i love tayshaun, the guy is a all-around baller but not for Deng and the potential he has. prince is on the back-end of his ‘prime,’ Deng’s ‘prime’ has barely begun. But i’m not really worried, Deng will still be a Bull for the next couple of seasons, as for Ben G i dunno. I wish we could have em both. In my eyes the bottom line is Deng and Ben Gordon are more important to our team and the future rebuilding than Hinrich and Nocioni. If we got rid of both Noc and Kirk i think we’d have enough cash to keep em both happy and be in decent cap space. Right? But pax’s does love his ‘hustle and heart” players that he give’s awesome contracts to but doesn’t show the love to the “talented and potential-rich” players ie Deng and Gordon.

In their regular season matchups this year, he only averaged 11 points a game, last season 14 points, the season before that 13. I’m not saying Deng and Prince were matched up 1-on-1 the entire time, but it’s not like Prince destroys the Bulls like other players have been prone to do. The only time Prince got the better of Deng in recent memory was during the playoffs when he posted him up a couple of times and took him to the hoop. Lu still averaged close to 20 points a game against Detroit in that series.

Tayshaun hasn’t come anywhere close to outplaying Deng on a consistent basis.

tayshaun’s are just more spectacular.

we may see better in terms of closing out from deng this year, if we get normal rotations… boylan’s normal rotation would be to give him rest in the 1st half and none in the 2nd. plus his injuries didn’t help.

if we have some good rotations and deng isn’t playing for 24 minutes straight, i think he’ll be more productive at the end of games.

not saying that this is a total excuse for him, of course, but i think it will help.