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2011-12 Open Game Thread #12 OVERFLOW: Bulls vs. Washington Wizards

I'm guessing there won't be many comments tonight, so last thread until recap later.

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This game has convinced me

Dwight Howard or bust. We are not that good without Rose. .500 at best. I say keep as much of the Bench Mob as possible and then work on a starting lineup featuring Howard, Booz, and Rose.

Will the Magic even want Noah now?
I'd assume so. It is hard to judge a 26 year old on a 10 game stretch

I, however, am seriously concerned about him.

it's part of Noah's strategy
If Noah keeps like this, totally agree
in theory it would be a bit different if we had the rest of our lineup

watson and rip would have made a huge difference in this game.

OK, what happened?
Go....Bulls.... .... ?
Let's go Bulls!!!!!!!
Let's not forget...

this game would be a lot different with Rip in the game, no?

And with D Rose
Slug #2 with an offensive foul.
Finally Lucas out
I would trade Noah for Jan Vessely's girfriend
I would trade Noah for Jan Vessely's girlfriends afterbirth.
Holy Crap.

Lucas is out…

Young traveled to China on that play
This is BRUTAL
JL has zero court vision
the rim is part of the court lol

he has special eyes…he sees the goal only

Boozer commits the dumbest fouls

ummm...

Yeah, apparently he couldn’t handle the Vesely’s sheer inside strength…

deng terrible ball handling is being exposed.
meh

JLucas doesn’t let the ball go out of his hands

Does Noah have a degenerative disease?

I know he’s playing bad, but he has no color. He looks sick.

my guess....

lady problems….

in other words...

his bong smashed on the floor

I kinda want to start making up excuses for the poor play.
I mean shit, we've got nothing to go on

might as well!

Boozer has a rare blood disorder

that disrupts his shooting ability around the rim whenever he’s around weed.

No weed jokes though

Those got old a long time ago

it activates after he puts any type of strain on his vocal chords?
Agree...beyond old.
Here's a horrible stat

4 of our 5 starters have as many turnovers as they have baskets made. The one who does not is JL3.

Can we agree that no one on this team is untouchable except rose?
Lu
I'd trade him straight up for Gerald Wallace right now!
u crazy
Am I? Or are we overvaluing Deng? I mean he's good no doubt but...

he’s not untouchable is he?

the guy has a streak of 3 bad games and you want to trade him for GWall's old ass
No I have never been a big believer in Deng as an untouchable player.

He has too many flaws to be counted on to be a game changer on a consistent basis when rose is off or hurt. The dude CANNOT dribble, is a train wreck on the fast break, and he might be one of the worst finishers at the rim for a guy that gets so much praise..

Deng is worth keeping just for his defense on Lebron
Portland would totally do that!
yeah. No doubt. Package half the team for Dwight.
and...

JImmy Butler…

We are a 4th quarter team
Brewer at the point?
Apparently he's the backup

not Lucas

Ronnie can't try to make that pass to Omer there
Deng not getting anything going driving with the ball.

Going to have to go to the outside game if that keeps up. He’s been blocked, missed badly, or lost the ball too much for me. Needs a three or two to wake him up.

...and blocked again. *sigh*
I saw John Wall in play in High School.

He was an amazing passer. Not seeing it in the pros

offense looks bad but D still looks good
Asik and Taj in

thank goodness

Rose, Noah, and the other bulls?

Where’s Deng? C’monnnn

UPDATE LINE: Vegas has the over/under on Lucas' FGA for the game at 36
You know how many times I've seen "misses a layup" on the yahoo box score?

how far away are these fucking “layups”?

TAJ MAHAL!!!!!!!
new drinking game

every time Neil Funk says “That’s a terrible shot,” take a terrible shot of booze.

YOU WILL DIE

NOOOOOO

TAKE A SHOT!!!
god I would be dead already playing that game
At first I thought you said, "...take a shot at boozer"

and I thought…how is that different from the norm?

Hot damn!

