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  1. bukie
    Deng, it's OK to pass the ball to someone on the team that makes FTs better. And dribbles better. Although, it's also OK to make both.
  2. bukie
    The Cubs want someone on base for Castro to drive in?
  3. bukie
    Technically not playoffs-related, but Rick Adelman was just fired by the Houston Rockets. Curious to see how many coach of the year votes he gets, anyway.
  4. bukie
    Sunny. Cold. Possible showers tonight with a low of 37 degrees.
  5. bukie
    Looking at the box, Hansbrough still made 2/3 of his shots from 16-23 feet in that game, so it's not like the Bulls made him miss then, either. Although, in the rest of the meetings, Hansbrough was 2-5 from that range combined, so maybe Vogel made him a bigger focus.
  6. bukie
    Also, Hollinger's proposed defensive adjustments for game 2: - Don't use Collison on Rose, but hide him on Bogans/Brewer (Korver helps negate this plan) - Boozer should play up on Hansbrough and trust that the help defense will help when he gets by him.
  7. bukie
    He also mentions that Hansbrough scored as many points the previous meeting against the Bulls, but much more on shots at the rim than outside, and that Boozer was likely playing off him on purpose to make him hit shots from deep.
  8. bukie
    Hollinger stuck up for the Bulls in his insider article today.
  9. bukie
    No, not even close. The 1995-96 Bulls went 72-10, 14-1 in the playoffs, and then tanked a couple to win at home. That has GOT to be a conspiracy theory. Well, it's a bit suspect that their two worst offensive games of the year just happened to be those two games in the NBA Finals, after they blitzed a terrific Seattle team three times, and then coasted to victory again in game 6. The Bulls lost 3 games all that year by double digits, and the third took a lights out offensive performance by the Knicks combined with bad offensive game from both Jordan and Pippen. And they were still worse offensively overall in those other two games. It's a moot point, though, because the Bulls won't go 16-0 in the playoffs (even if I predicted it).
  10. bukie
    No, not even close. The 1995-96 Bulls went 72-10, 14-1 in the playoffs, and then tanked a couple to win at home.
  11. bukie
    As long as Rose is isolating on Collison, he's getting to the rim at will. The Pacers need to trap him out high to keep it from happening, because Rose can avoid a charge pretty easily, at which point the Pacers are left either going for the block and likely fouling regularly, or not contesting the shot closely and letting him take whatever he wants at the rim.
  12. bukie
    Just doing a bracketology at this point indicates as such.
  13. bukie
    Dwight Howard a near-unanimous defensive player of the year. Keith Bogans picked up one first-place vote, for realsies. Howard was first on all but 6 ballots, 2nd on 5, left off one.
  14. bukie
    What's really odd is he basically pegged the batter with no repercussion besides the balk. That seems exploitable to some capacity.
  15. bukie
    Not according to thebaseballcube.com They have him at a 12.56 WHIP :banghead: Always thought their stats were reliable. Lesson learned. http://thebaseballcube.com/profile.asp?P=Joseph-Coleman I think they're somehow multiplying his WHIP by 10. Don't know why or how, but it matches up.
  16. bukie
    I was under the impression that the "impossible to draw a charge on him" was a subtle dig at the officiating as well.
  17. bukie
    Castro is currently on pace to hit over .400, who cares about a hit record at that point? :P
  18. bukie
    Here's a question I don't know the answer to: On a rebound where a big taps a ball back to a guard, who gets credit for the rebound? Is it the initial tap, or the guy who eventually controls the ball?
  19. bukie
    There may have been 1-2 like that, but the vast majority of the time Rose drove the lane, the Pacers' bigs were fouling hard to make sure he didn't get the shot in. Rose is historically extremely good at avoiding contact when the opponent doesn't jump into him or hack at him. The one notable play I can remember is near the end when Rose got the and-1, when Hibbert initially was set for the charge, Rose jumped around him to the right, and Hibbert proceeded to slide into him with the body. Even though his hands were straight up, he still slid into him, and it was a pretty clear foul. Looking again, the diciest calls were the first one in the first quarter, the first in the 3rd quarter and the last in the 3rd quarter. Two of them, it looks like Rose did something similar to the one I mentioned at the end where he jumped to the right, and the defender slid over and hip-checked him (before falling backwards). The other play Hibbert jumped straight up, but he was well inside the charge circle, too.
  20. bukie
    Yeah, Hoopdata is awesome. EDIT: You should check out the in-depth box scores for each game. It's insane.
  21. bukie
    There may have been 1-2 like that, but the vast majority of the time Rose drove the lane, the Pacers' bigs were fouling hard to make sure he didn't get the shot in. Rose is historically extremely good at avoiding contact when the opponent doesn't jump into him or hack at him. The one notable play I can remember is near the end when Rose got the and-1, when Hibbert initially was set for the charge, Rose jumped around him to the right, and Hibbert proceeded to slide into him with the body. Even though his hands were straight up, he still slid into him, and it was a pretty clear foul.
  22. bukie
    http://hoopdata.com/oteamshotlocs.aspx For the season, Bulls opponents average 3.5 makes and 10.2 shots from 3-9 feet per game, for a 33.9% clip. From 15-23 feet, Bulls opponents average 8.5 makes and 22.8 shots per game, for a 37.1% clip.
  23. bukie
    There's a big difference between allowing open 10 footers and open 22 footers. If the defense is keyed on making the opponent beat you with 15-23 footers, which is the lowest-percentage shot in the NBA, and the opponent makes 60+% of them, it's still not a bad strategy. Yes, Boozer can play him closer, but I'd still rather see Hansbrough taking long jumpers all day than Hansbrough driving by Boozer all day and getting actual high-percentage shots.
  24. bukie
    He was also 3-9 from inside 15 feet. Inside 15 feet, the Bulls were contesting shots more closely, and Noah/Thomas/Gibson/Asik (for a minute) were getting involved. 15-23 feet shots were mostly on Boozer only. Well you can't explain away his good shooting by saying he's just not good enough, then explain away his bad shooting by giving credit to the defense. I'm relatively sure Hansbrough's been defended throughout his career inside 15 feet, not just this past game. Considering the Thibodeau defensive strategy is lock down the paint, defend the 3, and allow long range jumpers (which I'm sure you're quite familiar with, watching the Celtics the past few years), the shot distribution is very in-line with what the defense typically allows, but Indiana was simply making their long-range jumpers at an unsustainable rate.
  25. bukie
    He was also 3-9 from inside 15 feet. Inside 15 feet, the Bulls were contesting shots more closely, and Noah/Thomas/Gibson/Asik (for a minute) were getting involved. 15-23 feet shots were mostly on Boozer only. EDIT: 2-8 at the rim, so he only took one shot from 3-15 feet?
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