SpongeWorthy

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?

Heh, I didn't think about that. That's a good angle to work.

He hits him lower? Is this a trick question? Well hitting him too low is also a penalty. He's also in a throwing motion and you'd like to be able to disrupt that as you make the tackle. Maybe you hit him as fast but you also let him have a clean throwing window. That's taking away from the defender. The idea that you can safen the game by cleaning up dirty hits only and not by taking away a defender's chance to make the play in the fastest possible way in certain cases is a complete fiction. It's a sport played with forward body lean by both defenders and offensive players and it's inevitable that helmet to helmet plays occur when all a defender is trying to do is make a play in the shortest amount of time. I'm not disputing at all that it's a flag by the book.

Someone tell me how Peppers makes this play as quickly without doing what he did.

Without putting too much thought into how the CBA affects everything, I still think V. Jackson and S. Rice are two guys that would listen to a short, incentive laden deal so they can rebuild their value after missing most of last year.

Cool What other nuggets of parochial Illinois/Wisconsin information should I know

What does FIB mean

Maynard sucks man.

The difference between Cutler and LT is that there was no Twitter back then so some drunk football NFL guy sitting on his couch couldn't pop off and have thousands pick it up immediately. That plus Cutler, for whatever reason, is the kind of guy whose peers aren't going to hesitate to rip him if they the chance.

Dorell Wright is just the latest example of borderline D-leaguer going to Golden State and putting up stats because they play gimmicky basketball.

Monta Ellis is a better comparison. Everyone on the RealGM bulls forum was mocking him last year (ellis) for his hollow scoring average because he was a chucker and shot a low percentage. Well this year Rose has scored and shot slightly less, but has a slightly lower shooting percentage than Ellis. Rose does shoot better from 3 and gets to the line more, but still. The theme seems to be slow starts. I normally don't bother watching the 1st quarters of games for whatever reason, and when I turn on the tv and load up the box score, Rose is seemingly always a 1-7 or 2-9. And then at the end of the game its something more respectable like 8-20. Another key difference is that Derrick Rose is a lot better at basketball than Ellis. Which would be a good point if I said that Derrick Rose and Monta Ellis are the same exact basketball player in all ways instead of just suggesting that their scoring efficiency is similar. Or at least last year's Ellis vs. this year's Rose. This year Monta has a .549 TS% and Rose .538. Rose has a higher offensive rating (110 to 108) and offensive win shares (3.7 to 3.1) because he, you know, does more offensively than scoring. I really don't put much stock in any impressive looking numbers coming from Golden State. They play at a high pace, exert zero energy playing D or rebounding, and have a long track record of guys putting up nice looking stats without actually winning anything. TS% and all that crap has its place but its usefulness doesn't extend very well to gimmick teams.

Also, being compared to Iverson isn't necessarily a pejorative. He and Larry Brown's commitment to D were pretty much the only reasons those woefully untalented Sixers teams were competitive. A lot of those Warriors players have put up pretty fantasy stats and haven't won dick. They're a glorified And 1 team.

Monta Ellis is a better comparison. Everyone on the RealGM bulls forum was mocking him last year (ellis) for his hollow scoring average because he was a chucker and shot a low percentage. Well this year Rose has scored and shot slightly less, but has a slightly lower shooting percentage than Ellis. Rose does shoot better from 3 and gets to the line more, but still. The theme seems to be slow starts. I normally don't bother watching the 1st quarters of games for whatever reason, and when I turn on the tv and load up the box score, Rose is seemingly always a 1-7 or 2-9. And then at the end of the game its something more respectable like 8-20. Another key difference is that Derrick Rose is a lot better at basketball than Ellis.