JD Davison, Jordan Walsh, Torrey Craig, and Sam Hauser all checked into Sunday’s Game 1 with just over a minute to play. After putting the opener out of reach, the Boston Celtics were clearing their bench en route to a 1-0 series lead over the Orlando Magic.
The path to that moment wasn’t always a pretty one, though.
Boston actually found themselves down one point to the Orlando Magic at halftime, after the visitors erased a 12-point deficit.
How’d they do it?
Well, they turned up the physicality on the Celtics.
Orlando started crashing the offensive glass to create second chances for themselves, while making Boston work for every opportunity on the offensive end.