Weakness Boston Celtics need to fix No. 2) Offensive production off the pine
Over the past several years, one of the most consistent weaknesses found within the rotation for the Boston Celtics has been in their bench unit, specifically when it has come to their offensive production.
Since 2019-20 the C’s bench has ranked 29th and 28th, respectively, in points per game while also finishing off with the 20th and 23rd ranked offensive rating during this time span as well.
While we at HH were rather optimistic about the unit’s chances of becoming a much-improved rotation coming into the year, as they seemingly made quite a number of necessary moves where they finally looked to have a solid grouping of individuals to have coming off the pine, through this first slate of action it appears as though Boston is still rolling out a pedestrian second-team offense.
So far this season the Celtics bench finds itself ranked 26th in points per game, 22nd in field goal percentage (40.2 percent), and dead last in offensive rating.
Having a more efficient and productive bench scoring unit would allow some of the offensive pressures to come off the shoulders of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown and would obviously make the opposing defense’s task much more difficult.
Be it by throwing guys like Payton Pritchard and/ or Aaron Nesmith (seven minutes per game is simply not enough to get him going) more minutes or acquiring someone to help shore up this lackluster aspect of the team’s game (Terrence Ross has always been a favorite trade target of ours) the Boston Celtics must try and find a way they can improve upon their secondary scoring.