Eastern Conference Playoffs - 2nd Round Discussion Thread

[ojandpizza]

Eastern Conference Playoffs - 2nd Round Discussion Thread

We all know how credible Tim Donaghy is.

How was he winning on like 90% of his bets then if he was wrong about that? Or anything else for that matter.


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[The 24th Letter]

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I haven't seen flow chart LeBron hate on here since 2012....takes me back

[Scott812313]

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I haven't seen flow chart LeBron hate on here since 2012....takes me back

I'm not hating on him, just saying he gets tons of calls. Jordan and Kobe did too. If you don't worship LeBron and say he's the best ever, you're a *****.

[The 24th Letter]

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I'm not hating on him, just saying he gets tons of calls. Jordan and Kobe did too. If you don't worship LeBron and say he's the best ever, you're a *****.

Nah, only if you respond to a game winner with "he lost a step" and "he gets a ton of calls" after a game where shot 4 free throws....it's silly

It's cool if your not a fan, we all have players were not fans of....but just say that....don't spout nonsense to try to diminish what was a great play and a great game....

[ojandpizza]

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I'm not hating on him, just saying he gets tons of calls. Jordan and Kobe did too. If you don't worship LeBron and say he's the best ever, you're a *****.

I don't really mind if you think he's the best ever or not even in the top 20.. It's just odd you're complaining after a game where nobody else thought he had any advantages


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[cam21224]

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In other words, people that hate on James for the reasons I hated Jordan, are basically acting childish.

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I wouldn't say all, I love the way James plays but I'd be lying if I say I don't hate the over the top LeBron stans there equally just as bad as his haters.

[Scott812313]

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Nah, only if you respond to a game winner with "he lost a step" and "he gets a ton of calls" after a game where shot 4 free throws....it's silly

It's cool if your not a fan, we all have players were not fans of....but just say that....don't spout nonsense to try to diminish what was a great play and a great game....

He's shooting 40% in the playoffs and doesn't finish anywhere near as well as he used to and his defense has slipped a ton. He's still awesome, but he's not unstoppable like he used to be.

You guys would be killing Westbrook for going 10-30 and shooting 40%, but I say LeBron has eroded and I'm crazy. He hasn't shot 50% in a playoff game yet. Remember 2 years ago in Miami when he damn near shot 60%? Not the same guy.

[King_B_Mack]

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Bulls should have swept Cleveland? Lol. So does LeBron single handedly carry scrubs or not?

When it's time to make a case for him to be MVP, he single handedly takes teams to the Finals. But now he should be getting swept? It's too much.

The Bulls are the better team, but there isn't a chance in hell they were getting swept by the Bulls or any team in these playoffs. If you thought that then you haven't been paying attention to basketball enough or something. The Cavs won one game by having the whole team drinking that Space Jam secret stuff with everybody on the bench knocking down everything they threw up.

And why do we have to keep hearing about "if LeBron and Kyrie get going it's over for the Bulls" as if Derrick Rose, Jimmy Butler and Pau have all got it going at the same time at any point in this series?


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[lilteapot]

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Anyone know Pau's status for Game 5?

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I'll be honest, I thought the Bulls were going to be much better than they have been in the first two series once the playoff started. Even after watching their up and downs this year I thought they had the depth to get motivated and make a run for the chip.

Obviously they can still do that. But man, no Kevin Love, no JR Smith for two games, hobbled Kyrie, fatigued and sloppy LeBron, Thompson and Mozgov bobbling every wide open pass.. This thing should have been a sweep IMO.. Noah has looked awful, especially this last game but this Bulls team is a lot better than the group Cleveland is putting on the court. I don't believe they should have let Cleveland take those two games, especially today's game..

If LeBron and Kyrie ever start clicking I think this is over for Chicago. That obviously might not happen, Jimmy is playing good defense, LeBron looks gassed, Kyrie is hurt and not handling pressure well.. And I'm not a Bulls fan, but as a basketball fan this Chicago team has been a disappointment for me the first two rounds. And I can't believe Thibs doesn't even rest Jimmy when LeBron is out, especially since Snell has been pretty solid, at least better than any of Cleveland's bench guys. Chicago's help D is sloppy, they are leaving shooters wide open, I just can't believe how low a team with this caliber of talent looks right now..

I might have just jinxed Cleveland with that, the Bulls going to come out and kill them like that last Bucks game now lol.. But I really think so far Chicago is missing a golden opportunity. I'll take it but damn, if I were a Bulls fan I think I would be slightly disappointed thus far.. Especially since I felt they had a legit shot of winning it all this year, and that was before the Love injury.


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I hate quoting this long *** essay, but you overrated the **** out of this Bulls team if you expected a sweep against a Lebron James led team that historically has always given them fits.

You forget they play each other 4 times out the year anyway since they're in the same division so that right there should've been a hint not to expect anything drastically different from either team coming into the series.

[ojandpizza]

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Bulls should have swept Cleveland? Lol. So does LeBron single handedly carry scrubs or not?

When it's time to make a case for him to be MVP, he single handedly takes teams to the Finals. But now he should be getting swept? It's too much.

