Open Game Thread #74: Bulls vs Boston Celtics

i hate their announcers.. the one dude's voice is so grating it's like painful to listen to.

i swear boston is the only city where they don't try to find someone with a generic accent doing the play by play.  it seems even the southerners find people that are comprehendible.

instead you just got this asshole going on about his tommy points.

He'll live to regret leaving Marquette where he was the undisputed king of campus.  Indiana isn't going to be kind to him.

You really believe that? man...you'd think after so many times of questioning whether I can believe what you're saying, I'd just start to ignore it. Like you suggest we do with Boylan.

And I reserve the right to completely change my stance should the bizarre happen and the Bulls somehow decide to keep Du.

Thabo-
 Theres just way too much upside with him, there are some things you can develop in teh game...things like height, defense, courtvision and reflexes, etc. Thabo has the size, and the desire to play defense, and his body shows signs that it can hold more muscle and get stronger. Then theres the things you could practice and still develop, the one that really comes to mind is shooting. Thabo can get a more accurate shot if he works at it. He has decent ball handlings skills, and he may never be one to create his own shot, but i can see him playing a B. Bowen like game.

Kirk-
 I know half of bulls fans dont like him, but its usually because its a tear between him or gordon, i guess its always been a question if gordon and hinrich can coexist on a team just due to the nature of size. Hinrich i believe is a Great guard, though his biggest problem may be that he is smack dab in the middle of being a true Pg and a true sg.
 He has the abilities to score from beyond the arc and inside it, yet lacks the killer instinct drive to do so especially under pressure. He has great basketball iq and court vision, but lacks the ball handling skills, reaction, and reflexes to rack up assists. I think the way people who dont like him see it is that he can never be a great shooting guard and he can never be a great point guard so he sucks, yet i see it in the light of, put a great pg next to him, and he will excel as a sg, put a great sg next to him, and he will excell as a pg.
 His defense is also highly criticized (much like everything he does), in 2006 he probably shouldve made the defensive team, but because the bulls were still unknowns he didnt, he finally got it last year although he wasnt as great on defense last year as opposed to the year of 06, this year everyone sucked at everything, but more importantly hinrich didnt excell at defense. Besides all that, i still think if in any concept, hinrich is a top 10 in defensive guard categories.
 uhh, but i regress, i am a hinrich fan so my opinions about him probably dont matter.

BG7-
 No doubt he is our best scorer, he is an assasin from all areas of the court, leaving him open is the biggest mistake any team could ever make. He is short, but it doesnt matter, he is on teh bench but i like him as a starter (until thabo or kirk step up offensively).
 He can start from the bench and still be hot, once hot its hard to cool off. He is serious on the court and has a desire to be better then he is today, and that makes me like him.
  He is undersized though, and lacks defense, his ball handling skills are fancy at times, and attrocious  at others, he likes to look for his shot (as he should) and find others  later. He may not be able to answer in teh last five seconds of the game or a quarter, but if you give him the chance, he can create a lead high enough in three minutes that the last five seconds wont matter.
  If he ever went to the suns or the spurs or any western conference team, he would be an all star without a doubt. However on this team, the way it is constructed he would be a liability, although he works well with hinrich, its just on defense the two of them wont be able to contain the kobes, carters, and jeffersons of the league. Thabo nor hughes are either good enough pgs, or have the right chemistry to work with bg7 right, and so he is probably having a hard time this season.

Du-
 What???? Hey he is a solid backup, he shouldnt start, he shouldnt get more minutes then thabo kirk or bg, but he wants to play, he doesnt mind coming off the bench, and at times he can be servicable on all areas. he is a solid bench player, solid backup guard, solid person to blame things on when games go sour. Id take him over hughes.

Hughes-
 He shoots alot, he can score of course, and has a strong build. He has decent court vision and passing ability, and is a good ball handler. thats all the good i have for him, cuz all he is theory.

The truth is he has no desire to work hard, the only time he really did was for a contract, and i imagine he will hard only in contract years. He doesnt slash, and so that promise he already broke, he looks for his shot too much and really wants to be a star, so better guards will never get a chance to be better (thabo, bg). He takes horrid shots (because he thinks he is kobe or lebron) he doesnt push himself all out on d (or else he would be a force) he looks for his shot more then bg does... he CAN bring alot to the table, but simply chooses not to, for this reason alone he should go away because he, more than any player on this team, chooses to be a team cancer, its not so much what the coaching staff makes him do, but what he simply does himself. Well at least hes better then wallace, i think...

Those are my thoughts at least on the guards, like i said because i am a hinrich fan nothing i say about him probably is going to be recieved as possible truths (except to other hinrich fans) and my whole argument becomes moot and biased, but i truly do try to rationalize and logically think things through...i try at least. so for the long rant.... SORRY