We needed that

Taj with the tomahawk!
GIBSON NEEDS TO DUNK MORE

:D

un

berievable

is that a chinese accent?
sure is

lsikes

hahaha.

just reminds me of “A Christmas Story”

Sickest Taj dunk yet.
nah.
But it was so violent!
it was awesome.

but wade looked foolish that day.

Yes he did. Plus the Reggie Miller call was great.
disagree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQTlYUTt844&feature=related

I like the wade dunk but eh.

best game I've watched in a long time...too bad the other 4 games were pretty disgusting.
Best thing about that Wade dunk

Wade tweeted that he was playing basketball with his kid the next day, kid dunks on him and yells “GIBSON!”

Deng is a bum
Nah, he just need a rest
Except he's not.
Deng needs a stretcher.

He is so gassed.

i want to say something
How can Jimmy be worse than Lu right now!?!?!?
because he can't score but nobody scores on him
Is that a legitimate question ?
This 3rd quarter has been block after block after block
Lu still terrible with anything having to do with close-range shooting tonight
I pray for wizards fan who are watching our feed

Neil is probably driving them to murder

Im catching the Wizards feed right now, they are shitty
Will Boozer and Noah both be on the team at the end of the season?
i think Noah is more expendable than Boozer at this point.
Probably, but

It’s no coincidence the Bulls started to play better when Taj and Omer came in.

D'oh Omer!
...and then right back. Thank you Omer.
Blog-a-Bull: overreaction is coming
you saying we are going to lose?
we overreact after wins too
Lu 4-18.

Ouch.

Asik has 5 blocks
5 Blocked attempts.. eek
Yup.

That’s pretty bad.

back to back to back

(excuses)

but he has 12 rebounds
Deng now knows what its like to play with a Russell Westbrook type
Needs some deep jumpers

Because everything from 15 ft. in hasn’t been there tonight.

Of course Deng comes right back with an exception to the rule.
But he's hustling and grabbing boards.

All is not lost.

my suggestion for the bulls fans...

scream therapy.

I missed part of the 3rd

Did John Lucas get a rest?

Yes, and Ronnie Brewer ran the point
  • shudders *
What can we even trade Noah for?

I mean mediocre production, bad contract.

Might be one of those situations that you just keep the guy because you can’t get a good return and just hope he turns it around.

Asik might really be part of the Monstars

and he sucked Noah’s skill while he was sleeping.

That's better Lu
That was over the back, my goodness
Javale McGee has some monster hands.

Bet it makes glove shopping difficult.

I always wondered

if it was hard for Derrick to get a layup off the glass since he’s running so fast.

John Wall has shown me that it is.

he finds a way to do it.
Wall doesnt have Rose's body control
I wonder if yfbb left the UC yet
Wouldn't you with this play?
WHY CAN'T YOU JUST DUNK OMER

WHYYYYY

Too much pump fakes lol
Can't we get a dunk out of one of these nice passes

Fuck!

It's hard to get a beat on Vesely because they give him no chances on offense

to score

If they made a John Lucas III and Omer Asik buddy sitcom

I’d watch it.

SHOOT THE FUCKING FT DAMN
Cmon Asik god damn man hit your throws
Omer needs some free throw lessons
I actually don't think his form is that bad.

he needs to shot them more often.

He's actually much better than last season
Needs to pratice O. PERIOD.
his stroke is not that bad and the way it its the rim when he misses is not that bad

definitely fixable

Asik pass recieve flowchart:

1 – catch pass
2 – hold the ball where someone can steal it or get fouled. If nobody steals it or fouls him,
3 – dunk

you for 2b - pump fakes
Oh, yeah

just lengthen 2 until you tear your hair out from frustration

I've missed most of tonight's game. Is Deng All-Star worthy?
In my opinion, yes
no
u obviously are blind to what deng has done overall season
yes he is

no fuckin pg running the plays makes it tough for other players. Let Deng be rested and watch him beat the celtics.

agreed....

III sucks…..look at how many shots he’s gunned and how many the other starters have taken

Has had a rough shooting night. Still a double-double, some steals, some blocks
12pts tonight on 5/20 shooting

12reb

If he’s goin for the Kobe type thing…sure?