The Bulls are the better team, but there isn't a chance in hell they were getting swept by the Bulls or any team in these playoffs. If you thought that then you haven't been paying attention to basketball enough or something. The Cavs won one game by having the whole team drinking that Space Jam secret stuff with everybody on the bench knocking down everything they threw up.

And why do we have to keep hearing about "if LeBron and Kyrie get going it's over for the Bulls" as if Derrick Rose, Jimmy Butler and Pau have all got it going at the same time at any point in this series?


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This series has been very sweepable, if you disagree that's fine, the Bulls overall have been a disappointment to me maybe not to you. They were a disappointment this last series as well. They've had one game this entire playoffs where I felt they played the way I expect them to before the playoffs started..

Never did I say I expected a sweep before it started man... But with how Cleveland has played these first 4 games it was very, very obtainable. What does that have to do with LeBron and scrubs??

You expect Jimmy, Rose, Gasol to be inconsistent, they always have been.. You don't expect it from LeBron, so yes unless he is too fatigued at this point I expect a big night soon. It's the norm for him.... And there is difference in getting average games from those 3, and getting 11&0 and 12&2 from Kyrie.. C'mon man, you are taking what I've said and pushing it to one extreme side.


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[ojandpizza]

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I hate quoting this long *** essay, but you overrated the **** out of this Bulls team if you expected a sweep against a Lebron James led team that historically has always given them fits.

You forget they play each other 4 times out the year anyway since they're in the same division so that right there should've been a hint not to expect anything drastically different from either team coming into the series.

I didn't expect a sweep coming into the series though. That's not what I said.

I'm just saying the Cavs have played bad, and the Bulls have had the golden opportunity to sweep. I didn't expect them to play down to the level the Cavs have been.. Maybe that's overrating them, but they have the depth, they have the experience both as players and coaches, they have more talent, and they have managed to make Cleveland look like ****.


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[ojandpizza]

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Before the series started I said Bulls in 6.. Yall can go back and check that. I'm not saying I expect them to sweep them before this thing started.


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[King_B_Mack]

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This series has been very sweepable, if you disagree that's fine, the Bulls overall have been a disappointment to me maybe not to you. They were a disappointment this last series as well. They've had one game this entire playoffs where I felt they played the way I expect them to before the playoffs started..

Never did I say I expected a sweep before it started man... But with how Cleveland has played these first 4 games it was very, very obtainable. What does that have to do with LeBron and scrubs??

You expect Jimmy, Rose, Gasol to be inconsistent, they always have been.. You don't expect it from LeBron, so yes unless he is too fatigued at this point I expect a big night soon. It's the norm for him.... And there is difference in getting average games from those 3, and getting 11&0 and 12&2 from Kyrie.. C'mon man, you are taking what I've said and pushing it to one extreme side.


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So you expect them to be inconsistent but they should have swept Cleveland? It was sweepable? The hell? Again, game 2 alone, nobody on Cleveland could miss a shot. You're not going to win too many games where Dellavedova is coming off the bench bombing from three along with James Jones and Iman Shumpert suddenly deciding he knows how to shoot. They just lost today on a buzzer beater and looking at the highlights Cleveland had some officiating help doing that considering they got a free timeout to draw up a play and somehow three refs miss Blatt blatantly walking onto the court calling timeout when they didn't have any. Wink wink.

[ojandpizza]

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So you expect them to be inconsistent but they should have swept Cleveland? It was sweepable? The hell? Again, game 2 alone, nobody on Cleveland could miss a shot. You're not going to win too many games where Dellavedova is coming off the bench bombing from three along with James Jones and Iman Shumpert suddenly deciding he knows how to shoot. They just lost today on a buzzer beater and looking at the highlights Cleveland had some officiating help doing that considering they got a free timeout to draw up a play and somehow three refs miss Blatt blatantly walking onto the court calling timeout when they didn't have any. Wink wink.

You're acting like their bench went nuts in game 2. They had 26 points to the Bulls 36. Only two players off the bench even scored in that game for Cleveland. As a team the Cavs shot 44%, that's hardly "nobody missing a shot".

Yes I do think this series was sweepable. Cleveland has looked bad in every game, particularly LeBron and Kyrie to their normal standards. You basically saying that Shumpert and Jones having good nights it's all that needs to be said. This Bulls team should never let those two guys, of all people, determine the outcome of a playoff game. Their defense, outside of Jimmy, has been a major disappointment to me. And offensively they just can't seem to get a consistent rhythm going, even last series, despite Rose playing surprisingly well after an up and down year and missing the past couple seasons.

Gasol put up career numbers this year, Jimmy as well, Taj and Niko were 6th man of the year contenders, Niko rookie of the year contender, Rose playing better than most expected, hell some of you wanted Butler getting some MVP love... This team frankly needs to step the **** up man. If you can't see that as a Bulls fan then I don't know what to tell you. LeBron hasn't played this inconsistent offensively in the past 4 years or so, Kyrie is hurt and struggling, and the Cavs defense is pretty "blah" all around. Bulls have had the golden opportunity to stomp on their throats, they just haven't done it.





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