Stampeding out of the most pathetic playoff race ever

It worked for the Blazers who 'forced' their younger players ( Roy - Aldridge) to play major minutes early in their career and they look fine to me. There's another example of this working for a team. Hint, it was the fucking the Bulls! They forced Hinrich, Deng, and Gordon to play major minutes early in their career and I feel it helped them grow exponentially.

So why change their gameplan now? They aren't going to win shit! And Boylan (the Skile's- protege/fucktard/twin) can't get his head around the fact Gooden is by no means an all star and doesn't deserve this star treatment in terms of minutes. Especially considering TT is the most important player on the team. If the Bulls are even going to improve drastically, this guy has to become an all star. They are 'developing' him at a  snails like pace.

And I think that speaks to the point that you don't want he and Gooden as starters on a contender (sans LeBron, anyway!). These guys just aren't going to get appreciably better. I don't believe Gooden has a big-time post game that will suddenly emerge (sorry Hubie). And reliance on it has the bad side effect of limiting other guys from developing one. It's not the end of the world, but it's a shame there doesn't currently seem to be a vision of the future, when now is the perfect time. The only move for the future that I see is trying more of BG bringing the ball up, originating the set. In fact, didn't there seem to be much more of the old motion/weave out at the perimeter this game?

No identity
No ball movement
No wins
and in the losses, no Kirk
Gah what do i fall back on to watch the bulls
its horrible basketball, no passion, nothing worth watching.

Lets jump on the bandwagon, i like what the lakers are doing.

The bulls started off slow, alot of the new guys on blogabull threw out negetive energy, while some of us (me included) said "ho hum, its only the first few games"

Yet the first few games turned into a dozen, more negetive energy, yet a few people still said "ho hum, just a slow start"

The Slow start lasted too long, and we noticed that skiles was benching people left in right, and players just werent listening to the coach.

Skiles was fired

"Indeed!" we exclaimed, "Look at the bulls now!!! FREEDOM RINGS!!! Did you see that? Wallace just Dunked."

Yet it was short lived, as Wallace would never dunk again, more so, he would suck and suck and suck more calling team meetings at random moments.

"Wallace Must Go!!!" we shouted in unison.
Throughout the League our stars that we wanted so bad were being thrown around for dirt cheap (gasol) and we questioned where is Paxson?

The Deadline passed, and so did wallace, to another team.

"Hurrah!!" we exclaimed, "Now we can play some 5 on 5 basketball"

Indeed we played 5 on 5, and we gathered to witness a horrid loss against a depleted wizards team.

Here we stand...weeping. What the hell happened
to the bulls, and why like this...Why!

Larry Hughes finished the game 8-20 from the field.   40% is right around his career average.  But is he a better shooter than that?  How many players can keep their shots falling while playing 24 minutes straight?

Hughes was 2-7 in the 4th quarter.  He played the whole quarter.  He also played the entire 3rd quarter.  Tired Larry Hughes is a 40% FG shooter.  Assume for a minute that Larry sits the 4th quarter.  He's a 6-13 then and a very healthy 46% from the field.

So why was Larry playing the entire 2nd half and when combined with the close of the first half, he played 34 minutes straight?  With Thabo inactive, the guard rotation was a man short.  Is this the best time to relegate Kirk Hinrich to the doghouse?  OK, Boylan hasn't been happy with his play.  Can he at least get into the game to give Hughes a rest?  Is 4 minutes a travesty?  How about 3 minutes?  2?

It should be no surprise that a shooter's FG percentage declines the longer they are on the floor for consecutive minutes without rest.

A bit of guessing, but it sounds like Boylan believes Tyrus played well because he was benched.

Also, I don't know why KC mentions the last 7 minutes of the half, and not the last minutes of the 4th quarter when Tyrus was out and the Bulls got blowed out (whether it's a causation or not).

All of this could have been avoided.

Oh and great quote I just read in US magazine.

Interviewing Barack . . . .

US : What do you do in your free time?

OBAMA : I'll take a look at the sports pages to see how the White Sox or Bulls are doing.

Takes the "Stars - They're Just Like US" section to a whole new level

Making this bone-headed decision so soon caused Boylan to lose his competitive advantage with the players. Thus allowing Hughes to feel free to make bone-headed statements posting all the local newspapers without recourse.

Gooden also seems to need consistent fire against his ... to keep him sharp!