12 boards but

5-20. Gotten his shot blocked 5 times tonight too.

probably not

but should be defensive 1st team

not today

but overall yes. But he won’t be a flashy all-star.

for those that said no based off this one game

is it fair to cherry pick Rose’s game against the Hawks and say he is not All Star worthy?

Deng is having a bad game, but he can still be All Star worthy

Really? Do we only have one game to say no too?

I think he’s an all star so far based on the rest of the east, but lets not act like the guys been a world beater….

I think I said can

not is.

You did sir and I stand corrected. My mouth/fingers will be shut!
lol no worries

I think he is, but he doesn’t look it tonight.

For the season yes, tonight not so much..
Pip can play the point
And thats why Pip was a hall of famer
Korver's J is so money right now
seriosuly guy, u expect the offense to be smooth without a legit pg, lmao

i mean, with watson, yes, watson, this team would be up 20 pts. Lucas cant setup plays, its fuckin stupid.

game's almost over, let's hope Rose can play on Friday.
Still too much time left.
i didnt say we were gonna win ha, i just said its almost over.
that

is a very good point

Damn the rebound total for this one will be obscene.
to peole who say korver sucks

better eat crow b.c the man is showing hes damn important for this team

18, 7 & 7 for Lucas
messed around and got a triple double
only took 23 shots
KK with a man's foul

nice

I'm surprised they called that

good call

if jl3 gets a triple double tonight

my life will be complete

Looks like Boozer and Noah will be on the bench again for the 4th lol
seriously need to trade one of them at this point
I'm relived that we're playing the Wiz

Bc if this were anyone else…

im proud of kyle he can actually play defense now.

his only set back when he gets lost is his foot speed but most of the fundamentals are there.

That's what you get for flopping
Taj hit a jumper!!!
Jordan Crawford is a bitch
Asik can run point if he's hurt
okay....over/under 76.5 pts for the Bulls?
LUCAS!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

what happened to lucas?
Lu is a very good player, but not an All Star

Noah is just flaming hot shit right now. I would give Boozer some blame, but nobody has even tried to give him the ball.

Kyle Korver, Tal Gibson, and Omer need a raise after this game.

Also, Ronnie Brewer is nice, but he ain’t a starting two. Rip come back soon

I would still take his ass over carmelo fucking anthony
Thibs is making a point to both Noah an Booz
well damn.

shuddasignednaterobinson

kk is the only reason we're winning this game

+22

Omer and Taj have been pretty good too.
they always are.

Hard hat, lunch pail and all that

actually defense is the reason we are winning this game
KK playin some D
McGee has

10 points, 12 Boards,and 5 blocks

(old Noah statlines.)

AsikL 6 pts, 10 rebs, and 5 blocks in only 23 mins
And WAAAAY better defense
is Lucas still in the game?
I can watch this type of basketball at the YMCA
Bulls need to use more clock
in a smart way I mean
we don't deserve smart things
Lets not forget this is the third game in three nights.

Maybe I need to tell myself that.

and MVP is not playing
and the $120m are on the bench again
and the fifth in six days

(I think)

Wiz hoisting stupid shots. thank goodness
John Wall has absolutely no clue what he;s doing out there

He’s just complete garbage in the half court. The guy is getting by by purely on athleticism. He’s basically the Tyrus Thomas of point guards, which means yfbb will want to trade for him soon

I dont want any part of him
I think at least a little of it can be attributed with the situation he's in

He’s on a team with no vets, some head case teammates, and a coach that looks like he might be losing control. He can be better than were he’s at right now.

This Noah/Boozer thing is now an issue

what is this like the 3rd game in a row they’ve been on the bench in the 4th?

And to make matters worse

It’s the Wizards tonight. Surely they should be able to sustain a lead against these guys.

One stat that shows what rose means.... we have 4 fastbreak points!
Jo and Boozer

8 pts and 10 rebs combined. With your star player out you would think they would have big games. smdfh

Omer's got those numbers on his own!
you have III showing his offense....

