Lakers fans a bit more interested in this series than they were in the first round? We're over 300 comments in the first half thread at only the end of the first quarter, so in order to keep the comment threads from getting slow, we're starting a 2nd Quarter thread.
Lakers a little rusty, but showing some good effort on D. Rockets seem to be more in sync, which makes sense, since they've only been off for 3 days. Let's see if the Lakers have gotten most of the rust off with that first quarter.