2011 Playoffs Bulls - Hawks: Early look at matchups, past and present

it’s at 6 PM. Lame.

The bulls do win this in 3. (JBJ stated previously)

Rose will play like Rose, A proven All-Star and MVP.
Deng will quietly average 21 this series.
Boozer will quietly sit and twiddle his thumbs.
Taj is going to bust out a bigger hard hat and lunch pail.
Noah will play like a beast-hyper maniac.
Asik will destroy. It’s his nature.
Bogans will dance like Lady Gaga.
Korver will be shooting daggers from beyond the arc.
We will see a longer sighting of the Butler, He will be serving up dishes of 3’s. the arc.

oh and we should check for snippers before Zaza steps on the court & Crawford for that matter. They both flop.

argued that the Magic won game 5 because of fortunate fouls to Howard and Turk. Turk was pretty bad the whole series, and the Magic relied too much on Howard for offense, leaving everyone else standing around. John Hollinger has argued that Collins and Pachulia were good enough to guard Howard one on one, and that was enough to win the series.

Also, the Hawks did not play up to their potential during the season. They did tend to give up when behind, both in individual games and in competing for playoff seeding. They have some talent, though, if everyone is on his game. I could see them getting hot and winning a game from the Bulls, much like the Knicks did before their trade.

If Hinrich is out, though, that’s a killer for the Hawks, because he’s the only one who can slow Rose. Also, if Noah keeps playing like he did in game 5 against the Pacers, that will also make it tough for the Hawks to steal a game.

I hope the Bulls use this series to get Boozer healthy and in sinc before the Eastern Conference Finals. As frustrating as he can be, we need him at his best, and I’m not convinced that he has suddenly lost what he had last year or even earlier this year.

damn it darth one

Why the hell would a Hawk wanna rumble with a Bull anyway?

But I just can’t help it here. Even if it goes six on a fluke, I think it’ll “feel” like an easier series victory than the Pacers one.

“I’m usually wary of being tooooooo confident about this series.”

that if Captain Kirk can’t start, we can let them have Pargo & Scal.

Like is it a week thing, or a month thing? For example, if they sat Boozer from this past Tuesday, until the ECF (knock on wood), would that really help? I’m still not even sure what that injury is, exactly.

KCJHoop K.C Johnson
This is Stern handing ROY to DRose two years ago. I predict same scene with MVP at Wednesday’s Game 2. http://plixi.com/p/97118599

Via KC’s Twitter

but the Bulls really destroyed the Hawks in their last two meetings, and their loss was that bizarre breakdown where we were up by 20 at the half. At least against Indiana the season series was relatively close and their defense was decent over the second half of the season; Atlanta is not close to as threatening. The last two years the Hawks have been swept in the second round; and looking at their splits, they have gotten considerably worse as the year went on.

Bulls in 4.

would vote next year

i really think this’ll prepare us perfectly for miami
iso offense much like miami’s only with less potent players.

and noah is going to have a cakewalk guarding bosh after battling horford all series

Yeah I’d say that’s money. The only thing that Indy did to us (beyond jumpshooting with an insane % at times, and yes Atlanta will obviously do that) that seemed to work was thugging it up. You have to know ATL will watch the film and think pushing us around will slow us down. The only question will be is if ZaZa does it or someone else…I’d say it will be a group effort. If Hinrich is either very hurt or out of a lot of games you can bet more “hard” fouls will be coming. What other way can they defend us?

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not trollin, but the series just might not go as you may think