NBA Finals Game 3 Celtics At Lakers 6/10 9:00 PM ET ABC

[ma11l]

Alright Sam has made his one shot of the night take him out please.  C'MON LEON!

[houlana]

here comes powe.
need his energy

[SaCaCh]

this will be tough 8-5 but its doable, they have hung in there. No reason to complain about any calls because it was a known thing going in. I just laugh.

[Tenacious D]

Sammy giveth and the Sammy taketh away. Blessed be the way of the Sam...all the way to the bench?

[Donoghus]

They've weathered the Lakers good start. Good work.

Now they need to get some things going offensively. Rondo is shooting too much by design of the Lakers. Need to do a better job of getting the best players shots.

Totally agree.  First half of the first quarter was my big concern going into tonight.  Battled through it so far.

[Roy Hobbs]

Worst quarter we've play in weeks, and we're tied. 

All and all, I'll take it.

[SaCaCh]

Eddie House better be dead....

[Chief]

Tied game. I'll take it.

[CelticsPrideKG]

I honestly can't figure out if Garnett receiving the ball outside the post area is by choice or design in this series.  He has certainly seemed to be capable of getting inside when he wants to and in Game 1 he really got going after the dunk inside and I hope we see more of that when he comes back in the 2nd quarter.

[RebusRankin]

20-20 after one. Considering that the FTA are 14-2, 2 of the Big 3 have two fouls, KG and Paul are 0-9 and we're not going to get any calls, I'll take it.

Seriously though, how bad is the reffing? More so how sad is it that we all called it?

[houlana]

happy with the quarter overall, like u said, weatherd the storm, and poor play from our starts.
role players look good, keep it up boys

[ma11l]

Now it's really starting to get annoying.  How can Sam be in there with Rajon instead of Eddie.  That is what Eddie is built for.  You can't tell me that Sam is a better small shooting guard option than Eddie, no way.



Great result on the scoreboard.  Keep it close and feel the nervous energy in that building.  We've got a lot to improve on here and a tie score to work with.  We're lucky the Lakers didn't capitalize more on our lackluster start.  Refs are doing what they thought they would, still no reason for it to effect our game.

[Hrvoje]

lol I can hear JVG and Mark chatting during timeouts

[CelticPride]

14-2 = tie score?

[Donoghus]

Just keep battling.

Can't get much worse than the 1st quarter and we're still in fine shape.