Final: Boston 98- Orlando 97: C's sloppy but young guys power comeback win

The Boston Celtics are taking on the Orlando Magic in the first game of the preseason. Here are a few pregame notes:

- Celtics starters: Marcus Smart, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Juancho Hernangomez, Robert Williams. Don't expect them to play much. 

"We’re trying to look at 24 for the veteran guys for the most part," Ime Udoka said before the game. "A little balance as far as looking at some young guys, but not overdoing it with the veteran guys. So we’re trying to limit them to 24 minutes and we’ll see what that entails whether it’s all in the first half trying to get a lot of minutes early or shut them down after the third quarter. So kind of feel it out but keep them in that range.”

- Injuries: Juwan Howard is out. "He’s getting better, he’s doing contact which he hasn’t done the first few days, so he’s ramping it up a little bit there," Udoka said. "He’s been getting some work in on the off days with the coaches, start building up his contact and he’ll be ready to go later on in the preseason, but it’s looking like it’s heading in that direction and he’s progressing well.

Grant Williams is available. "He (suffered a) foot sprain the other day in the scrimmage," Udoka said. "He got looked at, got checked out and he’s good to go. So we thought initially it might have been a little worse but he got it checked out as a scan. And we’ll monitor him as we go throughout the game but he’s ready to play.”

- Don't read too much into Al Horford not starting. “We kind of know what we have as far as Al," Udoka said. "He’s been great in training camp and great overall. And we want to look at some different combinations. Juancho’s a guy that fits into that role with some of the younger wings we have as well as Grant Williams. So as I mentioned the other day, we’ll tinker with some lineups and look at different combinations.”

- Udoka is a little pumped for his first game as a head coach. "It’s probably the most excited I’ve ever been for a preseason game. I can say that," he said. "The fact that the fans are back is a big thing. Last year in our Brooklyn series was the first time they had fans in the building here and you could feel the excitement. So although it’s just a preseason game for us, we do have new coaching staff, new personnel and we want to kind of get that jelling pretty quickly with only four games to play. So it’s a good vibe, we’re happy to get to playing against someone else, some different coverages than what we’ve been seeing in training camp. So I think the staff and players are both looking forward to it.”

- This is a great opportunity to see where they stand after a week. 

"I think for us, we are implementing some new things that everybody isn’t used to, so we do need that time," Udoka said. "But it’s also good to see us against other coverage, instead of what we are going to do. It’s a little bit of both, practice time is needed to get guys in shape and get them implementing what we want to do, but it’s also good to play against another opponent and a good chance for us to kind of evaluate them against a more hounding coverage, so to speak."

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