if we had 09 Wade, bulls in 5, but since we got 17 wade celtics in 5
Wade is a legit closer. With ice in his veins that will hit big shots in the clutch. On the other end the Celtics don't have a wing that is going to exploit wade lack of defense. Maybe Gerald green idk? They do have defenders to throw at wade and jimmy tho
Plus for us, in 2 wins vs them we out rebounded celtics by 20. Taj is gone, but with taj gone no more of the stretch 4 killing us because taj can't get to the shooter, which is what happened in the 2 losses we had vs celtics
Since the all star break bulls have been 6th in 3pt shooting and top 5 in defense, finished the season 9-4 , and have a winning record vs the best teams in the league. We are not the typical 8th seed. If we didn't take niko and grant out of the rotations, played valentine more, and showed more didn't go through the cameron payne experiment and showed consistent effort vs bad teams that we showed vs good teams, bulls could have been a 50 win team too.
With that said I still think the Celtics will win the series. Hoiberg will cost us this series. Out of bounds, out of time out plays can win or lose a series. Hoiberg is horrible in that department. Stevens is going to make adjustments and fred will be trying to get payne in the game because garpax said so smh