Just how ugly would you say Joakim Noah is, Fred?

Why put Jefferson out there when you have Finley?

I kid.

I think you pull Parker at the end of the game. Let Manu run the point with Hill or add an extra 3 point shooter like Bonner or Finley or just tell the starters (and Manu) they are letting you down and put in the entire bench and see if they can come back like the Cleveland game last year. I’d love to have seen Hairston, Hill, Haislip, Mahinmi, and Blair just playing with high energy. Sure we might not get stops, but at least they get valuable minutes.

You know how when we play a really good offensive player like Kobe, Chris Paul, Melo, Wade, etc. and they score 30 on us but we win, we say, “we give that player his shots but take everyone else out of their rhythm.” Was that done to us last night with Duncan. Duncan was owning Noah like he had to, but is there any chance that was actually hurting our shooters? This is just a random thought. I’m not saying this is what I think happened.

I know its just one game, but my East Seeding Projection is now:
1. Orlando
2. Boston
3. Washington
4. Chicago
5. Cleveland
6. Atlanta
7. Toronto
8. Detroit

I think Washington and Chicago are close. Atlanta could be better than Cleveland still. I’m thinking Detroit is more well rounded than Miami even though both teams are shallow. Charlie V, Hamilton, Prince, and Gordon are a nice 4 that should lose in the first round of the playoffs.

I agree with the line ups – that is a Pop’s thing to try and find the best rotation but it does leave me wondering what the heck is going on sometimes. Like the deal with MACE running the point for the 2nd squad? Isn’t that Hill’s job?

The Bulls strategy was “no doubles on TD”. They were content to give Tim his points and try to keep everyone else shut down. Looked like it worked for the most part.

This was the first game – obviously – where some of the newbies not knowing the offense really showed up. Dice, in particular, looked LOST out there, like he had no idea where to be out there. In a game where the other team is really trying to stay home defensively, this made a huge difference in how the offense looked. It also affected, I think, being out of position for defensive rebounds, to a degree.

That said, it’s one game early in the season. With a bunch of new guys and on a night when only 1 or your three anchors are playing well, it’s going to happen.

Remember this is the same Pop that practically threw a game away last year against the Nuggets. I don’t think any of us can understand how little respect he has for the regular season, maybe he just wants to experiment until he finds the right lineup or several of them. Maybe he wanted the team not to want to rely on scoring only to win the games. I don’t know, I guess we’ll see in the next games.

Isn’t that amazing though, that we had one of our worst shooting nights, and still only lost by 7. I know that there are no moral victories in sports. But it does my heart good to see only 92 points when they had at least 20 on second points. If we had rebounded better, which we should’ve, we would’ve won this game by double digits while shooting crappy from the 3pt line.

Did y’all know that Oberto is starting for the Wizards? Watching Wizards vs Hawks on broadband.

Forget Pop and his rotations. He got desperate towards the end yesterday trying to stop the ofensive rebound barrage they were getting at our expense.

We had very good defensive sequences in the first 8 mins of the game. But after almost every possession we failed to get the rebound. Guess who were the bigs on the floor?!! Seriously, I know I had said this many times, but what the hell Pop. How are you going to win with Bonner on the floor other than when we are leading and need to maintain the lead with shooters spread around. Bonner is like a frigging sieve for losing rebounds and giving up points.

Seriously I would prefer Oberto right now even with no points.

You didn’t mention all the 3s we clanked yesterday. Back to the 3pt nightmare. Even with all the talent, we gotta do the 3 clanking.

I know Pop is letting Dejuan learn, but seriously, should start teaching him some basics of pick and roll coverage and not leave his guards out to hang.

A bit frustrated with the effort and play yesterday. Seriously Tim should have sat out. Tony looked slow. I hope he didn’t injure himself the other day. We still have a big rebounding problem. /end rant. Dammit.

I think Tony was still hurting from the fall last night..with that being said with Tony not being effective, George Hill should have played more.

I THINK WE NEED TO ACTIVATE HAIRSTON, BECAUSE WE HAVE TOO MANY SPOT UP SHOOTERS WHO CAN DO ANYTHING ELSE ON OFFENSE.
Antonio
Bonner
Finley
Mason
Bogans

Hairston can be a energy guy off the bench, who can defend, rebound, shoot and attack the basket. Just put Bogans in IR and ACTIVATE HAIRSTON.

I think I broke the site….

yes i know it’s only the second game, but dammit! so why did we get haislip, mahinmi, and hairston? my blood was boiling-ish when i found out bonner and finley were starting..again i thought we got haislip hairston and mahinmi for just this situation.they provide energy and athleticism. i suck at analogies but i think of it as us having gotten top fuel dragsters during the offseason for Pop, and he turns around and jumps in the pos ford festiva from last season(no offense to festiva owners). someone talk me down please haha rant complete

Co-sponsored by the Bureau of Check Yourself/It’s a Long, Long Season Division:

So, we walked into a buzz-saw with a young team fired up to play it’s season opener when we had no legs playing SEGABABA. Does this mean we suck? Well, seeing as how the Bulls, after opening their season with an emphatic home victory over a playoff team (sound familiar?) hopped on a plane, flew cross-country for SEGABABA and got their asses handed to them by 30, our performance suddenly doesn’t sound quite so bad now, does it?