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And I've had bad timing for some of the more recent years. I was at the game where Rose tore his ACL, which marred what had been an incredible (even Rip Hamilton contributed!) performance. The only crappy game of the classic Bulls-Celtics series in 2009 was a Game 3 blowout loss that I attended. I saw Gilbert Arenas's buzzer-beater to beat them in 2005. Some good ones too, though. In that '05 series I was at Game 1 when "No-Cee-Oh-Nee" was chanted throughout the arena. And another memorable playoff opener in 2011 with . Though it never feels as good as a playoffs victory, <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Louboutin-Spiked>Louboutin Spiked</a> there have been some amazing regular season matchups too, including (Rose went 1-13) against Miami and . But for some reason (the reason, actually: I'm strange) the live experience that stands out was from 2007, in yet another playoff opener with the Bulls taking on the defending champ Miami Heat. And I've probably linked this too many times, but it was mostly because of this Tyrus Thomas sequence:

See? Even the announcers made note of the crowd. Not sure what it was, exactly. Just something exciting about taking down an aging defending champion with a rookie having what was thought to be an emerging <a href=http://www.alportico.net/page.php?sale=Ladies-Gucci-Watch>Cheap Gucci Sale</a> moment. The Bulls won that game and swept the series, but it was a high point for that 'era' as well as for Thomas. A bit more naive then, it was easy to get caught up into thinking it was just the beginning of something <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Buy-Tory-Burch-Online>Buy Tory Burch Online</a> special. Thinking about it more, the post-dynasty home experience hasn't been full of many high-stakes battles. I didn't get to go to any more games in 2011 when they got to the Eastern Conference finals, and have pretty much avoided the non-Rose playoff games of the past 3 years given the inevitability of elimination. That did cost me a chance at the Triple-OT game against Brooklyn in 2013, anybody here go to that one? Start your bragging in the comments.

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+And I've had bad timing for some of the more recent years. I was at the game where Rose tore his ACL, which marred what had been an incredible (even Rip Hamilton contributed!) performance. The only crappy game of the classic Bulls-Celtics series in 2009 was a Game 3 blowout loss that I attended. I saw Gilbert Arenas's buzzer-beater to beat them in 2005.
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+But for some reason (the reason, actually: I'm strange) the live experience that stands out was from 2007, in yet another playoff opener with the Bulls taking on the defending champ Miami Heat.
+And I've probably linked this too many times, but it was mostly because of this Tyrus Thomas sequence:
+See? Even the announcers made note of the crowd.
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+Thinking about it more, the post-dynasty home experience hasn't been full of many high-stakes battles. I didn't get to go to any more games in 2011 when they got to the Eastern Conference finals, and have pretty much avoided the non-Rose playoff games of the past 3 years given the inevitability of elimination. That did cost me a chance at the Triple-OT game against Brooklyn in 2013, anybody here go to that one? Start your bragging in the comments.