Gil Scott-Heroin
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This is why I said you're misinterpreting what I said. I'm fully aware that Bulls fans had belief/confidence in their team beating the Cavs. 
Looking back how the hell did the Bulls get beat by the cavs??
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Breh, Love was out and Kyrie was crippled for most of the series. If the Bulls beat the Cavs, no one would be giving Lebron any slack for having no love or an injured Kyrie so having an ex-DPOTY, an ex coach of the year, an ex MVP, and a HOF PF going against a bunch of guys who don't even know what the playoffs look like. Mozgov? Tristan Thompson? JR Smith? Delladova? Kyrie?
It was Lebron James and help vs the Bulls and none of the Bulls, sans maybe Butler, thinks they can beat Lebron.
Gil Scott-Heroin
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All of that still doesn't negate what I said. Yes the Cavs were up against it, yet still LeBron wasn't the #1 reason why the Bulls lost. I don't think you can particularly pinpoint what the exact reason was, however it was more of a case of the Bulls failing to play up to their abilities than it was because of LeBron. Sure he played with relentless effort on the offensive side (while take plays off on defense), but he was inefficient to the point that it kept the Bulls in games.
.We've discussed this ad nauseam at this point. In fact, here's a link to damn near an entire thread dedicated to why the Bulls lost:
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/no-e...l-2015-chicago-bulls-offseason-thread.318698/
and you'd be hard pressed to find a more honest group on here, so you won't be getting a jaded view of what happened going through that thread. You're welcome for the link. I'm not about to repeat what I, and others have said a 1,000 times for the sake of this thread.
Bottom line is the ONLY people that were truly shocked that the Bulls lost that series are people that:
A) clearly didn't watch the Bulls play throughout last year.
and/or
B) are looking at the situation mostly based on personnel with very few other factors involved.
Both of which that come off as very casual, simplistic, and elementary - very much in the same vein of people that want to deduce the reason why the Bulls lost the series by simply saying "LeBron" in-spite of the horrible series that he had. Not even considering how the Cavs role players stepped up to make timely baskets when LeBron himself simply couldn't, but that's not the type of discussion that will garner the most daps, or fit the agenda on here..... I get it.
A lot of Bulls fans did think they could take the series (what fan wouldn't). By the same notion, it was very much in the conscious that this was the most bi-polar team that a lot of us had ever seen thus the reason that nobody was shocked at what went down....
The team was miserable & they got exactly what they wanted at the end of the day, which was to be put out of their misery.
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No Gasol. Before Gasol got hurt the Bulls were handling the Cavs. After the injury to Gasol; the Bulls planned their vacations.
Gasol played too many minutes at his age during the season and was bound to croak. Energy guys like Noah and Gibson spin cycle when they hit age 30 as well. Chi didn't have nearly the offense to overcome that
jaydolf spitler
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Remember how trash mirotic played in the playoffs? Was a big reason