The Celtics continued their dominant start to the season on Thursday, blasting the Wizards 122-102 with a huge second half and a balanced attack.
Here are the takeaways.
1. The Wizards hung tough for much of the first half, bolstered in the first quarter in particular by Jordan Poole, who started 5-for-6 from behind the arc and scored 17 points in the first 12 minutes.
But even in the early going as Poole rained 3-pointers, Thursday’s game never really felt questionable. There might not be a team in recent memory as capable as the Celtics of creating a good look on every single possession with either ball movement or obviously superior talent and mismatches, and the Wizards started to lose their grip in the second quarter as Jayson Tatum pulled the Celtics ahead by 10 at halftime.