…instead of setting them up

If Only JL3

would actually give them the ball

It seems like noone on here has noticed. So I'll point out the obvious.

The Bulls are winning the game right now.

they both fucking suck.

straight up.

ummm...

but it can easily still be lost, so…

success makes us very uncomfortable

it’s easier to deal with if we can make it into some sort of failure

I hope Thibs will try to play Booz with Omer more

instead of just benching him and Jo at the same time. Try Taj/Noah and Booz/omer

i have come to a conclusion

booz and noah jus cant play with each other. Let booz roll with omer and noah with gibson.

yeah, that he hasn't really tried this yet

is odd.

MAKE YOUR FREE THROWS DAYUM!!!
trade Noah for Ellis and call it a day already. smdh
lol @ Lucas

sneaky bastard

Too strong bitch Lucas!
Too small, Too slow, Too late
hahahaha. i tried to do something similar but it failed just as bad as Joakim Noah.
What's Luol's career high in rebounds?

Because he’s got to be at it right now.

I think he got a 20-20 once
20 against Bucks in 09
i was at that game. nice comeback win.

Lucas with “I’m the man walk” LOL

they tried to killl Lucas!
Deng is having an awesome bad game.

Shooting like crap, too many TOs, but 14 boards, 3 steals and 2 blocks.

and 12 points
Well I put that in the 'shooting like crap' category

seeing as it’s taken him 20 shots to do that. :-P

well

add to that he is holding his man on D

And put that in the 3 steals 2 blocked shots category.

I got you covered! :-D

but... but... that doesn't cover the intangibles

;)

CJ better keep an eye in the rear view mirror.
JL3 is.... not completely terrible tonight
Is Omer gonna be a starter this season?
should be.
kwame is playing better than noah these days. i should slap myself for saying that, but nope.
for the magic???
if noah continues his shitfest, yes, noah is gonna be benched
I wouldn't start him
maybe he can back up Dwight Howard
He might be. I'd give him the chance
After the Bogans thing, I would say no
No, but he may end up playing more minutes than Noah.

In all fairness, Lucas is doing everything he can and he’s not completely useless.

of course not, but he cannot setup a single play to save his life, lmao
Great replay of how Korver is opening up the lane
C'mon, JL3 triple double!
Bulls will win by 10 or so

With MVP and two other guards out and in a three-in-three early in a shortened season.

Chill, motherfuckers.

boozer and noah with a combined 8 points....pathetic

deng shooting like shit. who would have thought fucking JL3 would be bailing us out tonight LOL

22pts 7rebs 8ast
Could this be the first time a 3rd string PG gets a trouble double?
Lucas needed to take all those shots

No one else on this team can create a shot

lol

the Wizards are not having another rebound

Can the NBA send the Wizards to D-League?
They should have team tiers like European soccer.

That would also make late-season games between non-contenders more exciting.

Wow. no rebs by the Wuz
130 mil on the bench again in the 4th

Korver and co doin work!

Are you serious? This is disgusting

Just turned on the game … not too upset by the score, but looked at the box score and you’ve got to be kidding me.

John Lucas is our leading scorer? Ok Deng is playing a lot of minutes again and shooting very poorly, but Boozer and Noah again … WTF?

You would think this would be the game with Rose out for those two to step up. But same old story and same frontcourt finishing the game on the bench. We’re not gonna beat the heat if Boozer and Noah don’t play up to their ability.

you've missed a lot of fun....
he's our leading scorer

because he took 25 shots and boozer took 7. RELAX.

deng didn’t shoot well, but he worked his ass off.

John Wall being outplayed buy Lucas!!

Never shall his name be mentioned with Rose again, unless in Jest!!

BOY, the wizards are bad just bad
Somebody pelase score
screw that, run down the clock
Just finish this guys now
I seriously doubt Flip Saunders is coaching that team tomorrrow
John Lucas III: Coach Killer 2012
Great sequence there.

No quit in this team, unlike the Wiz.

60 rebounds in a non OT game is kind of ridiculous.

