Interesting TC for the Celtics. Overall i'd give it a B-
the big men:
Thomas lost inside and defense, gained pot
Duncan lost outside, won inside and handling
Booth lost rebounding and gained pot
Gasol is history
Stromile won rebounds lost pot
Strong as expected won pot (and improved big time, believe me, but not enough to get a ratings gain)
Evan Lo won outside and lost inside and will have a hard time cracking the rotation
backcourt:
Lenard lost defense but stayed the same otherwise
Jefferson is a mystery gaining on inside, handling and pot
Ginobili lost defense but gained both scoring ratings and pot
Tower won outside, lost pot
Billups lost inside, handling and defense
Alan Reed is notw an A handling PG
Otto Perry will give Reed a run for backup PG improving outside, handling and rebounding
Escamilla, Deandre, Shubert who cares now, they are looooongterm projects
one last thought:
because a guy lost or won a rating can mean he went from 75 defense to 74 or vice versa (or he could have went from 84 to 65). Billups for example improved 3 ratings last TC without a change to his stats (stayed at 48%, 8reb, 3to and 1.25pps, just took a little more shots), so i'm not really worried he lost exactly those 3 categories now
So don't take these ratings too seriously now, let them perform on the court first ...