LeBron.

Golden State is playing with house money, just like Chicago is.

I wouldn't put him above Pop, but he's right there. Amazing job.

Haha, tied. Go Bulls!

Simply amazing. I'm not sure Thib cares. He'll play whoever is there.

Amazing what Thibs is getting out of Nate Robinson. He was a borderline NBA player a couple of years ago. Now, he's running a team that could beat the Champs on Game 1 on their home court. Generally making good decisions and actually playing good D.

If he keeps playing like this he is going to get a nice little contract this offseason

Lots of complaining about the officials by the Heat.

Noah has to be careful

LMAO Nate Robinson. Money.

Nate Robinson! Bulls up 2.

Oh damn! Nate Rob, shaking Chalmers.

Noah is going to pass out one day on the court. Never seen a player who puts in so much energy and effort each game. As old people say "He plays the game how it's meant to be played"

NATE ****ING ROBINSON!!!

LMAO Assassin.

NATE ROB!

What an embarrassment for the Heat to lose this game. This is what happens when you play lazy for the entire game and expect to win in the final possessions.

go bulls

Wow Nate iskilling it. What can u say about Noah wow

I'm loving my Heat in 6 pick

No kidding.

Noah and Robinson have both been huge but Jimmy Butler deserves a ton of credit the guy hasn't sit down in 3-4 games

They had an easy series against the Bucks and the Bulls are in full on survival mode. We probably should have seen a competitive game coming (I wasn't so sure with Luol out), but who the hell could have predicted a Bulls win?

The game has always been, and always will be, about buckets.

Crazy. Gonna need at least one more in Miami. Go Bulls!

The power of great coaching.

Hope that awakens the Heat to the fact that they can't just roll over opponents if they don't give a full effort.

Yup. This isn't the first round anymore. The teams they play from now on aren't the Bucks.

I expected competitive games in most of them. But the compete level just wasn't there for most of the players tonight, Wade and Bosh barely showed up at all.

ahahahaha

lebron sucks

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Heh. Warriors up 11-3 on the Spurs.

No doubt that will be the narrative after the game. But, the simple fact is the Bulls are just better than people are giving them credit for at this point. Nate is legit. Marco is legit. Butler is a beast given all the minutes he's playing. They'll get Hinrich and Deng back to supplement. The Heat not only have to be interested, but they have to play well to beat this team.

GO BULLS!!!!

It's absurd that you have to knock Durant to praise LeBron. They had to adjust and won the series. Who gives a shit how pretty it was? You knocking LeBron tonight? Of course not because he will win the series. Your objectivity around certain players is laughable.

LMAOLMAOLMAO CLUTCH!

The Bulls play good defense and Noah is a beast. But the Heat should be able to beat them in a ****ing playoff home game. This is embarrassing for them.

:PPL:

Fight!

I didn't knock Durant. I said that his team struggled to beat a far inferior Rockets team and that he was a far worse player than Durant (both of which are true).

I have no problem knocking LeBron tonight. He wasn't anywhere near as good as he had to be to beat the Bulls.

Don't disagree, just saying people (not you in particular) only really acknowledge that the Bulls play hard. It's not just that, they're good players and Thibs puts them in position to succeed.

Durant's defense is fine when he doesn't waste extra energy picking up all of the scoring and rebounding slack. If he's not elite then LeBron is the only elite player in the league right now.

If the Heat want to really be a great team, games like tonight don't happen. Especially against a depleted team. I don't care how well they're coached.

As I've said before (and LeBron still has time to do it)... he still has to prove that he can close a close game. Last year's playoffs and already with the Bucks series, he has been flat-out dominant in the first 3 quarters. But between last year's playoffs and this year's playoffs, he's been deceptively mediocre in the last 2-3 minutes of a game. Passes up on way too many shots in a close game and too often misses the shots he does take.

The question is, seeing that he was pretty bad in the last 2-3 minutes... can he get it out of his head? To his credit, this year, he's been nails late in games in ways that he hasn't usually. But I would say that this is about as much pressure as he's going to face all year, given the expectations of him going into game 2.

I was called an idiot for suggesting that Robinson could help the Thunder.