And still, and STILL… Joakim Noah has only 4. Dear Lord.

wow, they need to go ahead and call the game. That was demoralizing

Man no wonder the murder rate is so high in D.C.
Even though they just bricked everything

that was extremely entertaining

Oh shit Turkish hammer!
Noah and Boozer need to take a long look in the mirror.

Maybe there are rumors internally about them getting traded or something.

wow, the wiz reallllllllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyy BLOW

the bulsl are winning this game on defense and without a legit pg, lmao. lucas isnt even a pg, lol

its incredible how bad they are.
Oh yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the word bad is not good enough for the wiz

they should just go back to being the bullets and shoot themselves

I still don't know how did Lucas get so many ASTs

he is a shitty passer

he had to pass eventually

and he’s played like 45 minutes.

GET BANGED ON, BIAAAATCH
KK.. playing D!
I would really love to start Asik and Gibson over Noah and Boozer,

but them together with Korver is just a great so far this year. The rotation would be messed up.

Yep, I'm really not too worried about it

The fact that they are playing this poorly and we have the best record in the league is all that we need to know. Dont screw up what is working

"He likes to BBQ and McGee I need your grill!" hahaha
Wall got embarassed by the smallest 3rd string PG in the NBA WTF
Asik deserves to start
Rose loving every minute of this..Classic.
WAS will finish with 64 points
John Wall is fuckin' terrible.

And I am laughing hysterically about it right now.

Scalabrine!!!!!!!!!!

TRIPLE THREAT TIME
I wear the white mamba shirt when I play basketball

Now Thibs is just trolling
With the time out too
Trollololololol!
I thought the NFL was lousy outside of 5 or 6 good teams but the NBA is one-upping them

Its amazing how shitty some of these teams are. No one worked on their game in the off season. Noah looks worse than he was in high school. The Wizards are a friggin abortion.

Scal= HUMAN VICTORY CIGAR
Scal is all business baby!
Flip Saunders is'nt gonna sleep well tonight

wtf are the Wizards doing?

Yeah you go for that Lob, Wizards

see how that works out for ya.

This Scal shit is so embarrassing
Yeah kinda pissed Thibs gave in. Shoulda just let Jimmy in the game for Deng
It's all in fun
Well you got to set up a play for SCAL
Flip looks like he's in the process of passing a kidney stone
We have the better John
I am amazed that Washington is shooting even 31% right now.

Feels like they are shooting 13%.

Couldn't hit the ground with their piss.
KK will nail all that 5 girls he hi fived
HA James has just numbers
"Some people think he looks like Carlton off of Fresh Prince."

“But … he did a great job tonight.”
^Stacey King knows he does.

"Its not unusual to be love by anyone!"
say what you will

Bulls hold those MoFo under 65

Even the Knicks would hold those guys under 65 lol
Wizards had 96 vs the Knicks
And needed a buzzer beater to beat them

with Melo, Chandler, and Amare all playin. So it was brutal, but could have been worse.

Ok this game was brutal

but we won by double digits and we are now the first team in the league to double digit wins. Let’s leave it at that.

and we swept are back to back to back

could have been worse is all im sayin

25 pts, 8 rebs, 8 asts, 2 TO...

Nicely done, JL3

The Bulls are the first team this season to 10 wins

(The Thunder are about to join them)

lol we have a 2k12 created player on the floor
John Salmons > John wall
John Legend > John wall
Goodnight John Boy> John Wall
Justin Bieber > John Wall
John Deere>John wall
Tebow > ALL
Tebow = Satan
reading gamethread day after game.

still flagging this.

WEE-UN! IN AN UGLY FASHION BITCHES!
LMAO he said Lucas looks like Carlton off of

Fresh Prince

I was waiting

For him to break out in the dance during that interview

Haha, and the snapping his fingers.
That chick is taller than JL3.
I'm officially on the 'start Omer' bandwagon.

I see no point in giving Noah the starting spot now. And knowing Jo, I’m sure he would agree that Omer deserves it.

Noah is making me sick
I definitely think Thibs is letting Noah about his play

by benching him so much lately. Hopefully it makes him pick it up.

I agree.

