The Bulls are being described by all the negative sports cliches as they enter Game 5, but this isn't a team that is known for giving up.

CHICAGO — Dust off the sports cliche books boys and girls and polish up your elimination game garbage talk because its (Enter cliche here) time for the Bulls.

“Win or go home.”

“Do or die.”

“They’re in a must win situation.”

It’s the magical time in the  playoffs where the sports cliche is king and the kings on the positive side of those tired old sayings are the Heat. As we await Game 5, we all now what the implications are and what is at stake. But it seems all the negative cliches and sayings are being directed at the Bulls and the basketball worl d is acting as if the Bulls have already been eliminated.

Did I really sleep through Thursday? Is it already Friday!?

I checked, it’s Thursday and Game 5 is still tonight in Chicago. Coming back home down 3-1 may seem bad, but according to Luol Deng it’s not the end of the world.

“I really believe we’ve got a group of guys that are going to keep on fighting,” Deng said. “There’s no quit in us. There’s no quit in that locker room. It’s really going to come down to the end of the game again.”

Despite the negativity directed at the Bulls from the greater basketball universe, Derrick Rose also has positive vibes about tonight’s game.

“We still have games to play,” Rose said. “Thibs talked to us in the locker room about it, where we’re going back to play at home, and we have to stay positive, where they are beatable. But we just have to make sure that we play together and the turnovers have to be down, play defense.”

The numbers are tough to argue, only 8 teams have ever come back from being down 3-1. The Bulls have seemed a (more…)