As the only true Bulls fan on this here board, I can honestly say this team will get mollywhopped by the Cavs in the next round. They'll be lucky if it goes 6 games. It kills me to say that because on paper, this looks like the best team in the league but in reality, they're just pretenders. Just briefly off the top of my head:
Rose isn't elite: shitty defender, takes way too many jumpers, disgustingly careless with the ball, he not legend
Gasol is soft: literally cannot take advantage of Jared Dudley on the block, looks for fouls every time down, too slow to run the floor, hugely wasteful in the playoffs
Noah is trash: his passing, defending, and rebounding have all declined since last year; he's just sucked the whole year
Thibs is stubborn: god-awful substitution patterns, mismatches all over the floor, continues running high PnR at the 3pt line with Noah/Rose
Bench is underperforming: Mirotic forces everything, Brooks can't get into rhythm, Snell minutes continue to be chopped, Gibson sloppy
Playing Noah and Gasol together has been a major disadvantage in this series and I suspect it will be in the next round too although maybe less so because of needed rim protection.
The one bright spot has been Jimmy Butler but he can't do it all. Rose has shown flashes of greatness but far more often he's been ridiculously lackadaisical on both sides of the floor to the point where I just don't trust him or the team. His "defense" consists of trying to push the ball as fast up the court right after a made basket. He's either lost or lazy and it's not just down to that buzzer beater. He's a major liability defensively and next round it will really come out. Kyrie can honestly average 40 in the series if he gets enough touches.
And the team had 28 turnovers. Yeah, you're gonna say "the Bucks are one of the best defensive teams in the league" but if you watched the game, more often than not, they were just flat out careless. Dead last in the playoffs, averaging 17 TOs per game.
They had 33 fucking field goals and 28 turnovers...in a closeout game. Champions play like that?
These first round games are virtually unwatchable. These horse shit teams in the East are an embarrassment. Watching LeBron bounce around as he dismantles trash like Crowder is terrible television. The worst news in the world for Bulls fans is if Love misses games.
The next round can't come soon enough
Wow, what in the fuck are these two teams doing. What a bunch of bitches. Good job JR Smith, you just bought yourself a tidy little suspension in the next round.
Waiting all these years for the Bulls and Cavs to go at it full strength and you got Rose kinda back and now Love and Smith are probably going to be out. Seriously man, fuck you guys.
yea it was an embarrassing game to watch. it was also a huge blow for the cavs as they lost two starters.
obviously the idiot players are to blame, but the refs didn't help either. if they would have done their job and ejected perkins none of this extra shit would have happened.
re: clippers/spurs
great team effort by the clippers when they needed it. Perhaps the best game they have played all year. I wouldn't count on shooting lights out like that or count on rivers to have a perfect shooting night again though.
re: mavs/rockets
i know the series is over, but i'm rooting for the mavs to win one game. something to redeem themselves from the last tough loss.