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If the Bulls had won they would have been 3rd seed. The Bulls are actually in the same exact position as last year concerning Toronto.
If the Bulls had won they would have been 3rd seed. The Bulls are actually in the same exact position as last year concerning Toronto.
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what thread was that even in?
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I posted it in the NBA EC playoff thread here. Crys put a kibosh on getting OT. However, it's probably better to read the entire article here. The article that the NBA minute management is much different today than prior years.
Towards the end of the article, it touches on being more efficient and playing in shorter bursts. These are real NBA people who are speaking about this. The subject is very real, and Thib's is very old fashioned.
The article talks about keeping players healthier as well by playing less minutes. Also, it talks about a point of diminishing returns for players, which is interesting. Meaning a player becomes less effective towards the end of a game by reaching an optimal minute point.
I had another article on the minutes per stretch as well. I will try to find that again.
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Here's another article about managing long term player fatigue I had bookmarked. It has some interesting points as well.
And to be fair, here's an article about the Spurs model of minutes management. It actually states the Spurs model might not work for the Bulls based on last year from lack of depth.
It's one of the reasons I've become mad at Thib's this year as the Bulls had a deeper roster then they ever had, and coming off a year they played the player a lot of minutes. This year would have been a great opportunity to use the Spurs model.
And to be fair, here's an article about the Spurs model of minutes management. It actually states the Spurs model might not work for the Bulls based on last year from lack of depth.
It's one of the reasons I've become mad at Thib's this year as the Bulls had a deeper roster then they ever had, and coming off a year they played the player a lot of minutes. This year would have been a great opportunity to use the Spurs model.
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Oh look ^^^, another one of my bitches following me around with absolutely nothing to say. Back on iggy cuz of worthlessness. :yep:
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Deep roster? The Bulls? Hilarious. Do you even watch this team? Has anyone talked to you about their injuries? Do you know how many games their first team of Rose, Butler, Noah, Gasol, and Dunleavy has played this season? Look it up. When this happens, a supposed deep roster gets pretty thin.
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Name me a team in the NBA where that doesn't happen?
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The above is worse than anything! ^^^^^^^^^^^^ And this from a guy who has called himself a Thibs "homer" ^^^^^^^^^^^
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You first. Name a team that has had the great number of injuries to their starting line-up like the Bulls have had among the contending teams in the NBA. BPs comment was asinine in that it implied that Thibs failed to utilize a "deep roster" this season. I say that he could not allocate minutes as he would have due to the many injuries sustained. Do you disagree with that? If so, say so.
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San Antonio always seems to be pretty deep even if half their starters are out :shrug:
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You and I both know they wouldn't survive a playoff series.
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Without half their starters? Yeah probably. Regular season though, they're fine.
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Technically so are the Bulls.
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Which should tell you something about the regular season. I recall a team rather recently sweeping the regular season series against a team that later beat them 4-1 in the conference finals.
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OH god, please don't remind me about that team that had Keith Bogans.
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The Nets beat the Heat 4-0 in the regular season last year and lost 4-1 in the 2nd to them as well. (This was actually the first time that's happened in NBA history though).
I think you can really only use regular season matchups such as that if games contain blowouts, which in both cases of the 2011 Bulls and 2014 Nets, neither ever blew out Miami..every game was close and down to the wire.
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One could argue that most of the games in that 2011 series were also fairly close. I think each team got one blowout and the rest were ones that could've gone either way before the Bulls got locked down.
In any case, this team is of a way different makeup than the 2011 team and Cleveland isn't even close to what Miami was. I don't expect that same type of disappointment (win game 1 by 20 and lose 4 straight in a rather lackluster fashion).
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