According to Bleacher Report’s Greg Swartz, the Boston Celtics bench is still too young heading into the 2021-22 season…especially if Al Horford ends up starting over Robert Williams.
While that is most likely not going to happen, the critique of the Cs second unit not being proven enough for this team to be considered anything but a low-seeded postseason possibility is a fair one.
Swartz believes the team’s best avenue for turning things around will be the as-of-yet used traded player exceptions from the separate deals that sent Evan Fournier (sign-and-trade to NYK) and Tristan Thompson (in the Kris Dunn trade) out of Beantown.