Why The Bulls Are Still Better Than The Nets

So, the Nets are the biggest threat to the Heat this upcoming season?

 Really?

Adding two players from a 41-40 team that are closer to a retirement than they are to all-star level play.

The Nets and Knicks are just fighting for homecourt in what is their inevitable first round match up as 4th and5th seeds next season.  Last I checked, the Nets were a 4th seed last year and lost in the first round.  In Game 7.  At Home. Against a certain team that was missing their best player, their 2nd best player played through injury, their 3rd best player was out with injury and their 5th best player was out with injury.  Thank about that for a minute. 3 of their best 5 didn't play and another played hurt.  No Rose, Noah hurt, no Deng, no Hinrich.  Take ANY other team and remove 3 of their top 5 and they don't beat anyone.  This begs the question, did the Bulls just have that much heart? Or were the Nets that heartless?  

Now the Bulls are returning everyone healthy from a team that had the best record in the NBA the previous season when everyone played.  Not to mention we drafted a stretch 4 to spread the court for Rose, one of our biggest weaknesses has been 3 pt shooting.  We replaced Belinelli with Mike Dunleavy (an upgrade on both ends of the court), and we drafted another young, athletic wing that can shoot in case we decide to move on from Deng mid-season or after the season.

Yet, we are led to believe the Nets are the biggest threat to the Heat.


Get out of here. The 3 best teams in the East are Miami, Indiana, Chicago, in any order.  Net and Knicks 4th/5th followed by Cleveland (Yes, Cleveland), Washington,  and Detroit in any order. I know, Cleveland, Washington, Detroit? Yea. Atlanta, Milwaukee, and Boston are trending the wrong direction. They'll all lottery bound.  and I may be a homer here since I live in Charlotte now, but watch out for the Bobcats, they could contend for the 8th seed.