You can't ignore the fact IT's sister died just before the first game, and the whole team is feeling the same thing with him because they are like a family
Without the tragedy maybe they can take one game but it's still gonna be 3:1 by now, with or without Rondo
Yeeeeaaaaaaah okay. Suuuuuure buddy.
You do realize the Celtics lost both games in Chicago during the regular season, right?
Also, it's a faulty notion to state that the Bulls automatically lose both at home even if Rondo is healthy. You have no way to back that up, there's no frame of reference --since the Celtics have yet to beat the Bulls in Chicago with a healthy Rondo.
Are you a celtics fan? Or are you the bulls version of that annoying Cavs fan that came on the blog a couple years ago before we played Cleveland? I'd have trouble picking which one you were.
I think it's totally fair to say the following things about games 1 and 2
1) We had an enormous emotional cloud over the entire team. It seems as though everyone was trying too hard to 'be there' for IT, and came out of their roles. Everyone seemed to know IT needed to get home and be with family.
2) The Bulls role players played at all star levels. Bobby Portis in Game 1, Lopez in game 2, Zipser was making shots, everything was going for them. If those guys continued to play that way we were never going to win the series anyway.
3) Rondo controlled the tempo of both games. I think if Rondo had played game 3, there would have been something drastically different in the game plan, but of course we'll never know.
As others have mentioned before, the first 2 games weren't as much about the Bulls being that much better than us, the gap was the way it was because they played well and we didn't. Tough to overcome that gap.
P.S. Sure, the bulls won both their games at home, but the first game we lost 105-99 without Marcus. If you're talking about the Bulls lack of success without Rondo it's fair to return the nod to the Celtics no? 2nd game was the infamous 'Jimmy Butler foul game' we got robbed, and the NBA announced it wasn't a foul. Oh yeah, and we played without Bradley. So your 'Celtics hadn't won in Chicago with Rondo this year!' argument is not as sound as you'd like people to believe.