2014-2015 Chicago Bulls Regular Season

[Tryptamine]

Congratulations DRose, you are officially below 40% shooting on the year and a couple missed 3s from being sub 25% from 3. All this to go with a 1.56AST/TO. Hot garbage.

[bukie]

Yeah, he's really making the Bulls struggle while he works his way into regular game shape. It's almost as if they haven't won 13 of 15.

[Tryptamine]

Yeah, he's really making the Bulls struggle while he works his way into regular game shape. It's almost as if they haven't won 13 of 15.

 

Hey that's great, they can be good in the regular season and then get run in the playoffs early again. Also, enough with this game shape nonsense. If it takes you half a season of games to get in "game shape", maybe you just aren't very good.

[bcl412]

Yeah, there isn't a team in the east that's going to "run" the Bulls in the early rounds.

 

Plus the only good Bulls team that has happened since the MJ days made the conference finals. That's not early. Why do Bulls fans hate the Bulls so much?

[bukie]

Yeah, he's really making the Bulls struggle while he works his way into regular game shape. It's almost as if they haven't won 13 of 15.

 

Hey that's great, they can be good in the regular season and then get run in the playoffs early again. Also, enough with this game shape nonsense. If it takes you half a season of games to get in "game shape", maybe you just aren't very good.

The guy has had 3 years out of the game (save about 2 weeks) and the team is cruising with him in the lineup. He's currently got about a league average PER despite basically being unable to hit anything the past week of games, and even with his personal offensive struggles the team's offense is top 5 in the league with him in the lineup. So he's not hurting anything but your sense of logic by being in there and doing what he's doing, despite tonight's unwatchable offensive display in the first half.

[bcl412]

It's not like Rose has completely struggled this year. He's had moments. Seems like he struggled, looked like he was back for a bit then struggled again. It's possible he hit a wall. I don't see anyway he's MVP year Rose again but he doesn't need to be. I don't think he'll be as poor as he is now for the entire season either.

[UMFan83]

It's not like Rose has completely struggled this year. He's had moments. Seems like he struggled, looked like he was back for a bit then struggled again. It's possible he hit a wall. I don't see anyway he's MVP year Rose again but he doesn't need to be. I don't think he'll be as poor as he is now for the entire season either.

 

I think his legs have hit a wall. Everything he's shooting is short even floaters. If that's the case then the game shape argument makes sense. The other possibility is that he's hurting. Either way Rose was shooting like 44% from the field and hitting a high percentage of his shots at the rim until like 5 games ago. He didn't just suddenly forget how to shoot, there is something else at play here.

[gscool89]

Yeah Derrick Rose is bad but when are people going to start calling out Joakim Noah who has been a bad basketball player all season now.

[UMFan83]

Yeah Derrick Rose is bad but when are people going to start calling out Joakim Noah who has been a bad basketball player all season now.

 

Again, his per 36 numbers have actually looked pretty similar to his career numbers outside of PPG and FG%. Even his advanced stats like WS/48 are only very slightly lower than his average season. And given the fact that he starts out slow every single year of his career I am not too worried. We're not going to see MVP caliber Noah mostly because he doesn't need to be orchestrating the offense on this team.

[Sammy Sofa]

So many of the Bulls fans here are astonishingly terrible.

[ChiCubsFan]

So many of the Bulls fans here are astonishingly terrible.

 

Seriously. This [expletive] is unreadable at (most) times.

[Guest]

So many of the Bulls fans here are astonishingly terrible.

 

you also said this about rose

 

Most unlikable Chicago superstar athlete ever. EVER.

[Sammy Sofa]

Yes, I find him very unappealing. He has all the personality and common sense of a sun-baked turd. Fortunately it doesn't make me act like a Bulls' loss or a bad game or stretch means the end of the world.

[Guest]

i think it's worse that you find rose less likable than a domestic abuser (i'm only half serious, i know your comment was hyperbole)

[Sammy Sofa]

Who, Marshall? Nah, I meant it went I said "superstar." In a much better world Rose would be the godking of this city.

[Banedon]

Keep in mind, Rose is playing through a hip injury right now. Not to make excuses for him...I'm sick to death of him taking jumpers...especially 3pt shots. When he's driving the basket, it opens up the rest of the floor for the rest of the team.

 

They just have to hit a shot, which they couldn't last night.

[Guest]

Anthony Rizzo and Jorge Soler will soon rule this city.

[Sammy Sofa]

Quit trying to drag Soler down with that pud.

[Guest]

lol back to disrespecting smh

 

he will embarrass you again

 

and visit more cancer kids to make you feel awful

[Banedon]

Too much Cubs talk in the Bulls thread.

[SouthSideRyan]

So many of the Bulls fans here are astonishingly terrible.

 

Yep, it's gotten to the point that I can't have a well-reasoned discussion about the Bulls anymore.

[SpongeWorthy]

Because that's a thing that you look for.

[Sammy Sofa]

http://i.imgur.com/XZJxeN1.gif

[Banedon]

Internally, the Bulls are planning to take a proactive approach to contract negotiations with Butler next July and secure the shooting guard for a long-term spot alongside Derrick Rose.

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They fully expect to sign Butler to a max deal next July before another team even gets involved to tempt him with an offer sheet, which the CBA says they can after the moratorium ends. They accept that the size of Butler’s contract will put the Bulls in position to pay the luxury tax, something chairman Jerry Reinsdorf says he will do for a championship contender his team is.

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/columnists/ct-jimmy-butler-bulls-haugh-spt-0108-20150107-column.html

[ChiCubsFan]

How much is a max contract going to be for JGB?