97 Bulls, 81 Celtics

Well Ladies and Gentleman, the Bulls are pretty good.

Derrick Rose had a game and they looked in sync. I'm not going to praise the Bulls offense as much as I'm going to praise their defense. Their defense was relentless and unwaivering, all of the shots Boston took were well defended or they had to settle with an off balance jump shot. It wasn't good.

Also the Celtics didn't do themselves any favors as they missed open shots or layups the whole game. Ray Allen needs to start getting into a rhythm soon as he has been struggling. Maybe it's a good thing that he gets it out of the way now and is on for the playoffs.

There were a couple things that I didn't like on offense. The lacked aggressiveness. I constantly wanted Rondo to attack Rose and make him play defense and that just didn't happen. I wanted Pierce to do the same on Luol Deng, but he played a very lazy and sloppy game and I wanted them to get Jermaine O'Neal involved more. It was pretty evident that the Celtics were better with Jermaine in there, than when he wasn't either regardless of his statline.

This loss isn't the end of the world and I'm sure the Celtics will forget about it come next game, but the Bulls pretty much have the top seed and the season series is 2-2. Sucks, but not the end of the world.