Through the first week of training camp, the buzz around the second unit — primarily Payton Pritchard, Sam Hauser, Oshae Brissett, and Luke Kornet — has been their developing chemistry with each other. Not that they’ve been able to seamlessly mix in with the starters; they’re a unit.
With the Celtics’ top-6 sitting out against the Knicks on the second night of a back-to-back, head coach Joe Mazzulla started that foursome plus Dalano Banton at Madison Square Garden.
On paper, they’re a collection of complementing players: Pritchard as a savvy pick-and-roll point guard with range, Hauser as the floor spacing wing, Kornet as the rim-running big, and Brissett and Banton as athletic slashers and drivers.