[1) It is Sunday, June 3. Nobody tell the Marlins. After a record-setting month for wins, maybe they'll think it's still May. 2) Join us on Twitter @gregcote]
Note to readers: I find myself in Las Vegas, much to my boss' chagrin (ill-timed but long-planned), so timely updates on Game 3 would be sketchy. Up to y'all to carry the Comments section without me. Full Vegas report upon my prompt return.
G3: CELTICS 101, HEAT 91: BOSTON RESPONDS AFTER CRUSHING DEFEAT? Expected. Still don't see Miami in much peril. Original post: It's a psychological study for Boston now as the Celtics tonight play the first of two straight at home in this NBA Eastern Conference 
finals, with Miami leading the best-of-seven series 2-0. Maybe Wednesday's 115-111 OT loss in Miami inspired the Celtics to believe they can play with and even beat the Heat. But maybe losing despite being in control for much of the game and despite 44 points from Rajon Rondo will tell the aging, deflated Celtics that even their best isn't good enough. This is the game Boston is "supposed" to win if it is to avoid a sweep -- just like Oklahoma City did at home vs. San Antonio in the West last night. But can the Celtics do the same? I'm not so sure. There could be some tired legs on the floor tonight after so many 40-minutes-plus performances in Game 2, and the Heat surely have the edge over the old Leprechauns in anything related to fatigue/endurance. This hasn't been as chippy as the Pacers series (yet, at least), but the underlying bad blood is evident. Paul Pierce and LeBron James have had some interesting, testy exchanges, and of course Kevin Garnett leads the NBA in annoying. No matter tonight's result, the climb for Boston is steep. Historically teams that are 2-0 in a best-of-seven have won the series 94.3 percent of the time (232-14), and that includes a perfect 7-0 record in playoff advances when the Heat are 2-0.
DUELING STRANGE LOCAL TWEETERS: Two of the people I follow on Twitter are local hip-hop legend Luther Campbell (@unclelukereal1) and ex-Dolphin Ricky Williams (@rickywilliams), and the reason is that 
Luke (pictured left) tends to offer little doses of splendid paranoia and outrage, while Ricky (right) leans to nuggets of ethereal New Age philosophy. At times you're not sure what the hell either is talking about, which is half the fun. Here are perfectly representative, verbatim Tweets from each within minutes of each other yesterday: From Luke: 'Welcome to Miami Home of Bad politics Homes getting shot up Sobe don't want blacks Ppl eating faces off Dolphins Striptease weather girl' And from Ricky: 'How many conclusions (about whats right, wrong, good or bad) r u coming 2 2 try n control everything n everybody so you never get 2 b free?' Love these guys!
Click back. Will be updating/adding to this latest blogpost...
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Posted by: JR | June 01, 2012 at 04:34 PM
Heat are playing a lot quicker without Bosh.
Posted by: I am stoned | June 01, 2012 at 04:35 PM
Well , if the Celtics do win then Big Baby doesn't have to commit Harakiri..
its friday !!...is time to let loose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aBE1CcTH1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-kVFfKezVo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1VxJAZ73sM
Posted by: FZB | June 01, 2012 at 04:41 PM
Those tweets are just sad and incoherent to me.
No redeeming value whatsoever.
Posted by: Big Baby | June 01, 2012 at 04:46 PM
Many would argue that LeBron is more annoying but I digress...
Posted by: Big Baby | June 01, 2012 at 04:49 PM
Big Baby...Stop hatin on the MVP.
I read the tweets and now I have a headache, thanks Cote you douche.
Posted by: FZB | June 01, 2012 at 04:55 PM
I am stoned,
I hope you are not insinuating that the Heat are better off without Bosh.
Go Marlins and Go Heat !
Posted by: FZB | June 01, 2012 at 04:57 PM
i wish i were stoned. maybe i could comprehend what those tweets were about.
but i digress, go heat. time to win in beantown. the heat is on!
