With Derrick Rose injured, the Chicago Bulls learned to create shots with ball movement. Now with Rose back, the Bulls offense is performing like a thing of Spursian beauty.
The San Antonio Spurs ran their offense to perfection against the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals. Remember when this one play went viral?
That might as well be a bunch of X’s and O’s on a chalk board. The Spurs have demonstrated basketball at its most beautiful for the last few years, influencing the league in one of the most profound ways we have ever seen.
It looks like Tom Thibodeau and the Chicago Bulls learned a thing or two.
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You can Joakim Noah set the pick for Derrick Rose and, as the Denver Nuggets react, Noah shows off his top-flight passing skills and finds a cutting Jimmy Butler wide open under the rim.
I mean, that’s just beautiful. The crazy thing is, it worked with Noah–not a stretch big by and stretch of the imagination–forcing the defense to react to his position on the perimeter.
Why? Probably because the ball movement was so crisp and quick that the defense didn’t have to time to realize it was Noah receiving the pass.
If the Bulls can combine the ball movement they were forced to learn in Rose’s absence with the constant threat that is Rose with the ball, they will have a great shot at getting through the Eastern Conference and into the NBA Finals.
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