Best case scenario: It is injury/lack of shape due to injury and he’s at full strength by December.

I don’t want to go into worst case scenarios, but he’s easily the most valuable player on this team, both in likely production per game and future plans.

I’m not as positive on that former point, but I think by now Rose should be our best player.

Deng should never play power forward. He has no advantage there. He doesn’t stretch the floor, so the power forward covering him doesn’t have to chase him out to the 3pt line. He has no dribble drive skills, so you don’t have to worry about him going around him. The Heat made the perfect decision to leave Haslem in. The Bulls ran 3 straight pick and rolls with Deng and Rose and each time the ball ended up in Deng’s hands for a mid-range jumper and he missed. He didn’t drive, he didn’t shoot a 3 – his one advantage is size and it was totally negated. Run that same play with Q Richardson guarding Deng and Deng can post or he has clearer a shot over the smaller player. Any way you look at it, the Bulls gain no advantage playing Deng at the 4.

But mainly because I expected this. We aren’t very good, simple and plain. Noah has been a huge positive for this team and is a reason for hope in the future. Rose is hurt but he looked disinterested to me in the Celtics game also. I don’t know why but I looked at his facial expressions during warm-ups and saw no fire, no intensity, no passion. Meanwhile KG is slobering on himself, cursing himself out, pounding his chest and shit…he damn near had a ceisure before the national anthem!?!? Fire of a champion and a great player, I guess.

Look, Boston is going to beat a few teams by 30/40 at home this season so that loss didn’t bother me too much. The SA game was awesome to see everyone (but Salmons) playing well and yeah the Miami loss sucked all around. But this is who we are…the same team as late last year minus BG. Never sounded that hot to me. Brad Miller is an old jump shooting center. He didn’t address our need for a post player. Does anyone really know who Salmons is? Then there’s the same characters and a few clowns sprinkled in (Hunter, Gray, Pargo) .500 team pretty much…plus or minus a few games.

I’m not speaking ill of Hinrich or Deng anymore. They are pretty good players with limitations, like a lot of players in the league. A quality coach/motivator would be able to get the most out of them. Its not their fault that they got paid and have contracts that restrict our ability to pursue great players. BUT, we hired Vinny, who looks totally re-effing-tarded out there. The guy looks like a dope and can’t coach worth a damn. And really I’m not even mad at him because HE SHOULDN’T BE HERE. What’s he supposed to do, turn down an opportunity and a paycheck? I wouldn’t (though I would play TT more but I’m one of those who REFUSES to give up on TT)? He knows he can’t coach and knew that he couldn’t when he was hired. But he should have NEVER been hired. The owner is the one who I’m mad at because he could care less about the fans and putting out a quality product (right now). Whether that changes remains to be seen.

I joined this blog because the last 10 years of suckage was eating away at me and I wanted to know what other fans were thinking/feeling. I have gotten my anger out and now I’m in a state of peace. We aren’t very good and that’s just what it is right now. But I will continue to watch and support because I love this team. Word to Mike and Scottie, it won’t always be like this. But for now, we must endure.

I was hoping concrete for brains, Vinny DelStubborno, learned something after a year of suckage under his belt, but as Bab noted, he is desperate to win every game (subconciously realizing his own incompetence, knowing without wins a pink slip is right around the corner?) and since he is apparently clueless, feels he must rely on experienced veterans (since he has no experience himself) to pull him through in the 4th quarter regardless of matchups, Wouldn’t it be less maddening if this crunch time clown’s rotations were based on observing what’s actually taking place on the court and just once, try to beat an opponent by having more athletes on the floor when the game is on the line?

Even with the bloom off the Rose (hopefully due to injury), he was terrified to pull our franchise player to avoid criticism regardless of how he was stumbling. It seems the only players he feels comfortable yanking are our two most athletic bigs, Noah and his favorite whipping boy, TT. As Vinny sees it, Tyrus is the only impediment to a Bulls win since he’s the only one whose mistakes Vinny can recognize.

