Grinding onward.
Tue Apr 22, 2014 | 9:35 PM, EDT | TNT
United Center | Chicago, Illinois
5 WASHINGTON WIZARDS (44-38)
4 CHICAGO BULLS (48-34)
5-WAS
[1]
WAS 6-04 | 195 JOHN WALL (23y)
WAS 6-02 | 200 Andre Miller (38y)
[2]
WAS 6-03 | 207 BRADLEY BEAL (20y)
WAS 6-06 | 195 Garrett Temple (27y)
WAS 6-06 | 206 Glen Rice, Jr (23y)
[3]
WAS 6-08 | 220 TREVOR ARIZA (28y)
WAS 6-07 | 230 Martell Webster (27y)
WAS 6-08 | 198 Otto Porter (20y)
WAS 6-09 | 235 Chris Singleton (34y)
[4]
WAS 6-11 | 260 NENE HILARIO (31y)
WAS 6-07 | 240 Trevor Booker (26y)
WAS 6-09 | 264 Kevin Seraphin (24y)
WAS 6-09 | 245 Al Harrington (24y)
[5]
WAS 6-10 | 240 MARCIN GORTAT (30y)
WAS 6-10 | 230 Drew Gooden (32y)
4-CHI
[1]
CHI 6-03 | 190 KIRK HINRICH (33y)
CHI 6-00 | 180 D.J. Augustin (26y)
[2]
CHI 6-07 | 220 JIMMY BUTLER (24y)
CHI 6-07 | 200 Tony Snell (22y)
[3]
CHI 6-09 | 220 MIKE DUNLEAVY (33y)
CHI 6-09 | 225 Taj Gibson (28y)
[4]
CHI 6-09 | 258 CARLOS BOOZER (32y)
CHI 6-10 | 230 Erik Murphy (23y)
[5]
CHI 6-11 | 232 JOAKIM NOAH (29y)
CHI 6-10 | 221 Nazr Mohammed (36y)
These Bulls have their hands entirely full with these Wiz Kids
These Bulls are ripe to be SWEPT
Hear me out…..
Chicago is no longer the youthful ‘Baby Bulls’
Bulls starters Hinrich (33y), Boozer (32y), Dunleavy (33y) are one of the NBA’s Older Starting Five
EVEN CHI 29y Noah played a heavy 35 MPG of hard Bulls minutes
With the NEXT TO LOWEST Rated NBA Bench?
Chicago is in deep trouble, w/o the Nate-The-Great type secret weapon
(Unless we can foresee an even MORE unlikely arrival of DJ Augustin?)
Chicago now enters the 0-1 Game, in an extraordinarily odd late 835 PM Local Start
The Bulls paying a Washington Team with an Average Starter Age of 25.4 years old
Washington stretched out & won Game 1 in the United Center
DESPITE their star, John Wall having a POOR NIGHT (4-14 FG)
WASH Top Two 2013-14 Contributors were 7-22 FG (Wall & Beal)
Even though it’s ‘good vs good’
CHI #2 NBA eFG Allowed vs Wiz #2 Three % Shooters?
How likely CHI to hold WAS Beal & Wall to ANOTHER game of ZERO made 3’s?
The underlying fact of CHI great #2 eFG Defense?
The Bulls were AVERAGE in 3-Point Defense (#15 at 35.6%)
Yet Wiz controlled the Game overall (Wash won 3 of 4 Quarters)
We simply MUST openly question where on EARTH the Bulls will forge offense?
One thing is very likely is Chicago will make every effort to get this game UGLY, methodical & sluggish
Truly believe Noah’s Defensive assignment issues vs Nene & Gortat
Will continue to stress his ability to carry this team
ESPECIALLY as underrated the #10 NBA Defense of the Wiz are
Like Washington to Cover; (& likey win again) & the game to be overly slow paced
Overall, Washington may be just a little too young to understand the pressure their are supposed to feel here
1½ UNIT
WASHINGTON +5 (-110 | 5-Dimes)
CHICAGO
½ UNIT
WASHINGTON +200 (5-Dimes)
CHICAGO
1 UNIT
WASHINGTON
CHICAGO | UNDER 181½ (-110 | 5-Dimes)
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1 UNIT
BROOKLYN
TORONTO -4½ (-103 | Sportbet)
All the best, guys