What are the chances of the Bulls winning the East?

[iDefend5]

Just think about it for a second will you. Rip Hamilton?

And Jimmy Butler? Who the fuck is that?

-Yeah they fixed their weak-point, what is the problem here?

-A rooke that is about as relevant as Norris Cole.

[iDefend5]

Anybody have a change of heart about the bulls now?

[PJR]

Anybody have a change of heart about the bulls now?

No. Will still be raped by Miami in a 7 game series. Don't care what the records are at the end.

[Tenchi Ryu]

Anybody have a change of heart about the bulls now?

Nope, the Suns game proved how good our team is without Rose. Rose on that team definitely has a chance to take Heat.

[cteach111]

Nope, the Suns game proved how good our team is without Rose. Rose on that team definitely has a chance to take Heat.

i'd be disappointed if the Bulls fail to take the Heat to at least 6 games (they gotta get there first though)

[DRose1899]

I don't care as long we avoid the Hawks

we gonna win, but game against them always ugly.. I don't watch that shit-of-7-series

Let the Heat deal with them.

[Tenchi Ryu]

I don't care as long we avoid the Hawks

we gonna win, but game against them always ugly.. I don't watch that shit-of-7-series

Let the Heat deal with them.

Can't argue there...let them go against the Pacers and Hawks this year, and see the shit we had to go through lol.

Yet, "its just the Pacers and Hawks"

[nba_55]

If Lebron plays at his best, nobody can beat this Heat team. Lebron was at his best last year against Bulls and result: The team with the MVP, the best defense, one of the best rebounding lost 4-1 to them. Wade didnt even play well.

Lebron will be the difference maker, not Rip, even though he is a good addition to the team.

[StateOfMind12]

Hopefully the Heat deal with the Celtics and the Knicks in the first two rounds. That will take a lot out of them since those two matchup kind of well against Miami. I'm not afraid of the Hawks especially with Horford out for 3-4 months.

[nba_55]

Can't argue there...let them go against the Pacers and Hawks this year, and see the shit we had to go through lol.

Yet, "its just the Pacers and Hawks"

Philly, Celtics > Pacers, Hawks

[Tenchi Ryu]

If Lebron plays at his best, nobody can beat this Heat team. Lebron was at his best last year against Bulls and result: The team with the MVP, the best defense, one of the best rebounding lost 4-1 to them. Wade didnt even play well.

Lebron will be the difference maker, not Rip, even though he is a good addition to the team.

You can't compare last year Bulls to this one though cause this is a completely different team offensively. The main thing the Heat were able to exploit has already been patched up pretty damn good. So its basically the best team will win it. Bulls have the best Offensive starting 5 in the league right now as a Team.

Rip is a difference maker, cause he's gonna be adding something Bulls lacked last year, better spacing. That's gonna be a huge difference this year.

Philly, Celtics > Pacers, Hawks

The strong Hawks we are seeing this year are the SAME Hawks we faced, just replace T-Mac with J-Crawford

Hawks > Celtics > Philly = Pacers
This same Hawks team took out Dwight last yeat BTW.

[themurph]

No. Will still be raped by Miami in a 7 game series. Don't care what the records are at the end.

How is it possible to be "raped" by anyone in a long seven game series?

And is your vocabulary that limited that you have to use an ugly word like rape?

Just asking...

[DRose1899]

Hopefully the Heat deal with the Celtics and the Knicks in the first two rounds. That will take a lot out of them since those two matchup kind of well against Miami. I'm not afraid of the Hawks especially with Horford out for 3-4 months.

Hawks don't scare me, they're disgusting me
Feck it, let the heat fan that have super ugly series on their TV. like the last game that they have

[trig]

Heat beat chicago in 5 but it is much closer than it looked. Wade played bad, but for some reason he always play bad in chicago even in the Kirk Hinrich era. . A lot of the games were close and it took clutch shots by lebron to win it. Lebron hit a ton of tough shots in crunch time but during Mavs series, he was missing open shots. If he missed some of the contested shots vs chicago, we could've seen a different result.

Heat is still the better team with them having the Big 3 but chicago upgraded a major weak point. Heat basically ignored Bogans and let his man zone up and pressure Drose. Battier and Cole are nice additions but we all know that the center position is their weakpoint.

A 7 game series this playoffs with both teams healthy will be fun

[Alamo]

The Bulls have a much higher chance this year. They have been playing much better than last year so far. Rip addition aside, they have been playing better together as a team. Rose is older and more experieced. The chemistry with Carlos Boozer is there, everyone is starting to mesh offensively. Even their defense has improved. lol