No Love, No Lackin - Bulls vs Cavs Semi-ECFs Thread

[Microfracture]

why the hell would I want james jones a former 3pt champion and shump who btw was flaming hot from three game 1 to take the shots over tristan who has no offense and mozgov who is mediocre at offense? You give them the shots when you run the shooters off the 3pt line, if noah and dunleavy is sat the hell down then that happens. Noah was not getting to his guy, nor was dunleavy. The cavs worked those 2 side all game. And lebron doing what he did is just lebron being great nothing you can do about that. But if you take away that corner 3 lebron loves going to then lebron gets his but we still have a close game. How does rose overcome a 3pt barrage like that? Serious question.

If you aren't gonna pin the L on Rose & Butler then you can't pin it on Thibs. You said a barrage of 3 pointers couldn't be fukked with. Bron being Bron couldn't be fukked with...so what is gonna overcome a game like that from the Cavs? Good coaching? Bulls fans should just be grateful nothing could be done to win tonight and concentrate on Game 3

 

[BStapies]

James Jones has been horrible this entire season on both sides of the ball. Damn near hitting the back board on all of his 3 point attempts when he's wide open and now yall wanna crown him.

Miller, Jones, Dellavedova, and JR have been involved throughout the playoffs and they are bricking the fukk out of the basketball.


You want them taking the shots. Trust me. You don't want Kyrie or LeBron being the ones that get the looks.

If your defense is grounded in getting the ball out of their hands you will win a series because they don't have consistency on offense around them.

Giving JR open looks is not a good idea

He can get as hot as anyone in the league.

 

[Rigby.]

No it wasn't, James Jones scoring 17 points is a result of your defense doing what's it's supposed to do.

That's the person you want to shoot in a game like this. He just happened to make shots tonight. Same with Dellavedova and Shumpert. They have horrible shooting %s.

Defensively that's who you want to take the shots.

Rose being a walking trash can was the difference tonight.

James Jones had 17 points?



How? he be shooting the ball in the faces of fans in the stands

 

[GoldenGlove]

Rose shoots 6-20 and ppl blamin the coach. the coach aint out there brickin shots

This team doesn't depend on Rose to be amazing offensively every game anymore. His shooting has been up and down all season, we are aware of this already.

Rose FG% isn't what we're talking about. We're talking about lineups and adjustments. Are those not important in the game of basketball? Or are you just out here phishing for daps?

 

[loyola llothta]

i'm love this series. s/o to lebron for bringing back the headband


Bulls fan all

 

[GoldenGlove]

This dude said give shooters open shots brehs.

I'm done

 

[jaguar paw]

This dude said give shooters open shots brehs.

I'm done

They aren't shooters anymore. They are walking corpses. That shyt ain't sustainable.

That's not the reason the Bulls lost. Keep telling yourself that.

 

[cornercommission2k12]

Aww they're guarding the best players on the Cavs team

The former MVP and the current MIP have to try hard its not fair breh

That is not even the context of why I mentioned that and you have to be slow to think it was

The point was, with jimmy and rose guarding the 2 best players it makes the excuses even less for the other guys to get to they man. Lebron and kyrie will get there's but this series will be lost if those other role players continue to have huge impacts. That can happen if those role players are pretty much wide open all night.

 

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BRON HAD 33 PTS ON 29 SHOTS.

WE'LL TAKE THAT ANY DAY.

CLE SHOOTING 11-21 FROM THE 3 IN THE 1ST 3 QUARTERS CANT HAPPEN.


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He had his stamp on the game from the tip. Bron got so keyed up he had to sit down 4 minutes into the game. Everyone said Shump couldn't repeat his performance from Game 1 but he topped it with the shooting and defense on Butler. You're quick to call Rose D. Gawd whenever he gets a bucket, and when he's trash like tonight, no criticism to be found.

"Oh bu-bu-but we don't depend on Rose alone its been a team effort the entire year and Thibs just isn't playing Niko and Snell Rell enough the rotations brehs Pau was soft on defense tonight brehs , players we need production from cant be held to any standards brehs

fukk outta here. Some of you acknowledged the flaws in your team before the series started. Game 1 happens and its "I expected that shyt with Love out and these bum ass old nikkas playing...Bulls roster just too deep "

Game 2 happens and its Thibs. Rose and Butler are quiet as a church mouse.

 

[jaguar paw]

I THOUGHT THAT DUDE WAS TROLLING WITH THE ROSE shyt EARLIER.

NOW I SEE HE REALLY JUST DOESNT KNOW shyt ABOUT BASKETBALL.

nikka KYRIE & BRON COULD GO OFF FOR 40 A PIECE
AND THAT STILL WOULD ONLY BE 80 PTS...

WHEN THE ROLE PLAYERS GET INVOLVED, ITS OVER.


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Yall gave Jones wide open looks in game 1 and he couldn't connect. None of the wide open threes connected from the role players.

Rose was awesome.

That was the difference in the game.

Tonight was the inverse.

 

[jwinfield]

Yall gave Jones wide open looks in game 1 and he couldn't connect.

Jones took only 2 shots in game 1.

He took 10 tonight, 9 from three making 5 of them.

 

[jaguar paw]

Jones took only 2 shots in game 1.

He took 10 tonight, 9 from three making 5 of them.

Those 2 bricks he had were swing moments in the game. Completely deflated the momentum.

Those were shots that they needed.

It was a 7 point game.

 

[Loose]

I'm just realizing how bad Noah is on offense, I mean he's ridiculously bad.

Gasol is the opposite.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Don't matter. During his heat years he jumper was wet in the first two rounds and then it would get broke the conf finals and in the finals. This time it may be reversed. I tell you he doesn't look burned out like he normally would with the heat. Helps he doesn't have to be the leading rebounder and the only ball handler.

You forgot no longer being asked to cover the top player on the other team. Battier use to fill the role in Miami but then LeBron would be forced to guard the teams top player. Shane fell off a bit year ago. Now he has Shump to make it easier for him.

The did the right thing by letting him guard Dunleavy. They way he saves energy on defense. Just gotta stay in the post and hopefully the other guys keep making 3s.

 

[The G.O.D II]

Lies. We've been critical of every part of this team the past few weeks from Teague to Korver to the bench to everything in between. We do the nicknames and shyt for fun and for you casual fans, real bball heads and Hawks fans know we talk real basketball about our team. As for Bulls fans, y'all some of the most excuse having brehs I've ever seen, never seen y'all acknowledge the other team for just beating y'all. CLE was a better team than y'all tonight, it wasn't about Thibs, or the refs or the lack of calls on Rose it was y'all played like y'all were content, CLE hit y'all in the mouth. Accept it and move on

nikka, of course the other team was better. That goes without saying. And its usually because the losing team does something wrong also. You can't be this slow