I'm shocked - I've never seen BaB so empty.  Matt, maybe we could run some promotions?  Every 100th poster gets a Benny the Bull toilet bowl plunger?  

What's the point of trying to win?  Everyone's played their normal minutes in the first half, except Gray has played more (and that's only since Noah has 3 fouls).  Why not play guys like Nichols and Simmons and Brown to see if any of them should be back next year?

Noah can't handle Howard's size and strength so you put Tyrus on him?  What the hell does he think is going to happen?  Obviously Tyrus is going to pick up quick fouls.  Boylan's tanking plan is just getting too ridiculous.  Might as well put Duhon on him.

76ers beat detroit and wizards beating boston? bulls suck? tonights a crazy night.

Hey Kirk Hinrich is on fire in the 3rd quarter.  With him on the floor, we have cut the deficit down to single digits.... So let's bench him the entire 4th quarter!  Hellooooooo ping pong balls!

..we are so garbage.  It hurts my heart to go through this.  I remember back in the early 80s (pre-MJ) when the Bulls were super garbage.  It didn't hurt this bad....DAMN!!!  

We had better not give Deng 50 million dollars.  My gut tells me that both he and Gordon will receive an offer from someone that exceed that amount though and I'm not sure we should match with either (although if you held my feet to the fire then I'd match Gordon before Deng because this guy simply isn't the impact guy we need him to be on this team).  But in truth we made HUGE contract mistakes and I understand why Gordon and Deng turned down the 50 mil.  If Hinrich and Noc can get paid they figured they could too.  Gordon is a better pure pro than Hinrich and Deng is a better pure pro than Nocioni so they figure they are worth substantially more.  Bottom line is we are just up shit creek!!

What do you guys think about these fellas?  In all likelihood we're gonna end up picking at around 8/9 or so and these are some of the names we'll probably be looking at since Rose/Beasley/Bayless/Gordon/Mayo will in all likelihood be gone.

I like a bit of what each brings to the table, but I'm so desperate for a superstar that I don't know what to do.  In truth, I like Greene and Budinger.  I think both these guys will be 20ppg guys in the NBA at some point.  I LOVE kevin Love.  I see kevin mchale all over again.  I don't know much about Jordan, but I really don't care for guys who still have so far to go ino order to be offensively efficient....and I really don't want another LSU forward.  Why take another one when we already have one?

Who do you guys like?

Jim Boylan...NBA Coach of the Year

Violet Palmer...NBA Title 9 Referee of the Year

Chicago Bulls...NBA 4th Quarter Comeback Team of the Year

Aaron Gray...Johnnie "Red" Kerr Rookie of the Year

Tyrus Thomas...Chicago Bulls Fan Favorite Most Hated by Coaches and Fellow Teamates of the Year

Andreus Nocioni...Provider of Best Highlight of the Year..(for throwing a towel at Boylan)

Joachim Noah...Best Comment of the Year  (for asking Ron Adams how many championships has he won?)

Chris Duhon...Best Bulls Point Guard of the Year...actually he is their only point guard

John Paxson...Executive of the Year   for having the foresight to retain Jim Boylan so that the young players can develop to their fullest under his tutilage

Ben Gordon/Larry Hughes...Bulls Team Players of the Year

Luol Deng...Best Bulls performer of the year when the game is not on the line.

Kirk Hinrich...Most colorful whiner of the year.  Andreus Nocioni was a very close second.

And finally to the entire Bulls Organization for achieving more than one two game winning streak over a short 82 game season.

Are there any others that I missed fellow sufferers.

Is that I don't think the Bulls are tanking, at least not intentionally.  They just really are this bad.

I only followed this game by CBS gamecenter and just caught snippets of the Heat game, but this core group is done this year - maybe it's done forever.

These guys are thinking about their golf games.  The organization should withhold 8.5% of their salary - that's 7 games worth of quitting starting with Tuesday's Heat game.  Maybe they can dole it out to the season ticket holders.  Their effort level in these 2 games makes sick.  Sadly, it's been a season long trend.

Best thing about this game was that they used a patented -20 4th quarter in a game they were already out of.  You know, instead of saving it for one they were winning.

I'm going to the game Friday against the Cavs. This was supposed to be a big-time showdown when I bought the tix; what a difference 8 months makes.  Should I bring:

• a paper bag for my head, or
  
• a sign that reads "Don't Quit Yet! We paid for these seats!"

The bag could be used for vomiting if things get really bad...

