they have not been pumping up Rose. Sure, they’ve said all a long that they are going to easy him in (whatever that means) and that they are wanting to set reasonable expectations (whatever THAT means), but does that mean we can’t be excited at all about our #1 draft pick? I fail to see why they have not been putting out their one positive thing this summer. True, no one but us thinks about basketball this time of the year, but if they are advertising ticket sales then Rose should be your guy. He’s the reason I’ll be looking for tickets. I can see how they might not be confident in some of the other players getting ad time when they might very well get traded asap, Deng is signed and in as is Rose. Get their faces out there. It is September already.

When last I heard Pax he sounded like he was about to cry at the suggestion that Rose might start, or that he ought to have high expectations placed on him.

Which, by the way, is a weird thing I think people get wrong about ball players. Most of the time, if they can play, they play right away, and they get noticeably better fairly quickly. Sure, there are exceptions, but the number of guys who sit for long stretches and then suddenly blow up and do great is pretty small. Especially these days.

In fact, I wonder if that attitude is counterproductive. Sometimes I think so I when I see these players who are suddenly pushing 25 or even 30 and saying “No really, I’m going to break out this year!”. Have no pressure and no expectations on a guy and then expect him to blow up? Not likely.

They don’t want to put anyone on there that could be traded during the season. Since there is no one on the campaign that means they aren’t committing to anyone. The only guy that is a lock to stay is Rose, but they are probably worried about making him more famous than he already is. Too much fame too early can destroy some, so they are taking it a little slowly with him. I would think that Luo Deng is a lock too, but we’ll see.

At least none of the fans are wearing headbands. (I didn’t look at the ads so I hope I am wrong and can tar and feathered for this comment)

…what’s the big deal? Make new ads.

Otherwise, it just seems odd not to actually feature your own players and makes the team seem ashamed of them, like they aren’t worthy of being used in the marketing.

I also don’t get why some of you have such low expectations for Rose… yeah, Rose at 19 won’t be as good as Rose at 25, but he’ll still be pretty good and the franchise (and the fans) SHOULD focus on him and have good-sized expectations.

He’s a #1 pick! A great college PG!

If the marketing is just about how awesome being a fan is, then I can stay home and be awesome without paying money to see a NBA game. WHY should I go? WHO am I gonna see?

During the Blazers worst few seasons, they always put the players in the marketing, BUT during the season they would advertise the other team’s players as lures to get people to come see the game. Dwyane Wade is coming! Kobe! Dontcha’ wanna see us lose to the great Gilbert Arenas?

When the Blazers stopped doing that (or at least put our guys on the same ad as the enemy), it was a good sign.

These new ads just seem like there is no team. ANYONE could be gone. That is lame.

And even if someone gets gonged, who cares? Until then, he’s a Bull and fans are gonna come to see them. Put Rose, Tyrus, Deng up there. DONE and DONE. Now gimme my ad design money!

Mortimer

i noticed these too. ive seen some of the same pictures on the billboards too. just some screaming “fans” i guess. i agree, that they should use rose to market the season. i mean if they did it for curry and chandler, rose is a huge step up. i also say this because it seems the bulls are kind of lost in the town (i know its baseball/football season), but with the success of the cubs and sox and the bears being the bears, and now an emerging blackhawk team in the UC, bulls seem like an afterthought and these flakey little “ad” are going to do the trick.

C’mon Bulls, throw me a friggin’ bone here! They oughta have Derrick Rose on the Bulls Propaganda posters somewhere!

I kinda hope they trade Hinrich, somehow. Doesn’t he make too much money to be coming off the bench? Can anybody else on the roster play at least halfway decent backup point guard, if Hinrich (and Duhon, obviously) are both gone?

though i’ve never liked the Dodgers’ “Think Blue” ad. i think that’s pretty soft.

and a couple of years ago, the Marlins had “Go Fish” and “Get Hooked” as their campaigns. it might’ve been the year we slaughtered those sorry as Cubs. lol. (sorry, i had to throw that out there. i love my Bulls to the grave, but i am a Miami fan through and through in every other sport.)

will bitch about anything I guess.

He may be the first 40 year old to win rookie of the year

They’re terrible. Absolute waste of money. The shame here is that I heard they just reviewed their account and renewed with the same agency! Whoever is running the Bulls marketing team needs to be fired for greenlighting this.

How out of touch are these ads? So out of sync with the demographic that watches Bulls games- yet they claim these are real fans? I guess they could be but they feel fake to me. There are so many things wrong with these ads, and there are so many missed online marketing opportunities. I can go on and on…But ultimately I just wanted to chime in and say how uncreative, unoriginal, and unauthentic they are IMO.