Recap: Celtics overcome bad first half to lay smackdown on Hawks

The Atlanta Hawks have a 4-20 road record, a statistic I present for obvious reasons. [I’m so sorry.] But seriously: The Celtics are feeling sprightly again after a hard-fought win over Denver and a merciless evisceration of the Knicks, so even with Kyrie Irving, Marcus Smart and Shane Larkin out, making Terry Rozier the only pure point guard on the roster, one wouldn’t be that worried about the Hawks.

THE GAME FLOW

To start the game, the Celtics ran the 1-5 pick and roll that worked like gangbusters so often last year, and it succeeded just as much with Rozier having screens set for him by Aron Baynes. Rozier looked just as comfortable in the starting lineup as he did on Wednesday when he…