Boston guard Rajon Rondo puts up a shot past Orlando guard Mickael Pietrus Tuesday during Game 2 of the NBA Eastern Conference finals The Celtics took a 2-0 lead with a 95-92 victory.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Boston Celtics could have used a break during the season with all their injuries. Now the last thing they want is time off.

Showing no signs of age, the revived Celtics took a commanding lead in the Eastern Conference finals with a 95-92 victory over the Orlando Magic in Game 2 on Tuesday night.

Paul Pierce scored 28 points, and Rajon Rondo had 25 as Boston bullied and bruised its way to a 2-0 series lead on the road against a Magic team that had won 14 straight until this series.

Now they'll have to wait until Saturday for Game 3 in Boston.

"I wish we could take them to Alcatraz for four days and be on the island all by ourselves," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said about his team. "That's not going to happen. Going home, it's great in some ways. In a lot of ways, but in other ways, it's tough. Everywhere they go, they're going to hear how great they are.

"We haven't done anything — you need four wins; we have two."

After being hampered by injuries for much of the season, often looking slow and worn down, the Celtics are just two wins away from their second NBA finals appearance in three seasons.

Rasheed Wallace (35), Kevin Garnett (34), Ray Allen (34) and Pierce (32) are back to their winning ways. The Celtics have won five straight for the first time since they rolled off 11 in a row before Christmas.

"I think we are becoming the team that started the season," Rivers said. "The team that started the season was pretty good."

Maybe even good enough to take down the defending conference champion Magic.

Dwight Howard had 30 points, and Vince Carter and J.J. Redick scored 16 apiece for the Magic, who overcame an 11-point deficit to take a brief lead in the fourth quarter. But they couldn't hold it.

"I won't stop believing," Howard said. "And I won't let my teammates stop believing."