The one crumb I can throw in VDN’s defense is that it’s not his fault that PaxDorf has stuffed his goodie bag with two pathetic so called guards in Pargo and our Medicare eligible Hunter. Wouldn’t it make sense to find somebody who can run the court, hit a 3 and isn’t a midget?

If I had to grade his game management and substitution patterns, it would have to be F minus to the umpteenth power….again.

 The Bulls organisation don’t want Tyrus. They’ve spent the last two years sending mixed messages regarding him. First they want to develop him, then they say he’s got this shortcoming and that shortcoming. They’ve clearly decided he won’t be here next year and the team will invest in Rose and Noah. However Tyrus is still on the team, and what the Bulls management is going to find out is, this guy can actually play. TT being only 23 with so little organised ball experience is starting to come into his own right as the team decides they don’t want him which is the problem. As long as TT produces while he plays, then Vinny yanks him and the Bulls go on to struggloe without hium, more and more fans will take notice leading to the inevitable call to play Tyrus more. Vinny can make Tyrus ineffective by benching him or moving him to the three, either way, Vinny has to have TT not perform and the Bulls play well without him to make the end of season dismissal of Tyrus easy, bottom line!

but everything I’ve seen from Derrick tells me he’s not going to be a star. I don’t think players develop the aggressiveness that separates the great from the pretty good, and Derrick clearly is lacking. I’m pretty low on this team’s future right now.

On to different note, if I were running this team, I’d already be breathing down Vinny’s back. A coach’s job is to get the most out of the players he leads, and when it comes to the Bulls most talented players, Derrick and Tyrus, Vinny has woefully failed. Derrick needs to be pushed and be forced to realize just how unique and unbelievably talented he is. Watching him out there, it seems like he’s unaware that at any time he wants, he can break any defender down and get to the hoop.

What Vinny has done with Tyrus is more egregious, as Tyrus isn’t even getting a fair shot. He’s played well and brings much more to the table than Taj Gibson, yer he’s had long stints on the bench in both of the last two games. Vinny’s lack of coaching ability alone is enough to warrant a firing, but his inability to extract more from Derrick and Tyrus should make it a sure thing.

We have no shooters. And for a jump shooting team, that is sure death. Kirk and John are supposed to be our 3 pt threats, but they are firing blanks. If one of them or preferably both can’t find their shooting touch by the end of the month, we are supremely screwed for the whole year. This is looking more and more like a 38 win team. Not time to panic yet, but D Rose looks hurt. That’s the only way I can excuse his shittty, passive play so far. Ankle injuries can linger and he’s probably still only around 80%. Maybe we should sit him for another week and just let Hinrich start at PG. This means a lot of Pargo, but we need Derrick at 100%.

Also Why is Taj playing any more than 10 minutes a game, dude looked like a poor man’s Joe Smith, now he looks like the broke man’s Malik Allen. Not a good thing folks. Tyrus playing 21 minutes….he must have fvked Vinny’s wife or somethin….

Vinny plays him). No one shoots the three ball particularly well. And we don’t have reliable post scoring. So we went from being a jump shooting team with no post presence that had pretty good shooters (Noc, Deng, Kirk, Gordon, Joe Smith, PJ Brown, etc.) to being a team that still relies on the jump shooting, but now its of the most inefficient variety (not the long ball).

Crap this team was poorly planned. I hope there’s a trade coming, otherwise this team will be uuuuugly to watch all year.

That’s the combined record of our three opponents so far this year. Boston and San Antonio are both 55+ win teams and both have an excellent chance to make the finals. Miami is stronger than people think and they were playing at home while the Bulls were playing their 3rd game in 4 days. Rose is clearly still not 100% and you can’t expect someone to be game fit when they haven’t played competitive minutes in over a month.

Yes, there are some things to be concerned about but guess what? It’s probably going to get worse before it gets better. 10 of our first 15 games are on the road and 10 of the first 15 are against teams that were in the playoffs last year. Rose will probably require a few more weeks before he’s back to peak conditioning. If after these first 15 games we’re equal to or better than 6-9 it will have been a decent start.

Let’s get a little further in the season before we start hyperventilating.