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Boozer’s injury happened Saturday, when Bulls did not practice; will require surgery.

guess we don’t need to wonder whether or not he’ll be injured this year

This sucks.

who’s surprised?

the bulls always seem to find new ways to shit on my heart.

i wonder how it happened, if it wasn’t basketball-related.

The Bulls announced Sunday that Carlos Boozer will miss eight weeks with a fractured right hand.

The team said Boozer suffered the injury on Saturday, a day off for the Bulls. The fracture of the fifth metacarpal will require surgery.

If Boozer misses all eight weeks, he will return following the Bulls’ annual November trip on November 27. That would mean 15 missed games for the Bulls’ biggest offseason acquisition.

Boozer missed 138 of 492 games (28 percent) during six season in Utah. Asked about his tendency to suffer injuries during his introductory news conference, Boozer said his injuries have been unrelated and non-chronic and bad luck.

This is more of the same.

Taj Gibson will return to his starting role at power forward in Boozer’s absence.

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You know, it’s not that bad. He’ll be back after the brutal road trip. They can stay afloat.

Maybe Jennings thought about Boozers injured history when predicting them finishing 1st in the division

It sucks because it makes the opening couple weeks a little less exciting, and we definitely could’ve use Boozer for the circus trip, but if this is our worst bit of luck for the season, we’ll be in good shape at the end of the year.

In addition to completely revamping the personnel and coaching staffs, the annual West coast circus trip, they will also be missing arguably their 2/3 best player for all or most of November.

but i was looking forward to seeing them kick some ass to start the year

Gibson now starts, right? He plays fairly well. His stats go up a bit and . . . more trade value!

put the team on his shoulders, develop him more as an offensive star and when booz comes back he will be unstoppable.

uggh

Bulls will start out 5-10 or 6-9 in the first 15. Crap. This really sucks.

This means 50 shot attempts per game for Rose. Yey!!!

Fuck.

1. Rose is going to start the season aggressive. The offense will definitely be run through him to begin the season and we won’t have to worry about him deferring to anyone. When Boozer comes back, he will have to adjust to Rose, and not the other way out.

Counterpoint – I was hoping Rose and Boozer can establish some chemistry early. This really kills that. They won’t have any preseason games together and the training camp was really short.

2. If JJ has anything, he will get to show it early. The Bulls have nothing behind Taj/Noah worth talking about. I’d guess we are going to see some JJ/Deng forward combos early in the season. If he can play at all, he will get a chance to show it early.

Counterpoint – our depth will be awful, and we really can’t afford another injury.

First, regarding Booz, theESPN story points out:

In eight professional seasons, Boozer has missed 145 games.

This averages out to about 18 games per season. By my count, eight weeks out this season comes to about 22 games or so. So does this mean that next season, he’ll likely miss less games? Gee thanks, Booz.

In terms of the roster, I hope this does not mean the Bulls miss out on a good perimeter pickup (such as Kyle Weaver) because they feel they have to sign more frontcourt depth.

I think missing out on these early games is going to set the team back a bit in this area. I mean, they’ll miss his scoring, of course. But when he returns, team defense might actually fall off a little bit, until he is properly acclimated.

On the bright side, maybe this’ll accelerate Taj Gibson’s experience in the system, and improve the 2nd unit’s team defense when he returns to a bench role.

I mean, in this situation, knowing how the hell his dumb ass did this, is probably more important than knowing that it happened in the first place

First real obstacle of his head coaching career

For some reason, the org wanted nothing to do with him.

Chicago, meet your big offseason pick-up and new starting power forward, Carlos Boozer! So prone to injury you can’t trust him on his day off.

/I’m still glad we picked him over Amare.

I want justice!

Sniper in the building!

On double practice day, Boozer would’ve been at hotel near practice facility. Instead, on day off, he went home and has told team he fell.

KC

Last season, starter Tyrus Thomas broke an arm in a non basketball related injury, Taj Gibson starts…this season, starter Carlos Boozer breaks his hand in a non basketball related injury, Taj Gibson starts.

I am just sayin’

What’s interesting is that, depending upon specifically what the injury was and where in the hand/wrist area the fracture was located – this type of injury is common among drunk drivers, specifically when you slam on the brakes with your hands (or only one hand) on the steering wheel.

