Both teams have made it to the semifinals but only one can stay in the playoffs and move on. This series will especially be a very interesting series to watch. Before we talk about this upcoming game, we will first talk about how both teams got there.
The Cleveland Cavaliers started the playoffs with a sweep against the Boston Celtics. Although the games weren't a complete blowout. Kyrie Irving played his first ever playoff games in his NBA career and he played them like they were any other games and he might have even played better than what he usually plays like. Of course Lebron James has a lot of playoff experience. He actually had played in more playoff games than all of the players on the Celtics roster together.
The Chicago Bulls played the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round and won that series 3-2. That series again was not a complete blowout. The Bulls were up in the series 3-0 but Milwaukee came back to make the series 3-2. Then the Bulls closed out the series with a 120-66 game 6 win. Now we'll dig deeper into this match up.
The Bulls will have a slight advantage over the Cavs because the Cleveland Cavaliers will be playing without power forward Kevin Love and shooting guard J.R. Smith. Chicago will definitely be hungry for some revenge on Lebron James after he eliminated them 3 times through 2010-2015. The Bulls will be with Derrick Rose so he will be going up against Kyrie Irving. Lebron will definitely have no problem going up against them because he averages 27.1 points a game against them in the postseason and he is 12-3 against them in the postseason. I would like to see if Tom Thibideau would switch Jimmy Butler over to Lebron James if he gets going to see if he could stop him. Joakim Noah will be a big factor for the Chicago Bulls on defense. He will be going up against Timofey Mozgov one-on-one. Also Mike Dunleavy's outside shooting will be important for the Bulls to stay in the game. And Pau Gasol will be playing the power forward position as always and he will most likely be guarding Tristan Thompson. The Bulls bench will also be important. The main big body on the Bulls bench will be Taj Gibson.
The Cavaliers will end up winning game 1 101-95 and Lebron James will have 32 points and 9 rebounds. For the Bulls, Derrick Rose will have 23 points and 8 assists. Jimmy Butler will have 28 points and 7 rebounds.
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