Despite Kornet’s success, Mazzulla opted to dig deeper into his bench late against a Wizards team that liked to play small. Xavier Tillman has been out of Boston’s rotation for weeks but saw nine second half minutes in the win, including playing center for the majority of crunch time.

The Celtics survived one of their worst shooting performances of the season to beat the Wizards 108-96 in the NBA Cup.

Could you feel that?” Mazzulla said. "It wasn't really about energizing the team, it was really about manipulating the environme

The Celtics were flat for a lot of Friday's game against the Wizards, so C's coach Joe Mazzulla tried to inject some life into them.