The Celtics continued to roll Friday, demolishing the Pistons 129-102 in Detroit to open a six-game road trip.
Here are the takeaways.
1. The Celtics were without Jayson Tatum, Jrue Holiday, and Al Horford, which might not have mattered against a fair number of NBA teams (the starting lineup of Payton Pritchard, Jaylen Brown, Derrick White, Kristaps Porzingis and Xavier Tillman has a pretty absurd amount of talent given how much star power the Celtics were without), and it certainly didn’t matter against the Pistons, whose 12-58 record is nearly an inverse of the 56-14 Celtics.