorrow.

Since being placed in his new role as President of Basketball Operations, Brad Stevens has been one of the busiest executives in the association, taking part in transaction after transaction after transaction.

Now, with a little over a month to go between now and the regular season tip-off, the Cs look to put the finishing touches on their rotation to try and make it the best they possibly can.

When it comes to their starting lineup, in all likelihood the unit will look something along the lines of Marcus Smart, Josh Richardson, Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, and Al Horford.

Though a sound squad that could, in fact, produce admirably throughout the year, this Boston Celtics starting five is far from perfect.

In an ideal world, the front office while working alongside head coach Ime Udoka would continue to look into ways they could improve upon nearly every position on the team.

While many have their opinions about how the organization could hypothetically go about upgrading the first five, we at the Houdini believe these forthcoming methods would be their best course of action when it comes to improving the lineup:

Best way Boston Celtics can improve at point guard: Trade for Damian Lillard

It’s quite simple really — the best way to improve their starting point guard slot is to go out and try to acquire arguably the best player at the position today in Damian Lillard.

Now yes, this idea may seem to be a bit challenging to accomplish which, in turn, has many believing it’s a rather improbable scenario, but there are those who are under the impression that such a move may not be too far off from happening, with the folks at Bleacher Report going as far as to predict that the All-Star could make his way to the franchise by Christmas. 

Since this bold forecast was made, we’ve seen many come up with trade packages that could ultimately send the 31-year-old to eastern Massachusetts and, though all his recent remarks certainly have many convinced he’s set on staying put, should things go south early in Rip City it could be only a matter of time before Lillard requests out.

Coming off of a fantastic campaign where he posted unbelievable per-game averages of 28.8 points, 7.5 assists, and 4.2 rebounds on 45 percent shooting from the floor and 39 percent shooting from deep, the guard ultimately nabbed his sixth All-Star selection and fifth All-NBA nod in the process.

His leadership and intense drive would be an absolute blessing to have come aboard while his distribution and otherwordly scoring skills would make it a whole lot easier for the Jays (assuming both of them stay in tow during this hypothetical scenario).

Like we mentioned earlier, what better way is there to improve at the starting point guard position than trading for arguably the best starting point guard in the entire league?