It's actually a useful device and I see f'n arm sleeves and calf sleeves.

Do it Pax.

Dallas has benefitted with home court calls on all the questionable out of bounds deflections, and has a few key threes, but don't look good to me. Credit Bull defense or Kidd not acclimated yet? Game should be tied.

I hate being reminded constant now why I hated Drew Gooden's "game". Let's NOT see Du. And where's Noah been? Tyrus on Howard ('tho Deng did fine), Noah on Dirk, Gray or Gooden on Dampier/Lambier (LOL, bullish!). And with Kirk out, (surely even Boylan can figure it out now) Thabo checks Kidd.

Does he get it?  Can we clone David Thorpe 10 times and get them into the Berto Center.  I'm confident that clones of clones will still be able to tell Boylan that Noah is the best player to have on the floor.

Jeeze

Now back to 10.

You have to feel it

I'll have to check the gameflow tomorrow but I think Gooden was something like 3-11 until the 4th period. Hughes finished 4-11, but I do give him some cred for getting 5 FTAs.

I don't get some of the Luol hate tonight, I thought he played pretty well, especially on the boards.

If Noah only received 18 minutes because he was hurt, fine. If it was because of 'matchups', Boylan's an idiot. Noah's the type to play center in a small lineup, you overmatched goof.

At least Duhon (and Gray) didn't play. That's a good first step towards a rotation. Next one: figure out how to get the better guys out there more often.

How about Ben Gordon, jerks? 0 TOs in 37 minutes, and that was playing PG most of his time out there . Ok, he did have that bizarre dribble out the shot-clock posession, which should be his TO.

(I take back the 'jerks' comment, we shouldn't be adversarial over Gordon. I'll just suggest to look at how much better he is than Larry Hughes, and realize how all 'scorers' aren't created equal)

Speaking of, it was almost a blessing that Hinrich was ejected, he had 3 lazy turnovers in his first stint, blech. Tough to climb uphill all game like that.

I'm not that interested in this team with the new guys playing down the stretch. I know the "starters" got down to start (but it got worse when Ty came out), and I know Drew had a "good" 4th (but so did Dirk). I don't care.

 Maybe Tyrus can develop into one, but until hes dropping near 30 a night, Bulls need to play near perfect team basketball to win games against good teams. So far, inconsistency rules supreme as they can't win 2 games in a row to save their lives.

Trading out two bigs logging a lot of minutes and bringing back one big was a trade explicitly to get Noah and Thomas as much PT as possible.  Paxson is on this trip.  Anyone think he's getting the message?

Can't really say I miss Kirk.  In a shade over 11 minutes he had 3 turnovers.

1 slowly dribbles up. Find 2 or 3 coming off baseline screen. Elevate for shot before passing it at last second, for a turnover. Or reverse ball or find cutter cross court, for a turnover.

What about pick-and-rolls, iso's and interior passing? It seems like the Bulls need to just stop the plague of the lateral, perimater passing. And scrap Skiles' play book if it says otherwise.

Plus, isn't Hughes supposed to be a slasher? Clear out and let the man slash once in a while. Have him go to the rim and at the very least draw a foul.

I was under the impression that the Bulls avoided this play because they didn't have a big guard who could finish those types of plays, and their small guards weren't getting the calls because they were, well, small.