Plus Noah and Boozer don’t seem to play well together. Asik with Boozer and Noah with Gibson seems to work better.

Athletes thanking god..
I just came here for the box score

And man, Korver is still on fire!

and that's why we can't freak out about players for a bunch of games
Noah needs to hit the bench mob status
Yeah. Make him earn that starting spot again.

Make that spot competitive. That might bring him back to his old self.

Thats what I want too

Boozer keeps fuckin around he might need that too

trade lucas III for Dwight tonight
And while we're at it

if we want a hot offense to start games, let Korver start for Brewer. Yes, it’s knee jerk reaction time, damnit. Korver’s been playing like a starting 2 the last couple of weeks on both sides of the ball.

Korver has been so incredibly important

Don’t know about starting him, but he definitely deserves to get a majority of the backup minutes when Rip returns

really he just deserves to get more minutes behind deng

deng doesn’t have to play a zillion minutes every fucking time lol

It's kind of an embarrassment of riches at the 2 guard position.

Putting aside today, Brewer has been damn good too. Rip, when healthy, will be good. We’re going to have a monster rotation when/if we get healthy. This team is so deep.

i agree

i like brewer, but the more i watch him, i think hes better suited for the bench, hes an energy guy, and it doesnt help the starters as much as the bench. Its not really that hes not playing well, but i think hes better suited for the bench….hes still one of my favorite players on the bulls though

Deng

12 points 15 boards 2 dimes 3 steals 2 blocks….a MANS game

And 45 minutes!
Well if this was the time to play so many mins

Rose out, Rip out, CJ out, we needed it tonight

Vote for Deng...

…2012 All-star game. Vote early and often

Already on it!
seriously tho

Deng needs to stop playing so many minutes

sure, but he obviously wasn't going to tonight.
Not a great game, but the win is enough, great performance of JL3 and Asik. At least the team can reast until Friday
Just looking at the score I knew Derrick didn't play
The line this morning before Rose was out was 13.5

and they win by 14.

reminds me of the Bulls Denver game

but this time we weeun

Mike james didnt have to shoot free throws
This should be yBB/Sonty's most entertaining recap yet.
I expect an epic photo and caption
Taj needs to start
Only if he stops shooting from more than 8 feet.
Can anyone please tell me what's wrong with Noah?
had too much weed last night
Seriously, enough with the weed shit.
Out of basketball shape
No training camp
Someone gave him a mirror
He's being possessed?
Maybe that elbow is really bothering him

Its heavily padded but I cant remember when he injured it

He still thinks

the Lockout is in place.

Could be a lot of things

Could be confidence issues.
Could be because of the lockout.
Could be the surgery last year and he’s still not over it.
Could be an undisclosed injury.
Could be we simply have too high of expectations for him.
Or it could be a simple slump.

Whatever it is….HE NEEDS TO SNAP THE FUCK OUT OF IT

Ugly game tonight. But winning!
The only thing that could make this night better is finding out that Chris Broussard can't spell "Memphis"

Wait…

As a resident of Memphis.....

LOL

62 boards for the Bulls.
and the Wiz had 64 pts.
well it felt like we got 10rebounds in row at the end lol
Most since 04, per radio
Would the Bulls do JL3 for dwight?

Maybe if Orlando threw in a draft pick?

noah should get a haircut and shave

Look good, play good

but they could use that hair in a drug test!

do we want that?

yfbb / sonty don't even try to write a recap

heat-clippers will have about 1,000 comments

only if its close in the last 5 minutes
Perhaps an Around the NBA Thread is in order?
man this was a fun game to watch

i mean, really it was like a great movie, funny, action packed, sad moments, happy moments, horror (like brewer playing point) it was just fun basketball…that i hope i never see again :)

I think the bulls should all go buy derrick a cake and realize how much easier he makes their job for them, especially deng who was such a non factor when asked to carry the offensive load. I think he benefits so much from sneaking around defenses when they are locked onto other guys like rose, and in this game he was asked to be the number one offensive force and failed at it because he couldnt sneak around and get open.

