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Celtics guard Anfernee Simons (4) shoots against Memphis Grizzlies forward Santi Aldama during the first half of an NBA game Wednesday in Boston. (AP Photo\/Charles Krupa)<\/p>\nSo this is how the Celtics look when their three championship-winning headliners all are clicking.<\/p>\n
Jaylen Brown, Derrick White and Payton Pritchard scored 19 or more points in the same game for the first time this season Wednesday night at TD Garden. The result: a 131-95 dismantling of the visiting Grizzlies that improved Boston\u2019s record to 6-7.<\/p>\n
The Celtics got 19 points on 8-of-16 shooting from Brown, 20 on 6-of-11 from White and 24 on 8-of-15 from Pritchard, who put together their most complete performance of the season against a nosediving Memphis team that was playing without mercurial star point guard Ja Morant and starting center Zach Edey.<\/p>\n
The trio of returning regulars combined to shoot 10-for-21 from 3-point range, lifting a revamped offense that\u2019s struggled to replicate the shooting efficiency of previous Celtics teams.<\/p>\n
Brown is well above his typical pace in most scoring and shooting metrics through 13 games, but White and Prichard have been far less consistent as shooters \u2014 especially from 3-point range, where they entered Wednesday with a combined success rate of 26.9%. As a team, Boston came in shooting 44.4% overall (24th in the NBA) and 32.8% from deep (27th).<\/p>\n
The Celtics made 50.5% of their field goals and a season-best 41.2% of their threes against the Grizzlies. This season, Joe Mazzulla\u2019s squad is 4-0 when it shoots better than 36% from beyond the arc and 2-7 when it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe made shots,\u201d Mazzulla said. \u201c\u2026 I thought we\u2019ve been getting really good looks and playing good offense, just not seeing the result. So I think the process has been there. Tonight, you kind of saw the result of that. But we\u2019ve got to keep that up every night, and we\u2019ve got to continue to execute to find good looks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boston controlled play throughout the first quarter, building an early 12-point lead while shooting better than 50% from the field and 46% from three. White spearheaded that hot start with 10 first-quarter points on five shots \u2014 encouraging efficiency from a player who\u2019d shot above 40% in just two games this season.<\/p>\n
Memphis rallied late in the first and trailed by five midway through the second, but Boston dominated the final five minutes before halftime, sprinting into the break with a 23-7 run. Brown scored 12 of those points, and Pritchard capped the onslaught with a high-speed coast-to-coast layup that made it 67-46 with 1.2 seconds left in the half.<\/p>\n
Another first-half standout: backup big man Luka Garza, who went 2-for-3 from 3-point range and grabbed three offensive rebounds. He finished with 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting and seven boards to reach double figures for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the last three games, he\u2019s played some inspired basketball,\u201d Mazzulla said. \u201cHe has a special gift to be able to play just harder than everybody else on the floor. He\u2019s got to keep that up for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Memphis never threatened after halftime. The Celtics built a 31-point third-quarter lead and waltzed to a 36-point victory, consistently generating and capitalizing on open looks from the perimeter. The 131 points were Boston\u2019s second-highest total of the season, and its 34 assists were a new season high.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only way you can get assists is if you make a basket,\u201d Mazzulla said. \u201cWe were able to make some baskets. I think we\u2019ve been playing really good basketball even when we haven\u2019t been getting the shooting percentages in that, so tonight, our assists were up because we finally made some. We\u2019ve just got to keep playing the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pritchard was the last Boston starter to be lifted, subbing out for two-way player Ron Harper Jr. with 4:16 remaining. The Celtics outscored the Grizzlies by 42 points across Pritchard\u2019s 30 minutes, the best mark of his career.<\/p>\n
Celtics guard Anfernee Simons (4) shoots against Memphis Grizzlies forward Santi Aldama during the first half of an NBA game Wednesday in Boston. (AP Photo\/Charles Krupa)<\/p>\n
It was a resurgent outing from the reigning NBA Sixth Man of the Year, who was held to five points in each of Boston\u2019s previous two games. Brown and White also bounced back from the late-game miscues that doomed the Celtics in a 102-100 loss at Philadelphia 24 hours earlier (the former was beaten for a go-ahead putback; the latter rushed a near-halfcourt heave in the final seconds)<\/p>\n
\u201cEnding this little stretch with a bounce-back win is important for our team,\u201d Mazzulla said.<\/p>\n
The Celtics, who have played three back-to-backs and have not had more than one day off between games since the season began, now will be off until Sunday, when the Los Angeles Clippers visit TD Garden for a 3:30 p.m. tipoff.<\/p>\n
Other observations:<\/p>\n
\u2014 Jordan Walsh, moved into the starting lineup for the first time this season after impressing off the bench in the previous four games, played competitive defense against the much larger Jaren Jackson Jr., forcing the Grizzlies big man into two offensive fouls in the second quarter. Walsh did encounter some of his own fouling issues, which limited him to 18 minutes, but Mazzulla said he liked his physicality.<\/p>\n
Josh Minott, whom Walsh replaced in the top unit, played 22 minutes off the bench and finished with nine points, five rebounds and one block.<\/p>\n
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Payton Pritchard (11) of the Boston Celtics passes away from Jock Landale (31) and Olivier-Maxence Prosper (18) of the Memphis Grizzlies. (Photo By Matt Stone\/Boston Herald)<\/p>\n
\u2014 Mazzulla went deeper into his bench than he has in most games this season, giving first-half minutes to 12 different players. Hugo Gonzalez saw the least action of those 12, playing eight mostly garbage-time minutes after spraining his ankle one night earlier in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Ex-Grizzlies big man Xavier Tillman was the only Celtics player who did not see action.<\/p>\n
\u2014 White played most of the game with a swollen upper lip after taking a shot to the face during the first quarter. Those types of injuries have been commonplace for the veteran guard, who famously shattered his front teeth on the Garden parquet during Game 5 of the 2024 NBA Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So this is how the Celtics look when their three championship-winning headliners all are clicking. Jaylen Brown, Derrick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,52562,8288,8289,8287,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-407527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-celtics-grizzlies","14":"tag-celtics-highlights","15":"tag-celtics-recap","16":"tag-celtics-score","17":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115541595136186995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}