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Jalen Smith had a +10 against the Rockets. That's what you call a Team leader.
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I mean, Smith had the highest +/- rating of every rotation player except Zach before today. Today's game brings him into the net positives now lol
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just what the bulls wanted!
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The numbers through 16 games.
Still leading in pace, still jacking up 3s (and making a solid percentage) while being a terrible defensive team, still turning the ball over excessively.
Individual player wise...
Vuc continues to shoot the lights out. Let's see if it continues long enough to warrant something in a trade.
Patrick Williams, now out with a foot problem (oh no here we go again?), continues to be a reliable 3pt shooter, but his 2pt% is awful. The viral stat is he's 2/7 on dunks or some such. Terrible.
Zach and Coby are pretty much doing what we'd hope and expect. Good on them.
Giddey's shooting numbers have, as I expected, fallen off the cliff. Billy continues to play Ayo over him in crunch time, but Ayo's numbers aren't really wowing anyone either.
Jalen Smith's stats don't really jump out at you, and his shooting stats have started to drop also, but his plus minus numbers continue to be oddly high (relatively speaking, as naturally as a losing team all the plus minus numbers look bad).
Somehow Dalen Terry's shooting numbers look respectable now.
Still leading in pace, still jacking up 3s (and making a solid percentage) while being a terrible defensive team, still turning the ball over excessively.
Individual player wise...
Vuc continues to shoot the lights out. Let's see if it continues long enough to warrant something in a trade.
Patrick Williams, now out with a foot problem (oh no here we go again?), continues to be a reliable 3pt shooter, but his 2pt% is awful. The viral stat is he's 2/7 on dunks or some such. Terrible.
Zach and Coby are pretty much doing what we'd hope and expect. Good on them.
Giddey's shooting numbers have, as I expected, fallen off the cliff. Billy continues to play Ayo over him in crunch time, but Ayo's numbers aren't really wowing anyone either.
Jalen Smith's stats don't really jump out at you, and his shooting stats have started to drop also, but his plus minus numbers continue to be oddly high (relatively speaking, as naturally as a losing team all the plus minus numbers look bad).
Somehow Dalen Terry's shooting numbers look respectable now.
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looking at individual +-, looks like the bulls should play ayo, giddey, pwill, and coby less. and play THT, Craig, and duarte more.
but then again, if the goal is to tank, then play those 4 more lol
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Clearly the Bulls are faking Lonzo's injury to tank
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Never been a big fan of +/- in general. Lot of variables. It’s a fun stat to look at, but definitely not without its short comings.
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It's sad that the Bulls are so uninspiring that it's been nearly 10 days since this forum had a post.
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It's a funny thing, even winning teams are seeing drops in fan participation. People are just bored with watching 3 point shooting contests, and are resorting to more bandwagoning and simply showing up for the playoffs. It's not this magical thing some of us witnessed when Michael Jordan changed the entire world of sports.
The Bulls are just stale, so many fans wanted Zack gone years ago so they don't really care about him setting the 3pt record.
Who is optimistic in Balls ability to stay healthy and perform at a high level.
PWill is out again, not that we missed him against the Nets.
Vuc showing up in great shape this year, but reminding us that he really didn't try to get in shape when the team was healthier a few seasons ago.
So what do you have left? Long term projects, players tying up cap space, and nobody worth a damn that is jumping to sign here. Shit, I bet the players show up with compressed discs to every game just driving through the off-road city streets.
I don't blame anyone for breaking up with the Bulls, for questioning their loyalty, or simply losing their interest. It's pretty healthy to not add more stress in your life. I'm still going to watch, *****, moan, praise, and do all the bullshit that comes with Chicago sports, but everything we can say, is just beating a dead horse.
Who knows, maybe it will become like the Cubs. Where you go for the history and atmosphere and enjoy the game, but it's become the lovable losers 2.0. If that winds up being the best case scenario, how much insult to injury is that?
The Bulls are just stale, so many fans wanted Zack gone years ago so they don't really care about him setting the 3pt record.
Who is optimistic in Balls ability to stay healthy and perform at a high level.
PWill is out again, not that we missed him against the Nets.
Vuc showing up in great shape this year, but reminding us that he really didn't try to get in shape when the team was healthier a few seasons ago.
So what do you have left? Long term projects, players tying up cap space, and nobody worth a damn that is jumping to sign here. Shit, I bet the players show up with compressed discs to every game just driving through the off-road city streets.
