Does acquiring Love give the Cavs the edge of a healthy Bulls?

[poido123]

What does 6% mean?

Like Combat Wombat always says... Eat a bag of d.cks

Don't tell me you don't know what that means

[ArbitraryWater]

What does 6% mean?

Via ESPN Stats & Info: "Derrick Rose shot 6.3 percent from the floor in the series when defended by LeBron James."

The Lowest on ANY Player in his CAREER that defended Rose on 5 or more Plays/Possessions.

[JohnFreeman]

LeBron has always done well against Chicago

[nba_55]

Another thread where people will make pointless speculation. Basketball isn't played on paper. Until you see the Cavs play, you can't say anything. This Cavs team will be completely new. How can anyone say that they will be better or worse than Bulls without having seen them play 1 game?

[Milbuck]

Yes, because Rose has not proven he can perform in the playoffs yet.

Outside of his rookie year, he's been sub 50% TS in the playoffs each year.

That won't be close to good enough.

What has he not proven? That he couldn't drag his team as the singular individual offensive player (at 22 years old) past a team with prime Lebron, prime Wade, and prime Bosh with one of the nastiest perimeter defenses we've seen in a long time concentrating all on him? Out of his last 2 healthy years, so pretty much since his breakout year, he's had 1 mediocre playoff series.

During his MVP season when he emerged as a superstar, he put up 28/5/6/3/1 on 53% TS against the Pacers. Then he torched the Hawks for 30/4/10/1/1 on 53% TS..then came his only bad playoff series against, once again, an elite trapping defense that featured arguably the 2 best all-around perimeter players in the world.

And then obviously we saw what happened in 2012, what happened in the 1 game he played that postseason in which he put up a near 23 point triple double. The year his team was essentially a lock to make the ECF again before he went down.

It's pretty meaningless to use 1 bad playoff series against him..because he's shown that he has the game and the mentality to succeed in the playoffs...he's gotten to the conference finals while playing really damn well to get there, that has to count for something. All he's lacked was offensively capable players that can take pressure off of him. Now he has that. While the Cavs have nowhere near the defense those Miami teams had..

edit: not even including his rookie year when he took a great Boston team to 7 in an epic series putting up 20/6/6/1/1 on 53% TS..as a 20 year old. Or when he put up 27/3/7/1 on 50% TS against Lebron's Cavs in his 2nd season.

[navy]

Via ESPN Stats & Info: "Derrick Rose shot 6.3 percent from the floor in the series when defended by LeBron James."

For a whole series?

[Warfan]

What does 6% mean?

It's what rose shot against lebron in the last 2 games of the 2011 series

[poido123]

Another thread where people will make pointless speculation. Basketball isn't played on paper. Until you see the Cavs play, you can't say anything.

I'm not asking people to do player comparisons, I'm asking for opinions on the matchups and how each team will exploit them...

[RoundMoundOfReb]

Yes it would...

[ArbitraryWater]

For a whole series?

Yea, 2011..

However LeBron defended him mainly during the end of games.. None the less, when LeBron does a good Job on defense, it's suddenly "everyone else, the team System, helping out, and not really LeBron" lol

Oh, here:

Game 4 with LeBron on Rose: Rose went 0-5 with 1 Turnover.
Game 5 with LeBron on Rose: Rose went 1-10 with 2 Turnovers.

[ballinhun8]

Rookie debut record for points (tied with KAJ)


Epic series against the C's where he played great. Even in 2010 against the Cavs he was good. Just not enough offense to beat them.

[poido123]

It's what rose shot against lebron in the last 2 games of the 2011 series

[ballinhun8]

Yea, 2011..

However LeBron defended him mainly during the end of games.. None the less, when LeBron does a good Job on defense, it's suddenly "everyone else, the team System, helping out, and not really LeBron" lol

Oh, here:

Game 4 with LeBron on Rose: Rose went 0-5 with 1 Turnover.
Game 5 with LeBron on Rose: Rose went 1-10 with 2 Turnovers.

6'8 defending 6'3. Just saying.


I've never seen Paul, Deron, Westbrook guarded by opposing teams wingman like Rose was for those playoffs.

[poido123]

Rookie debut record for points (tied with KAJ)


Epic series against the C's where he played great. Even in 2010 against the Cavs he was good. Just not enough offense to beat them.

That was against a very good defender rondo mind you...

He's capable of doing this to anyone.

[Real14]

Bulls are overrated.