LeBron has been fine throughout his career late in games (and the stats all support this). Thought this myth ended after the NBA finals win last year.

If they use it as motivation and bounce back to win in 5 or 6, people will say it was good for character. Nobody will remember about a minor bump in the road. All depends how they react to this.

Durant's team lost those games because Thabo Sefalosha, Kevin Martin, Kendrick Perkins etc couldn't convert wide open opportunities. Also, because the coach didn't make an adjustment til game six that everyone and their dog was questioning. You made that point to show how Durant is inferior to LeBron. It has nothing to do with anything. LeBron is out of this ****ing World good, but Durant is fantastic too. The tweet was off base and dumb. That is really all that needs to be said. You make Durant sound like a failure for going 6 games with a team when it's way beyond him. If one player makes that much of a difference beating Houston should be a great win since you haven't had Harden's cock out of your mouth all year.

Bulls!! What an incredible gutsy performance tonight. I've always been a big Nate Robinson fan. Glad he's tearing it up for us. Got to get Thibs a ring. He's the best coach hands down.

You can go ahead and look at the game logs from last year. I've posted them a trillion times. LeBron was outstanding in the playoffs last year. He was NOT good in the final 3 minutes of games when the game was close. Like I said, I've seen more resiliency from him and a "I don't give a ****" attitude from him this year than I've ever really seen from him in his career. But he still does not look like the close game playoff "killers" you'd expect from one of the greatest players of all time.

He could now. He was here for a few months and never saw the floor. You might as well say he could help Memphis because he's played almost as many minutes there.

The Heat are well past the character building stage. They could, and probably should win this thing in 5. Still, tonight was a lack of killer instinct, just asleep at the wheel. The really great teams don't need motivation by losing to Nate Robinson to get in gear.

This loss means nothing for Miami if they win the series. Doesn't matter if you win in 4,5 or 7. Thibs is a fantastic coach that knows how to give them problems. For some reason he seems to give them more problems without Rose.

Also, LeBron doesn't have to be a closer when his team is often crushing his opponent, and dominates in every way. If he keeps winning rings it doesn't matter how. Now if they lose a series with a healthy roster feel free to crucify. I'm not falling for the sky is falling shit. The Heat will be fine.

People can say rust, I agree. But the Bulls have been playing with like 8 players. If only the Bulls could be fully healthy for a stretch in the playoffs, it would be fun to see.

Loul Deng
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This could be and I'm afraid it will be, Deja Vu. Chicago beat Miami in game 1 a couple years ago then got run out of the series

Uh...ya..Deng isn't coming back anytime soon

which NBA team was it again that passed on Thibs for a coach?

The Cavs?

BTW I'm happy Nate is getting this chance. Lets be honest though, if Rosé was healthy he wouldn't be playing here either. He's making the most out of his opportunity, and that's awesome. He's a cool dude.

I hope Chicago keeps it up, but I'm afraid they woke a sleeping giant. I figured they might take a game or 2 just because. This is where having a system in place helps. Plug and play. Props to Thibs.

He may have earned a back up spot though. They're not a sleeping giant. The Heat are tough as ****. So are we. Each team knows what their opponent is.

From what I've heard, he's passed on teams wanting the Bulls job.

Golden State hanging in there against the Spurs.

Would be cool to see Golden State in the Finals. Steph Curry is a stud.

Curry is fun to watch it. His shot is so pretty.

Two horrible turnovers for the Warriors.

Ezeli has the worst hands in the league

Honestly, there's nobody more fun to watch in the league right now IMO

I was begging for that last three to drop. Would have been insane.

Curry, just wow.

MY GOD!!!

LMAO Curry is going off

Wow. Curry. Someone needs to post that GIF from Friday.

OH MY GOD!

Steph ****ing Curry!!!!!

i told you he was better than Harden you Harden lovers

How did this kid not go to a major college?

Too bad the Brooklyn Nets didn't make it further.

Curry is shooting as well as anyone I've ever seen. Just wow!

**** Danny Green's lucky bitch ass.

Could be a big momentum swing going into the 4th

And just like that SA is within 12 and in the game. Stupid Warriors.

Green UNC!!