Posted by: Cool Heat Man | June 01, 2012 at 06:01 PM
That's deep ricky... cote gets blunt back from ricky... then he writes this post
Heat by 4 tonight
Posted by: Dashi | June 01, 2012 at 06:31 PM
Ok I will stop hating on Erkel.
Those glasses make him look like a dork.
Posted by: Big Baby | June 01, 2012 at 06:41 PM
What about Ricky's picture
He always looks "suspect"?
Like he plays for Spo's team and I'm not talking about the heat. Well maybe Bosh. They play 1 on 1 on the off-season, I heard.
Posted by: Dashi | June 01, 2012 at 06:51 PM
Cote is going to end up like Zack Galafanaikas (sp?).
Posted by: Big Baby | June 01, 2012 at 07:20 PM
Super Bowl
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/swimming-pools-public-toilet-bowls-many-survey-193700688.html
Posted by: Nik Shmenga | June 01, 2012 at 07:54 PM
I dedicate this to Luther's & Ricky's giant brain(s?) to explain....
http://now.msn.com/now/0601-breivik-gets-friends
Posted by: dukey | June 01, 2012 at 08:43 PM
Yup, the more I mull it over the more I think if only mass murderers had playmates they would be less likely to take fellow inmates hostage.
Posted by: dukey | June 01, 2012 at 08:50 PM
I agree with dukey. It just makes a heck of alot of just plain ole horse sense. Think about it won't you...
Posted by: Tom Servo | June 01, 2012 at 08:55 PM
Chalmers is the absolute worst PG in the history of the NBA...
Posted by: FZB | June 01, 2012 at 09:26 PM
The ref's are affecting the outcome of the game. To many no calls and bad calls. Spo stand up for ur team.
Posted by: Dashi | June 01, 2012 at 10:02 PM
Brilliant day for Miami sports. The Heat are being demolished, the Marlins have already hit mid-June form against the Phillies, and the Hurricanes... When UM isn't even good at baseball anymore, it may just be time to shut down the entire athletic department and just not play sports at all. I'm sure Donna Shalala will just give Jim Morris a 25-year extension, though. Screw it. Celtics in 6, Marlins will equal last year's dismal June, and the Hurricanes will never be good again. In any sport. At least we have the Dudphins, though. Great. Groovy. Screw it.
Posted by: Sigh | June 01, 2012 at 10:50 PM
pretty much...
Posted by: dukey | June 01, 2012 at 10:54 PM
this blog sucks.
Posted by: Clayton Bigsbee | June 02, 2012 at 03:50 AM
pretty much. Maybe I'll go to the word salad tweeters world of the high, inarticulate and mundane dueling Luther & Ricky. On second thought I'd rather take my medicine like the Desert Fox...
Posted by: r. duke | June 02, 2012 at 05:12 AM
I believe the teacher of this class is one handsome woman(?).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMwkHqejj4o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqGegSpMVOA&feature=related
Luther & Ricky take my hand and come on across to me...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMwkHqejj4o
Posted by: r. duke | June 02, 2012 at 07:13 AM
Whoops too many overtimes and broken sleep is my excuse for above mess but it's still WAY more coherent than Luther. Ricky was far more coherent than Luther for f***sake.
Posted by: r. duke | June 02, 2012 at 07:17 AM
Oh yeah much, much better. This is the point I was trying to make the whole time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQHfY7NHMeY
Posted by: r. duke | June 02, 2012 at 07:19 AM
Private Maggio was an A-1 A**HOLE that deserved to be beat to death. Goodnight and goodluck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeuOu6NG_hQ
Posted by: r. duke | June 02, 2012 at 08:54 AM
Wade is as consistent as a paper cup in the wind. One game superstar one game has been. Time to bring back the Salmon pants pretty boy.
BTW - Lebron is da man.
Posted by: Mercury Morris | June 02, 2012 at 09:00 AM
Way to change your tune. You claimed the Celtics would be devastated and unable to recover from Game 2. Now, suddenly, you expected them to win Game 3?
At least the blowhards in the Boston media stick to a theme.
