What will the Bulls rotation look like?

Salmons is gonna have a full year to show what he can do. I think he will level off from last year, he’s not super athletic, not super quick, not a lights out shooter and asking him to be the focal point of a offense is something he’s never done before. Kirt is gonna be the best outside shooter. I actually would rather he start at the shooting guard position with Deng on the bench, then you can bring Pargo, Deng, JJ, Taj, and Miller in together which is a nice second squad. Then you look at the TT and Taj thing. TT is better, but he’s not coached to his position well. In this pre season we so just as much if not more of Tyrus playing the SF position, and in my opinion he didn’t do well there. Last night as an example he played 35 minutes he went 6 of 16 from the floor and 1 for 8 in the second half. Almost all of his points were in the paint with the exception of one or two jumpers. Taj was 6 of 10 in 25 minutes. TT had 6 boards, Taj had 5, they bothe had a block. My point is, TT is good, but he needs a defined role that will not have him doing things out of his element. Would you rather have TT pulling up 15 footers off the dribble or shooting a set 10 footer off a pick. Do you want him taking his man one on one from 18 feet out to the rack, or rolling to the rim off a D.Rose screen? This team can be good, but you have to use the personnel correctly.

 To say that Tyrus at the power forward makes his jump shooting worse than when he’s isolated on the perimeter is a bad assessment, because if Tyrus is properly positioned at the 4, he’s closer to the rim, he should be more open rolling off or running off a screen. But telling TT you have confidence in him making a play on his own when he’s positioned at the 3 point line is wrong.
I agree with you about Tyrus moving around from the 3 to a degree, when he was most effective at the 3 where did he end up scoring at? When he was positioned outside, then the screen comes for him he’d post up near the rim and finish, so all he was basically doing was setting up near the rim to finish, but when he stands around outside, or pops off a screen for a 18 footer that’s my problem. I’d rather Tyrus score 13 points, get 10 boards at least with about 2 blocks a game than he play SF score 18 points shooting 30 something percent from the field, not block any shots and have 4 or 5 boards. Fundamentallysound thinks the Bulls won’t play Tyrus at SF much, I disagree, Tyrus will be a good player when he learns the 4, he will never be a star SF so they shouldn’t consider that. If you can groom the guy why try to groom him at the SF instead of the power forward? Unless they are ultimately gonna replace him with Taj or someone else and moving him to another position is a part of his job being taken!

You should think of this too, the coaches or some of them want Taj to start, Tyrus most likely won’t be here in a year anyway so they’re grooming Taj because it’s not certain Bosh or any other big will be signed. Tyrus job in my opinion is gone already, the benching in the playoffs and preseason, then this possible position change are all signs. Taj is told to play the position different than Tyrus and it’s clear, because they play the possition differently. Tyrus thinks he can play different positions and it’s even proven by his recent interview with Sam Smith after the game yesterday. What he needs is to focus on being a good power ofrward is my thing, Tyru strying to be what the Bulls want is what has so far stalled his career. If and when he goes to another team that tells him, rebound, block shots, shoot off the pick or attack the rim, then everyone is gonna wonder why he couldn’t do it in Chicago forgetting that Skiles wanted him on the perimeter, the interim was clueless, and Vinny was blinded by hate, then put him back on the perimeter to take his job away. So it seems another season where we will not get a chance to see Tyrus at his best role doing what he does best!

Is there a beef, only those two really know, that as well as Taj’s role is all only my opinion. However Vinny encourages Tyrus to shoot the jumper, that we should agree on. I would honestly think, if the Bulls coach told Tyrus to be a better rebounder, be more aggressive scoring and try to attack the rim more, he’d do it. From the article’s last week, Tyrus still doesn’t have a defined offensive role, which means he’s not really given a specific thing to do, but again we know Vinny encourages Tyrus to “run and hit the open jumper”, this alone tells me Tyrus is somewhat told to stay on the outside. However you see Taj post up, (even though he’s natural at it), he won’t extend past the free throw line, and he hits the boards hard. Now you don’t think Tyrus would do those things if he was told to, or do you think he’s nagging and begging Vinny to let him play like Reggie Miller?

PG: Rose 36 – Hinrich 12
SG: Salmons 25 – Hinrich 23
SF: Deng 33 – Salmons 10 – Johnson 5
PF: Thomas 35 – Noah 13
C: Noah 25 – Miller 23

My “ideal game” would be Miller getting 5 more minutes at C, Noah 5 less at C but 5 more at PF, Thomas 5 less at PF but 5 at SF. But who knows if Miller is in that kind of shape.

The averages would come out to 2 or 3 minutes less because of match-ups, blowouts and just wanting to get other guys in the game, but that’s what I’d shoot for. Obviously, Deng needs to be healthy. If you really think he can’t go 33, but can go 25-27, then there are 3 choices depending on (::duhn::duhn::duhn::) gameflow matchups: a) Salmons gets more at SF, Pargo fills in the 5-8 minutes at PG/SG, b) play Johnson 5 minutes more at SF, or c) play Gibson 5 minutes per game at PF and, yes, try Thomas at SF. I’d probably usually opt for a) or b).

Why all this talk about Taj, and exactly zero minutes for JJ? Wasn’t he the Bull’s top draft pick. Do we think he was drafted to keep Aaron Gray company? Some experts are calling him the sleeper pick of the entire draft class. Doesn’t anyone think that the Bulls will give him some time on the court? I expect JJ to see 15-18 mins in the early going.

First off, whenever I address someone I use the reply button, Sue and fundamentallysound have both made remarks about me using it. The reply I had to Sue above is the first time I ever even addressed Sue, so why this person is complaining I don’t understand, then for me to get a warning not for using bad language, but for alledgedly not hitting the reply button is stupid! I don’t curse anyone, I don’t get abusive when people disagree with me, so why give me a warning for something so trivial? C’mon now, if you wanna monitor the board and issue warnings and what not, warn people for something serious, not because someone ASSUMES you didn’t hit the reply button!

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His production from last years playoff series and this years pre-season seem to assure my assumption.

I think Miller will give 15-20 minutes a night. Hes too old and white. Although the fact that he is old has more warrant than the fact that he’s white. Although I would like to assume that had Brad Miller been a black man he would of been exactly 255% superior basketball player… Its those superior physical genes the black man has…

I think that Pargo would get some minutes… maybe 15 or so. He has shown that he can “be” a threat in the perimeter. His passing skills have improved… I heard that he did a great job backing up Chris Paul in New Orleans… and he was out in Europe gaining some experience… Now I don’t give that such high warrant… the fact that he went to Europe I mean… But its something. It had to had done “something.”

I mean if your the Bulls Organization… they could of probably found countless of chumps a million dollars to play for them for one season…

I guess Pargo was the most talented chump they could find for that limited amount of money.

Hes a decent player that can score sometimes and pass a little now. If the Bulls plan to run the ball more this year… they’re gonna need to throw somebody in during those last 20 or so seconds of the first 3 quarters… to give some extra rest to Rose and Hinrichs legs.