I think a huge difference between wall and rose is this, rose even as a rookie playing with those bad bulls teams, would have made himself known in the game. Wall vanished late in the game, and that makes no sense, we really didnt have the defense to keep him from dominating, but he settled on bad jumpers all night and passed the ball to guys who were struggling worse than him. Rose wouldve made his presence known until the very end….

Korver played terrific, it helps when you have a wizards team that runs such terrible offense that no one really could take advantage of his lack of quickness on defense

brewer was the opposite, he sucked on offense, but he was everywhere on defense

Asik is the man, i love watching him play, that dunk on mcgee was terrific icing on his destruction cake

I missed boozer and noahs play, maybe thats a good thing, why they ride the bench so damn much?

Taj had his moments, he did his usual hard hat and lunch pail work.

And john lucas, has now in my mind officially became a bull. I disliked his play, and probably still do, but i gotta admit, hes got heart, and he plays hard despite his obvious defeciences, im glad hes on teh bench…welcome to the bulls john lucas

JL3> CJ
I'm not that sold yet
i dont think so

if it wasnt the wiz i dont think his play would look so good. Im more impressed with jl3’s heart and effort as opposed to his skill set, i think if we had cj, there would have been no question the bulls win. I think with jl3 i always felt that they might come back in. Look at how many shots he took…. cj i think is a better scorer defender and while not as flashy, a lot better at running the offense

Definitely on offense. I'm not sure on defense.
Yeah, I think Rose really makes Deng better

Deng sucked on offense because he tried to iso Joe Johnson style (and he even got doubled sometimes). But when he plays with Rose he comes from an open lane and it’s money in the bank

Deng sucked on offense

because the dude just played 40 minutes a game for 10 games over two weeks. Deng is routinely unable to be good offensively on the second night of a back to back, but on the third? No chance.

He was also forced to become the first option offensively

which was unfortunate.

I missed the early part of the game.

What happened to Derrick?

he hurt his toe in the previous game

and didn’t suit up tonight

They thought turf toe

But they said on rotoworld is a flexion somethin?

Flexor Sprain

Better than a turf toe (extension sprain)

There ya go

Couldn’t remember the rest lol…and def better. Whatever it is sit his out till whenever. Fuck it sit em till the Cavs game next fri

Noah hasn't earned the right to start anymore
3 awesome years hasn't earned it?
Everyone vote for Paxson
Memo to the refs

Every Asik dunk is an and1

Because

Every asik dunk is so thunderous that it shakes the scorers hand and gives him an extra point?

Glad Philly lost but

sucks it had to be the Knicks that beat them.

It's ok

The Knicks suck

I just don't want to hear about them being back again.

As they’re now on a 4 game win streak and beat a team that had won 6 in a row.

Agreed

Then again, if it weren’t for Iggy I wouldn’t give a damn about them.

My wallet hurts too. Fucking Sixers
Cousins stat line

21 points , 19 rebounds

And again, give it up to Thibs

He stand strong on his choice of John Lucas. Thibs can make Lucas looks like this while VDN destroyed TT forever

poor acie law

and shannon brown….

if shannon brown couldn't improve under Phil Jackson

then he’s a lost cause

another game with Booze and Noah on the bench in the 4th

this is getting retarded.

Pierce just tied it up vs. Mavs.
25 seconds left 85-85
I still hope to see Booz/Omer and Taj/Noah combination
I like that combo better as well.

You know what I’d die to see? Omer and Dwight Howard.

dayum..KOBE WITH 31 PTS!! ONLY THE 3RD Q!
hes like

‘fuck it, i aint winning no nba championship, ill settle for the scoring championship’

Haha

KG got owned there.

how did dirk make that!?!?!?!
12 games in 18 days

You can barely tell that it’s made a difference in the level of play out there…

Must be hard for Thibs

people always question his decision. But he just keep on winning

yeah, and im not the kind of fan to bitch even afetr a win

i knwo the team has some problems, but im confident thibs will work it out soon.

and besides, alot of teams have FAR WORSE probs than us

even the contending teams this yr (besides the ehat) from the west have issues.

derrick would be proud

JL34MVP

Bullets Forever a blog post talking about how they almost beat us

a 14 point loss is not an “almost win”. Those guys are sure not math majors.

lol

you don’t beat anybody with 64 points

apparently it's happened 3 times lol

was curious!

that’s the lowest total though, no one has ever scored less and won… at least in the criteria here.

