Garnett and Pierce unimpressed with crowd's Game 3 response

The crowd for Game 3 between the Brooklyn Nets and Toronto Raptors didn't exactly live up to expectations on Friday night.

After a raucous Air Canada Centre crowd shook the floor for the series' first two games and Raptors general manager Masai Ujiri decried "F--- Brooklyn," easily-excited Nets forward Kevin Garnett had suggested the Brooklyn crowd would be up for Game 3.

While they awoke late as the game got closer, they were sparse early and quiet through the first half. It left Garnett wanting more for Sunday's Game 4:

They could do better. I was expecting Brooklyn to be real hostile, New York-style. I know what it's like to come here as the opposition, so our crowd could do better, but they were there when we needed them, and we fed off of them.

Forward Paul Pierce wasn't exactly impressed, either:

Well, we know gradually they got into it. Hopefully the next game, it will get a lot better from the start. We want to come out from the jump, from the beginning, and have them in the game. It shouldn't take a big play from us. We want them behind us. It was a great crowd tonight.

It will be interesting to see how the crowd comes out for Game 4 on Sunday night. The Nets now have a 2-1 lead and the fire from earlier Toronto comments may have died down, which could theoretically leave the Barclays Center even more flaccid than it was Friday.