What happened
With Jayson Tatum and Paul George starting on the wing, Sam Hauser’s role is murky, but he opened Boston’s first preseason game off the bench and played 21 minutes.
The piece says Hauser still matters because his spacing remains valuable, and Boston used him in different ways in that preseason outing.
LINEUP CONTEXT
Boston’s deeper wing group could keep Hauser in a bench-spacing role unless the staff leans more heavily on his shooting in Tatum-plus-bench lineups. The regular-season rotation is still not settled.
Automated brief based on the linked report. Lineup context is analysis; official starting-five labels come separately from our game data provider.
Original reporting: What is Sam Hauser’s role? — Yahoo Sports ↗