Ah, bless the Miami Heat

Hubie has a lot of respect for the game and everyone involved in it...especially the players who play it the 'right way' (well, the right way according to Hubie).  He gave out nice props several times to both Noc and Sefo.  It was good to hear a national voice say something nice about our guys.

Tyrus will most likely not be a Bull after Feb

1. 15+ jumpers from the Heat.  4 red jerseys in the paint.  1 white jersey below the free throw line.
2. Collapsing on Wade when he penetrates closing gaps for him to spin to the middle and forcing him baseline where he gets lost.  He passes out into 4 second half turnovers.  Bulls fastbreak for easy buckets.  Chicago executed stellar defensive rotation in the 2nd half and converted nearly every turnover into points.
3. Taking advantage of matchups.  Ricky Davis cannot guard Joe Smith.  Shaq cannot guard Ben Gordon.
4. Attacking the rim.  Thabo's nice 2nd half layup and 1 drawing contact from Shaq was great.  Hinrich and Gordon pull up for a jumper or pass in the same position.  Thabo has the height and arm length to extend beyond the reach of Shaq.  Body contact sent Thabo to the line.
5. Drilling the Heat when Shaq sits.  Mark Blount was a -24 in just under 17 minutes of action.
6. Noah dunking and Ben Wallace yelling "Yeah boy!" and chest bumping him.

1) Boxing out.  The Heat had too many 2nd chance opportunities as a result of the failure of Bulls' to find a white shirt and box them out.  My count had the Bulls a -7 because of the failure to box out.

If we could only play the Heat, Bobcats, and Pistons every night.

Plus I'm not sure you could argue that Duhon's a better shooter (sure Duh gets hot from time to time, but his deficiencies in major minutes far outweigh his strengths.

Let's keep THABO out there, he's looking like he's gotten his confidence back.

Also, let's start giving Khryapa more playing time.  I like what I see from him often in garbage time (Good passer, big guy, decent shooter, has a good offensive feel for the game).  Granted this could change drastically if he got major minutes for the worse, but judging him for his scant 5 minutes every 3 weeks of play is ridiculous.....he's looked ok enough when given more than 2 minutes of time to warrant a real look at him (he's been ok for us in the preseason's, and played well for Russia last summer).......I know Noc and Deng are ahead of him, but given our struggles, I'm sure we could see if he's worth a look or at least an additional trade chip for other teams....let the audition begin.

I've always said (like TT) Thabo can play and needs to get the chance. It's like the coaches have been playing inferior talent because they're afraid of losing. But at this point, what are they (is he, Boylan) afraid of, they ARE losing.

But I've been alarmed at Thabo's passing TOs this year, much more so than his shooting. So what happens when all 3 other guards are available and he has a not-so-great game, turning it over? Not just with coaches, but you/us B-a-B-ers? (Can you take the resultant losses, in the short term?)

Seems like half the folks here have turned on Tyrus, but I don't get it. Josh Smith doesn't have his wits about him at all times (on and off court), but he's allowed to be a solid contributor on a .500 team. I see our own version sitting on the bench, and you guys are talking about Victor Khryapa! How will you feel when whatever we get for Tyrus joins Veektor at garbage time, while TT stars (ala Tyson) for somebody else? Don't just bend over and take it again people, GET MAD!

 . . . . And I ain't mad at it at all