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No, just no.
If the Bulls make the playoffs there is a good chance the series can be pushed to 7 games. Not a lot of people know that the Bulls played nearly a month without Joakim Noah, Derrick Rose, and Luol Deng. The Bulls should be treated as a 4th 5th seed rather than an 8th seed because thats where they were prior to the injuries. D-Rose is gonna explode in the playoffs like he did last year.
P.S Bulls are 2-2 against the Cavs this year.
No, just no.
Pass me the dutch
The Bulls have this thing against defending champs.... No one thought they could sweep the defending champs Heat in 07 or push the defending champs celtics to 7 games.... I gotta feeling this series is gonna be a of a series.
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Got that feeling about these Bulls just the same.
Being the defending champs of the Central division is not the same as being the defending champs of the NBA. I don't think Stern will let this series go that far because he wants Lebron to take it easy in the first round. Btw, the Cavs are not the defending champs of the NBA.
Bulls are very overrated. Crying shame that the East has such ty teams in the playoffs.
Chicago might be tough. They're a pretty good defensive team, Rose is a huge match-up problem for Mo Williams and they'll be hyped for this series because they don't like the Cavaliers very much. Plus they're playing well. Wouldn't shock me to see the Bulls get a couple of games in this series.
I always hear about all this help David Stern is supposed to give the Cavaliers, yet I haven't seen much in the way of results out of it. Maybe Herr Stern should step his game up.I don't think Stern will let this series go that far because he wants Lebron to take it easy in the first round.
I hope Noah can get to dance on the Cavs homecourt after a game 7 win by the bulls.
It's not like he didn't try in the Orlando series
Everytime the Magic started to build a good lead, Stern would send Lebron to the FT line every time
If the Bulls beat the Cavs it will be the biggest chokejob in NBA history, but it won't happen.
Bulls in 6
Bulls does'nt have a player than can outplay Lebron
Bulls are not deeper than the Cavs
Bulls loss some key players this year
Cavs frontcourt will take a dump on Brad Miller and pals
Series is not going past 5 games. But I do expect each and every game to be compe ive.
I can see round 1 going 6 out of shear arrogance on the Cavs' part. Rest of the ECP should go rather smoothly, loosing maybe 1 other game. Finals is a tossup. I think Dallas and maybe LA beating the Cavs, should they make it, but I don't see anyone else in the West as Legit.
Yeah, damn those refs for calling actual fouls.
I guess if Stern really wanted the Cavaliers to win he would have instructed the officials to call a moving screen on Dewey Howard every once in a while. I notice they started making those calls in the Finals against the Lakers, though...
Don't get it twisted. LeBron may get superstar calls. But David Stern, the league's marketing arm, the national media- they all HATE HATE HATE the fact that LeBron is in Cleveland. If they could sabatoge the Cavaliers' le chances in order to get LBJ to leave for a bigger market, they'd do it in a heartbeat, even if it meant blatantly stealing a playoff series from them- which they may very well try to do against Chicago.
I'm not sure why you're laughing. LeBron sustains more contact on a nightly basis than any other player in the league. Honestly, if he got every call he deserved he'd shoot 25-30 free throws per game. But that wouldn't be fair.
Moving Lebron to a bigger market will give him or the league a small boost but its negligible. Superstar players like Lebron are going to get recognized wherever they play.
You really believe what you said? The Cavaliers more than doubled its value the past 4 years. Like Chicago in the 80's, Lebron can and has the marketing power to establish Cleveland as one of the leagues most profitable franchise (already is btw). NBA capitalizes on markets like Boston, LA and New York, sure but I never buy the idea of not putting a marketable player in those locations would spell "lower profits" for the league, I think stern would rather establish other ailing franchise than boost the same market. An small example would be last years Cavs and Magic ECF match where it garnered high marks in TV ratings. Game 4 alone had 10.1 million viewers, much more than any single Lakers-Magic game series.
In theory, basketball fans roots for the players not the jerseys they wear. Cleveland has been on spotlight for the past 7 years while the Knicks has been stinkin it up in the same period. I find it hard to believe that more basketball fans wordlwide will start watching Lebron more simply because he plays in New York.
I know it's sounds crazy but you are right. On the other hand if they'd give fts by the book this whole league would be one huge ft fest. So stuff is easy only to stars. That's why it is actually whistled "fair" in this context. Now that the context is ed up.. another story.
So the bulls are Paxon and the cavs are Del Negro?
Cool Story Bro where did I hear this story from? Oh ya I heard it in 07 twice in the Bulls/Heat series and the GSW/Mavericks series, I also heard that story last year in the Celtics/Bulls series.
Are you really comparing all those series? Cleveland is 100 times more stacked than those teams.Cool Story Bro where did I hear this story from? Oh ya I heard it in 07 twice in the Bulls/Heat series and the GSW/Mavericks series, I also heard that story last year in the Celtics/Bulls series.
None of those teams have Lebron James bro.
Bulls lost to the Cel s bro
Heat had a LOT of injuries that year bro
the first round will be like having a bye week in the nfl. they can rest lebron and then win in 7. heck the damn grizzlies would make a 6th seed in the east.
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