Since becoming the Celtics' head coach in 2022, Joe Mazzulla has become a quotable head coach in the association.

Jayson Tatum missed Game 2 because of a wrist injury that he suffered in Game 1 after a Kentavious Caldwell-Pope foul. Tatum got an X-ray and then sat out the second game. Tatum is the best player on the roster,

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.