Hrm, they stink against better teams from the Western Conference so, despite having a high seed and playing an inferior Eastern Conference team in the first round (against who the Bulls do well), they will still lose? Oh, and because they got past the first round with MJ and did well against the West then, that has to be the correlation as to why they can't get past the first round post-MJ. It can't be that they had inferior teams in the last few years and this year they have a better team against the East. Do they really look better though? I'm using those Western Conference teams as a measuring stick. How can you tell if they're better by beating up on some inferior Eastern Conference clubs?