I remember that coming out when Bryan Robinson (former Bears DT) broke both wrists and claimed to have fallen over this dog (I believe that was his excuse, pardon if it was something even more lame).

I hope Booze has a long, healthy, and trouble-free Bulls career, and I have absolutely no idea how he actually became injured … but the current story just doesn’t pass the smell test.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sportsprose/2009/12/ron_artest_trips_over_box_at_h.html

sure he didnt break anything but yeah. hey at least our PR spins are just as bad as the Lakers!

and hit his jaw on the counter.

And a week later the counter was Olin Kreutz’ fist.

And a week later the fist was in the Bears lockerroom.

Good times.

Sure, a lot of the season is left after his return, estimated at the beginning of December. And, sure, the Bulls have a capable fill in with Taj Gibson, who started most of last season.

Of course, Taj got that starting job in November when starter Tyrus Thomas fractured his left arm. No, you don’t want Taj as your backup, though I don’t believe he’s personally responsible for either injury.

lol @ sam

I fucking love this team.

Regarding this, I still wouldn’t count the Bulls out from winning 50 games. No, seriously.

Here was my prediction for the first 16 games for the Bulls “with” Boozer (I predict him missing about 16 games if the 8 week figure holds up):

@ OKC – L
DET – W
POR – W
NY – W
@ BOS – L
DEN – W
GS – W
WAS – W
@ HOU – W
@ SA – L
@ DAL – L
@ LAL – L
@ PHO – W
@ DEN – L
@ SAC – W
ORL – L

9-7 even with him in the lineup

Without him, revised:

@ OKC – L
DET – W
POR – L
NY – W
@ BOS – L
DEN – L
GS – W
WAS – W
@ HOU – L
@ SA – L
@ DAL – L
@ LAL – L
@ PHO – W
@ DEN – L
@ SAC – W
ORL – L

6-10 without him

So really, there’s only a net difference of 3 games IMO. We give up a game that I would have had us winning vs. Portland, and Denver, and we lose to Houston on the road (I thought we might have been able to pull that game out with Boozer in there…probably no longer).

Now, here’s where this injury actually gets interesting. I had actually “built in” Boozer missing 16 games into my 53-29 schedule when I made my predictions wayyyy back when over here (in the comments):

http://www.blogabull.com/2010/8/10/1615758/chicago-bulls-2010-2011-schedule

This was the late season stretch, for the month of March pretty much. Here’s how I had us faring without him at that time:

NO – W
@ CHA – L
ATL – W
UTA – L
WAS – W
@ NJ – L
@ IND – L
SAC – W
@ ATL – L
MEM – W
@ MIL – L
PHI – W
@ MIN – W
@ DET – L
TOR – W
PHO – W

Now, let’s just say, for the sake of saying, that this hand injury will be the only time Boozer misses for the rest of the year (give or take 1-2 games here and there). Let’s change this to assume that in the time I built in for Boozer being out, he will actually be there (since he’ll be out now):

NO – W
@ CHA – W
ATL – W
UTA – W
WAS – W
@ NJ – W
@ IND – W
SAC – W
@ ATL – L
MEM – W
@ MIL – L
PHI – W
@ MIN – W
@ DET – W
TOR – W
PHO – W

In my predicted stretch without Boozer, I had us going 9-7. Assuming he’ll actually be present for this stretch now, I have us going 14-2.

So my schedule prediction changes by the following:

Original prediction: 53-29

Original 16 game stretch w/Boozer predicted: 9-7
New 16 game stretch w/o Boozer predicted: 6-10

Net change -3 wins, +3 losses

Changed prediction: 50-32

Original 16 game stretch w/o Boozer predicted: 9-7
New 16 game stretch w/Boozer predicted: 14-2

Net change +5 wins, -5 losses

Changed prediction: 55-27

End result:

Yeah, I’m actually going out on a limb here and I’m going to revise my prediction – the Bulls are going to win 55 games this year, 2 more than I originally predicted.

went camping for the weekend, great time, Im 5 days into quitting smoking and going strong, have a short week at work this week, things were looking up for a Monday, then i opened BlogaBull………ah this is what Mondays should feel like, dam i want a cigarette.