I thought it summed up the game perfectly. These guys need to defer to Rose, even if it is a hit to their egos, or whatever. It really was frustrating watching Lu disappear, Kirk attempt to be the PG again, and BG try to take over every possession at the end of the game. Tyrus being benched I was actually okay with, because he’s been god awful the last 3 games for the most part. Hopefully he continues to start though, otherwise that would be annoying. It’s still early.

Best line:

Drew Gooden hit a few early shots and as a result thought it justified whatever else he threw up. And speaking of throwing up, Luol Deng was completely missing, not making a single field goal and finishing with 1 point in 25 minutes.

I had a good laugh there. Thanks for that.

I did not read most of the comments in the venting thread…and if you’re going to be a reactionary goof, please put it there.

I just wrote it in a shorter way . .

What Gordon has to realize now that Derrick is playing
If he moves without the ball, Rose will find him!

Instead, he feels like the only way he’ll have a chance to save the game is for him to handle AND shoot when the game is on the line

by Option27 on Nov 3, 2008 6:46 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

“It is a good lineup,” Rose said of the three-guard. “But it is up to coach. We’re a young team and trying to get to know one another and play with each other. For us to go out there and come back like that really showed good signs.”

I’ve always believed in going with your best talent and what works best for you, no matter what the convention is. You try to put players in position to succeed. The Bulls don’t have post players. So don’t bother. Former coach Scott Skiles used three-guard sets often, but Del Negro isn’t as demanding on missed shots and there seems the potential to play with more freedom. Plus, I like to put opposing offenses, like Don Nelson does, in position to try to attack you because of a perceived match-up advantage with what they might not do best.

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It was a game with shades of last year, but unlike last year we managed to somewhat fight our way back.

David B. Thorpe at 9:52pm November 3

The Bulls have put in an entirely new offense, and it is not small forward friendly. As of now. Stay tuned!

he’s only gonna get more confident and more assertive. there will come a time, hopefully sooner rather than later, when the supporting cast will understand that the best chance to win occurs with rose with the ball. they’ll all get a chance to score points, but they won’t need to try to create their own shot.

I know we lost, and that sux, but really this was a good game.

I dont think orlando can be considered a great team, but they are the teams we definetly gotta beat to get some respect in the league. I think this game really should have been ours.

One key thing i noticed, and so did stacey, that we won the 2nd and 4th quarters of the game and lost the 1st and 3rd. The main reasons for this is Thabo, Deng, and Tyrus. Im not gonna pull a ‘they suck, trade them now’ rant (enough people will do that for me :>) ) but they clearly were not helping us at all in this game, and ultimately i think that is what led to the 3 guard lineup.

Thabo had a couple of good defensive plays, but his turnovers turned me off. That and his inability to score especially since he is more of slasher, and howard would have killed him had he tried that. Which was also the biggest problem for deng and tyrus.

Those three werent impacting the game at all, and were playing against their strengths which on the offensive side is taking it to the rim. The three guard lineup was working because our three guards were either defending well (hinrich) shooting well (gordon) or were named rose (hall of famer) and noch was completely unafraid of howard.

The end of the game play by gordon was foreshadowed when gordon hit the end of the half jump shot, maybe it was gordons fault for taking the shot, maybe hinrichs for giving the ball to gordon or vdn for not calling timeout, but that play really was bad. No one wouldve minded rose missing the shot, everyone hated gordon for missing it.

Hinrich didnt get involved in the offense, mainly due to his lack of of offensive moves, he is only effective taking shots that are open rather then contested. his defense was good on turkoglu but his play overall wasnt amazing. If it wasnt for the poor performaces by deng thabo and tyrus hinrich wouldve seen more bench time. Gordon looked good out there on offense, but he portrayed that need to control the ball to score. Rose gave him a few nice dishes where he shouldve just popped the shot, but he either missed or decided to put the ball down.

Well the cavs are gonna scare me, but i see us beating the suns….

winning in Memphis was the worst thing that could have happened. The Bulls played exactly the same way tonight that they did then. The difference is they won, so naturally they think that they can keep playing that way and win. To me the play seems to be getting worse as the season progresses, and you can almost see the trend in Rose’s assist numbers. The only game that the Bulls played together was the Bucks game, when Rose had 9 assists. This also reflects in the teams assist totals. They had 27 assists vs. the Bucks then 13, 19, and 11. Until the team starts playing TOGETHER, then they will keep being inept on offense. As far as the players go, Tryus is playing really soft, Noah has zero energy, Gooden is a black hole, Deng is too but he is also playing like he is lost on offense. That’s not to say that these players are our only problems, but they are the most glaring and frustrating to me.

The Bulls had the ball with what was potentially the last possession with the shot clock off, rather than call a time out like they are supposed to, they pushed the ball up the court and Gordon took a bad shot. If the coach/players had made the right play in that situation, we could be discussing how we pulled on out…

The fact is we have a rookie coach with a rookie star…both of whom showed their greenness last night down the stretch…we will get better as the players begin to learn their roles and the coach learns how to use them in those roles. But those types of chemistry issues take time.