Locker room loss-reaction weirdness: and their worst players shall lead them

they are losing road games to slightly above average teams… when they start losing at home, panic.

Luol Deng and Kirk Hinrich are soft personalities to begin with. They end up being captains by default.

I’d rather have Antonio Davis and PJ Brown around. Our vets right now are Noc, Gooden, and Hughes.

and on one possession Nocioni did one of his patented arm hacks then raising his hand to let everyone know he in fact was the man who fouled. The cameras stayed on nocioni and he blew up at Noah. The Detroit announcers made a big deal about it and kept panning back to Noc on the bench showing him still bitching at anyone who would listen about how Noah screwed up the previous play. I didn’t see any metion of it on here so I just assume Stacy and Funk missed it.

Because, you know, Del Negro is a genius and Paxson is awesome. I mean, the deserve the benefit of the doubt by a looooooong margin. Who cares if they haven’t really done anything other than benching young guys and that miraculously worked although it never worked before but now it did and it’s the best thing to ever happen to them despite Thomas playing well the three games previous to the bench but it was still great coaching and lesson-giving and Paxson shouldn’t just trade players to trade them he should only do it for really, really good players like Chris Kaman.

That sounds hypocritical and not the right attitude at all.

“And to those of you who are criticizing Nocioni are missing an important point: his attitude is exactly what is missing from many of his teammates”

Trade Noc, and we are left with passive choir boy Captains of Kirk and Deng. Gooden comes to play, for a contract at least.

Is it so hard to see …

Immediately after a game, Bulls players barely need to take a shower let alone towel themselves off. Did someone suggest that “they gave all they had”

Yet this Christmas Kobe and KG would need every unused dry towel in the Bulls locker room playing 110% both ways (defense&offense).

Where is the motivation? Where is the help defense? Where is the veteran leadership? Where are the PJ Brown’s, Joe Smith’s

The Bulls against Boston, only losing by 13 pts with 9 minutes still to play, the team threw in the towel, played the backups so as to rest “young players” for a back-2-back game, and still lost the 2nd game. The attitude should have been “We don’t care that Boston has won 19 games, if we win and break their streak we’ll at least eclispe ESPN highlights for at least a day” Bad coaching, soft players, soft organization.

I know H.S. teams and coaches that work harder!

unless they believe the ‘give the ball to Rose or Gordon and stand around’ offense is sustainable.

Anyway, I thought the Bulls wouldn’t hire D’Antoni because of money he didn’t practice defense?

will take time. VDN can’t keep practicing Noah if Noah’s not going to try. Aaron Gray will never be a defender (too slow). Drew Gooden’s been traded as often as he has been despite posessing a lot of considerable talents because he’s a god awful defender. Hughes has the skill set to be a good defender and once upon a time he was, but nowaday’s he’s a risk taker. Deng is an ok defender, who tries hard. Nocioni’s an ok defender who tries really hard, but isn’t athletic enough. Ben Gordon has nice defensive skills but can either be unfocused there at times or is too short to be upper crust. Thabo’s a decent defender who’s overrated defensively based on a couple of good defensive games, plus he’s been asked to guard SF’s who overpower him a bit too much instead of SG’s, where he could hold his own a bit more consistently, and that’s mainly because GOrdon’s overall the better player. Rose needs help defensively but to make the significant adjustments there while learning the rest of the game is a lot to ask for a 20 yr old, he’ll be fine.

Our best defender Kirk Hinrich, is hurt until Feb….

If PaxsDorf called you this summer and offered you the head coaching job… in the lasting words of the rapper out of Detroit

“would you take it”

Would you stand tall and take the challenge….

Let’s be fair, he(VDN) probably never coached a basketball game in his life as the head coach.

Does the Paxsdorfs clan have backbone or money concerns for selecting him, might be a good question to start with?

Still your assessment of Skiles might have some merit while operating in a Paxsdorf world, therefore I’ll hold my judgement on Skiles until I see what the Bucks will do within the years to come.

It is better to laugh than cry which this team seems to make me do more than anything!