PLAYOFF Game Thread: Bulls vs. Pistons Game 2

How did we regress into this quivering pile of dung?

Detroit is not this good, but we are trying our best to make them look like the 96 Jordan team.

Nocioni - Pathetic defense, no accurate shooting

PJ - Foul trouble

Hinrich - Invisible on offense; keeps getting beat on fucking curls.

Gordon - Invisible on offense, no accurate shooting

Deng - Invisible on offense

Wallace - No rebounding presence; no defensive presence

Thabo - Nothing terrible

Tyrus - Decent rebounding, stupid fucking foul at the end and you can't leave Sheed open for three, but OK

Sweets - I don't know what to say.

Five quarters and we haven't even been competitive yet.

Just shameful so far.

PS.  NOCIONI, learn how to dribble jackass

could do nothing on either side of the ball

ohh well, he's a vet and a champion, so collins raved

GAG

Bulls have 43 damn points in the first half.

Bulls had 69 points in game one.

I don't mean to be obvious, but we can't score. At all.

That's due to several things.

(a) We are shooting for sh*t from the perimeter;

(b) As a result, Detroit can just stay in that zone. In the zone, they switch on every screen, which prevents penetration. If the guard gets around the perimeter defender, Rasheed (or whoever is the off big man - e.g Dale Davis) steps up or out to the wings to trap (BTW, this is why BWall has so many points, when Sheed steps up to trap, it leaves Ben open for dunks under the basket if the rotation is slow). Until we hit shots or attack the middle of the zone, Detroit will stay in it;

(c) Gordon and Hinrich and playing like dogsh*t. Neither is getting to the rim. Gordon took himself out of the game with two moronic fouls. Our guards are being dominated again;

If we don't score more in the half court, we can't win.  

Gordon misses wide open three.Come on guys.

Maybe that's hurting the team. But that's just me.

as long as the three ball is allowed in the nba, the pistons will blow out the bulls

not to say the bulls are the mavericks or the pistons are the warriors, but we now see how matchups can make one team own another. i honestly think because of this series inevitable series loss, gordon+thomas+nocioni for gasol or even more overrated, useless big will happen. the bulls will never beat the pistons 3 ball game if they dont have an inside option. we also now see deng is nowhere near all star level.

the guys have shown nothing so far this series. it better come soon.

I just want to see the Bulls cut it to six or seven. That would be a major boost for them going into Game 3, IMO.

These guys just seem to have lost all their desire...

But in the end, I just can't get around how poorly the guards played. Gordon was horrendous again. Hinrich was criminally bad. That's supposed to be the STRENGTH of our team.

Oh, well. Beer and screaming and hope on Thursday night in the UC.

So he's not scared?

But in reality the best we can hope for is a competitive series. Beating the Pistons four out of five just isn't going to happen.

I am somewhat disheartened.

The team I just watched on TV did not even resemble the team I saw all year long.

Are we just an irksome regular season team, as one blogger suggested? Are we simply outmatched when good teams turn up the playoff intensity? Are the Bulls the little engine that could, a team which tries hard but gets knocked off of its rails far before it ever reaches the summit?

What, if anything, do these games suggest about the long term potential of our team? Can this team win a championship with its current core (however you may define that)? Or are the guards too short, the team too unathletic?

I am not shocked by losing, but I am absolutely shocked by the failure to make the games competitive.  

I really don't know the answer to the questions I posed. I guess the next two games will tell the tale, in some ways.

Come on Bulls, get back in this series.