Re: 2009-10 Chicago Bulls Thread

[UMFan83]

Derrick's attempted 13 3s in the last two games? wtf

 

I haven't seen the games. Is he just taking them whenever the D is sagged off or is he actively looking for them off the dribble? Man, if he can shoot 35% or so on decent volume that would be deadly.

 

A little of both, he's been looking for them since he came back, but the D is almost always going to sag off him when he's behind the line until he proves he can hit that shot consistently. It's nice to see. I think VDN said he's been working on it for awhile.

[SpongeWorthy]

EJ, Kenny, and Chuck are calling the Bulls game on TNT.

[UMFan83]

Not a particularly great start for the Bulls. Would hate to see the Bulls and Hawks simultaneously get blown out

[SpongeWorthy]

I love that Q is destroying us down low. Has that guy even been beneath the 3 point line in 5 years?

[UMFan83]

Combined Chicago team blowout is 55-29

[Flames24Rulz]

Come to Chicago so you can be a part of this, D-Wade!

[Brian]

Had the best seats I've ever had for a major league sports game for that "game". I'm pretty sure Wade got the 2nd loudest ovation of the 10 starters.

 

 

Perhaps worse than the Bulls performance, at halftime they had about 50 people with a chance to win a vacation in Mexico. Shoot a free throw, and as long as you make it you go to the next round, until you're the last one to make a free throw. Of the around 50 people.... 3 people made their first shot.

[SpongeWorthy]

Ohhhh Jo just threw down one of the harder one handers I've seen in awhile.

[SpongeWorthy]

James Johnson is starting to look pretty good. I'll give Pax credit for finding two serviceable, cheap rotation players for the future at 16th and 26th. He looked totally lost in the minimal time he was getting early on but his ball handling at his size really pops out on the screen. And he'll start to shoot it better too.

[Magnetic Curses]

James Johnson is starting to look pretty good. I'll give Pax credit for finding two serviceable, cheap rotation players for the future at 16th and 26th. He looked totally lost in the minimal time he was getting early on but his ball handling at his size really pops out on the screen. And he'll start to shoot it better too.

 

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[SpongeWorthy]

He also has plantar tendon problems just like Noah and Gibson. He's playing with a partial tear of it actually. Deng would probably be in an iron lung with that sort of injury.

 

It also tells me that the Bulls need better shoes.

[Magnetic Curses]

this james johnson talk is scintillating as hell

[SpongeWorthy]

Not as scintillating as Flip "Ronald" Murray's shooting right now. Or as sad as watching Ben Gordon try to play basketball :[

[Magnetic Curses]

i always get flip murray and rodney stuckey mixed up for some reason.

 

letting ben gordon walk is the best decision this organization has ever made, imo.

[SpongeWorthy]

It's still sad to see him play. I guess he got paid though. He's been disastrous this year.

[SpongeWorthy]

Noah just posterized Maxiell, badly.

[Magnetic Curses]

detroit's just not a good fit for him, either.

[bcl412]

Sweet. Right back into the race to get destroyed by Cleveland.

[SpongeWorthy]

Yep, half a game back now with Toronto's collapse in Miami.

[Andy]

Making the playoffs through this crapfest of a year might actually qualify as an accomplishment.

[UMFan83]

I think it's gonna home down to the game in Toronto coming up. Toronto has already clinched the tiebreaker over us, so we are like a game back instead of 0.5 back.

[WrigleyField 22]

i always get flip murray and rodney stuckey mixed up for some reason.

 

letting ben gordon walk is the best decision this organization has ever made, imo.

I'd be interested to hear you're reasoning for that. I was okay with not bringing him back, in large part because of 2010 Free Agency, but I'd hardly call it the best decision ever.

 

About the strongest argument that I think could be made for it is that Gordon had to be gone to let Rose develop.

[imb]

ben gordon has basically been a below average shooting guard this year

 

the bulls would have been better off keeping thabo "2 ppg" sefalosha over gordon.

 

if you sign one decent free agent this offseason, you owe it to the decision to not re-sign gordon

[Guest]

i always get flip murray and rodney stuckey mixed up for some reason.

 

letting ben gordon walk is the best decision this organization has ever made, imo.

I'd be interested to hear you're reasoning for that. I was okay with not bringing him back, in large part because of 2010 Free Agency, but I'd hardly call it the best decision ever.

 

About the strongest argument that I think could be made for it is that Gordon had to be gone to let Rose develop.

I don't know about best decision ever, but it was absolutely the right call for many reasons. The biggest being that Gordon simply isn't worth anything close to the money he's being paid.

[Tyrant]

Gordon has also played hurt the entire year. He's obviously not this bad.