Bulls vs Pacers
Boozer gets away with a lot of pushing...
I've always known Boozer wasn't a good defender, but he's even worse than I thought... He's a sad sad defender. I mean, I can understand getting used by Stoudemire, Bosh, Garnett, Horford, etc, but he's getting abused by Hansbrough. That's just unacceptable. I know Hansbrough plays hard and hustles, but still... Boozer has just been terrible this series.
Its funny how Foster an old vet gets so much respect from the officials. Hes been hacking away at all the Bulls best players. If Hansborough was giving these kinds of fouls to Rose, Deng, Boozer he would have been ejected a longtime ago.
Indiana basketball, Jazz fans used to go nuts about that when Utah played LA. Utah was always exposed by Boozers lack of defense. I see that being Chicago's point of weakness throughout the playoffs. Chicago better hope Noah stays healthy throughout these playoffs, or else Bosh, KG, Horford, Howard, or whoever they end up playing in the future will dominate.
The Pacers are playing inspired ball, but the Bulls have been disappointing to me. The Pacers have pretty much outplayed them majority of this series... They just haven't been able to close out the game.
The Bulls look very average to me and aren't a lock to get to the Eastern Conference Finals in my opinion.
This Pacers new defense reminds me of Charlottes defense last year, add in the fastbreak threat these players have and it becomes deadly. I agree Chicago seems to be playingdown to the competition. It seems whnever they are on their heels they hit a big bucket and make a run, yet they are not making a point to take them out of the game. very scary for Chicago to let a young team like this gain so much momentum at home.
On the plus side, the announcers audio isnt working. I like when that happens makes me feel like Im there.
Kyles hitting his shots, thats what counts. Korvers playing great but give some credit to the teams structure. Chicago is showing everyone you wanna double, help, or switch on Rose Kyle is going to stick that jumper, they will make the extra pass to find him.
Look at this.. The Bulls have 4 SFs on their team and Bogans can play there.. But, Deng has played every minute except for like 3 of this game.. Bogans, Deng, Korver, Brewer, and Butler.. All of those SFs and Deng plays 45 minutes... Wow.
The Pacers really are a horrible matchup for the Bulls. They have George and Jones who can play defense on Rose and is quick enough and athletic enough to stay with him, and since they have no real versatile SG it forces whatever set shooter to have to shoot over the quicker Collison, or Price. Also Granger is having his way with Deng, and the fact that they have two capable offensive bigs in Hansborough and Hibbert allows them to expose Boozers lack of defense. They cant just have Noah play off on Hansborough because Hibbert will torch Booz. Great series and so far its all come down to crunch time. The Bulls execute and Pacers dont.
George really does remind me of T-Mac...with the Raptors of course. Not sayig he will ever become the type of player T-Mac was, just saying he is a player with many good tools and right now as his offensive game is all coming together he gets minutes with his defense and plays well. Very intriguing prospect.
The Pacers have played very good in their 2 losses. Alotof people had said that if the refs were not calling the game in favor of the Bulls the Pacers would be up 2-0. The Pacers are getting all the calls in this one so it should be interesting.