Game 5 IGT: Chicago Bulls @ Cleveland Cavs (Series tied 2-2) 6:00PM CDT TNT

[RC_Skinny22]

Only useful players this offseason are Rose, Butler and Gibson!

Brooks and Mirotic should see no more time in my eyes!!!

 

[PolarBear]

Rose wrist obviously bothering him. Didn't want to take any jump shots.

Dunleavy and Mirotic failed to bring anything to the table again. Dunleavy helped us out late when we were down big but it was too late by then.

Butler got dominated by Lebron this game. Lebron backed him down and hit shots in his face all day.

Brooks is trash. Bringing absolutely nothing to this series.

Thibs end of game plays and subs were terrible. Hinrich and Noah on the floor when you need buckets? Getting the ball to Noah off the inbound? Come on man.

Refs played a part too. The fact that Delly didn't get anything for locking up Gibson's leg is BS. Lebron with that continuation after he sold a weak ass foul.

Gasol needs to get back. That's the only way we have any chance in this series.

 

[MrDynamite32]

Game 4 is looming large now.

The Cavs' role players have stepped up, the Bulls' role players have stepped back.

 

[Bear06]

Nikos wide open bricks really did us in.

The team really screwed up Game 4. They had a golden opportunity and they fucking blew it.

 

[Scoot26]

Niko was my x-factor for this series. He's failed at being so.

 

[Anytime23]

Im honestly not trying to do the whole " i told you so" thing but what did everyone expect exactly? You knew the second LeBron hit that game winner that he would come out on fire in this game. You have to play the law of averages that the best player in the world would eventually return to form. Butler can only do so much. Rose has played well but a game like this should have been expected.

That shot was the series. The Bulls are too beat up and are too dumb and inconsistent of a team to have any faith in. Everything that they had going for them in that late 3rd/4th qtr in game 4 and they still managed to lost. Like i said, it takes a special kind of bad to lose that game. LOL at whoever said this was the best Bulls team with Rose. It isnt even close. Theyd probably get swept by the 2010 and 2011 teams.

Im done watching the NBA btw. I just dont know how i can after that Taj ejection. This league is broken.

 

[Icculus]

Another team that has trouble scoring...great

There's always the Blackhawks.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Rose apparently hurt his wrist at some point in the game, which probably is why he only scored 4 points after scoring 12 in the first.

It was a tie up with a loose ball on the floor with Kyrie.

 

[clonetrooper264]

There's always the Blackhawks.

At least that team is competent most of the time

 

[clonetrooper264]

Is anyone surprised that we lost?

Shit, I was surprised that it even got close at the end.

I knew we were done the moment I saw Joey Crawford's name.

 

[RoseMVP1]

Kyrie definitely didn't look like he was hurting that bad either. Gasol better play, I'm tired of watching Niko brick wide open shot after wide open shot. Then if Gasol plays we can bring 1 guy off the bench that can actually do something.

 

[Bear06]

I'd just like to say **** you, Pau Gasol. Get your fucking ass in the game. Irving can hardly walk and Lebron fucked up his ankle. This is the fucking playoffs.

He's at 40 percent he would have been ineffective. It sucks because a healthy Gasol would have probably had the Bulls with a 3-2 lead now.

Can't really make excuses though because the Cavaliers also have injuries.

 

[Axl Rose]

Heres to Hoiberg

 

[Anytime23]

At least that team is competent most of the time

cant argue with 5 conference finals in 7 years. 2 championships. 1 goal away from a 3rd. IMO favorited to win it again. Chicago should be really proud of the Hawks and appreciate every minute of it. Nice that the Bulls have been a perennial playoff team but with LeBron and his "super teams" they never really stood a chance. Besides that, Chicago sports have been facepalm embarrassing the past decade outside of a year here and there.

 

[payton 34ever]

This league is broken.

Totally agree...I have tried SO hard to get back into NBA basketball - haven't had my heart completely in it since the '98 team wrapped things up in Utah. What LeBron and his superteams, along with these entitled 19 year old pricks have done to the league has pushed me near the point of no return with the NBA. The product flat out SUCKS now, and has for a while. I'm just to the point now where I can't watch a game that LBJ is playing in. He puts his head down, runs people over on his way to the basket, and overwhelms them with sheer size and athleticism - that's not basketball; at least not to me. Some people are down with that, and that's fine, but I just don't want to watch it. I was so pleased to watch the Spurs play team ball last year; their ball movement was a thing of beauty. These playoffs suck by comparison. I don't know how much longer I can attempt to care about the shit product on the floor.

 

[clonetrooper264]

Go Warriors? Maybe...

 

[Probie2429]

Bulls put the Cavs on their heels when they got out and ran, but only did that sparingly. In the half court, there are so many mismatches when the Bulls are on offense yet the Bulls haven't taken advantage of any of them. That's on Thibs, plain and simple. When James Jones is guarding Taj Gibson, get him the FUCKING ball in the post. When the Cavs white Kirk Hinrich is guarding Rose, spread out the floor so Rose can take him one on one. When Gasol was playing, I don't even remember a steady diet of him in the post or pick n pop when shitty players like Mozgov are guarding him. It's laughable how inept Thibs is. I will be glad when he is gone.

 

[Axl Rose]

White Kirk Hinrich? i mean wouldn't Kirk Hinrich already be the white version of himself since hes white?

 

[FrankieLyrical]

This team has no killer instinct and Thibs can't get them to try hard anymore. He's done here in Chicago

 

[Delly4MVP]

i still think Bulls in 6