Soxbadger

Im not sure he threw a strike to Bautista, so I dont know how they were screaming hit me. Im pretty sure the plan was to try and get Bautista to swing at a bad pitch, or go after Rivera.

lol Lilli And for all the complaints about Edwin, when the Sox got him a lead he held it for them. How many of our sp's have seemingly given up runs right after we score?

You have to bring 2 12 packs, thats how you roll in with tacos.

Zoom dont sell yourself short, its far more likely that you start as shooting guard than the Bulls getting Iggy and Howard.

Like I said last night, I got Dallas in 6. Miami's offense looked brutal and their defense was made a lot better by the Bulls fundamental shooting problem. Dallas can shoot and I really see no reason to believe that Miami is going to play a drastically different style of offense against Dallas. Dallas will watch the Bulls tape and may even go into zone to further force Miami to shoot jump shots. There is significantly less margin of error for Dallas though, if Dirk is cold they really will be in trouble. But right now Dirk may be playing the best basketball of his career, so im going to go with the hot hand from Germany.

Bulls didnt lose the series because Rose shot 81% from the ft line. Even if that is 4% below his season average, the Bulls did not lose because Rose shot 80% from fts. Sure the ones late in the game sting more, but Rose has been a pretty solid ft shooter and some just arent going to go in. But yeah if you want to blame Rose for not being perfect from the line, but those are just unreasonable expectations.

Im gonna go out on a limb and say Dirk being Dirk wins in 6. While Dallas is not the man to man defenders the Bulls are, I believe they will some times switch up to zone and force Miami to hit jump shots. Tyson Chandler and Dirk as your back line will help to force the game away from the basket.

Its not all on Rose, he has a coach who put him in these situations. You are allowed to call plays from the bench and try and force other guys to get involved. All things considered, Rose played well. If he played great they probably win at least 1 more game. But this was his first rodeo, hell have more.

Miami is being supremely overrated right now. They may beat the Mavs, but Mavs have been ridiculously efficient on offense. Unlike the Bulls they have a big man who can shoot a three and that will drag a defender away from the basket. Its hard to compare because the East and West were just such different finals, the real problem Miami will have is that they really did not shoot well. Unless they get drastically more fts, if they shoot this bad they probably wont beat Dallas scoring 80 points.

Ah well, rough series.

Run down the clock and shoot a prayer for a three. WEEEE

Kurt Thomas spot up jumper on this possession is what Id go with.

He stole Korver's skills

Have to love when a player like Brewer steps up and earns playing time in big games.

Ronnie Brewer wants to be in your dreams

Potentially only 6 more possessions for both teams, make it count bastards

Time to lock it down, long possessions ending with good looks.

Who cares the fans job is to be completely biased and try and influence refs to make bad calls.

Wade is a lot more comfortable with Bogans on him than Brewer, but that 5th on Deng hurt.

Just gotta lock down on defense make them use the entire clock, scratch out some scores on offense and win this game.

Oh Thibs why you didnt try this with Thomas before will boggle the mind

Wade having trouble with Ronnie Brewer = Wade injured.

Think it would have been prudent to have had Deng not on Lebron to get 5, but its over now. And thats why Kurt Thomas should have played more, he can hit a jump shot.

Rose seems to be really focusing on getting more lift on his jump shot.

I wonder if Heat rest Lebron, because hes trying to carry them and im not sure how effective theyd be without him.