Thursday, April 23, 2009

Boston 107, Chicago 86

For the time being, all is right in the basketball universe.

[recap] [box score]

Boston regained homecourt advantage in its first-round series with Chicago in convincing fashion Thursday night, in a game that wasn't as close as even the 21-point margin indicates. There isn't much to say about a game like this, except that it revealed something we already knew: Boston is a better defensive team than they showed in the first two games of this series, and Chicago isn't. It's really as simple as that.

Quick notes: Rajon Rondo was carried off the floor by Bill Walker after the buzzer, but says it was just that the bottoms of his feet were sore; Brian Scalabrine returned to action; and there was heightened security in Chicago because of a death threat to Tony Allen.

Next game is Sunday at 1 pm Eastern on ABC.

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