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I'm not a big fan. He seems more like a transitional coach to me, like Doug Collins was for Jordan. He got everyone to work hard, but tactically he's overmatched and all of his advice or coaching is limited to "play hard" and "rebound" I don't like Jeff Green at power forward, but it was acceptable the last couple of years, because it's not like we wanted to give big minutes to johan petro or etan thomas. But Green cannot rebound, so whatever advantage we get by him stretching the floor or whatever is negated at the end of the game when it should be Collison and Ibaka in there. I heard Durant was beefing with some no name rapper on Twitter.

Where do you stand on Brooks? He has some nutty rotations if you ask me. Jeff Green is playing C a lot of the time. Put in Collison and Ibaka and stick Green at the 3 where he belongs.

You're not allowed to breathe on Durant. Which is useful for OKC because they stop running sets for long stretches of the game

Boston has a really tough schedule for the next month, we could easily continue to close the gap. Miami, ORL, and Chicago will probably continue to make up some ground.

lol the Pacers fired O'Brien Good riddance to that gutless puke of a coach who teaches nothing but chucking

Can CP3 still get you a basket if you absolutely need one? He's basically Stockton at this point.

Josh McRoberts was also the guy who missed a shot at the buzzer when Indiana had that perfect shooting quarter going where they scored 50 something points. Seems relevant.

hahahahaha

This division is so lousy

Silver lining: The crowd will be able to root for a lot more Scal in addition to the Big Mac promotion until Noah gets back

[expletive]

BTW, I can guarantee you that Boozer will have issues with Thibs at some point. He just has these stretches of no effort/defense that are pretty appalling and Thibs always pulls him for Gibson immediately after.

Yes, because the Chicago media is filled with homers. You're finally catching on. It's just annoying because I want one of them to ask him about it just to see what he says is causing his shooting slump. I love Derrick Rose so much my insides hurt when I think about him. I want to to never miss a shot and score 50 points with 15 assists every night. It pains me when he is struggling with his shot like this. 99% of what you're complaining about every game can be explained by injury/illness/fatigue, no transition game w/o Noah leading to easy baskets, and the offensive black holes at SG and C (more SG than C) that causes Ds to collapse on him. The other 1% of it is Rose losing some of his midrange game by expanding other areas (3s, FTs, defense). And yet we're still winning. Watch if we get JR or Mayo or someone like that after Noah gets back. Rose's FGAs will go down by quite a bit, his per shot efficiency will jump up, and they'll be ready to contend. 99-1? More like 70-30. Rose doesn't have Noah for the transition game but Rose didn't have someone like Boozer to take all the attention off of him last year either. The bottom line is last year Rose led all point guards in midrange FG% and this year its down almost 7%. It's partially compensated by his big increase in 3pt attempts and % but its caused his FG% to go down 5% this year. And of course he makes 4 mid range jumpers in a row as I type this up. I wouldn't expect Boozer necessarily to help his efficiency as much as it helps his assist totals (and it has). Noah helps because he blocks shots, rebounds, and pushes the ball in transition and Rose gets layups. Kurt Thomas has done yeoman's work but we're just a different kinda team. Plodding even. I'm too lazy to look up the stats but I'm guessing our fast break points are wayyyyy down since Noah went out. Plus we all bitched about Kirk but the guy certainly opens things up for Rose more than Bogans does. Plus he could handle the ball in a pinch...now Rose has to pound the dribble for 40 minutes a game. That's really tiring. I'll reiterate that there's no real reason that a team with Boozer and a guy that can get into the lane whenever he wants should have this hard a time scoring. But we really do need that sharpshooting 2 that can handle the rock to open up the floor.

Boozer's effort is just bad a lot of the time

Rose is also a lot better at basketball than Cutler is at football.

Yes, because the Chicago media is filled with homers. You're finally catching on. It's just annoying because I want one of them to ask him about it just to see what he says is causing his shooting slump. I love Derrick Rose so much my insides hurt when I think about him. I want to to never miss a shot and score 50 points with 15 assists every night. It pains me when he is struggling with his shot like this. 99% of what you're complaining about every game can be explained by injury/illness/fatigue, no transition game w/o Noah leading to easy baskets, and the offensive black holes at SG and C (more SG than C) that causes Ds to collapse on him. The other 1% of it is Rose losing some of his midrange game by expanding other areas (3s, FTs, defense). And yet we're still winning. Watch if we get JR or Mayo or someone like that after Noah gets back. Rose's FGAs will go down by quite a bit, his per shot efficiency will jump up, and they'll be ready to contend.

He has ulcers and a bad back. There's also the unacknowledged fact that the Bulls are a very good win-ugly type of team especially with Noah out and the black hole at SG. This team honestly hangs its hat on defense just as much as the Skiles teams did or those really good Pistons teams. Just be happy that he's getting to the line more, shooting 3s pretty well, and playing elite defense at PG. If/when we get a real shooter/secondary ball handler and Noah his efficiency will go up (more fastbreaks/easy buckets and more room to work in the paint). A team with a guy that gets into the paint that easily and a real post threat shouldn't have this hard a time scoring, really. But the lane is clogged to [expletive].

1-7 at the half cue UMFan and dex talking about Rose being the next Larry Hughes

guess not

I wonder if Rose is done for the night.

trap game

I wish Gortat would've decked him

That's fantastic Edit: I could be off on some of these but Chris Anstey, Dalibor Bagaric, Tim Floyd, Eddie Robinson, Michael Sweetney, Larry Hughes, Ben Wallace, Jannero Pargo, John Starks (still boggles my mind that this guy was on the Bulls), Ron Mercer, Othella Harrington, Jalen Rose

lol

Is Weber even on the hot seat?