11/5/09--Chicago Bulls @ Cleveland Cavaliers--7PM CST (TNT)

[Grand Champ]

I think the way we win this game is

1) crowd the paint
2) make lebron shoot
3) small lineup (Rose, Hinrich, Salmons, Deng, Noah) and RUN RUN RUN this Cavs team to death
4) Take the ball to the hoop when Shaq is out on the perimiter, this should lead to easy fouls.

So we win if the Cavs have an off shooting night, which if you play good D, can happen... if not... meh who cares we weren't supposed to win this game anyway

[AshyLarrysDiaper]

We're gonna need Miller's best in this one. Body up Shaq on D, pick and pop on offense.

[Luke NOT Luc]

We're gonna need Miller's best in this one. Body up Shaq on D, pick and pop on offense.

I'm not a big fan of the Miller/Taj combo at the 4 and 5, but Vinny likes it and the Cavs are one team that I can see that combo working well against.

[illiance]

Always a fun matchup with you guys, although I cant believe how negative this thread is. Chins up fellas, you're still a playoff team at least in my eyes. No Tyrus tonight? Yea, he's a Cav killer, cant say Im too upset about that. Good luck guys.

It's negative since the writing is on the wall. The Bulls are a horrific road team. The Cavs are near unbeatable at home. LeBron destroys us. Tyrus isn't playing. Rose isn't healthy. Our best player (Deng) is going to be shut down by LeBron. It's going to take a miracle to even keep this game competitive in the second half.

[The Explorer]

I really wish Tyrus was playing. Last year wasn't it him and Deng that stifled Lebron into an 8 for 28 shooting night? It might have just been Deng, but I do remember Tyrus blocking the ever loving **** out of Lebron.

There was a time in that game where Tyrus just locked down LeBron for about 5 minutes.

That was the game that Lebron also had a flu and missed a lot of shots he normally makes at a good rate. He had no lift that game too.

[LoveDaBoo]

Man, this is a bunch of garbage. I get NBA ticket -broadband, and this will be the 3rd time in 5 games the Bulls get blacked out.

[AshyLarrysDiaper]

Man, this is a bunch of garbage. I get NBA ticket -broadband, and this will be the 3rd time in 5 games the Bulls get blacked out.

No cable? It'll happen every time they're on national tv.

[C3]

For some reason, I believe what Magilla Gorilla reported concerning JJ.

The whole fact that Noah felt he needed to tooter him, and with my mis-qoute of Noah, I'm just going by memory here guys: "I want to make sure he doesn't make the same mistakes I did" didn't sound all that great to me. My first thought upon hearing this, was JJ may have been partying it up a little too hard.

Concerning Cleveland: Hopefully luck is on our side tonight, I think we could use some of it tonight.

[Rerisen]

The Cavaliers have held their last 3 out of 5 opponents to 90 points or under. The Bulls are averaging 88.0. This is not a good recipe. If Kirk and Salmons don't break out of their funks, we could be looking at one of those 35 point halves and TNT cutting to the studio or other games out of embarrassment.

[AirP.]

Man, this is a bunch of garbage. I get NBA ticket -broadband, and this will be the 3rd time in 5 games the Bulls get blacked out.

No cable? It'll happen every time they're on national tv.

It gets better, only 5 of the first 15 games are blacked out. espn360.com has ESPN games online(for cox communications) so I get those too.

I've got to buy windows 7 soon so I can have my over the air TV, netflix and hulu all in windows media center where all I have to use my remote and no mouse to get to where I need to(other then individual websites).

[Ctownbulls]

I'm confused about these blackout situations. So you have League Pass but don't have TNT? That seems kind of weird.

EDIT: Ohhh, NBA Broadband. That sucks. Still odd that you don't have cable.

[Ajosu]

Win or lose, can we please please come out and play well? Hey, if Cleveland plays their best game, they'll win. I can live with that. But I'll be disappointed if we don't come out and play a good game. Make the right decisions, take care of the ball, rebound, and play hard. The rest will take care of itself.

[C3]

"Swear word, Swearword", I just walked down into the basement to set up the dvr, and wacked my forehead on one of the basement's flooring studs...............this isn't starting out good tonight.

[vincecarter4pres]

Last I checked Vegas had you guys at +11.5, I would take that for sure.

[C3]

Thanks for the support Vince.

[DFolks]

Bout to settle down and watch the bulls game. i have my gatorade, subway buffalo chicken footlong, and a gram dro blunt in town. Watch out world, DRose will spin my mind.

[alucryts]

im hoping rose shows signs of being healthy and salmons learns how to shoot lol

[LoveDaBoo]

Man, this is a bunch of garbage. I get NBA ticket -broadband, and this will be the 3rd time in 5 games the Bulls get blacked out.

No cable? It'll happen every time they're on national tv.

No, the cable package at my apartment sucks hard, so I figured I'd just get league pass. But I didn't account for the freakish regularity with which the Bulls would be national. I still think it's garbage that the NBA can't get a contract where it can broadcast its own freaking games.

[C3]

Whats a "gram dro blunt in town".......... Too me it doesn't sound like something you should be bragging about.

[vincecarter4pres]

I think he meant in tow lol