Quote Originally Posted by Jj999 View Post
Didn't they play without Rose for the last 10 games or so in the regular season?

Though I didn't place any bet for the point spread, I don't think it would lead to losing a game at home for the bulls.
You can't use regular season data for playoffs, first of all the teams don't play as hard and they use more of the B unit. Let me put it another way. Rose scored 23pts in 37min which is almost the entire game, if 23pts is all that he could score during the entire game then either the 76ers are playing very well defensively or there is something seriously wrong with the Bulls. Now take into account the rebounds from each team and you have a very different picture, Bulls had 47 rebounds while the 76ers had 38 rebounds. So in conclusion without Rose and without the rebounds the Bulls would have lost the last game. For Rose alone he did 9 rebounds so that's 18pts. For a 103-91 game I'm sure we can all do the math on that one.