Or Doc just happened to be coaching the better team.
I'm pretty confident if you give Vinny Del Negro the Celtics roster they win that series anyways.
Well of course. Like I've been saying, the Celtics should've won that series even without KG, they were clearly the better team.
No, I was excited about the future because I was hoping the talent would develop. Not because the Bulls lost a 1st round playoff series in 7 games.
The talent did develop, it's just the front office continued to gear themselves for the 2010 off-season and kept subtracting talent instead of adding.
Ok. So Salmons>>>Deng at the 3 that season. Which was the entire point. Thanks for finally getting it.
Only because he was incapable physically.
Yeah I'm a "hater" for pointing out Deng's great defensive work allowed LBJ to go for a near triple double.
Stupid stats. Always hatin'
Everyone looks bad guarding James. Only team defense can stop him.
Deng's an underathletic SF who has a very nice mid range jumper, but isn't good off the dribble, is a decent defender, can't shoot the 3.
He can shoot the three, but isn't a good three point shooter. Deng is versatile, he does many thing well, but nothing great. He was much better at the 3pt line and off the dribble last season.
yeah we coul dhave really used the less than 100% Luol Deng to take minutes away from Salmons who was playing out of his mind. I know when Salmons was was holding Pierce to less than 40% shooting in games and was hitting big shots I just kept thinking "Man! I wish Luol Deng was there!"
I'll take a 100% Deng over Salmons at the 3 anyday. Again, Salmons was not "playing out of his mind" by any means. It's funny that you call me a meathead while being one yourself.
Salmons went for 18-4.5 in the playoffs(same as he did in the regular season for the Bulls pretty much) and I don't think any sane person would argue Salmons didn't play incredibly well in that series on both ends of the floor considering who he was checking and who was checking him.
So what is it? Did he play incredibly well or out of his mind? And where do you get 18ppg? He scored 17 ppg on the dot for the play-offs with the Bulls. You can only round numbers that are .5 or better.
Asshole alert!
Can't talk basketball online without an insult right? The elitist attitude on message boards are pathetic. It makes you seem like a fat kid with no confidence.
You do watch Bulls basketball right? I mean the Bulls were sucking in the first half of the season anyways. There was no playoff carry over. The Bulls started terribly. Del Negro was almost fired before Xmas/New Years. Noah was the only "key player" to miss significant time last season...at any point. Every other important Bulls player played in at least 70 games(Rose, Hinrich, Deng, Miller, Gibson).
Once Rose turned it on, the team was completely different and were a game and a half behind the 5th seed.
All of our players were getting injured at or around the same time which contributed to the breakdown. Circumstances are everything. Noah being out was the biggest reason we lost games. The Bulls did two things really well last season and that was defense and rebounding, both of which took a HUGE hit when Noah was out. That is why the Bulls did not improve on their record last season. They were clearly on their way to finishing the season better than the previous one.
Exactly. Them improving had nothing to do with the playoffs. They improved because they are young players and were going to get better regardless if they had been swept by the Celtics or had gone the full 7 games.
You don't think play-offs does anything for a player. I gotcha. But I completely disagree.
So playoff experience only counts when you aren't playing a 1 seed or a top 3 player. Yeah no flaws in that logic....
The play-offs were a different story as in getting eliminated in fewer games, I wasn't even talking about experience there. The Cavs were a much better team than that Celtics team we played in the play-offs in '09.
