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myespn.go.com - 8/6/2007
Full of Bull?
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TrueHoop reader Michael from Chicago writes: I am a lifelong Bulls fan. But I think your pick that the Bulls will win the Eastern Conference next year is downright silly. Didn't you watch the playoffs? The Bulls got absolutely humiliated by the Pistons in each of their four losses (I saw two games in person -- yuck!). Sure, they won two games in convincing style but those losses were ...

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Only The Bulls — Henry Abbott of TrueHoop defends his Eastern Conference Champions prediction:The young Bulls were one of the best teams in the East last year, and but for some dreadful scoring droughts when everyone on their whole roster looked allergic to the ball, would have beat the Pistons. Those scoring droughts, to me, were the hallmark of a team that was too young and was in uncharted territory. We were all just discovering that Luol Deng might be a top-shelf NBA player. Tyrus Thomas could barely get off the bench. Kirk Hinrich and Ben Gordon were without their normal poise, looking a little like deer in the headlights. I'm thinking that adding a year to both rosters, however, which brings all of the Chicago scorers meaningfully deeper into their primes, and moves key Pistons (Chauncey Billups, Rasheed Wallace, Antonio McDyess, Lindsey Hunter) a little further out of theirs. They play this same series next ...

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