Post Up: Pump Up the Volume

@Allenp I couldn’t agree with you more. Every time Wade had the ball he almost got it stolen before he reached mid court. He does a lot of East/West handling and he’s not tight with his handle.

The bulls aren’t gonna win with Noah playing the way he played now this scandal and fine he’s gonna receive is gonna be a distraction to the team also they need to play cj Watson with rose and let him penetrate more cause rose won’t be able to get to the rim as often as he usually does cause he flat out tired drose was MVP he deserved it but he doest have the talent at that certain position (2 guard) or I would let deng play 2 guard an t Gibson at small forward but other wise it’s over lol
Do we realize the heat are about to play and beat everybody they lost to this post season WOW bring on the mavs

sorry, 4 times*

airs….keep staying blind, Stevie Wonder Jr. It’s admirable, though.

im jus saying, we’re acting like the heat have completely blown the bulls out of the water.
they’ve won by 10 and 11, and it was even a little closer than the final scores project.
we don’t even need to look back at regular season, we can look back to last week and see the bulls are more than capable of beating this heat team.
but i’ll be stevie wonder, everybody Uptight today, but everythings alright namsayin

The series is far from over. I can see MIA losing GM4 the same way I see them winning GM4 and going up 3-1 back to Chicago. The series isn’t over until one team has 4 wins and sends the other fishing. Both teams are too great on the defensive end for there to for there to be a repeat of the bulls GM1 performance.
Like CB1 said, can’t believe I’m quoting Chris Bosh, you can’t get too high or too low. Remember it’s the playoffs, one minute a team is in control of the series, the next it’s tied 2-2 and the other squad has the advantage going back home.

People do know that a 10 point win is huge in the playoffs especially when it involves two great defensive teams. A 10 point win in this series is like a 15-20 pt in the OKC vs Dal series just due to the kind of suffocating defense being played on both ends. A win is a win regardless, so it shouldn’t matter if it’s by 20 or by 3.

and a win is a win, no one will preach that more than me.
honestly if the heat win, best of luck to them in the finals

man its easy for the heat fans to talk trash where their team is doing well, chicago is still not out of it, and derrick rose is coming down to hard on himself, considering the officiating has been horrible since the bulls tied the game 73-73 back in game 2.. i will however recognize that the bulls are shooting poorly and are not finishing at the rim… dont give up yet chicago!

I also thought it was a brilliant adjustment when Miami refused to send someone to cover Noah at the elbow since Noah was looking to dish it off to cutters and not score. That threw a monkey wrench in the Bulls “offense”. Thibs has to be less rigid again and just finish the games with Rose, Deng + his 3 best players on that night. Yesterday, it should have been CJ, Rose, Brewer, Deng, Gibson. That line up can work since Miami doesn’t play big, CJ on Rio, Rose on Wade, Brewer on James, Deng on UD, Gibson on Bosh. CREATIVITY!!!!

Mike Miller is a much much better defender then James Jones, and he also rebounds (except yesterday, he did absolutely nothing and was the only Heat player with a negative +/-) which James Jones just effectively doesn’t do.

To free up the paint, I’d rather have JJ stretching the floor….since Mike doesn’t even look at the basket and when he does it’s usually putrid. But yes, nbk is right, Mike is a solid rebounder and makes better basketball plays.

JTaylor if you had any idea what you were talking about you would know that Mike Miller has actually been one of the most efficient perimeter defender’s in the league this season. The whole league. Just because he’s unathletic and white doesn’t mean he’s a bad defender.

Theyre both good team defenders and are usually where they aresupposed to be on rotations, which is half the battle. I hate it when Mike attqcks the paint of the kick out. Just shoot it man!!! And its not about the hands, all the writers are reporting that he doesnt miss in Practice or warm ups.

What is a little strange about last night was that none of the players were great on the glass and they still won handily. Bosh only had five boards after all. Did anybody else think that the physical nature of the Heat’s defense early rattled Chicago and that thy got frustrated by the refs?

How do you want me to word it for you then JTaylor? He’s been one of the best perimeter defender’s in the league this season because he’s been good when he plays? is that better? the use of the word efficiency is your problem? “its an issue when you say things you can prove, i’d rather you speculate!” that sounds like more like your style of conversation. anyway, if you want some proof you can click my name. If you want some speculation then, I doubt you actually watch as much basketball as you act like you do.

Typical Grand Wizardry tactics; interject race into every conversation.
Jonny Flynn is one of the worst defenders in the L and he’s blacker than Whoppi Goldberg’s lips, so what the hell does being white have to do with it?

its has nothing to do with it, which is why I said what I said. I mean you can act ignorant to the fact that skin color does play into perception if you want. The fact that I said just because he’s white is not grand wizardry, it means what it should, forget that he’s white. If we were talking about something else with a stereotype attached I would have brought that up too because I just assume there are atleast some people reading this comment section who absent-mindidly buy into widespread stereotypes. — whatever though, I knew that would be the portion of what I said that you focus on.

Grand Wizadry did make laugh though. Adding that to my lexicon.

The reasons are Miller’s a terrible one-on-one defender and just because it looks like he plays good team defense doesn’t mean he’s actually a good defender. Anybody could look like a good defender when you have wade, bron, and joel covering your a** (exhibit A; Bibby). I’ve seen basically 99.9999% of heat games this season and never once seen Miller playing anything that resembles great defensive on the perimeter
I just call it how I see it and when it comes to basketball, I’m color blind. I enjoy what Dirk just as much as I enjoy watching Bron.

Actually the stat, you know where I said click my name for proof, shows that he is an exceptional one on one defender this year. So once again, where are you gettin this from? you are either lying about watching heat games, or lying about paying attention to the games your watching. Once again, the stats (plural) I am providing to you, prove that Mike MIller has been an ELITE one on one defender in the minutes he’s played this season. And actually an average team defender. So once again, wth are you talking about?

you see why I use stats right? people like taylor make up something about a player, then make a drastically over-exaggerated claim, like to have watched 99.9% of Heat Games (which means he’s watched every minute of every heat game except about a quarter and a half or 81.9918 games this season) so I have to show something that can actually be viewed, compared, measured, and considered by anyone. Like a group of stats.

lol

Que? I’m sorry but using stats to guage a certain player’s defensive ability borderlines on stupidity. Last night, bron played stellar D on Deng but there isn’t a stat out there that will tell you the same. Sometimes stats can’t really capture what really goes on the floor especially on the defensive end.
I usually respect stats but in the infamous words of the real enigmatic; stats are for pu**ies.