I don't blame anyone for breaking up with the Bulls, for questioning their loyalty, or simply losing their interest. It's pretty healthy to not add more stress in your life. I'm still going to watch, *****, moan, praise, and do all the bullshit that comes with Chicago sports, but everything we can say, is just beating a dead horse.
Who knows, maybe it will become like the Cubs. Where you go for the history and atmosphere and enjoy the game, but it's become the lovable losers 2.0. If that winds up being the best case scenario, how much insult to injury is that?
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In many ways, they're already in some form lovable losers...except for posters here they're probably more deplorable losers. They're clearly not trying to tank, which you can argue one way or the other on that, but also clearly not good enough to even be a .500 team. Not hard to see why engagement is low, even taking the modern NBA style of play out of the equation (it's a whole other conversation lol).
The one thing I do find interesting so far is the complete 180 Vucevic has done with his shooting. His complete drop off and resurgence is something I doubt has occurred in other players...presuming he shoots somewhere around 40% from 3 to finish the year, which it is entirely plausible he does not if he were to suddenly revert back to the Vuc we've seen for the last 3 years.
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I might post more if I could watch them.
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Get an antenna
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Get bent.
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Or DirecTV, FuboTV, or Astound Broadband (wtf is this), or subscribe to their streaming service
No wonder no one else is watching
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I have Hulu, and they don't (as of yet?) carry CHSN. I'm not going to go out and buy an antenna, or switch providers for a 35-win team.* Reinsdorf, Wirtz, and whomstever else involved with this has buttfucked the fans. Again. I'm not going out of my way for them. The only Bulls games I've watched this years was the one on ESPN, and when I went to the bar that paid for CHSN.
* Crazy how I can say 35-win team and I could be talking about any one of the three.
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Well that's what I'm saying...it's pretty wild that these are the only ways they've decided to make their product presentable to their fanbase
But like I always say, the only way to really make a point known to ownership, is to affect their pocketbooks somehow
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Just get an AI filter to deepfake the faces and jerseys on the Washington Generals with Bulls players, and deepfake the Globetrotters with the team the Bulls are playing that night. Have Stacey sing, Nationwide is on our side 2x, and feels legit.
It's cheaper than league pass, and pretty accurate.
It's cheaper than league pass, and pretty accurate.
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On the actual topic of the IGT...shout out to Ayo for getting a triple double last night. Spurs doing their part to try to help the Bulls give them their pick by sitting Wemby and letting Vuc get nearly 40.
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The stats through 23 games
The Bulls have somehow now established themselves as a top shooting team through the first part of this season, entirely reversing the narrative from the last 3 years.
Vuc continues to play out of his mind. Nearly 60% FG% and 47% 3pt% is insanity from a guy who couldn't hit water from the middle of the ocean last year.
Zach's numbers continue to look good. The TOs have come down from their earlier high numbers to something more in line with what you'd expect for a player of his usage. The PPG won't wow you, but the Bulls as a whole have been scoring well and do it more by committee. Perhaps this will add to the narrative that Zach actually is a team player, or at least a very professional one, deep down.
Ayo's 3pt shooting continues to be erratic, but it is on the rise. Meanwhile Giddey's shooting splits are about what I would've expected from him, though his FT% is way down from his last year in OKC. Bulls as a whole just suck at drawing fouls though, so every miss has a fairly large impact on the percentage. Also on the rise are the shooting percentages of Phillips, Buzelis, and Terry.
THT's numbers are just hilarious to me...dude gets buckets. He's also taken over highest +/- from Lonzo.
The Bulls have somehow now established themselves as a top shooting team through the first part of this season, entirely reversing the narrative from the last 3 years.
Vuc continues to play out of his mind. Nearly 60% FG% and 47% 3pt% is insanity from a guy who couldn't hit water from the middle of the ocean last year.
Zach's numbers continue to look good. The TOs have come down from their earlier high numbers to something more in line with what you'd expect for a player of his usage. The PPG won't wow you, but the Bulls as a whole have been scoring well and do it more by committee. Perhaps this will add to the narrative that Zach actually is a team player, or at least a very professional one, deep down.
Ayo's 3pt shooting continues to be erratic, but it is on the rise. Meanwhile Giddey's shooting splits are about what I would've expected from him, though his FT% is way down from his last year in OKC. Bulls as a whole just suck at drawing fouls though, so every miss has a fairly large impact on the percentage. Also on the rise are the shooting percentages of Phillips, Buzelis, and Terry.
THT's numbers are just hilarious to me...dude gets buckets. He's also taken over highest +/- from Lonzo.