I don’t think it was a matter of motivation either. He plays for Sloan, so in lieu of good defense he just fouls.

I just realized that there are a select few. Garnett and Duncun and maybe Dwight Howard?

Let’s stop being greedy

But then I remembered that they had him, and he absolutely sucked. What happened!? Can anyone explain to me how a guy that talented ends up looking so piss poor when given the shot at living his dream?

No joke.

…but it prolly will ;_;

They don’t owe Rose anything.

and a bigger one to Powell too

I was in the Crush ‘02-’03…a forgettable Brian Cook filled season.

Somebody has to take all those stupid shots

Hughes and Gordon are refusing to play with each other. The rumor was started here folks! Spread it around. :)

Almost at the same time

though no one else is picking up the slack

how do i run that feed?
ppmate?

foul shot. :)

TT has two fouls and Noah was put in for him. One of his fouls was from trying for a charge.
Rose had a tip in, made a three, and perhaps another basket. So he is doing well offensively. Defensively he got a steal.
Gordon has made a layup and a three at least. The three was set up by Rose.
Gooden is getting pushed around in the paint.
Kirk hit a shot.

but it’s a good sign that Ben is driving and not just settling for the jumper

Nice airball by Ben there…

But otherwise he has been unmemorable so far.

Noc hits a three. You got some reverse magic juju or something going on tonight.

are continuing the tradition of not calling those for particular players.

So they are doing the Kirk/Gordon routine we are used to. And it doesn’t work.

::head in hands::

could’ve easily been fouls

I think

espn.com should have the live game updates though

I’d just like to see VDN go off on a ref. :D I am having trouble imagining how it might go.

thinking about the same thing. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe he doesn’t want to get after them too bad during the preseason.

But I wish he would show a little more emotion…other than the same “what am I supposed to do” look

and he’s gotten to the foul line a few times. Not bad. He is still not doing everything he needs to though. Some of those short jumpers should start going in and he needs to find some finishing moves down near the basket.

he gets out of position on defense, he still jumps towards shooters and falls for their fakes like a rookie would, and he makes stupid fouls. He needs to limit those things, but it seems like the harder he tries the more he does them. He needs to relax and just take the shots Rose sets up for him. That’s when he looks best. In position and under control.

Rose missed the last shot, I like the option of him standing at the key and making the play, rather than Kirk or Ben

If in general, it just depends on the matchup. Against a Brad Miller or an Okur, sure….against Yao, Shaq, or Howard, not really.

If tonight, yes…I think he can take advantage of Okur on both ends…Okur doesn’t like to run, TT could just run him into the ground and use his quickness to cause some havoc

He was in foul trouble. And VDN said tonight would be like a regular season rotation.

notice how people are saying positive things about the bulls right now

We have nobody on this team that can defend the paint. That is gonna be an issue all season unless we make a deal.

But when he’s got such a quickness advantage over his man (like with Okur), I’d really like to see them run some isolation for him. He can blow past his man for layups or free throws, and he’s a very, very underrated passer. His turnover rate – against his reputation – is even pretty solid (at least it was last year). And if the defender sags way off him, he’ll have a series of wide open jump shots.

I’m really getting annoyed that we’re not seeing more of TT getting a chance to create a little offense.

:)

No real PG on the court…still, not too far behind to make a run.

Questionable to return.

The calf

Hopefully he isn’t teaching any of the younger guys his bad basketball IQ. Thabo is usually smarter than that.

larry hughes out…. Bulls win

good one…he clearly looked lost and awful all night. This was a game where he should’ve stayed on the bench.

it’s having gordon instead of hughes entirely. sure bg had a positive effect on the game, but there was also a complete absence of larry’s chucking. while i’m not in favor of keeping hinrich as a permanent starting 2 guard.. there’s a bigger swing than would be in our rotation unless hughes really does get benched for good.

which isn’t necessarily bad if they recognize that and run the offense accordingly during his stints out there.

Especially knowing we have Rose

but ben isn’t a pg thats going to create shots for his teammates, hes more of an arenas type point guard

Del Negro said Rose’s injury isn’t serious and that he could have returned in a regular-season game.

You Hughes you lose. So true.

I was all excited about tonight’s game and then remembered no Gordon. Yes Hughes. Meh.

I don’t think 1-3 is bad, especially since he made his first one and probably felt pretty comfortable. He shouldn’t be shooting any more than that, certainly not anywhere near Gordon and Noc’s attempts, but what he did attempt last night didn’t bother me. It drew the defense to him out there where they would normally drop back a bit with a non-3 shooter which means being a threat out there could open the floor up for a good pass to someone else.

He could be numero uno