Irony about that is he's never won a championship that way and won 2 as a player who would post up and kick it out to shooters.

Don't call me James wrote:Curry will be named MVP tomorrow apparently going by the rumors today.

Well deserved

Curry got 100 1st place votes. Harden only 25. Thought it would be much closer but

Only the first quarter( clearly things will improve for Cleveland) but i think i might have underestimated how big of a miss Love will be. Seeing as he can stretch the floor and rebound, where as Miller or Thompson can only do one of those things and not the other.

Well, this is surely a job for Lebron "I can play all 5 positions" James.

Lebron might not have to do that if Kyrie is anything to go by

Keeping them in it single handily, well that and the BS no goaltend call as well.

I think the Cavs will need a consistent 3rd scorer. Lebron and Irving will get their points but they will need a 3rd every night if they want to win.

I wouldnt want it to be Shump, he is too inefficient.

I am not sure who else it could be, I guess Smith when he returns but IDK. You would want it to be an inside guy.

Bulls have done Rose-Gasol pick and pop like 5 times in a row and it's worked everytime

So Bulls win game 1.

Spoiler:

Game 2 is a must win now

Yeah Pau was wide open so many times, terrible rotations.. I think they'll make the necessary adjustments though.. Plus LeBron will need to average 30 from this point on

Tbf I can see why, neither Thompson and Mozgov can close him out and if they try Rose has an easy lane.

It's a question of personnel really, not sure Cavs have a counter for it.

Also Lebron might want to be efficient first and foremost, he shot 9-22 tonight, that's not gonna cut it.

I never thought I would say this but they should give Perkins a go, get some hard fouls in there and bang with the Bulls' big men down low (no homo)

Anyway Austin Rivers is a starting point guard in a Western Conference semi final

I still don't know how the Clippers beat the Spurs tbh, sure their 2 stars played about as good as they can but they don't have much depth.. At least the Heat had a big 3 and Allen off the bench

You have to go under the Rose pick and dare him to shoot.

Out on top, the Bulls wings are cutting into the paint or spotting on the wings so it makes it impossible to rotate. They would be rotating off players taking open 3's or lay ups. Out on top, you would rather have Rose take the jumper on off the dribble than Pau on a spot up.

On the sideline screen they are clearing out a side and Pau pops in that direction toward the baseline, again making rotation impossible. You have to go under the screen and let Rose shoot it.

LeSwagg James wrote:I still don't know how the Clippers beat the Spurs tbh, sure their 2 stars played about as good as they can but they don't have much depth.. At least the Heat had a big 3 and Allen off the bench

Parker being hurt and averaging 9 points a game for the first 6 games probably didnt help.

The Franchise wrote:You have to go under the Rose pick and dare him to shoot.

Out on top, the Bulls wings are cutting into the paint or spotting on the wings so it makes it impossible to rotate. They would be rotating off players taking open 3's or lay ups. Out on top, you would rather have Rose take the jumper on off the dribble than Pau on a spot up.

On the sideline screen they are clearing out a side and Pau pops in that direction toward the baseline, again making rotation impossible. You have to go under the screen and let Rose shoot it.

Depends where the screen happens, if it's 3 then yeah but his mid range is quite good I wouldn't want to just give him that.

Lesser of two evils true but still he's quite capable of making the mid range at a high clip.

I would rather let Rose shoot long two's off the dribble than Pau on the spot up. I dont think you lose a series because Rose is killing you from mid range.

See I think it would work in 2011 ( infact that's exactly what happened ) But they have too many other options to get bogged down by that.

Although I must say I'm baffled by the sparse use of the bench, they have a massive advantage there yet outside of Gibson it was hardly used. It is Thibs but still

BTW I didn't watch but how did Rockets lose to Clippers without Paul? If he's back for game 2 I can see this being over pretty quickly.

But we only talking about the Rose-Pau pick and pop and how to defend it?

In the general sense, yes the Bulls have too many options in other areas to get bogged down into Rose doing it alone.

But in that individual play, thats how I would play it. I dont want Rose getting into the lane first and foremost and I dont want Pau getting open shots. If Pau gets going on open looks his confidence will increase and next thing you know he is posting up with authority, playing with energy on defence and rebounding.

Ah right yeah true enough, got side tracked a bit there

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:BTW I didn't watch but how did Rockets lose to Clippers without Paul? If he's back for game 2 I can see this being over pretty quickly.

Because Griffin is the best player on both teams (atleast when CP3 is not there), and James Harden doesn't take over a game in playoffs

Austin Rivers tho

Freeza wrote:

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:BTW I didn't watch but how did Rockets lose to Clippers without Paul? If he's back for game 2 I can see this being over pretty quickly.

Because Griffin is the best player on both teams (atleast when CP3 is not there), and James Harden doesn't take over a game in playoffs

What about Howard? Has he not done anything?

Howard was great but he can't do it by himself.

Same story as last year tbh.