Bobcats 113, Bulls 108: Only the Bulls can stop Derrick Rose

misses a lot of wide open shots, I don’t care about his intangibles, Joakim and Taj have enough intangibles for this team, so give me a shooting guard that can actually shoot, Please!!!!!!!!!

That’s my biggest gripe with these guys. They refuse to recognize who the best player on the team is. As long as Derrick is on the floor, the ball should be in his hands to either make a play or set one of them up for a play. Nobody else is more effective at making plays for himself and that’s putting it lightly.

blow up this god awful roster. Why isnt TT starting yet? Not hating on TG but seriously give me a break. Only on the Bulls can a guy loose his starting spot to a rookie and to injury. Thats like a #1 no no in pro sports. You do not loose your spot to injury let alone a rookie i dont care how good he is. Why was D Rose throwing the ball in late to kurt? Why would D Rose ever throw the dam ball in, thats just done.

How closely do you guys watch the ensuing play after a time out? Its a complete joke. To go from Skiles to Vinny is so sad. I just cant wait until we get a real coach and upper managment, even if it takes another 10 years.

Refs -The Bulls had one of those nights where they were on the otherside of bad reffing(other games they get bailed out). Taj was in foul trouble all night – cause hes still getting rookie calls and that will change in future. The Derrick And 1 that turned into an offensive foul was a very bad call…ect. Vinny’s 1st T was justified because that game was being called very tight and its hard to pick up defensive or make a run when refs are calling every ticky-tack foul. The refs were also very slow with whistles and that makes it appear they are doing a very poor job.

Vinny – As was pointed out in the recap above, end of game situations are disasters. My biggest problem was once Derrick got going at the 5min mark why does Vinny keep sending Noah up for a pick and roll. There were 2 possesions in that last 3:30 where the Bobcats doubled and forced him to give it up. The inbounds that produced the Hinrich short 9fter – he shouldnt be inbounding( does Wade inbound in end of game situations?)

Taj vs. Tyrus- I know this is as heated a debate going right now on the board but the gametape from the last two games showed a huge difference between the two. Taj is a post player while Tyrus is not. While Tyrus was taking early shotclock jumpers with his heels on the 3pt line Taj is in the post which helps offensive rebounding(not last night but normally good #s) or he is an actual post up option once in a while. On a dead possesion last night Deng threw it into him and let him go 1-1 and he scorred. The reason Sam Smith said Noah and Taj cant be out at same time is this exact reason. Tyrus and Brad are perimeter bigmen and Taj and Noah offer something near the basket.

James Johnson- Which city has the Bulls NBDL affiliate? Yes he hit a corner 3, but he does so many things wrong for a team that needs to play almost perfect to win a lot of nights. Larry Brown isoed him almost everytime down the floor his first stint in and I think other coaches will see that in the game tape. He is still good for 2 bad fouls and for 1-2 awful TOs a game that lead to a 3 on 1. Why is he in the rotation right now but he wasnt most nights when Ty and Kirk were out? I guess you can argue a 9 man rotation over an 8 but for his overall growth as a player I think its time to get some pollish in games that dont matter.

Charlotte has been the deadest areana the Bulls have played in this season. The knock off Pistons announcer is real bad…. come on Michael get your marketing skills up.

not replace his shooting, Pargo is not the answer, nor is Hinrich and Salmons, but Salmons is starting to shoot better, wish I could say the same for Hinrich.

The play might have been for the ball to go right back to him, but Kirk was so wide open he had to take the shot- maybe that was why he hesitated.

Yet another game the Bulls would have won had BG been here. How much a swing was letting him go for nothing been? 3 games so far? 4? 5? What will it be by the end of they year? 8? 10? The difference between facing the Heat in the first round instead of the Cavs?

JR should be embarrassed. Its really too bad the recession didn’t crush him to the point that he had to sell.

What worries me is that it seems the Bulls have written off this year in favor of next, We might have to get accustomed to this.

Unless you count the shot after Kirk’s back tap out to Salmons. And you shouldn’t.

It was an awful atrocious play, that resulted in having Salmons with a man right on him with ball. He jab stepped and jumped and passed Derrick the ball, but it’s pretty clear that passing to Derrick was not the play.

This far into the season, I think it’s clear the difference Gordon made. With him after Salmons was acquired last season, the Bulls were an above average offensive team even with no offensive scheme. Now, they are just bad. It’s actually pretty interesting how much difference a single player can make.

I really beleive he got on their bad side when he rejected their first offer, and they made the decision right then to let him go, but what they didn’t do was replace him.

On both ends the refs were handing this game to the Bobcats. Boris Diaw pump faking to get JJ in the air. JJ lands in FRONT of Diaw. Diaw still jumps into him. The shot doesn’t fall. Then the ref’s arm goes up calling a foul.

