Grading the Boston Celtics’ 2019-20 season by player, part 2: the bench

In our second installment grading the seasons of the 2019-20 Boston Celtics, we focus on the veterans coming off of the bench.

With the offseason in full swing for the Boston Celtics, we’re back with our second installment of our three-part series grading the team’s 2019-20 season on a player-by-player basis.

In this edition, we shift our attention to the veterans off of the bench, having a different set of standards than we did for the first installment of the series, on the team’s historically large seven-man rookie class.

With this group of Celtics, we expect more — more scoring, more defensive prowess, and more growth than we did of the rookies.

With five such players on the roster, Boston ought to have had a fairly solid bench, but as evidenced by the team’s early exit from the 2020 NBA Playoffs, there will be a few bad grades to give out.