i do like the immediate TO by skiles to tell duhon to stay down...i can imagine the conversation

"du...gotta stay down...DEFENSE...wade likes to...defense....up fake the...defense...defender...defend the hoop

defense on three..."

he's growing the fro and stache and looks like the lead out of any 70s blaxpoitation film.....

nice job UC crowd...

"po-z" "po-z" "po-z"

Thabo is the spark this team needed

side note: i thought in real time that was clearly a goaltend, but all in all dropping the homer view the refs are doing a real nice job

If hinrich stops getting pacman jonsed by the refs we should be well off

SO...

they're watching the game and they see that when thabo (are we ever going to give him a nickname or is it just thabo) and noch are in, we play awesome....so they both draw fouls to get benched

~From Chapter 1 of "A Delusional Bulls' Fan's Hurried Thoughts between Commericals"

If we win this game, it'll be because he wouldn't let us lose.

I love it.

Yeah... right.

that or he see's the permanent confetti falling from the rafters in AAA dream begginning to fade

Oh man. I love the Bulls.

I hate Dwyane Wade. So much.

I haven't seen the post-game, but I bet Shaq and Wade whine about the fouls.

I see the school of stubborn  still won't acknowledge Noce's contribution, even though he hit a huge three down the stretch then had the giant three point play that fouled Shaq out. Oh, and the put away free throws.

Tyrus played terribly in the first half. Left walker open for two threes trying to help weakside  and got beat off the dribble but was bailed out by an offensive foul. Much better in second half, though. Good block sequence and oop.

Deng was awesome. And thabo saved us from the retard refs and hinrich foul trouble.

Wallace poor in first half better in second.

The uc was rockin. Still is, in fact.

Must dominate tuesday.

Great play from both Bens, Luol, and Thabo.  Aside from the pull-up loooong 2, The Mister's offense was very good as well.  Thank goodness we no longer have the three-headed monster of Chandler/Sweets/Malik trying to guard O'Neal.

I can't imagine they're going to keep Wade on Deng.  It kind of allows him to rest on the defensive end, but he's too short to guard Lu.  Plus, Lu is not the same player he was last year.  If they keep that up, Good Night Irene...

Love the crowd booing Posey.  Keep it up!

Jon Barry had a bad game.  He even said at one point that he was rooting for Shaq.  Um, journalistic integrity/evenhanded coverage, Jon?  I know it's ESPN/ABC and they don't believe in journalists anymore, but still.  Every close call he thought should have gone Miami's way.  At least he was better than a lot of these dudes in that when he say a replay refuting his opinion, he changed it.  So I guess I give him some credit there, but he had some bad moments.  Including:  "Great crossover!" right as Wade lost the ball to Deng before the three-point-play vs. Haslem.  Going on and on and on about how he hates charge calls.  These are the rules, Jon - this is nothing new - get over it.  "Noshioni" (repeated) - that's a "C" Jon, and he's not Italian.  Mainly I got sick of him rooting for Miami.  I haven't heard him do that many games, so perhaps he just had a bad one.  I'm also still peeved that ABC never showed Hinrich's second foul.

In sum, I'll take the win.  There's little that's more exciting than a Bulls playoff game, particularly when it's a win vs. Miami.  Tuesday is huge.  I still think it's going to be Bulls in 5, but Tuesday is key.

[I just previewed what I wrote and it's kind of a long ramble, huh?  But I've no idea how to improve it - whatever]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/nba/specials/playoffs/2007/04/21/heat.bulls.ap/inde x.html?eref=si_nba

They consisted of video of every Shaq foul with analysis of whether or not it should have been called. Then the Tyrus swat and dunk. Then a few obligatory Wade highlights. They don't show the key rebound by Wallace/Deng when BUlls were up one. Then they end by showing Wade's missed three.

I honestly think there were only two BUlls offensive highlights.

WTF?

They did at least spotlight Deng afterwards.

LET'S GO BULLS!!

http://www.miamiherald.com/609/story/82694.html