Can I vote Chicago?
This isn't a prediction thread. It is a who would win thread.
Sure, but I reject the premise -- that is, that the Wizards and the Cavs are locks for the ECF.
Between the two, I think Cleveland takes it if both teams are healthy.
he didn't say they were locks, just what he thought and then asked who would win. Not sure why you even bothered to post in the thread if you aren't going to contribute to the actual thread topic.
Do you need a hug?
Missery directly referenced why the Bulls weren't good enough to make it in the original post. I don't know if I buy it. Why did you bother to get contentious without any reason to do so?
"share your opinions and thoughts" would seem to indicate that everything he posted is up for grabs, not just "answer the poll and post why."
You are pretty disrespectful to Moranis plus he's totally right. The question in the OP was who would win Cle vs Was not what you said.
One: That's not true -- I dig Moranis. Seriously, he's a smart dude with good contributions to the board.
Two: By the time I'd commented there was already a discussion about why Chicago wasn't in the conversation for the ECF, and the OP was open ended. I was hardly derailing the thread or anything like that. Also, I'm hardly the one that started off by being disrespectful.
So, please, feel free to try and shame me into sitting at the kids table or whatever, but perhaps read the whole thread before chiming in.
I guess you're trying to be eleganty rude, whatever. I'm not here to argue about how to act properly.
BTW I've read the Chicago thing and I'm not trusting the bulls a bit. It's a media created thing. In the EC Chicago is the biggest market who have the best chance to win (New York, Boston, Miami looks weaker than them) and the media needs a big market team as a flagship to promote in the east. Cleveland will win the east.
Yeah, that's not actually true either. People think the Bulls will be good because, *gasp*, the Bulls look to be substantially better than they were last season, when they won 48 games. If the typical barometer for Championship contention is winning 55 games or more, the Bulls look like one of the most likely teams to hit that in the East. Certainly they look more likely to do so than Indiana, who look to be worse than they were last season, and you can make a very easy case that they're more likely to do it than Washington.
Also worth noting: Miami's not a big media market. Whatever you believe you know about the way stories are created by ESPN and the like, you might want to rethink. I do agree that Cleveland has to be considered the favorites, but I'd say that's more of a media driven idea than Chicago's potential return to form.