NBA 10-11

[InvincibleCakeEater]

LeBron schooled Rose in every way tonight.

[2nd Timer]

LeBron schooled Rose in every way tonight.

Well, LeBron is every bit as athletic and 6'8 and better.

It was odd watching him guard Rose. The Bulls have to exploit that somehow.

[thrill]

LeBron schooled Rose in every way tonight.

Well, LeBron is every bit as athletic and 6'8 and better so...

Yeah that's kinda the point to the whole "LeBron" thing.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

LeBron schooled Rose in every way tonight.

Well, LeBron is every bit as athletic and 6'8 and better.

It was odd watching him guard Rose. The Bulls have to exploit that somehow.

What can they do? LeBron completely shuts Rose down. The Bulls don't know how to play without everything being funneled through Rose.

[2nd Timer]

Just a bunch of [expletive]. Bosh and LeBron made more free throws tonight than the Bulls attempted. I think I saw LeBron travel about 7 times including a nice sequence of jump stop, pumpfake, shift pivot foot then jumper.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Just a bunch of [expletive]. Bosh and LeBron made more free throws tonight than the Bulls attempted. I think I saw LeBron travel about 7 times including a nice sequence of jump stop, pumpfake, shift pivot foot then jumper.

lol

They're getting flat out outplayed.

And get used to it. This is the worst team Miami can assemble with the Big 3. They're only going to get better.

[2nd Timer]

I don't see them getting much better. The cap flexibility isn't there and will get progressively worse with escalating contracts and the new CBA and no trade worthy assets and Mike [expletive] Miller. It's a lot of roster spots to fill with little money. The Big 3 and past their prime ring chasers formula will have to suffice.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

I don't see them getting much better. The cap flexibility isn't there and will get progressively worse with escalating contracts and the new CBA and no trade worthy assets and Mike [expletive] Miller. It's a lot of roster spots to fill with little money. The Big 3 and past their prime ring chasers formula will have to suffice.

If that's what you want to believe.

[Maclowery]

I think I've officially spent all the emotion I can into these playoffs. The Indiana and Atlanta series were both way, way more trying than a 62-win team should have had. This Miami series has just been brutal to watch as a Bulls fan. We have to root for this badly stunted offense, hope for Rose to get hot, etc. Most of our Bulls fans' attentions is on our awesome defense. Except, crap, we're playing against a team with two legitimate MVP candidates, plus this obnoxious stilt-man power forward that's suddenly playing his best games of his life.

All the regular season awards were definitely deserved; Rose held the team together, Thibodeau constructed a brutal defense, at the severe cost of offense.

I will always celebrate this team as having given me tons of entertainment in the regular season of 2010-11. I very much hope we reshape, now that we have space, options, and money. This team will not ever get past the East without a legitimate scoring threat beyond Rose. Every single damned NBA follower sees it. I hope Paxson makes it right.

ps: Screw Carlos Boozer. For real. He had a nice stats game tonight, but if you watched his defense, he blew his adjustments almost every damned play Miami managed to get past our first guy (ie, Deng on James or Bogans/Brewer on Wade. Boozer either adjusted too late, or just on his ass and then yelled a lot. I am sorry he can't jump, like, at all, anymore. He has about a 6 inch vertical now. And yet we owe him another, what, 70 million bucks for the next four years?

Lame.

[lukethedrifter]

So how did the game get to overtime if the Bulls were so outplayed? I had to quit listening to Hubie Brown on the radio in the 2nd quarter, I believe.