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Time to ditch the big man lineup after another poor start

The dual big lineup with Daniel Theis and Tristan Thompson experiment needs to be put to rest, at least until they play a team big enough to match up with. The Celtics continue to struggle out the gate with this lineup and its time to switch it up. If and more likely when Brad switches it up, I would expect it to be Teague, Smart, Brown, Tatum, Thompson (and Theis on TT rest days), and here's why;

Daniel Theis to start this season has not looked very good. Brad clearly put an emphasis on him being a spot up shooter at the four position but he has only connected on 14% of his threes while attempting more than 2 per game.