Posted by: Chuck | June 02, 2012 at 09:27 AM
"Supposed" to win. Nice rationalization. The Cheat are a horrible non-foul call (Fade's clubbing of Rondo) away from being down 2-1. This isn't a championship team. This is a joke. These aren't basketball players. They're athletes who happen to make their living on a basketball court. Basketball players make free throws. This "team" winning a championship -- this year or ever -- would be the biggest disgrace in the history of the sport.
Posted by: Hubie | June 02, 2012 at 09:38 AM
Chuck = Hubie = Fed Up = a sports fan who shouldn't be following sports.
Posted by: Suicide hotline | June 02, 2012 at 09:42 AM
Screw Jeff Van Gundy. I like his perspective and I usually give him the benefit of the doubt but if LeBron James had flailed like Paul Pierce did on that one blocking foul JVG would have talked about it all game long. Instead he says, 'that's a foul'.
No, that's a flop by Paul Pierce and a great play. JVG's crusade against flopping is a crusade against certain players flopping. Stars get preferential treatment but they have to go after it, Pierce was smart to get his and JVG is a dick to only care when the Heat do it.
Still no series going on in the East or West, hopefully the Heat can remedy that by winning one on the other team's court Sunday.
Posted by: I am Kazaam | June 02, 2012 at 11:12 AM
You could have read this one with braille. Even OC could have called this one without referring to his Ouija Board. The Celts opened around 4 and were almost at 8 at game time. All the smart money went on the Celts big when it opened and the line just kept moving up. Hasslem and Anthony need to show up big tomorrow.
Posted by: Mr. Woodcock | June 02, 2012 at 01:39 PM
Kazaam Van Gundy doesn't like the Heat because Riley fired his brother.
Get used to it.
Posted by: Big Baby | June 02, 2012 at 02:33 PM
Ricky & Luther, I've given it quite abit of thought and subsequently cum to this conclusion. Face Eater's need to be executed on the spot. No psychiatric evals, trial by jury or shot(no pun intended) at redemption. Right straight back to the "Absolute Bottomless Pit of the Universal Vortex," from which they mysteriously sprang. Your thoughts gentlemen? Ricky do you know if it is correct to capitalize "Absolute Bottomless Pit of the Universal Vortex?" By the way how do you gentlemen like the Dolphins chances of achieving a Wild Card spot this season? Thanks...
Posted by: r. duke | June 02, 2012 at 02:39 PM
Hey I bet if Riley wants to hire JVG next year. JVG won't say no.
U imagine that press conference, It'll be hilarious. I would ask him to come out with a LBJ head band on. Have Zo introduce him to the media.
I guarantee u 1 thing JVG will cry to the ref's and the media for his players not like someone else I know.
Posted by: Dashi | June 02, 2012 at 04:06 PM
dukey. was that face eater related to douchie? We must ask the tweeters...
Posted by: Tweety B. | June 02, 2012 at 05:00 PM
How funny is it Kazaam that after you made fun of them Keyon Dooling and Marquis Daniels played well.
No series going on the East or West?
Nonsense it's game on for both.
Posted by: Big Baby | June 02, 2012 at 06:05 PM
Rondo looks like an Alien.
Posted by: Mercury Morris | June 02, 2012 at 08:08 PM
No he's way better looking than me.
Chicks dig him I think.
Posted by: E.T. | June 02, 2012 at 09:58 PM
"But maybe losing despite being in control for much of the game and despite 44 points from Rajon Rondo will tell the aging, deflated Celtics that even their best isn't good enough."
Typical Loser Miami Mentality. Maybe when it's 2-2 that will tell the Heat that they will fold like they always do.
Posted by: Greg Doh | June 03, 2012 at 10:11 AM
Either everyone is out of town or this Blog is dying a slow death...
Posted by: Dr. Kevorkian | June 03, 2012 at 11:10 AM
Something along these lines would make nice Heat logo.
http://www.sott.net/image/image/s2/50405/full/meteorREX2603_468x551.jpg
Posted by: r. duke | June 06, 2012 at 08:18 PM