![]() ![]() ![]() These Bulls, the Tom Thibodeau/Rose/ Joakim Noah Bulls, know all too well what it feels like to be on the wrong side of that kind of shot. What sweeter feeling could there be, really, after all the talk about what Rose couldn't do anymore after one day's rest? What greater relief could a team feel, needing a victory over the best player on the planet, at the very least to put pressure not just on James, but on an untested Thompson and a limping Kyrie Irving and a coach, David Blatt, who has no familiarity with that kind of crushing defeat and the noise that comes with it in the 48 hours before Game 4 arrives? If Derrick Rose needed a playoff picture to replace the one in his head from April 2012, when he crashed to the floor with that wrecked knee, then what better snapshot than a jump shot over the outstretched hand of Tristan Thompson, all 6-foot-9 of him, off glass and in, the buzzer having already sounded - game over, Bulls win. And maybe Game 3 means little to James because he's trailed better teams in the playoffs than the Bulls, such the Spurs in the Finals two years ago, and the Pacers before that, and the Celtics before that.īut Friday's 99-96 win has to mean a tremendous amount to the Bulls, symbolically because of how they won it and practically because for the first time they have a real chance to beat James in a playoff series. A Cleveland Cavaliers victory in Game 3 would have amounted to a Bulls playoff death certificate, probably in five games. to prove to themselves they could, and to him. by a little or a lot, planned or totally random. ![]() CHICAGO - By any and whatever means necessary, the Chicago Bulls needed to beat LeBron James on Friday night. ![]()
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