BULLS
PG Aaron Brooks
SG Jimmy Butler
SF Mike Dunleavy
PF Pau Gasol
C Joakim Noah

CAVS
PG Kyrie Irving
SG J.R. Smith
SF LeBron James
PF Kevin LoveGTD
C Timofey Mozgov

Injuries
Kirk Hinrich OUT
Derrick Rose OUT
Doug McDermott GTD
Injuries
Kevin Love GTD

Will the boys man up for this game? They usually play the Cavs tough. BTW, Ike: I can't get a Bulls stream anymore w/o encountering problems so I will only do game threads on Nat. televised games.

CBS? The thunder are on my tv ABC.

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You're right, of course. The Rockets game is first, and not on CBS. I get mixed up.

Niko goes for 40.

I would be thrilled with 20. I wonder what the NBA record is for missed shots in a quarter? We musta' come close to it in the 1st!

Who is our 6th man supposed to be? Niko, Brooks or Taj?

Niko is the 6th man ...perimeter D is an F

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Pick and roll as well as three point defense has killed the Bull this year.

We're trying to get back in this game!

I spoke too fucking soon.

Let's get this over and lose in the 1st round,get a new coach,some new players and a friggin new attitude...because this bunch ain't going anywhere

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

I'm afraid this might be true. This window of Bulls basketball might go down as Chicago's greatest team that never was. The Bulls had the best record in the league and made it to the ECF right off the bat. Everything should've been on the upswing. Next season, best record again but then Rose blows the knee out and it's been downhill ever since.

The most depressing part is that they get schwacked by a guy the Cavs added to fill a need. The same need the Bulls have had for years yet have passed up adding this exact guy multiple times because he does not embody the bullshit tropes that the Bulls hold so dearly. A high-volume shooter is not a good teammate to the Bulls, or whatever they think.

Meanwhile you have your hometown boy fucking up the mix and acting like a turd every chance he gets, cabal in tow. Or actually, Rose in tow.

Yeah, this team and organization is a cluster. Mentality change needed and ditch Rose to FA in two years.

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- Dan Bernstein, 2016

Aren't the Bulls better off losing this game and falling to 4th in the playoff race? Wouldn't a second round matchup with Atlanta be more desirable than seeing the Cavs?

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no, the best chance you have to beat a better team is to get them before they wake up

however, rose coming back he will need time to get to full drive so maybe waiting as long as we can before we hit lebron the better.

however, atlanta will murder us anyway so who cares

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