That Gordon is not a good defender.

Its really about the small steps…first you admit he is not a good defender, then admit that he makes some selfish plays, ultimately…oh well, maybe one day you will see…

to search for a coach. That was the longest coaching search of my freaking life. He comes up with VDN. Paxson shouldn’t be the GM in more!

Can’t help a little sympathy with VDN as his ship takes on water faster than the pumps can handle. I thought he would last longer than this though. Maybe the turning point was pre game snack gate. In any event, maybe hypothetically there’s some never coached a game at any level guy who could have done this year’s coaching challenge, but in reality, no way.

And whoever made this VDN hiring decision really should have known better. After last year, clearly this was a team that couldn’t handle more coaching ineptitude. Clearly there were, and are, a number of project players with high draft pick investments that need quality development, which CAN’T happen at the same time as VDN process. This is on brainrust… and it’s really going to take some time and magic tricks to recover from this mess.

But he doesn’t work with gooden!

why would you keep Thabo out of the 3 spot when he was playing good D for so long?

anyone else notice how after he was pulled that the blazers took control?

and wouldn’t Collins have done a better job with this young group?

I don’t believe that Noah and Tyrus work well together yet. just too young, but put another defensive big next to tyrus and watch him excel for christ’s sake!

His wife is smoking hot!

at about 8:30 with about 3 minutes left in the second quarter i left the game to go to the gym and play basketball (my friends came from quite a distance in this weather so the least i could do was abandon the game to meet them at the gym on time since i was their ticket into the gym) to find out that we lost (and we were doing so well before i left) im gonna take this loss on myself. If i had stayed the rest of the game, maybe they wouldve won? thats my thinking, im missing thursdays game too…..cuz of work…apologies if we lose that one too..

“We let teams back in a lot,” Deng said. “But at least having everyone back is a good thing. We have to keep playing together. Obviously, we’re not playing well right now. But it’s a long season. We have to stay positive.”- Deng

He said the same stuff last year. It’s a long season?

I love a guy with killer instinct.

http://dabullz.com/2009/01/13/portland-trail-blazers-109-at-chicago-bulls-95/

I think I’m about done with this team for the year. At least last year there was the whole “new coach” thing to look forward to… and the draft pick. This year. Meh?

sentence above sums up much and is an indictment against the rookie coach whom I can’t be a critic of until his second year if without significant improvement.

Also the coach (VDN) to player chemistry, relationship, etc is really getting worst (imho) from the appearance. Respect loss and tension mounting, I’m afraid will lead to no good thing. I believe, something has to be done. Yet, Paxson can’t keep firing coaches!

Actually winning solves a lot of problems, but that’s something this team is unable, No! Correction! This team is unmotivated to do on a fairly consistent basis?

They need a new GM. One with balls to make bold moves and bring in new life around here. I feel bad for Rose. I hope BG leaves to find a better team who will love his game and what he brings to the table. Fire Paxson, get a new experience coach and clean house.

We are bad. Yes, fun-bad, but only due to the fact that we seem to have every excuse of some legitimacy to make up for being fun-bad.

Problem; Excuse

There are rows of empty seats; There’s a blizzard warning in effect.
The rotations suck; We have injuries and 12 players when healthy.
Our frontcourt can’t rebound; Vinny’s rotations are off.
We have too many players that won’t shut the hell up and too few players that won’t speak up; Paxonian theory says you’ll always have too many players when one of the few are steering your ship.
You can’t stop Travis Outlaw; We stopped Brandon Roy.
You can’t make layups; We can make free throws.
I give up; You’ll be back.

The Illini look good. Maybe I’ll watch them instead. Until there’s a trade a carnival of trades.

At least the Blackhawks are fun to watch (even when they lose)….

It’s going to be impossible to trade him after giving up a career night to Travis Outlaw.

That contract is our Bernie Madoff investment. The best bet of return is auctioning his personal wares.

First item up for bids; His grit. I’ll start the bidding at 5 shekels.

and they really liked kirk. they talked about him game a lot. maybe there can be a trade there afterall?

“It’s not going to be easy,” Del Negro said. “But the guys who will play hard and give us the best chance will be out there, as well as trying to develop the younger guys. I’d rather have that problem than the one I’ve been having.”

Hey Vinny. Believe it or not these are the same players.

Tribune: Bulls Lost a Full Strength Flop

I think we can blame this loss on Larry Hughes…the Bulls gave up the lead during his only run on the floor…yep, he sucks that much.

Was the bird flying on the court.

As we all know there are plenty of problems on this squad. But one of my bigger concerns besides our “defense” is the attitude and body language of Tyrus Thomas. His attitude out there flat out stinks. He pouts like my 5 year old nephew whenever he isn’t happy. I don’t know where he gets this sense of entitlement from. I was sitting on the rail next the Bulls tunnel and was close enough to see him roll his eyes when VDN was saying something to him. Rolled his eyes and turned his back to VDN while VDN was pointing something out. That kind of insubordination from a mediocre 3rd years player is not cool, a sign of major immaturity and not good for anyone involved with the Bulls. His bad attitude is the reason why I think he gets yanked When he gets taken out, he looks shocked, and then he slumps his shoulders, and you know from that moment on, the game is over for him. Not one other player acts the way Tyrus does when something is not going his way, or the coach is taking him out to try some other combination. Its too bad MJ or Pip arent around anymore to slap the shit out of Tyrus, because he needs a serious wake up call. He is a classic, young, dumb, narcissistic pro athlete who just doesn’t get whats it all about.
I am sure people here will disagree with what I am talking about, but believe me when I say you can see Tyrus’s lousy attitude and body language, and I am sick of it

That Michael Beasley is currently playing a much higher level of basketball than Derrick Rose. Spolestra put Beasley on a tight leash, and pulled him from games when he made mistakes. Now that Beasley’s role has been incrased in January, his January numbers are looking really good. Rose on the other hand, is getting worse as the season goes on.

We need to get rid of Vinny asap, before he does any more damage to Rose’s development.

When Tyson Chandler looked like a beast all around, offensively and defensively.

Of course Curry benefited from Skiles more. But Curry had the skills in place, he just needed to get in shape and try harder.

I’ve realized this team just can’t compete in the half court game. The Bulls were playing well in the 1st qtr running, using their young athletes to push the tempo. Once Portland settled down and eliminated the fast pace the game was over. I understand good D leads to good O, but the offense hit a wall after the 2nd. The team became dependent on Drew Gooden as an offensive force. We were only down by 6 late in the 3rd, but it just felt over.

The offensive sets just arent good and don’t gets the bigs involved. I want to see a play where they use Noah to post up and feed it into him just to see what would happen. I’m not saying using Noah as a force but to keep the defense somewhat honest. It’s called “get your big the ball in the post play”, Noah can even pass it back out. A couple cuts and we can steal a basket here or there. I’m tired of seeing a hiiigh pick and roll near halfcourt which traps DRose, give him space to beat his defensive player not two!!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01122009/news/regionalnews/knicks_sex_scandal_shock_149861.htm