With a 132-125 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Thursday night, the Boston Celtics wrapped up their unofficial first half of the 2020-21 season, and what a mixed bag of emotions those first 36 games were.

Any semblance of productivity from the bench came and went from varying sources game to game. Robert Williams III, in particular, has accelerated his development in these last four games, producing 10.8 points on 73.9 percent shooting to go with 8.0 rebounds, 2.8 assists, and 2.0 blocks in just 21.8 minutes a night, becoming a player Brad Stevens can turn to with greater regularity.

Each of Boston’s last four games wound up within five points or less with under five minutes -the definition of crunch time.