Game Thread #5: Bulls at Cleveland Cavaliers

why is big ben sitting....

they dont have much in the way of a backcourt, and while I understand hes a rookie, you would thought hed seen more than 5 minutes....

Here you go, Miles. I had to resize that sucker a few times to get it down to a reasonable fit.

This is milesgmsu (left) and me at the Bulls home opener somewhere in the 300 level. I was shitfaced when this pic was taken, so I look like the second comeing of the holy ghost.

COME ON!

1. Cavs are getting too many open shots.
   
2. Cavs are killing us on the boards.
   
3. Why is PJ Brown leading the team in FGA?
   
4. Gordon sucks.

I say a and e

why is wallace guarding Z....i understand wallace is our big, but Z doesnt go inside as much...you could really see it in the 1st half, wallace would lay off z and hang in the paint for boards and interior defense and Z would drill shots...now he's pulling ben out of the paint...keep Z or PJ or T-Time on him

17 PTS
11 AST
7/10 FG
3/3 3PT
2 STL
1 TO
1 PF

all I'm saying if you aren't going to play him then trade him and get something, how can they sign him for the $ he will want if he rides so much pine

although unfortunately Cavs never missed entire game, so not sure if it matters :)

a) accountability
b) effort
c) focus
d) execution
e) consistency

or just praise Duhon's garbage points?

I'm not sure I got what Skiles was trying to do tonight. Once Gordon finally got a field goal, he didn't draw up any more plays to get him to the basket and get him going even a little. It seemed like Gordon barely played in the second quarter (I don't have any stats in front of me). He didn't try out playing Gordon and Thabo together again either after they worked so well against Milwaukee. Why not try to really get someone going? You can't want Gordon to become your big scoring option and then not play him when he's not hitting. When he finally drove to the basket, he was taken out of the game a couple minutes later. Stick with him and let the confidence build.

The guys on TNT were right. You can't just bank on defense winning the games for you against teams that have a few big scoring options.

How much of it was the Cavs just hitting EVERY single 12-20 footer they took and how much was it the Bulls sucking.  The Bulls Defense didnt seem that bad just mediocre but Cavs just made every god damn shot.  And what is up with Ben Wallace.  Isn't he supposed to be all high intensity.  He sure didnt seem like a game changer type of player tonight.

Someone get Deng to stop taking random outside shots from difficult angles.  I do not know how I feel about Nocioni always trying to make impossible blocks.  It leads to a lot of bad highlites with him getting dunked on, but its endearing.

Anyways so was it the Bulls that sucked or the Cavs that were amazing...of course its both but to what extent?

My guesses for practice goals tomorrow:

1. intensity
   
2. shot selection and ball movement
   
3. transition defense
   
4. smarter help defense (like Kerr said, why does Kirk need to help Wallace with Z?)
   

23 is on the RIGHT side of this rivalry now.

have noc start with gordon, get gordon going early and have noc take care of the defense instead of having deng shoot around crazy shots and have both him and gordon run around in the defense