--An already edgy playoff series heated up even more in the first quarter of Game 6 when Kirk Hinrich and Boston guard Rajon Rondo squared off. Hinrich was trying to box out when Rondo threw Hinrich into the scorer's table. Hinrich came back with an angry shove, but that's as far as it went. Rondo was given a flagrant foul, while Hinrich earned a technical.
"It was just a basic scuffle," Hinrich said. "I was just trying to box him out. I guess he thought I was doing too much so he grabbed my arm and threw me away. I went back and pushed him. It was one of those things you get caught up in the moment." --Center Brad Miller has become a late-game focal point of this playoff series. At the end of Game 5 in Boston, he was smacked in the face by Celtics guard Rajon Rondo while trying to score the game-tying lay-up. Dazed and spitting blood from a gash in his lip, Miller missed both free throws with two seconds left. He bounced back to lead a late comeback in Game 6, though. After hitting a clutch three-pointer with 1:06 left, Miller tied the score on a driving lay-up -- no foul this time -- with 29.7 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter. He added another basket and hit 4-of-4 free throws in the overtimes. "I don't know if it was a reaction (to what happened in Game 5), but I think I was just determined," Miller said. "I showed a lot of emotion in this game tonight, trying to will it through. I definitely wanted to get another crack at them in Game 7."
QUOTE TO NOTE: "I feel great. I feel like I could play right now. It's bigger than being tired. That's what wanting to win real bad is all about, just being numb to all those other things." -- Center Joakim Noah after the Bulls survived in triple-overtime to force a Game 7 in Boston on Saturday.
