The Boston Celtics are, by all accounts, a much better basketball team than they were in the first half of the 2021-22 NBA season, driven to greater consistency and success by the synergy of the team’s starting five players and the tight rotation behind them, with their five-man starting unit now performing at an elite level on both ends of the court.
Turning their NBA-best defense into one of the Association’s best offenses as well by turning their havoc on one end of the court into points on the other with a brisk pace of play and locked-in coverage bolstered by big man Robert Williams III roaming chaos in the frontcourt and veteran guard Marcus Smart’s cobra strikes in the backcourt, Boston’s starters are truly a formidable group.
But just where do they stack up against the other starting fives of the league this season?