Gerald Wallace taking a “charge” with both feet in the restricted circle in addition to just flopping as he took almost no contact from Joakim Noah. Again, this charge was called by the referee nearest to the scorer’s table. They have no view of the circle from that angle. They can’t make that call. But they do and the NBA has no open system for assessing the performance of its officiating staff.

The Bulls do suck, but the Bobcats were practically giving this game away. The refs did a terrific job of keeping the game close enough to keep the Bobcats in it.

that is what is so frustrating about this, they were beatable, and we let them off the hook, they were floppin all over the court and it was bad floppin.

Vinnie’s Technical, I replayed it five times!

Watching the lead blow up. A ten point lead on the Bulls is really like a 20 point lead. It takes them a whole quarter and a half to get back from that deficit.

Tyrus has quit playing team basketball is pretty frustrating but.. hey thats the NBA.

Wow, if they can pull of just one trade to get rid of Hinrich or Salmons, this season might be well worth it

want Tyrus, I would love to get Anthony Randolph back

Never have I ever been so confused about a franchises direction as this, what are we doing, what kinda team do you want to be.

I have ever seen. So many calls, so many bad calls, so many inconsistencies…it was just unbearable to watch.

That stadium looked really bare.

sometimes it seems like no one other than D-Rose knows anything about basketball on this team. Even Kurt, Mr. Coach’s Son, does stupid stuff all the time. But even worse than stupidity, was the inability to make open shots. These are professional basketball players — and most of them are supposed to use jump shots as their bread and butter. How does BG leaving affect EVERYONE’S shooting percentage?

I think we just have a bunch of mental weaklings on this team with fragile psyches (aside from Rose and Noah at least).

you cannot be one dimensional in the pro game, if you are that you are dead.

Ugliest most boring relatively high scoring kept within 6-8 pts much of the night game I have ever seen. Neither team really truely played all that hard on either end. Bulls looked indifferent—even Rose until there was 8 minutes left and Vinny (finally) put Rose back in.

The refs made things worse, calling horrible ticky tack fouls all night on both sides to a degree, but overall seemingly far favoring Charlotte there….but man it seemed like there was no flow to the game at all because every 3rd play was a foul….

And save for like 3 nice Rose plays and the first wave of Tyrus early, there was really nothing to watch that one for….Tyrus opened up the game well, then reverted back to Tyrus….a shame really….

I might need me another break. I know this game was close and well had Harden not gotten hot the other game could have been the other way around….but man yesterday’s game was so pathetically boring,,,,and yet it’s probably only a handful of times that we scored over 100 pts….(I know we were stuck at 1 forever, but cant’ remember, was that only the 2nd time thought).

….THE MOST INTERESTING THING I SAW THOUGH….was that Vinny got his first techical. It was odd because just on a post here yesterday someone said he never had a technical before, and I don’t even recall that being really focused on (probably was), but that was eerily strange…

Boring game, boring team, sadly I don’t much like my Bulls right now (though I still like some of the players)….

maybe some of his legs could have been saved if VDN put hinrich on felton and rose on flip since he then wouldnt have to fight through picks every possession.

and VDN put in Hinrich instead of Tyrus. Hinrich missed two shots in the last 1:43.

I read more passion about this team on this blog than what was ever spewed from the lips of the organization. A friend of mine hoped the Bulls wouldn’t draft Rose because he thought the organization would destroy his game. They’re doing a good job at that succeeding at making him an offensive PG in the vein of Marbury and Iverson instead of being a task master like Billups. The team is comprised of BUMS and they expect fans to but into the hype. They used Gordon up and never respected his game enough to make him feel welcomed. If I were him I’d be pissed too, knowing that you’re playing hard ball with me contarcually while giving away too many millions to a guy that I murder in practice. The biggest facade is Kirk being this leader and having intangibles; let’s face it this guy sucks and isn’t a leader. If he were a leader he would recognize that Derrick is a better player and give him the ball in clutch situations, rally the team and drop his EGO. Deng is a joke too, everything said about Kirk insert for Deng. I’ll watch this train wreck from afar and laugh when the infamous 2010 Summer passes us buy like T Mac did in years past.

Oh Yeah John (Overrated Journalist) Jackson and KC (Writes with Kid Gloves) Johnson are jokes too. I know KC tries to maintain a decorum with the team because he works with them on a daily basis but a little bit more feet to the fire would be nice. As for a John since he stopped writing love articles about M.J., Lakers, Kobe Shaq, D Wade he’s been mailing it in. Why do teh daily rags run these articles, they’re a waste of time, energy, space and ink.

It was a flop and would have been and 1. The refs probably got paid off but MJ though.(bite me) Last two teams are getting Kobe and Lebron treatment on the Bulls. Still you gotta come out and win the quarters. Just not enough sense of urgency with this team.