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Noah-Noc spat, explained (somewhat)

These games against real contenders are a real time-saver, thanks to the Bulls and ShouldIWatch?com.

Apparently I missed a little more bad-team-going-down-the-drain hilarity on the court:

Andres Nocioni and Joakim Noah spent several minutes bickering on the court over a blown assignment during the third quarter of Friday night's dreadful 117-92 loss to the Cavaliers. The players then continued shouting at each other during a subsequent timeout.

What did they say, Sam?

I don't know what Andres Nocioni said to Joakim Noah in an animated third quarter huddle Friday with the Bulls behind by 31 on the way to losing 117-92 to the Cleveland Cavaliers. But I suspect it was something like, "Hit someone!"

Oh, Hi-larious! lets flesh out that piece of non-information with calls for Norm Van Lier branded Chicago Toughness.

Better idea: do your job better, like Mike McGraw:

Friday's Joakim Noah-Andres Nocioni verbal altercation isn't surprising and shouldn't linger. It sounds like Nocioni took exception to being corrected by Noah on a defensive assignment. The way the Bulls played in this game, no one seemed qualified to question anyone else's performance. But that's what good teams should be doing.

Hey...that sounds like something Kelly Dwyer overheard in the game prior..

The ridiculousness that is Andres Nocioni: Joakim Noah has to scream at him "go guard your own man" as he ignores his guy (Shard Lewis) and tries to defend Dwight Howard in the post.

Signs you're not disciplined on defense: Joakim Noah has to tell you where to be.

Between this and Vinny's locker room boil-over, I can only hope that as Paxson surely sees the need for any type of trade (and he does...right? you alive, Pax?), he can use the media's narrative of Nocioni being the only guy with heart on the team to raise his value and trade him. Maybe spin similar crap for Hughes, he's getting numbers while others aren't trying (huh? Sorry Larry, I don't know how to spin your relative value).

Or, just as possible, Pax gets fed up and dumps Tyrus and Noah because they're malcontents and locker room cancers. At their lowest value. Great idea.

Not that those two are doing themselves any favors, so I just hope they can survive long enough with this team to run with a cleared-out roster and maybe a real coach. Especially you, Noah, how dare you recognize that Nocioni is a trainwreck on defense. He brings effort!

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embrace the insanity

Why all the anger, people? Sure the Bulls suck on the court, but by my reckoning they’re 3rd in the league in off-court controversy, behind only the Clippers and Warriors. If our crummy guards could start arguing like our crappy forwards, we’ll be #1 in no time. The last time the team was this dysfunctional was early 2003, and that was enough for Reinsdorf to finally can Krause. This team is just as bad now, and the only solution is to can the architect of this disaster—Paxson. So let’s root for more incomprehensible coaching decisions, more locker room squabbles, and more blowout losses. Maybe then Reinsdorf will get rid of Pax, and we can start rebuilding yet again—this time around Rose.

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by vanillablue on Jan 3, 2009 6:02 PM CST reply actions  

Exactly, i'm totally in line with that sort of thinking.

As Bulls fans we should be rooting for chaos right now. We need stuff like this to go down in order for big change to finally come.

by Juiceboxjerry on Jan 3, 2009 6:12 PM CST up reply actions  

agreed

everyone fight each other but if anyone touches rose……

by blagojevich on Jan 3, 2009 11:00 PM CST up reply actions  

I don't know about the guards being crummy their the only ones doing anything

But yeah the reason this season is so bad to me is because we have talent and we aren’t losing for lack of talent but because we make stupid decisions.

by Camry on Jan 4, 2009 2:05 PM CST up reply actions  

If they lose to the T-Wolves tonight, Vinny has to go

I know they won’t fire him this early, but losing tonight would be the surest sign that the team has quit on him.

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by Big D on Jan 3, 2009 7:04 PM CST reply actions  

No Gooden

yet tonight. He’s having an MRI on his ankle on Mon.

by sue369 on Jan 3, 2009 7:26 PM CST reply actions  

Trade em all

Only Rose is the exception

"If there’s any haters in here right now that don’t have nobody to hate on, feel free to hate on me." - A.P.N.S.

by Belize on Jan 3, 2009 9:47 PM CST reply actions  

Good on Noah,

and I hope he survives all this tumult. He’s still one of my favorite players in the league. I don’t get why everybody hates him.

"You remember the first time you picked up a basketball video game and you had no idea how to run plays, so you just gave the ball to your shooter and you ran around the court aimlessly until a defender was far enough away and then you jacked up a shot? THAT IS LARRY HUGHES!"
-Anonymous fan letter, heylarryhughespleasestoptakingsomanybadshots.com

by Prevenge on Jan 4, 2009 12:48 AM CST reply actions  

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