NBA basketball picks and previews 5/2/09

Showdown Saturday’ and one that has the potential to be the best game of the play-offs, Boston - Chicago in Boston. The Bulls have managed to defy all logic and have taken this series to a 7th game decider after their heroics in overtime on Thursday night in a game they won 128-127 thanks to a Joakim Noah break away dunk in the late stages of the third period of overtime. This was the second time that Chicago came from behind to tie the series after they tied it at 2-2 on Sunday in undoubtedly the best series of the first round for some years. While they may not win in Boston (and the odds are heavily staked against them despite having already won once in Boston on April 18th) they’ll still be able to hold their heads high, for a 7th seed to come this far is a very commendable thing.

In every game Chicago have won one of their players have come up with an amazing performance; in Game 1 Derrick Rose scored 36 and had 11 assists, in Game 4 Rose scored 23, Ben Gordon scored 22 and John Salmons scored 20 and in Game 6 Salmons scored 35 and Rose dropped 28. After all this and the other 3 games they didn’t win the Bulls starting line up have a good average in this series. Gordon is leading with 22 points a game while Rose is just behind with 20 in his first taste of the play-offs along with Salmons with 19. Chicago will need all of these players to turn up and more with Joakim Noah and Brad Miller having a big part to play as well, with the latter coming off the bench as he has done for most of the series. Tip off is at 8pm ET and the game is on TNT, it promises to be a great one.

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