Hyper-Biased Celtics fans take here...
-Nobody can stop the Cavs in the East...
-Nobody can stop the Lake show in the West...
Other than the World Champion Celtics as underdogs!
True enough, it has been a long slog of a regular season with obvious setbacks due to injurys, yet with the further growth and experience (PT) for the deepest bench in the league, as well as at the all important positions of gaurd and center!
No one(fans) should have expected the Bulls to be anything other than a battle in these playoffs; Which reminds me of Atlanta (500. team)last year, making that a 7 game series, this is playoff hoops. Young upstarts often play outa their minds as did the very tallented/skilled D.Rose as a case in point as well as the Bulls supporting cast.
In my opinion, they need to continue that same pattern and need to expect Ray Allen to shoot the ball 1 for 7 on open shots and not adjust on D etc. BTW, Rondo was and has been atrocious in the task and putting out the extreme energy to stay in front(more often) of his 1/1 assignment Rose, which puts our bigs in either foul trouble, or the choice of playing soft. This takes effort and will which he is capable of, yet that energy is being spent on his O as a trade off IMO. With the adjustment of putting Tony Allen on Rose for 18 minutes, and playing small ball may be one option/adjustment etc. lowering Roses offensive total, as well as run him around picks softening him up, being beat up and more tired out etc.
Long hard slog for my Cs... And fortunately I love the game first and foremost, so I love the drama and not just the wins or die with every loss upon the path to the big dance...
Perhaps Ray and Paul are spent due to the 82 game season, but I don't think so at this point; I believe way to many options and adjustments as well as will and effort is yet to be tapped within this teams proven and yet to be proven potential, is my greatest hope.
/ Takes off the Green glasses*
Yet I'm still impressed with the competition and look forward to each and every play and game in appreciation of the tallent, skills, effort and will on disply in this postseason, in the game I loved as a player and now exclusively as an interested observer. What a treasure trove of wrttings and opinions both professionally and fan base, this series of tubes
provides...
I do acknowledge the validity of the posters above in terms of the variable of how "calls" are made, or not, and the influance this has in a particular players head and on the outcome of games. Star treatment on carrys(Rose 3 times clearly did in game 1, for instance), or moving picks by Noah and his camping out in the paint at least 6 times etc... LeBron's "crab dribble" is a travel, which they have now even given a nomenclature. *eyeroll*
Granted, the refs have a very difficult job, at these speeds the game is played etc. with holding,grabbing and scratching that goes on in nearly every play in the contemporary NBA game, is a departure from the game most folks grew up playing, indeed leaves one suspect to "the fix is in" thinking, unfortunately... In practical terms, it is Big Bussiness and as that, its influance cannot be denied as to what is witnessed on the floor, IMO&E as a player, albeit on a whole other level and speed to the common game some of us played *shruggs*
Fun, fun, fun on the run for #18
Go Celtics ~
