The Celtics beat the Raptors 106-104 and win their 9th straight game! This was a game with no Jayson Tatum and we also saw Marcus Smart and Robert Williams go down in the 2nd quarter so we played the large majority of this game without 3 starters. With that being said, our bench showed up and outscored the Raptors bench 62-14. We saw a massive performance from Grant Williams who scored a regular season career high with 25pts and was frankly unstoppable in the second quarter. If it weren't for a pretty bone headed foul with 3.8 seconds left, you very easily could've called this the best game of Grants career. Besides Grant, Malcolm Brogdon and Payton Pritchard were also incredible. Malcolm Brogdon contributed 25pts and 7reb and was solid throughout the game but Payton Pritchard was the one that stepped up and scored all 12 of his points in the 4th quarter and helped solidify this comeback win!

JB did step up with Tatum out and scored 27pts alongside 8reb and 6ast but with Tatum and Smart out, he was also forced to handle the ball a lot more than we are used to seeing and he did struggle at times with 5 turnovers. The other guy that stepped up huge down the stretch was Al Horford. This was not a box score type of night for Horford but he was as good as it gets defensively, especially late in this one forcing 2 jump balls and stealing the ball from Siakam to ice the game. Overall, this is a scrappy win against a hard nosed physical team while we played the majority of the game without 3 starters. It wasn't perfect by any means but those are sometimes the wins you love to see the most.

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