Frank Isola

Maybe you thought it was going to look...

you know, before the start of the season with no Tyrese Halliburton and, of course, Jason Tatum, a big question mark.

I know.

Unless...

Unless they thought, and correctly so, that Boston, because they had already clinched second place in the East, was going to rest all their guys like they did.

And they knew Orlando was going to do everything in their power to try to win the game.

And Orlando had all their guys.

I mean, if Franz Wagner and Ben Carroll played, what was that?

Maybe the first time they've played together this year, it feels like.

So Orlando was doing everything it could to win.

So maybe they were thinking, you know what?

Let's just give our guys...

You know, the last day of the season off, we'll get ready for game one of the playoffs because Orlando's going to beat Boston.

But that was not the case.

I mean, look at the eight guys that played for Boston.

It's incredible that they were able to close out the season with a win.

I think you nailed it.

And they got outscored 42 to 20 in the third quarter of that game.

And again, you know, the Celtics played eight guys.

You would know the three guys that came off the bench for them.