Yes, Boylan sucks and needs to go, but should Pax be thrown under the bus too?  Pax has failed through and through running this franchise.  Not only did his young players receive horrible coaching, they must have the worst strength and conditioning coaches in the NBA.  It is the end of the season and you can clearly see that several players on this team are terribly out of shape.  Soft! I am so glad I did not watch any of this game.  I opted to watch the 15 inning Cubs game. I am so disgusted with this whole franchise and the lack of accountability by management.  I have not seen Pax since his hiding in the corner of the U.Center the first game after he traded for Gooden and Hughes.  Fire the whole lot and offer a management coaching deal to .... someone that deserves the opportunity..... Laimbeer? K?

the lottery for the bulls similar to what he did for the spurs when they had that random bad year back in 1997.  we all know how that ended up for the spurs.  maybe the bulls will fall upon that same "luck"

I haven't really been able to watch these past couple games because of my job, and the early east coast games, but i am glad i have been missing them.  I am still shocked at how poorly this team has played this year, and what a terrible coach boylan is.  If only the pacers hired him, maybe things would have been different for this bulls team post-skiles.

glad to see noah taking the reigns, however, and speaking out against the shitty way this team has played all year.  i would expect him to be one of the captains next year.  It would be well deserved, him and thabo have been the only bright spots in this dark and sad season.

i got my calculator out at school. each game is about 2 and a half hours. then all the games i went to i have wasted over 300 hours watching these guys this year. I really hope they make a ton of changes because this team needs alot of help.

I know these numbers piss off the cool dudes, but some of us, despite what our eyeballs tell us need to also rely on cold, hard numbers because  perception does not always match reality.  If you doubt this, listen to Boylan's post game comments and tell me his brain is not short circuiting most of the time when you compare his observations with what took place on the court.

These stats reflect the past 14 games, a period I chose because TT started his horrific shooting slump at that time, yet it didn't seem to hurt the team overall.  Now that he has started, his numbers have entered negative territory along with everyone else with the exception of Johnny Kerr's favorite slow footed white man, Aaron Gray.

Here they are.  For those who think this is a worthless stat please skip them so you can rationalize your positions more effectively.  If what happens when a player is on the court is meaningless, than why get upset about substitutions, rotations and adjustments?  I think that over a period of time they do tell a story.  Obviously only a chapter, but meaningful nevertheless.  But then, I'm a stats nerd.  It worked pretty well for Billy Bean....and remember whatever postion you take, let's not forget the words of the immortal Jim Boylan...."I AM NOT A STATS MAN".

But for 3 straight years the bulls have been going to the playoffs without any low post player. I just think that in the beginning of the season Gordon and Deng were forcing their offense to get more money at the end of the season and that Ben Wallace was a waste of time and money. Kirk was also pushing. If you look at out line-up now after the trade we have guys who have experience in playoff games and who are very athletic; and we're the youngest team in the league. WE JUST NEED A DAMN GOOD COACH. FIRE BOYLAN NOW.

In the world according to Boylan, TT has been a disappointing cancer who failed to execute the game plan on both ends of the court, who couldn't follow directions, who NEVER ran the court, who was constantly out of  postition, who didn't deserve any plays run for him, yada, yada, yada which is why he rotted away both physically  and  emotionally on the bench for most of the season.

If Gooden hadn't gone down and others weren't injured, neither him or Thabo would have seen much PT all season.  I truly believe the main reason Boylan and his staff of trolls relied so heavily on the veterans was because they didn't have enough smarts to teach and develop the younger, less experienced players and feared being exposed as clueless nincompoops.  

On the other hand. little old Hubie Brown has covered only 3 Bulls games this season and commented tonight on Tyrus being a highlight film, on  Noah's great potential and Deng's ability to create offense along with Ben Gordon.  He was impfessed with how quickly Tyrus got downcourt and what an impressive all around game he showed, blocks, steals, rebounds, assists, scoring.  Hubie also stated Thomas needs more minutes.

But who are we to believe, Bulbous Boylan or Hubie, the man who took a young inexperienced Memphis team and made them winners, only to have them sink back into mediocrity once he left?

Once the Bulls throw Captain Bligh overboard and retake the Bounty, it may not be necessary to abandon ship.  With the right leader at the helm, they can someday once again sail through the NBA with the wind at their backs and recapture the pride they once had.

In the world according to Boylan, TT has been a disappointing cancer who failed to execute the game plan on both ends of the court, who couldn't follow directions, who NEVER ran the court, who was constantly out of  postition, who didn't deserve any plays run for him, yada, yada, yada which is why he rotted away both physically  and  emotionally on the bench for most of the season.

If Gooden hadn't gone down and others weren't injured, neither him or Thabo would have seen much PT all season.  I truly believe the main reason Boylan and his staff of trolls relied so heavily on the veterans was because they didn't have enough smarts to teach and develop the younger, less experienced players and feared being exposed as clueless nincompoops.  

On the other hand. little old Hubie Brown has covered only 3 Bulls games this season and commented tonight on Tyrus being a highlight film, on  Noah's great potential and Deng's ability to create offense along with Ben Gordon.  He was impfessed with how quickly Tyrus got downcourt and what an impressive all around game he showed, blocks, steals, rebounds, assists, scoring.  Hubie also stated Thomas needs more minutes.

But who are we to believe, Bulbous Boylan or Hubie, the man who took a young inexperienced Memphis team and made them winners, only to have them sink back into mediocrity once he left?

Once the Bulls throw Captain Bligh overboard and retake the Bounty, it may not be necessary to abandon ship.  With the right leader at the helm, they can someday once again sail through the NBA with the wind at their backs and recapture the pride they once had.

the message said I hit an invalid key and to post again...I know I can be sometime be a longwinded blowhard, but I mistakenly Boylaned this double post.  Dumbass