GinWeary wrote:I am more than fine with Jimmy coming out and openly having confidence in his team. Our two leaders (Rose and Jo) are often injured or trying to play their way back into form, Jimmy is playing great basketball and should step up as one of the leaders on this team. Sometimes making claims/predictions or comments is just silly in a lot of situations, but I don't think Jimmy is too far off base. The league has become too quiet in general and it's good to have the utmost confidence in your team.
Same here. If JR Smith had said this I'd be shaking my head (because he is an idiot on a bad team). Conversely, Jimmy imo is one of the highest character individuals in the NBA on a title contender. He knows the Bulls and the other teams in the league better than we do. He has gone to battle with his teammates and against the competition. We are just the spectators that do our best to learn about these players and these teams and use every bit of info we can find to educate ourselves to the point of having an opinion we feel confident in.
I'm not trying to say that being a baller is necessarily the best way to be an expert on the NBA (although Chuck and Shaq think so). Sometimes just being a basketball genius that has relatively little actual playing experience due to zero physical talent is better than having great talent with BBIQ (i.e. Thibs is smarter than Chuck).
In summary, I'm thrilled that a person whom I have the utmost respect regarding their character, BBIQ, integrity, and ability to deal with the additional pressure that such statements add, has predicted the Bulls are going to win the championship. At the moment, the only person I'd feel better about making such statements is Thibs (and we all know he would never say anything remotely close to what Jimmy said because coaches just don't go there. The're not suppose to be the cocky ones). Jimmy's not cocky though imo, he just calls it like he sees it and this is why I like what he said.
And here is my evidence that Jimmy isn't cocky:
