This game shows we need to make some changes. I bet OKC has us circled in for a win after this crap.
Rose will have bad games, we had ten years of lotto picks, someone else should be able to step up by now. I am just so dumbfounded by this game. Should have won this game by 20 plus. LB out coached Vinny and their players just played better defense than us the entire game. Drew Gooden and Larry Hughes reverted back to their norms, and Noc is sucking ass right now. TT finally had a decent game, but that jumper late in the 4th was not a good shot. Those possessions are big and he is got to drive that ball in. BG and Deng need to step up and we have to get a real center sometime. Kaman and Brad Miller are available I dont understand why we havent tried for either one yet.

sounds like something robin would say to batman twenty years ago or so.

Rumor around says rockets are interested in discussing trades with tmac with any team outside their division. Any intersts?

something that VDN should have realized as well, I mean after all, he is the coach. Stacey suggested that Gooden stop setting picks for Derrek and let him take advantage of his blazing speed and quickness by actually giving him enough space to maneuver without a power forward draped all over him. I think if VDN had stopped going to that play the Bulls could have pulled out the victory, not that it matters all that much anyway.

at this point I think Del Negro is forced to give him those 20 minutes a game in hopes that he gets hot and shows a playoff team that he might be worth adding. It’s the only hope for the Bulls to get out of his contract.

…and teams seemed to have figured him out. I know he will get better though, unlike many of the others.

is already putting in a lot of time critiquing video of his play… I hope he recognizes that he had a bunch of opportunities to dish off to an open man at the hoop on those drives that Okafor blocked. You know that more and more teams are going to collapse on him when he gets to the hoop like that – he’s got to be more adept at recognizing and dishing. It would be a perfect time to put TT on that weak side and just throw lobs to him when his defender helps.

Wasn’t god awful yesterday, his defense was pretty solid….he missed some open 3’s, but so did the team.

The thing that was frustrating for me was first that we lost (we should have demolished them especially early) but mostly that big Aaron started the second half and played it seemed a good deal of the 3rd……I mean Noah and especially Tyrus were keeping us in the game.

Everyone else played poorly. Rose had a really really bad game, too much one on one, little D, his passes weren’t as crisp as normal, and while he took some nice shots that just rimmed out, he just wasn’t the usual Derrick Rose.

Gordon scored ok, but was just iffy on an average night for him. I’m shocked to see he scored 13 pt sin the 4th as I didn’t really remember him taking over….but he played ok, just not very good of late…..not a bad game

Hughes missed some open jumpers had a nice D stop or two, but took 2-3 bad out of the offense shots (though Rose wasn’t playing int he offense yesterday either, so be it).

Deng looked ok, but got hurt and we lost.

Noah was very active and played from my eyes pretty well, but got a strange 15 minutes of play…..his +/- was poor (as was Tyrus’s) but I think that’s because the rest of the team wasn’t so hot when they were out there, these two played quite well…..it was the circumstances.

I’m not one to critize VDN too much yet (give him the year at least as I think he’s doing a nice job building a comraderie from a team that was a joke (not a team but a collection of players) last year….but he should have just kept Tyrus out as much as possible and played a bit more Joakim…

Had Rose just had an average game (or had the phantom 3 pt foul call not been called) we would have won easy….it’s a shame, a game we should have won.

I think this team’s allergic to the .500 stigma.

Noah was active and was the 2nd best player

His D is subpar. He has the strength and speed to play above average D. I don’t think if he burns all his energy on the offensive side but his D has been weak pretty much every game.

I still can’t believe that we lost to a Bobcats team that gave serious minutes to the likes of Matt Carroll and Ryan Hollins and Juwan Howard and they didn’t even have Gerald Wallace.

We needed this game and pretty much I gotta say Derrick was the goat. He needs to stop trying to be a facilitator and look to drive to the basket first and then worry about dishing it off. Right now he is best served as a scoring PG and stop settling for so many jumpers.

Good to see production from Ty and Jo for the second straight game.

 Vinny’s performance as a coach last night really pissed me off. He has been so stubborn w/ his substitution pattern of Aaron Gray. It was commented on recently but I thought Vinny made a big mistake in the Charlotte game not giving Gray more PT, especially against Okafor. We looked like a far superior team at the beginning of both halves. In the first half I remember thinking,“Wow! Aaron Gray is shutting down Okafor and he even looks like the better player! Cool.” Then Vinny went to Tyrus and Noah really quickly, which I liked, but why not go back to Gray after he gets a breather? Instead more Drew Gooden.
  Blog-a Buller talked about Vinny and the matchups he likes and how that dictates the playing time; did he not notice that Okafor was struggling on offense against a taller player?
  2 things: 1. If I was Okafor, I would be thanking Vinny for saving him the embarassment of getting outplayed by Aaron Gray and instead helping him to an easy double-double against the undersized Drew Gooden. In that 2nd half it was Okafor’s work on the offensive glass that really helped them.
     2. If I’m Aaron Gray I’m asking Vinny for one of his now famous heart to heart communications to understand just what’s going on. “You think I’m good enough to start but not good enough to see any more minutes after that? Am I being used as a pawn to motivate Joakim and Tyrus to work harder so they can start? Aren’t I a young & promising big man too? What about my minutes?”
Hopefully Aaron handles it like that; Me? I wouldn’t be as polite after watching my team lose to an awful team like the Bobcats (esp. w/o gerald wallace & their best defender raja bell). I’m trying to make the playoffs, maybe even have home court advantage. Instead we lose to the Grizzlies and Bobcats in less than a week. WEAK!

p.s. DJ Augustin & Raymond Felton clearly outplayed our backcourt tonight, shame on us!