"En garde", said Mr. Kevin Durant when starting the game against the Los Angeles Lakers (I'm assumiing that's what he said), as if they were on a fencing match.

The Boston Celtics just carried out the momentum of their win against the Sixers right into this one without missing a beat. They just came out firing on all cylinders for the first three quarters it seemed like LA could not stop them. Granted LA also started the game out on fire, as the 1^st quarter was the highest scoring quarter of the game, and there is a fair argument whether there was little defense being played in the first quarter or if it were the case of otherworldly offenses going at it.

In any case, after the first quarter put hopes that this would be one of those historic high scoring games, the Boston Celtics took a commanding lead of the game and gave no chance to the Lakers in Q2 and Q3.

By the 4^th quarter, though, the story was a little different…

LA seemed to have turned one of those keys that great teams like the NBA Warriors seem to do all the time and just said that they were going to make it close by any means necessary. Some may call it the dreaded “4^th quarter comeback, presented by 2k”, by it just wasn’t the case, even though it was a 4^th quarter comeback indeed, it wasn’t enough to pull out a win in the end, and the reality is that you can only hold off a team as good as the Lakers for so long.

The key stat to win for the Celtics was the absolute show their bigs put on the rebounding aspect of the game. After being highly criticized by media pundits, the Celts’ bigs just showed what they are capable of against one of the best teams in the entire league on the glass.

Game 2, @Boston is fast approaching. No time to waste.

These Finals are exciting already, don’t you miss it!