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

    Lebron with the current team I feel the Bulls have the edge.

    With love now? I think it will be really close, even without great defense.

    What are your thoughts on the matchups?

    Butler will be able to do a good job on Bron, I'm worried that gasol or gibson won't be able to close out on love on his 3s, I feel Irving is going to struggle at times knowing when to impose himself and playing off the ball may not be something he finds easy to do...

    Varejao on Noah is a good matchup, very much alike in some ways. Rose will get whatt he wants if there is no interior paint protector. I think waiters could be a real big problem, especially if he, lebron and kyrie are slashing to the hoop In waves...

    The shooters are where bulls can hurt the heat. If Irving or waiters get lazy on defense(which they will) guys like rose McDermott and Snell will punish them from the outside.

    Then you have mirotic who has a crafty inside/outside game and will stretch guys like love who won't feel comfortable closing out the perimeter. So as much as love will cause problems stretching our bigs, we also have a player who can do that.

    I think if we can utilize gasol a lot and get him to use his vision of passing out of the post and exploiting cavs lack of interior defense, we can really hurt the cavs there.

    Anyways, that's my rant. What do you guys think on the matchups assuming the teams are as follows;

    Bulls

    PG rose/brooks/Hinrich
    SG Snell/butler/hinrich
    SF McDermott/MDJ/butler/mirotic
    PF Gasol/Mirotic/Gibson
    C Noah/Gasol

    Cavs

    PG Irving/Dellevadova
    SG Waiters/Martin?/Allen?
    SF James/Brewer/Miller
    PF Love/Thompson
    C Varajeo/Haywood

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

    Eh, Bulls frontcourt would murder that Cavs frontcourt apart from Love

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

    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.

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

    Dont need Love, they got LeKing.


    6%

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

    Quote Originally Posted by Inferno
    Eh, Bulls frontcourt would murder that Cavs frontcourt apart from Love

    Noah's not exactly some dominant bigman that can't be contained... He's good, but he's not an offensive juggernaut or a C that causes matchup issues.

    Bulls should be the better coached team as Thibs has been around for a while and Blatt is brand new. Not saying Thibs is necessarily the better coach, but the Bulls should be able to execute their sets on a much more consistent basis.

    Could be an epic eastern playoff matchup.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by DMAVS41
    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.
    TS?? Come on with that crap.


    This isn't pre-2010 where the Cavs were built around Bron. This is a team that was already established with young guys who have never played in the playoffs. And you add in Love who has never played an important game in his career.

    Outside of Bron, the Cavs have no valuable playoff experience. Well they have Miller, so if he's playing crunch time mins then it means that Varejao or Waiters is on the bench which either means less athleticism or the barely there rim protection.


    Chicago is better suited now to beat a LeBron led team than ever.

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

    If Bran really is the player he's hyped to be, they should beat the Bulls without much fuss in this scenario.

    He should be head and shoulders above anyone else on the court and the supporting casts beyond that are equal or even weighted in Cleveland's favor.

    No excuses.

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

    james with any team can beat the bulls

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

    Quote Originally Posted by ballinhun8
    TS?? Come on with that crap.


    This isn't pre-2010 where the Cavs were built around Bron. This is a team that was already established with young guys who have never played in the playoffs. And you add in Love who has never played an important game in his career.

    Outside of Bron, the Cavs have no valuable playoff experience. Well they have Miller, so if he's playing crunch time mins then it means that Varejao or Waiters is on the bench which either means less athleticism or the barely there rim protection.


    Chicago is better suited now to beat a LeBron led team than ever.
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    Mike Miller and Varejao have tons of playoff exp.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by inclinerator
    james with any team can beat the bulls

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

    Quote Originally Posted by inclinerator
    james with any team can beat the bulls
    That.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by inclinerator
    james with any team can beat the bulls

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

    Quote Originally Posted by Soundwave
    If Bran really is the player he's hyped to be, they should beat the Bulls without much fuss in this scenario.

    He should be head and shoulders above anyone else on the court and the supporting casts beyond that are equal or even weighted in Cleveland's favor.

    No excuses.
    That goes for us too. No excuses, rose has significant help of shooters and a proper inside post player to dump the ball into and make plays. In fact, bulls have two elite passing bigmen and the best bench in the league.

    If healthy, absolutely no excuses for bulls either.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by inclinerator
    james with any team can beat the bulls

    I cannot wait to remove this myth for good.

    6% , rose can't beat a lebron led team, etc etc

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

    Quote Originally Posted by poido123
    I cannot wait to remove this myth for good.

    6% , rose can't beat a lebron led team, etc etc
    What does 6% mean?

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