Orlando Magic at Boston Celtics, Game 2, Wednesday, April 23

BOSTON – After a lengthy break following Game 1 on Easter Sunday, the Orlando Magic and Boston Celtics are back on the court Wednesday night to continue their first round, best-of-seven East playoff series.

Boston took a 1-0 series lead with a 17-point victory in Game 1. Back at TD Garden, Game 2 tips off at 7 p.m. ET on TNT and FanDuel Sports Network Florida.

How to Watch Magic at Celtics

Who: No. 7 Orlando Magic at No. 2 Boston Celtics
What: Eastern Conference Playoffs First-Round Game, Game 2
Series: Boston leads, 1-0
When: Wednesday, April 23, 7 p.m. ET
Where: TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts
TV: TNT
Radio: 96.9 The Game (Orlando), Sirius XM
Latest Spread: Boston -10
Over/Under: o/u 197.5
Moneyline: Boston -530

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Game 1 Standouts

Orlando Magic

Paolo Banchero: 36 points, 11 rebounds, 4 assists, 14-7 FGs, 4-7 3PT, 5 TOs
Franz Wagner: 23 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists, 10-24 FGs, 1-6 3PT, 4 TOs

Boston Celtics

Derrick White: 30 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, 10-18 FGs, 7-12 3PT
Payton Pritchard: 19 points, 3 assists, 6-8 FGs, 4-6 3PT
Jayson Tatum: 17 points, 14 rebounds, 8-22 FGs, 1-8 3PT
Jaylen Brown: 16 points, 5 rebounds, 6-14 FGs, 0-2 3PT
Jrue Holiday: 9 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists, 3-4 3PT

Meet the Coaches

Jamahl Mosley, Orlando Magic: 4th season, all with Magic, second career playoff appearance. (144-184, 3-5 in playoffs)

Joe Mazzulla, Boston Celtics: 3rd season, all with Celtics, third career playoff appearance. (182-64, 28-12 in playoffs)

Jrue Holiday's defense vs. Magic's stars

Boston Celtics guard Jrue Holiday (4) controls the ball during the second half against the Orlando Magic at TD Garden. | Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images

Orlando's offense predicates on hunting mismatches for stars Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner. Given Boston's proficiency in switching with multiple high-level defenders, the Celtics are built to withstand — and to some degree mitigate — the advantage the Magic's forward duo usually enjoys.

Jrue Holiday spent seven combined minutes guarding Wagner and Banchero in Game 1. Although he gives up 20 pounds to Wagner, 45 to Banchero and a half-foot of height to both, the 6-time All-Defensive honoree held them to combined 1-7 from the floor and forced three turnovers as the primary defender.

“His individual defense took on the challenge of his matchup, and I thought he did a great job on both ends,” Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said following Game 1. “His defense led to our offense.”

Banchero and Wagner were 23-of-44 for 57 points versus all other matchups.

"[He's] always been disruptive," Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said Monday. "There's a reason why he's always in the conversation for Defensive Player of the Year, because he's just so smart. His knack to guard multiple positions but also to be abel to not guard other positions because of where he's roaming on the floor.

"He just has a knack for those things, and I think the faster we can read those situations the better we'll be."

Limit mistakes

Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown (7) hangs on the rim after dunking the ball during the second half against the Orlando Magic at TD Garden. | Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images

Boston was elite in many statistical categories this season. However, scoring points off turnovers and in fastbreak situations was not among them.

You wouldn't think it after watching Game 1, where the Magic surrendered 24 points off of 15 turnovers and gave up 26 fastbreak points to the usually methodical Celtics.

Orlando knows that isn't a formula for beating this Boston team.

"That's most important, the biggest thing," Kentavious Caldwell-Pope said Tuesday. "If we can limit our turnovers, get more possessions on the offensive end, I think we'll be great."

On average in the regular season, 14.2 percent of Magic possessions ended in a turnover. In Game 1 Sunday, that mark shot up to 17.2 percent.

"I thought they did a good job of playing a full 48 minutes," said Franz Wagner. "They're a really good team, and I think especially in the second half, they just took advantage of a lot of our mistakes."

"Any playoff series, you've got to limit your mistakes defensively and offensively. For us, we've got to try to take out the threes, try to eliminate them from getting as many threes up and just make them uncomfortable, try to make them [take] contested twos, and just try to play 48 minutes physical."

Banchero said his Magic need to be more decisive, and emphasizing pace was a key focus the last couple days at practice as well.

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