One other meaningless recreation, one other win for the Boston Celtics. For the second straight recreation, the bench unit performed all the fourth quarter. This time round, moderately than lose the lead, they prolonged it.
Payton Pritchard, Oshae Brissett, and Xavier Tillman led the best way as Boston took down the Portland Path Blazers 124-107.
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1. Porzingis tap-out → Vacation three
Kristaps Porzingis had a few these passes in opposition to the Sacramento Kings. He did it once more on Sunday evening.
An ideal mixture of nice ball motion and a enjoyable go from Porzingis.
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2. Jaden Springer minutes
Joe Mazzulla threw Jaden Springer for the ultimate 38 seconds of the primary quarter. That was the one enjoying time he received in opposition to the Path Blazers.
His first motion of the sport? Diving on the ground for a unfastened ball.
After the quarter got here to an in depth, Mazzulla pulled Springer to the aspect and dapped him up.
“Simply giving him the chance,” Mazzulla stated. “So, we have been double massive, however we went for the two-for-one, and we might have closed it out. We closed it out 6-0, and people 4 seconds have been tremendous vital. I can’t keep in mind what occurred as to why they ended up- Oh, we received fouled, so that they received the final shot. And like I stated earlier than, these seconds are tremendous vital.
“So, any probability you will get to place a man in to let him understand how vital each single possession is, that’s type of what I used to be explaining to him. So, we closed out that two-for-one state of affairs 6-0, and I believed that type of helped us.”
Each second issues. Particularly to Mazzulla.
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3. Mazzulla cooks
My dangerous, Joe.
