The most productive playoff performance of Payton Pritchard’s career helped spark the Celtics in their Game 3 win.

Jalen Brunson lost sight of Pritchard after a double-screen from Jayson Tatum and Porzingis, leaving the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year wide open for his first make late in the first quarter. But overall, Pritchard had a suboptimal start to the game, missing three of his first four shots.

On the road, in a game the Celtics needed badly, Pritchard delivered in the type of position he had wanted for so long.