Open Game Thread #46 OVERFLOW: Bulls at L.A. Clippers

followed by the fourth quarter meltdown show

Making a five game winning streak on the road completely irrelevant in a single game. Welcome to your 2009-2010 Chicago Bulls.

We’re getting destroyed by a BAD team (they’ve lost 4 in a row btw) on our home floor. Just when I was ready to root for this team, they pull me back out.

has made multiple mistakes tonight. this is a very well rounded loss by the bulls.

Davis, Gordon, Camby, Kaman are four solid defensive players. Thornton, Telfair, Craig Smith must be completely weighing them down.

Then some on this thread will defend him a week from now by bringing up his stats. You really gotta watch the games when it comes to commenting on Deng.

Tonight’s suckathon has got me falling off the wagon once again…..the bandwagon, that is.

I hope the Bulls collapse in all phases of the game was due to their celebrating too much after reading all the accolades showered on them from the local media and hungry fans, and is only a temporary setback, but than again in the back of my mind I realize our leader is still Vinny.

- Rose and Kurt were 10 for 29, while Fish contributed 2 whole points in 25 minutes off the bench. Just think, Pargo played 2 minutes and outscored our 6th man 3-2. Maybe it’s time for downtown Devin Brown to replace him in the aquarium.
  
- Miller went from player of the week to weak player of the game, hitting one of 7 to tie Pargo’s production but it took him 24 minutes to match our fiesty little Moscow mite’s output.

- Deng looked like the African version of Dirk Nowitzki out of the gate hitting his first 6 shots including 2 3’s, but than reverted to familiar form by missing his last 8, thus dampening my fantasy of his finally reaching all-pro status.

- Tyrus once again demonstrated how not to finish at the rim, but at least he in Vinny’s words was thrusting and attacking it and actually converted 7 of 8 charity attempts. He was solid defensively although I’m sure VDN didn’t notice.

- Taj was Taj, steady, heady and mostly mediocre but I blame Vinny for expecting him to guard the 7 foot 270 pound balding bratwurst from Germany who always seems to make the Bulls bigs look woefully overmatched.

It’s only one game, but the roller coaster is racing downhill again and Vinny has gone from basketball savant to “No he can’t”. (must be said with English accent). If the Bulls do bounce back, I swear I will get off the sauce again and rejoin Blogabulls Anonymous to try and climb back up to my former, short lived happy place with my fellow junkies, many whom I suspect, like myself, headed directly to the nearest watering place to drown their sorrows after watching their Men in Red’s quick descent against the wounded Clippers.