Their defense was amazing tonight, though

Kept Rose off the score sheet completely!

it felt like he wasnt even on the court

then again, thats how i felt about wall in the 4th quarter as well

They lost to us by 14 when we were missing the MVP, Rip, AND our backup PG

Not much positive to take from that.

and technically our starting center (i refuse to believe that noah is playing in these games anymore)
I can't tell if I should give KC credit...

He addressed the Noah thing, more than once…but in a way that sounded like he wanted Thibs to make an injury excuse for Noah.

At any rate, about struggles of the front court, Thibs basically said ‘this season’s gonna be weird . . . deal with it . . . ’

Thibs is wise

trust the man

Was Mike James at the game the entire time ore did he show up at half time?

he seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

I don't think they said during the game.
Sewed that jersey on the flights.
found this tidbit on the notebook on nba.com:
NOTABLE: Mike James, the point guard signed by the Bulls on Wednesday because of injuries to Rose and Watson, traveled Wednesday from Reno, Nev. (which was hosting the NBA’s D-League Showcase) to Los Angeles to Cleveland to Erie, Pa., where he plays for the Erie Bayhawks of the D-League. He then was told by the team that the Bulls wanted him in Chicago for Wednesday’s game. He then flew from Erie to Cleveland to Chicago and got to the United Center during the first quarter of the game. He played the final 40 seconds.
Nice pass rondo!
not watching, tell me thats sarcasm

i hate rondo…oh do i hate rondo, over rated piece of crap

I want to see them interview John Wall
62 boards tonight, and Noah and Booz had 10 combined.

Come on …

anyone got video for that asik dunk?
its on nba.com
the taj one was sicker

and undoubted facial, point blank on jans head…..yikes

Watch the Rose haters..

“In the two games in the last year that Rose didn’t play, CJ Watson scored 30 against Denver and JL3 had a near 3×2.”

Is Omer Asik simply better than Joakim?

Is that why Noah is looking so shitty? The explainating for boozer is that he just sucks. He is so soft. I almost shit my pants when he tried that power dunk, but then the next few times down the court he just went back to shooting 20 foot jumpers instead of working the post on those scrub wizard players. Last year when Noah was out Boozer took over games in the post with great post moves, spin moves, and creating shots from the post for Rose. This year there is NON OF THAT. I cant stand watching him. Seriously.

Noah knows he isn't playing well. He said so in post game interviews. He also hurt his wrist again tonight, so it's not too good at the moment
his thumb, not wrist
hand, then.

trying to be as vague as possible

great game

i know some shit is not good but this has been a great season so far and i have had a lot of fun watching these games.GO BULLS

lucas balls so hard motherfuckers went and signed him

This shyt craz…

Gotta say this: This is ALL Thibs

This guy has everyone ready for any situation. Who else would have told JL3 to keep shooting after 25 attempts. The confidence this guy has instilled is ridic.

I don’t care how many minutes players play. Thibs knows too much to doubt

look: thibs is the best coach in the nba-- and i think there are some pretty good coaches

out there right now. but he really needs an intervention with deng. people do have limits, even elite athletes, and it almost looks like deng’s legs are too fatigued to shoot; hes either way short or he tries to overcompensate and clangs it off the rim joint. hes still an effective player because hes deng, but he needs to be able to shoot if this team is going anywhere.

All Thibs it is.
"Coach (Tom) Thibodeau was telling me to stay aggressive, don’t back off and don’t stop shooting," Lucas said after the Bulls’ third victory in three nights.
"He kept telling me if, `I’m open, shoot it. If I’m open, shoot it.’ I felt like I was shooting too much and then he got on me for not shooting the times I was open."
so...jl3 = alex smith?
I was at the game tonight...

and all I have to say is I want my money back

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