what's wrong with brad miller.

[dougthonus]

I also agree with the others that the Bulls have to get physical, not cheap shot physical, but hard purposeful fouls. The bar has been set and you're a fool to get kicked around without reply. We've done nothing to stop Rondo defensively, so let's at least let him know there may be repercussions when he drives the lane. Now, admittedly, I won't cry if Brad cheap shots somebody, but I'm not sure that'll do anything to help us win, which is ultimately more important than silly street justice.

The problem is that we likely will get ejected if we cheap shot them back. It's one of the injustices of the league. They will have stole an entire game with a cheap shot, and if we cheap shot them back we'll likely have our guy ejected stealing another game from us.

All we can do is move on. I hope we're physical, but we're not going to out physical them anyway. On the whole they're bigger and stronger than us.

 

[cool007]

Our WHOLE TEAM is soft, and our coach is soft.

If we had Riley/Phil Jackson type coach, we WOULD NOT ALLOW any layups to them. How many times we saw cheap foul and 1??? I hate those 3pt plays - our players are just not smart enough/not tough enough and are more finesse than anything else. Coach -well he just sucks.

This should come from coaching - put a message on the board "GET TOUGH" and No layup rule. Hit them hard when they go in for a layup - Not dirty but HARD.

This is why we don't win this series coz Perkins/Rondo/Big Baby are playing physical but we have "flat in the bottom" players.

 

[senrad]

You guys hearing anything about some kind of substance used by the trainers getting into Brad's eyes before he shot the free throws? Heard it mentioned on the espn NBA today podcast.

 

[pinkizdead]

dougthonus wrote:

Besides the final play where he had the trifecta of lousiness (missing the open layup, free throw, and rim on intentional miss) I thought he played pretty well.

througout the series he hasn't really hit any open jumpers. he hasn't driven to hoop(in that methodic manner) with much success. i thought he was more effective during the regular season.

he's shot 13-34 for the series. it should be noted that alot of his looks are open looks/layups. it's not liek he's shooting ben gordon shots. Behind rose, he has the highest turnovers with 15.

 

[pinkizdead]

i'm not sure if this good or bad...but his rebounding stats are close to tyrus'.

 

[Shakes]

Other than the blowout in game three where everyone but the scrubs got awful numbers, Miller is +50 for the series. He's put up bad stats but we consistently seem to play better with him out on the court. I don't think it's a coincidence, his +/- was good during the regular season too.

He's shooting horribly and turning the ball over a ton though, and his rebounding is only average at best (especially considering the time he's spent with a 4 guard lineup). I really can't explain it, but whatever it is that the boxscore isn't showing, lets hope he keeps it up.

 

[pinkizdead]

he played really well tonight!

 

[Shakes]

His shooting touch was on tonight, which was good to see. Still racking up those turnovers though, but can't complain too much!