It's not like the Heat haven't had key players injured either (Miller, Haslem). For me, the bottom line is LeBron is clearly the better player in almost every aspect of the game, putting up better numbers on a better team.
Neither player is a starter - and the heatles are 1 loss better than the Bulls, missing starters for over 50 games, with a weaker (although not by much) SOS.
Bottom line for me is he won it 2 years in a row already - and doesn't deserve a third straight.
? What does this year have to do with prior years? The 2011 MVP is based on this year alone. And FWIW, Boozer has played the vast majority of this year, averaging 19/10 on 54% shooting and somehow, the team has been a better defensive team since Noah has been out. It's not that Rose isn't deserving - he's just an inferior player to LeBron on an inferior team.
Are the Bulls the inferior team? I mean really. Are the Heat THAT much better than the Bulls? I have serious doubts there, honestly. If the two do in fact meet up in the 2nd round of the playoffs and Noah & Boozer are fully healthy, my money's on Chicago. And that's even if they don't pull off a trade for JR Smith to upgrade their 2 spot.
Betting against a team that has both LeBron and Wade is not a smart idea.
Miami IS a better team. Chicago isnt going to go from a team that couldnt make it out of the first round to a title favorite just with the addition of Boozer, a guy who didnt even make the all star team this year.
Chicago is the future, but Miami has too many dominante wing players and Chicago have one.
Unless you think Bogans + Deng will have their way with LeBron+Wade.
A Chicago/Miami series will be a bloodshed, with Chicagos bigs unable to handle LeBron and Wades penetration, fouls will be called, and Chicagos lack of frontline depth will be exposed, as well as their lack of offense.
Lets just break the teams down if they were to face each other.
LeBron vs Deng. LeBrons a great defender, if LeBron can bother Pierce, Deng is REALLY going to have a tough time scoring.
Bogans vs Wade. No clue how Bogans is even in the NBA. This guy averages like 2 points a game, hes basically useless on the offensive end. Wade will dominate him on both ends.
Noah vs Big Z/Anthony. Big Z will draw Noah outside of the paint with his range, and will open it up for LeBron/Wade to penetrate.
Anthony is a better defender then people give him credit for. On the other end, Noah is not a great offensive player, he gets his points from hustle plays and put backs, he has no offensive game outside of that.
Boozer vs Bosh. Again, Boozer is bothered by big men with length, I expect Bosh to get the better of this match up on both ends.
Rose vs Chalmers. Rose will dominate not only because he can, but because he HAS to. Outside of Rose, the Bulls have no scorers that will have a great series, all of their players are either limited offensively (Noah/Bogans), or can be easily shut down by Miami defense (LeBron on Deng) or bothered by Miami length (Bosh on Boozer)
Chicago Bench vs Heat Bench Miami has the worst bench in the league, Chicago's bench has to outplay the Miami bench EVERY GAME if they want want a chance to win because the Chicago starters dont have enough offensive fire power outside of Rose to keep up.
Bottom line is that outside of Rose and to a lesser extendent Boozer, they have ZERO scoring ability, they are going to have an extremely hard time putting points on the board and it will be up to Rose to single handedly be the best player on the COURT for them to win this series, the bulls just dont have enough offensive options.
The series is going to come down to how Boozer can deal with Bosh's length on the defensive end, and how much production the Bulls are going to get out of their bench, in the meantime dealing with LeBron and Wade dominating their wing players and riddling their big men with fouls.
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