i would pay more attention to the bull's successes if they didn't have the luxury of playing crappy east teams multiple times all year and reaping the seeding eases. there are two teams in the east scheduled to make the playoffs with a losing season (Indiana .438 and Philadelphia .400 along with the bulls playing a total of 26 more games against under .500 teams compared to our 23 (even though we had a far tougher schedule up to this point ----bulls 16 games against above .500----Jazz 20 games against above .500) totaling 42 and 39 respectively. i know that doesn't seem like alot but three wins in this conference proved to be the difference of the 8 seed to the 2 seed last year. Teams in the east enjoy the gift of an overall easier schedule. (i have wanted for a while now for the schedule to be uniform, IE 3 games against each team, 87 games, only 5 more than currently)
anyway, sorry for the rant but my point is that i cant\'t validate boozer's successes with the bulls team playing a softer schedule.
plus i am biased. because i hate boozer's neck folds.