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The Celtics learned plenty of hard lessons last year against the Heat. If only they remembered them on Wednesday night.

COMMENTARY

Joe Mazzulla and the Celtics didn’t need to reinvent the wheel on Wednesday night.

Each new season charts its own unique path. There are twists and turns aplenty.

But trying to snuff out Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat is akin to traversing the Bourne Bridge on Memorial Day Weekend.

Try as you might, you know what the outcome is going to be.

And it’s going to be absolutely miserable.

The hard lessons that Boston learned during last spring’s seven-game rock fight against Miami held significant weight once again in this rematch.