Opposing players in the Eastern Conference say they have scouted the Chicago Bulls enough to understand they adhere to the strict play calling.

"If the Bulls could avoid having all those six-, seven-minute scoring droughts they'd probably be the best team in the league, but they can't," one Eastern Conference veteran player said. "And we all know every single thing they're going to run. ... Some nights they just execute at a level you can stop, but you can't do that all the time in the playoffs, not against well-coached teams that lock in defensively."

The Cleveland Cavaliers had runs of 16-0 and 16-2 in the first and second halves of their Game 4 win over the Bulls.