Kirk Hinrich as a starting two-guard is apparently fait accompli

sports talk tonight on CSN where they were talking like Hughes being out is some big hit to us and we will miss his “instant offense” and his ability to “get us back into games”. As if Hughes was ever any of those things. I am seriously doubting they are watching anything but the highlights on YouTube. Where do they come up with this crap? They only mentioned Gordon in snide side comments. I don’t know what is going on with Gordon’s story and VDN saying two things at once, but the columnists need to just come out and say something one way or another. I am getting tired of the snide jabs and the nudge-nudges. The guards besides Rose are playing poorly. The columnists are phoning it in.

The amount of time for the Bulls to think of the great idea of playing Sefolosha for 20+ a night. Hinrich and Gordon coming off the bench? TALK ABOUT SPARK PLUGS!!!!

KC’s little opinionated articles. Like Matt said, why does the information around Gordon’s injury have to be some new or strange “twist”?? Why couldn’t it have been a mistake that was made by the media…or the TEAM even?

Maybe Ben originally said that it was the left toe, but the media just muffed up and reported it as the right. As Sports2 said elsewhere, maybe whomever filled out the injury report from the Bulls wrote down the wrong thing.

Why does it have to be reported like Ben is faking it and/or switching things around?

KC is a douche

At least Duhon’s out of town.

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Kick a man while he’s down huh? lol

that we have so many guards and yet we don’t know how to be flexible.
I know its been mentioned before, but start Rose/Gordon and bring Hinrich off the bench when necessary.

maybe then we could focus on our frontcourt.

This reminds me of the bs being spewed out during the coaching “search” in the spring. No one could figure out what the hey was going on, because the coaching search was about as dysfunctional as could be.

Paxson has claimed that the one thing he learned about last year was….ya know, I can’t remember WHAT he said he learned from last year’s dysfunctional season which started in the preseason and never stopped. Sad to say, apparently this owner/GM combo just can’t get out of their own way. The last thing this team with budding star Rose needed, was to have VDN dragged into some dysfunctional dance with Gordo…as he struggles to get out of the gate as new coach.

I’ve been hoping to see some signs of sanity, but instead it just keeps unraveling. I guess one should face up to reality, that the Dorfer/Pax arrangement is crippled, and lower expectations. Which we are loathe to do…all the years of teasing rebuilding…and it turns out it’s the brainrust which is putting a ceiling on the team’s potential of returning to contention.

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About how kirk gave the team good offense and good defense (as opposed to thabos great defense and poor offense, and gordons great offense and poor defense) however i am gonna join in and say….if kirks offense is this…then sit him on the bench. I (if you already didnt know) am a huge kirk fan, but what i have seen in the last couple preseason games make me frown. Hinrich i expected to be able to hit OPEN JUMPERS!!!! But he has failed too many times, maybe its preseason and he isnt trying, maybe hes not comfortable yet, or maybe he just sucks at shooting. I dont want to bank on the later, because i have seen many-a-games of kirk shooting lights out, but is he so streaky of a shooter that his good days are few and far apart?

I still dont think kirk hinrich should traded (at least not to the timber-wolves for crap!!) unless a good offer is in the works, a better sg than thabo or gordon, a better post presence than gooden, any other upgrade that can help the team get back to "respectability, and thus i offer this agreement to an idea, USE HINRICH OFF THE BENCH!!

Have him be the 6th man, benching him should wake him up, (if he doesnt then he really should get traded) puts a better player on the floor with rose (in terms of offense at least) and more importantly, should cause rose’s name to be called last in the lineups (hey hinrichs my boy, but c’mon, rose is definitely the face of the team. Hardworking, gritty, almost innocent personality, and hes actually bound to be a superstar rather than a fans top 5 player) He can then relieve either rose or gordon, and i think if his offense comes together that role might be better suited for hinrich ( think manu ginobli but nowhere near as good).

Last let me say this, hinrich is a starting pg, and its been pretty apparent in the preseason. His pg skills have developed quite a bit, even though he lacks the quickness, or natural playmaking instincts that great pgs have, hinrich is a real smart ball handler and its apparent in his passes (minus the one he did in minny, that was definitely an outlier).

Rose is damned good, and its a shame for him to set up guys who cant hit, hinrich maybe be my all-time favorite player, but i must concede that rose has to be my favorite player on the bulls, and long after kirks gone i wll continue to watch rose destroy defenses with his ability.

Hinrich is a starter, teams like the heat, the bobcats, the lakers, the cavs, the bucks, and basically any team that doesnt have cp3, nash, d-williams, jason kidd and a couple others would love to have kirk hinrich, and he would do well with them too (wjb pointed this concept out) however right now kirk is still on my favorite team in the world, and i really hope he does bounce back and show that he can play alongside rose, but until that happens, move kirk to the bench, and explore trade options…this is coming from biggest hinrich fan numba 4

Check this out.

Del Negro painted a more pessimistic picture.

“He had a lot of pain and definitely hurt himself pretty bad,” Del Negro said. “I feel bad for Larry. He has worked really hard and hasn’t missed any practices. I feel bad for the team. He has played well. He has done everything we’ve asked of him. Hopefully, it’s not as severe as it looked.”

Obviously it’s easy to figure out Vinny Del Negro. Showing up is half the battle. But there is no way VDN can see what Hughes has done in the preseason and come away thinking “he has played well.”

Larry is turning it over. Larry is forcing shots. Larry is shooting under 35% from the field. Larry is falling asleep on defense. Larry is being the same exact Larry he’s always been unless he’s playing in an open contract year.

Do you really think it’s good that Duhon is out of Chicago? The team has always played better with him on the court. His major issue is there is only one or two guys on the team who can shoot- Deng and Gordon- and they don’t have any low post scorers. Obviously that hurts his shooting and assist numbers. However, all of his other numbers were strong, and he plays good defense. The Bulls would have been better off trading Gordon.