I feel validated a bit. For one thing, I have been calling for Kurt Thomas to get some playing time. He did tonight and he presented some defensive trouble for Miami and some offense for us. But he played too much. After sitting out so many games, he ran out of gas and Coach Thibs did not recognize it.
Another thing that I worried about for us in the post season is lack of experience. I believe that most times, a team has to knock on the door a few times before the figure out how to get in to the Finals. Lebron, DWade, and Haslem all had that experience while none of our guys did. It should bode well for us next year.
DRose needs some offensive help. Every 4th quarter since the second game, Lebron has been able to shut down Derrick and he has no one to dump it to. The rest of the team seemed afraid to shoot in the last quarter. We need to do a better job of moving without the ball to free people up for easy shots.
What happened to Joakim's scoring. Before he went out this season with his injury, he was a decent shooter. Since his return, his offense has been terrible. Teams don't even have to cover him at 8 feet. He needs to work on his shooting in the off-season.
We did miss Asik tonight. I'm sure he wanted to be in, but there's no toughing out a broken fibula.
Ronnie Brewer performed admirably. Korver again could not get open. The refs were allowing a lot of contact, but somehow the Heat got to the line 12 more times than we did. And I would not say that it was because the Heat were the more aggressive- rather the opposite seemed to be true. But as far as conspiracy theories go though, I would expect the league to want another game or two before handing the Eastern Conference Championship to the Heat.
So congrats to the Bulls and support staff on a job well done. A little more offensive firepower and a little better coaching and we'll be fighting for a title soon.
Thanks for being with me this year. It's nice to finally have more of the city paying attention to our Bulls.
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