3 takeaways from the Boston Celtics’ 2022 Preseason

The defending Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics are back, but not without pillars of serious doubt and concern as to how they will perform. This three-month offseason has been trying for everyone in the organization from ownership to the fans.

How do you navigate two key rotational pieces rehabbing from surgery and injury respectively?  On top of those dynamics, a scandal broke out that removes Ime Udoka from his coaching pedestal and possibly the league as we know it.

Celtics lead assistant Joe Mazzulla got promoted to serve as interim head coach and is tasked with getting the locker room to buy in and improve on where they left off as a collective to reach the mountaintop of Banner 18.

It can be tough for some viewers to judge and properly evaluate preseason basketball as no champion is crowned coming out of training camp. Today, the focus will be on some of the initial positive aspects of C’s basketball we saw and some of the negatives or points of concern.

The most intriguing aspect entering training camp was how the roster was going to shake out with two spots open for the taking and glaring needs with two injuries in the frontcourt. The Boston Celtics signed seven players to training camp-related deals. Bruno Caboclo and Denzel Valentine were cut before preseason play.

The five players that laced up to compete for roster spots 14 and 15 on the green squad were Luka Saminic, Jake Layman, Brodric Thomas, Justin Jackson, and Noah Vonleh. Also, there was a pathway for two-way contracts like Mfiondu Kabengele and JD Davison to compete for a standard roster deal conversion.

Now, that we had a lay of the land of the preseason, here are three main takeaways from the Boston Celtics 2022 Preseason games.