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The starters are really playing the last 75 seconds with a 16 point lead?

 

Yeah it's kind of annoying.

 

At the same time there's next to no practice time in this season and Thibs wants to get his stuff installed. The offense has soo many more looks this season.

 

And I don't think Rose played an insane amount of minutes in the game. 34 or so? Rip, on the other hand, played too much. He must have been over 40. I definitely would have liked to see Rose down around 28-30 minutes and Rip maybe 32-34, with the extra minutes going to Butler, but I'm not going to complain much. You take the bad with the good with Thibs.

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Rip with 43 minutes and Rose with 36 minutes on a bad toe. Yeah, that's pretty dumb.

 

Thibs is a great coach, but I don't understand why he constantly does this with the starters at the end of games.

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Let's not get carried away. Rose has barely played with Rip and needs to develop chemistry. He barely broke a sweat this game...mostly watching Rip run off screens and cut up the Nets horrible interior D with passes.

 

This was like Maddux tossing a complete game on 88 pitches.

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I didn't like the high minute totals but I like the live practice explanation and because of that I am ok with it.

 

Watching Rip and Kyle play at the same time was fun as they make the defense run around in circles trying to guard them.

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Korver leads the team in Offensive Rating, effective FG% and True Shooting %. He has a role, and he excels at that role.
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With Deng out, I'm perfectly fine with Rip getting some longer minutes. Especially this week. We don't play back to back until Sun-Mon, so there's plenty of rest time. And Rip has missed 7 games already on a team he's never played with before. Let the dude get accustomed to all the guys he might play with.

 

Scalabrine has played pretty damn well in two games so far. Could he actually fill that Kurt Thomas role? Kinda? Sorta?

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According to two people familiar with Deng's situation, the eighth-year forward's plan is to rest his wrist in the short term and then try to play through the injury. A team source said an MRI revealed ligament damage and, tellingly, the Bulls officially moved from calling it a sprained wrist to merely an injured wrist.

 

"I think it's going to be a little bit," the source said.

 

Deng needed surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right wrist that ended his rookie season before the first-round playoff series against the Wizards. He entered the United Center laughing and joking with a team executive with his left wrist and thumb in a splint and told teammates he doesn't think he will miss significant time unless he opts for surgery.

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Rose joked he was scared to dunk on two breakaways but otherwise felt no toe pain. His swelling is gone and he wore special inserts to alleviate pain.

 

"It's never going to be right this year," he said. "But it's just something I have to play through."

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According to two people familiar with Deng's situation, the eighth-year forward's plan is to rest his wrist in the short term and then try to play through the injury. A team source said an MRI revealed ligament damage and, tellingly, the Bulls officially moved from calling it a sprained wrist to merely an injured wrist.

 

"I think it's going to be a little bit," the source said.

 

Deng needed surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right wrist that ended his rookie season before the first-round playoff series against the Wizards. He entered the United Center laughing and joking with a team executive with his left wrist and thumb in a splint and told teammates he doesn't think he will miss significant time unless he opts for surgery.

 

That's no good. If he gets surgery now I would think he's likely to be ok by the playoffs. If he tries to play through it and then realizes he can't and gets surgery then were likely talking about missing some or all of playoffs.

 

Not good that it looks like probably our 2 best players are going to be playing through injuries the rest of the season.

RynoRules Knoxville Smokies

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This Deng thing scares me a bit. That would be a big loss. I think Butler could be very effective playing 10-15 minutes a night, but the idea of supplementing that with Korver, Brewer and Scalibrine makes me uneasy.
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What's the recovery time from a wrist surgery? Assuming there's little doubt he'd miss the playoffs following a surgery, I don't know why you wouldn't go through with it. This seems really short-sighted.
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The Bulls are so deep this year. How many other teams could win by double digits when their bench was playing so many minutes?

 

The Bulls got 71 minutes from their bench last night and won by 15

 

Just last night...

 

Thunder got 111 minutes from their bench and won by 20

http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=320123025

 

76ers got 99 minutes from their bench and won by 20

http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=320123020

 

Celtics got 96 minutes from their bench and won by 31

http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=320123002

 

Portland got 102 minutes from its bench and won by 12

http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=320123022

 

So the answer is "lots of teams"

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The Bulls are so deep this year. How many other teams could win by double digits when their bench was playing so many minutes?

 

The Bulls got 71 minutes from their bench last night and won by 15

 

Just last night...

 

Thunder got 111 minutes from their bench and won by 20

http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=320123025

 

76ers got 99 minutes from their bench and won by 20

http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=320123020

 

Celtics got 96 minutes from their bench and won by 31

http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=320123002

 

Portland got 102 minutes from its bench and won by 12

http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=320123022

 

So the answer is "lots of teams"

Is that just the minutes of the non-starters for that game or does it include the minutes of the people who are usually bench players that are filling in for starters that are hurt? I'm too lazy to look those numbers up, but I'd be interested to see them.

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Add Ronnie Brewer's 27 minutes to that and it's still just 98 minutes. It's hardly a rare feat.

 

And I'm sure playing a crappy Nets team on the 3rd game of a back to back to back didn't hurt any last night.

Pushfrog98 ACL Cubs

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When including injuries, the Celtics got 160 of their 240 minutes from non-starting 5.

 

Bulls had 99.

That's what I was wondering. Looking at the Celtics box, looks like a few people are hurt (I don't follow the Celtics regularly, so I don't know who the normal starters are). How long have people been out for Boston? Also, how many minutes have "bench" players been averaging for the Bulls and other teams over the last week or so? And is there an easy way to find this stuff? I'm lazy (and working on a "time sensitive" project... haha)

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