The Boston Celtics have played around with their starting lineup throughout the preseason and at times haven’t played their top-six players in games.

The presumed starting lineup features a two guard set with only one center featuring Jrue Holiday, Derrick White, Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, and Kristaps Porzingis.

The other starting lineup is a double-big set with the one guard: White, Brown, Tatum, Al Horford, Porzingis. The debate with this lineup is if White or Holiday come off the bench.

In Boston’s last preseason game against the New York Knicks, the Celtics started small and had Horford come in off the bench. It seemed to work well, and to be honest, Al looked great in doing so.

During postgame, Tatum explained how their lineups are going to take sacrifice while also mentioning that Al (or anybody) shouldn’t be perceived in any way if he’s coming off the bench that night.

“Any given night, somebody might come off the bench, somebody might not finish. It’s on all of us to understand it’s for the betterment of the team. We have to buy into that.”

“Like tonight, with Al coming off the bench. I have the utmost respect for Al. Al can come off the bench at this stage in his career and nobody should have anything to say about the guy coming off the bench or if Joe takes you out the game or you don’t finish.. everyone needs to have that ‘team first’ mindset to accomplish what we’re trying to do.”

As Tatum said, it could be someone different coming off the bench every night for the Celtics this season.

No matter what the Celtics do, there is no wrong way of doing this.

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