Jayson Tatum avoided injury Sunday during his tumble on the TD Garden parquet.

Mazzulla went with his usual starters, but mixed and matched throughout the entire first half searching for some rhythm of both ends of the floor. The starters came out uneven offensively, and the bench was much of the same outside of Payton Pritchard until halftime.

We wanted to show that we can withstand whatever punch that they have so, we just turned up the defense,' said Holiday.