[Johnson ] It’s official. Bulls will face Hawks in 9-10 play-in game. Only thing left to be determined is location of game, though that’s trending towards the United Center.
It's official. Bulls will face Hawks in 9-10 play-in game. Only thing left to be determined is location of game, though that's trending towards the United Center.
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— K.C. Johnson (@KCJHoop) April 7, 2024
by Kimber80
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A stoppable force meets a movable object
Battle of mid
Both these teams are weird in the fact that neither can win a playoff series but both could certainly win a playin game against the 7/8 loser
Diar DeRozan is ready to wreck havoc
The East shouldn’t have a playin this year tbh. They should be conditional.
Lol that might be a pretty entertaining game especially if Trae comes back.
I know they were extremely mediocre all season, but I still think the Hawks could make a little noise in the playoffs with Young, Bey, Johnson, Murray, Capela, Bogdanovic, Hunter and Onkongwu all healthy at the same time. Even if it was just taking a game or two off the ~~Clippers~~ Celtics, Trae is so fun in the playoffs.
Hawks fans – any idea how many games you had with a fully healthy rotation?
I think in the bubble they had it so the play-in games weren’t played if the 9th seed was 4 games or more behind the 8th seed, I feel like that was a solid idea.
East play ins were pretty lit last year.
But i think the conditional rule would be good.
I think a 2-3 GB requirement would be good.
Thats less <5% margin of error
I hope whichever team wins beats Philly or Miami. It would be really funny if either team didn’t make it to the playoffs.
Diar: The Return
It’s gonna be Atlanta, but that doesn’t matter because Philly and Miami are both going to the playoffs.
The loser should have the East play-in named after them.
So this just means knicks losing both games to bulls somehow.
Can we just go back to 8 seeds already. Fuck the play in
Third straight year of the Hawks being in the play-in. Sad to see what happened to this team after the ECF run.
Part of me sort of hopes that they don’t play at the UC so Jerry can’t make any money off these games.
I cannot fathom how it must be to play in the East. Free pass to the playoff for mediocrity.
Billy Donovan haters realt quiet lately.
Mid off
I’m disappointed in the season, but the Bulls scrambling back from being 9 games under .500 a quarter of the way through the season to even have a shot at the playoffs is crazy.
i don’t blame anyone for calling us mid but you can’t even get over .500 with that kind of deficit without playing at least like a 45 win team (50 win team if we’re being honest) the rest of the way. so we probably did the best we could after being a straight disaster; especially with no changes to the roster at the deadline.
I consider myself to be a pretty hardcore fan but if anyone (besides hawks and bulls fans) is invested in this absolute toilet bowl of a game then you have my respect