Why, because we expected good things out of our players? Thomas, Noah, and Deng should all be better, they’re not, and to make matters worse Tyrus and Joakim still don’t enough minutes in a gimmick-heavy lineup. There is a lack of continuity or flow offensively. We get solid contributions from Rose and Gordon, then it’s a fill in the blank with the rest of the roster, a different guy filling in the 3rd option role every game.

It’s been pointed out a million times, but Rose was not supposed to be this good this early. We all expected he was going to have to adjust to everyone while Luol returned to form and the team

I’m an intense fan, I’m just as basketball obsessed as anybody else around here… but at the same time, I feel like I enjoy being a basketball fan a lot more than some, I think a lot of people enjoy being a basketball critic more than a fan.

Sure, I can point out players that aren’t playing well, and there is plenty of negative things you can say about Vinny, but that’s the breaks, we have a young team and a rookie coach. So, I can’t pretend to be too upset that they make mistakes. I’m happy that we are winning some of our games during what would be an otherwise brutal learning process. And, I’m thrilled to be watching Rose develop into a supa-dupa-star.

One piece of advice, keep in mind that this is one persons blog. “Your Favorite Bulls Blogger” is a guy named Matt who started this blog, and over the years, it attracted so much attention that the rest of us started reading more often, and Matt let us join in, and post our thoughts and feeling too. So, even though Matt complains a lot, and I hate the way he needlessly picks on Aaron Gray, it’s his place, so… he can do that. Just grin and bear it. It’s worth it, cause when he isn’t being needlessly skeptical and negative, he makes some great points, he certainly knows the game well.

I do think that the blog has taken a more negative tone in the last two years… and I often wish it hadn’t, but it’s still the best place to find intelligent fans talking about the Bulls.

There is no tone because this is a blog and you have to read it. The only tone that you hear is the voice you use in your head when you read. Your voice mind needs an attitude adjustment, lol :P

 I look forward to reading/commenting on this site daily. it’s great for Bulls fans that live in other states that want to be able to discuss our team with other Bulls fans.

Trade proposals almost always get shot down but thats OK because if everyone felt the same way all the time then this site wouldn’t be very interesting. What I do see here is that everyone feels the same way about the Bulls Center position and wanting the Bulls to make a trade to get Kaman here.

When VDN got the job both him and Paxson said that it would take several years for us to become a contending team and that they would try to develope our young players and it’s frustrating because that is not what they’re doing. The players we are playing out there are Gooden, Hughes and Nocioni which is not developing the young players. I would just hate to see us trade our younger guys to a team that is going to keep them on the court and them becoming allstar caliber players.

Imagine what it would have been like without Derrick Rose on this team.

I get what you’re saying. And clearly, a lot of the regulars have pitched in their two cents, so here’s mine:

Blogabull is a place where Bulls fans can go to vent. Venting is less cheerleading and more asking why things can’t be done better; less “for he’s a jolly good fellow” and more “what is that guy’s F’ing problem!?” Sorry, it’s just the nature of venting.

In my opinion, Blogabull is also a support group for the largest group of educated and neurotic basketball fans in the world. We’re neurotic because we were utterly spoiled by the transcendant talent of Jordan, and the demonstration by Pippen that even a support player can develop into a transcendant and graceful star. The “supporting cast” taught us that role players who do their jobs well can make the difference between a team with potential and a team that functions sublimely, as one, maximizing the talents of each individual player. And the organization and coaching aligned behind that as well.

So witnessing basketball played at the highest level over an approximate 10-year period both educated us and spoiled us, so that we’re now neurotic. That’s why we share our worries that Pax made poor decisions, along with Krause in the post-Jordan era; that even if the decisions weren’t horrible at the time, then there’s been a failure to develop players; that coaches are poor managers and worse tacticians with impunity; that management’s indecision is a tragic comedy.

There is also analysis, which is often extremely thoughtful and well written. And when it’s not, the site readership is pretty blunt in saying so. What do you expect from a bunch of educated, opinionated but frustrated passionate Bulls fans?

Your post is a good post and brings up a valid point, that we should be more positive. But on the other hand, you really can’t overlook how passionate we are as fans, and how utterly bad to mediocre the last 10 years have been for us.

All together, now: Larry Hughes, John Paxson, Jerry Reinsdorf… they’re jolly good fellows, but what is their F’ing problem?