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If you're looking for an intricate basketball answer, I don't have it for you because I wouldn't know what they are running until they do. I'll cede to either Hue or FT for that kind of answer.
I can say that just based on having a guy like Carmelo on the team you'd have a guy that could handle the ball (babies cry when Luol Deng dribbles), play with his back to the basket, and help Rose not fly through the air and make my heart stop.
This team is too dependent on Rose to score. Maybe as the season progresses you get more out of Hamilton, but so far, to me at least, they are too concerned about running their offense from :24-:10, and then panicking with shots as the clock winds down.
The offense will get better as the season goeson and Rip aclimates himself more into it, however this really needs a secondary penetration option off this flex look. Bad. Maybe Rip can be that guy a bit but his career hasn't shown me that as of yet with what he does off the bounce. The guy on the roster best sutied for it is actuall Watson and we need him to run the back up point(and he's actually a horrible fit for the flex at the point position)
it's too early with this Bulls team to say if they have the right guys but on a team with a completely inept scoring option like Noah who mainly relies on garbage buckets you need as much dribble penetration as possible to get the defense to shift and scarmble and lose help assignments off of Noah. Bulls permimeter players have a really tough time getting to the rim as clean as other teams because of Noah's lack of offensive game.