I wasn't talking just about Rose when I spoke about Bulls' injuries ... Deng and Hinrich are currently out, Noah and Hamilton have missed many games due to injuries ...

 

Their whole team has gone thru injuries

 

Doesn't matter. The bulls and Lakers were in two completely different situations. It's not even close. The Lakers are a top heavy team who lost all of their back court and a key piece of their front court. Their front court that could play was not 100%. And that's not to mention the coaching change.

That's even to mention the Lakers were playing with expectations where as the Bulls are playing with none.

Credit the Bulls to playing well despite injuries, they've certainly had a fair share of adversity. But comparing their misfortunes to the Lakers? Nah....

 

We had expectations, maybe not as high, but still had to compete to get to eastern finals

 

The Bulls had a decent bench, so guys like Butler, Robinson and Belinelli were able to replace Hinrich and Deng. These three bench players scored 58 out of Bulls' 93 points last night.
Lakers .... not so much. I said it even before the season began that Lakers are gonna be in trouble if any player from the starting lineup gets injured because they had no replacement (although Earl Clark has been a pleasant surprise).

All Lakers had to do was hire Phil Jackson instead of D'Antoni and I guarantee you they would had a home court advantage in the 1st round and would still be playing despite all injuries ... I still don't know why Lakers had so much confidence in D'Antoni ... Its not like he was very successful at Phoenix and New York.

 

I also had the same expectations from the Bulls ... I still think they can beat any eastern team other than Miami.

 

I don't think anyone outside of Bulls fans expects much out of them w/o Rose. If they had lost to the Nets no one would have batted an eye. They are overachieving for sure.

Similar to how when Kobe went down nobody really picked the Lakers to make it out of the first round.

And to answer Zoran's question: Jim Buss doesn't like Phil. Pick any reason why you choose, but it is what it is

 

I'm not really a Bulls fan. I like to watch them because they play as a team and with Rose out, they don't have a superstar.

 

I think the success he had with Nash and stoudamire was what they were basing it off of.

Our bench is great, they step up when someone goes down, I wish we still had Omar asik! And then we got rid of few other guys, sent em to the nets. So glad we didn't get humphries, don't need mr. Dramatic.

 

Well according to "11shelbygt500" you can't do that as fans....lol it's back some 5-8 pages!!

But I do agree, fun to watch.

 

I watched a lot of the Memphis-OKC game yesterday. OKC is in trouble if their bigs can't contain Gasol and Randolph.

I enjoy watching Memphis play. Old school style team that's very calm and collected. You can see they're confident as ever right now

 

IMO any of 4 teams left in the west can make the finals. Watching them play this season I don't think any of them are better than the others. Each series can go to 7 games.

 

My favorite team were Sacramento Kings back when Divac and Stojakovic used to play for them.
Now that they're both retired, I don't really have a favorite team. I'm still happy when the Kings win as well as the Milwaukee Bucks since they're my home team. But as long as there is good basketball, I don't care who's winning (as long as that team is not Lakers ).

 

My home team is the bobcats so clearly I have to root for someone else.

 

That was such a fun team to watch, cwebb, divac, peja, great passing team.

I just like good competive game. Like the bulls/nets triple overtime game

 

I still have all 5 jerseys from this team.

 

I got that magazine too, I remember that cover. Christie and that other guards name is on tip of my tongue. Those two disappeared after the team was torn apart

 

Jason Williams was traded for Mike Bibby and he had an ok career after that. If I remember correctly, he played for Memphis, Orlando and Miami after that, but never played a big role.
Doug Christie was traded for Cuttino Mobly, which was a really bad trade. Mobly could score, but couldn't play defense, which was Christie's speciality. Following the trade to Orlando, and later Dallas, Christie had many injures and was never the same player from the Kings days.

 

one of the best posts in the thread! lol

 

Yep just made my day.

Hearing TNT panel talk about bobcats and kings, that's priceless!!