Soxbadger

It wont be Noah + Deng (I cant imagine the Magic wanting Deng's salary while hes injured). Id assume that its Noah + a few of Gibson/Asik/Butler + Future rights to Mirotic + draft picks Yeah the Bulls might lose depth, but who cares. you can find semidecent guys off the street.

Thered really be no need to go conservative, the biggest piece that would be given up is Noah and Howard replaces him. Any other players you can find a replacement for and 3-4 Jimmy Butlers doesnt mean a thing (ie the type of talent thats available in the late 1st round).

I dont even want to speculate because Howard + Rose would be fun, it just seemingly wont happen.

I cant imagine Leonard saying in college, even if he does nothing the guy still likely goes in the top 15.

Bulls just need to stick to a game plan for 48 minutes and see what happens. They have to frustrate Miami, they have to be more disciplined than Miami. Nothing happened today, Miami won a game at home, thats what they are supposed to do.

The Heat beat the Bulls 1 time this season, last season is kind of irrelevant as both teams have changed and progressed. If what happened last year is so important than I guess everyone is pretty confident that the Mavs can take the Heat?

That seemed to be Thibs play, spread the floor and have Rose penetrate. I would have had Korver/Rip running stagger screens and see who gets an open shot.

Terrible coaching, your going to need to make a shot anyways so might as well go for the win.

Bulls should go for the win, f*** it.

The ball went out of bounds thats why the whistle blew.

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How can the Bulls completely forget that the game isnt even close to over when that ft is missed. Its so stupid that Noah had to foul out there. I just dont see how you can objectively watch this game and believe that the bulls cant beat the Heat, they may lose, but definitely they could have won.

This game isnt even over and the Bulls cant beat them. Come on now.

What the Heat did last year really doesnt matter. Bulls are playing even @ Miami, thats all you can hope for.

A lot of people are really overreacting about a game @ Miami when the Bulls had the best record in the league.

Its just terrible defense, you have to have a guy rotate over as soon as he gets close to the paint and force a guy like Haslem to take a jump shot. Thats why Thibs called a time out because thats just a fundamental bad defensive play.

Come on Thibs, Hamilton and Korver at the same time is a recipe for disaster on defense.

In terms of whether you want a faced paced game or slow paced. Sure the Bulls have struggled in half court, but speeding it up will get them killed. Thus if you are better than the other team at something you want to keep going to it, even if you are struggling.

Bulls half court has been better than Heats half court, and thats all that really matters.

The Bulls need to be 2 stops better this quarter, the only way to do that is slow it down and grind it out.

A lot of calls waiting to see what happens with the shot.

Id rather have Taj try LBJ than Butler,

When the Bulls slow the down the pace they can stick with Miami.

Thibs has to get control of the team. Just playing helter skelter against the heat is stupid because they have athletes. The Bulls should force them into grind out half court sets.

On a lot of those breaks it really seemed that the Bulls were tired, otherwise in the half court their defense was decent.