Chicago at San Antonio

[Real Deal]

TIME: 9:30 PM ET

TV: ESPN

[Warren2ThaG]

Rose to explode and give CHI a big win.

[Pooh25]

Chicago Bulls (at) San Antonio Spurs

 

Time: 8:30 PM CT

Channel: CSN(AT&T - Channel 741)

 

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PROJECTED STARTING LINEUPS

 

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Rose - Bogans - Deng - Gibson - Noah

 

VS

 

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Parker - Ginobili - Jefferson - Blair - Duncan

 

Key Match-up:

Joakim Noah vs. Tim Duncan

 

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Chicago Bulls at San Antonio Game Preview:

 

This is a must win game for our Chicago Bulls because the Circus Trip is only going to get harder after the defeat of a Rockets team that did not have Aaron Brooks nor Yao Ming.

 

This will be the first time we will get to see Tim Duncan and his team this year. We started off the season against them last year at the United Center and Derrick Rose blocked Richard Jefferson. The Bulls beat the Spurs by 10+ last year with a weaker team who had many injuries. Luol Deng, Derrick Rose, and many others were still injured and slowly recovering. Last year's bench was horrid compared to this years. Joakim Noah will have to be motivated tonight against Timmy, which he did not seem against Brad Miller. He looked a little high and he didn't play with any passion against Brad Miller, which was disappointing where we could have crushed the Rockets if he did.

 

Rose will be going against an old Tony Parker, where Rose should dominate and take advantage of that. He should not be passive unless the shot is not there or else he should just attack the lane and as a result rack up assists by open shots because of his penetration.

 

We must contain Manu Ginobili today and that is a key to victory. If the Chicago Bulls execute Tom Thibodeau's defense mastermind strategies then they will have no problems with containing Manu. They played great team defense and man defense against Kevin Martin and he played horrible last night against Ronnie Brewer, who used his athleticism and length against him. Yesterday, Ronnie Brewer was the first half MVP and he played great and is looking healthy finally and if he is healthy he will be a great starter.

 

Luol Deng must play within the system unlike last night where he tries to be what he is not; an iso-scorer. He needs to let the offense come to him and not try too hard to do everything, because that's when he plays the worst and he has his hands full tonight against Richard Jefferson who is playing well.

 

Let's go Bulls and I'm predicting a grimy win.

[Finch23]

Tony better have his head on straight, Eva better nit screw with his game.

 

Anyway if Parker plays well i think the Spurs win by 8+

[The Regime]

Spurs are slow getting back down on defense, and their rotations are off. Impressive stuff from the Bulls bench. Spurs are missing a whole bunch of bunnies.

[htown11]

Bulls were in control of this game and have just fallen apart...

[Finch23]

2nd time where the Spurs have clamped down on defense in the 3rd.