Mazzulla went with his usual starters, but mixed and matched throughout the entire first half searching for some rhythm of both ends of the floor. The starters came out uneven offensively, and the bench was much of the same outside of Payton Pritchard until halftime.

At least one player on the Celtics suffered a minor injury in each of the team’s three playoff games against the Magic so far. As Souichi Terada of MassLive writes, in Game 1 it was Jayson Tatum who suffered a bone bruise in his right wrist that is impacting his availability in the series.