houheffna wrote:
I believe Salmons is gone...and I believe that the Bulls will make a major push for either Amare or Bosh before February 18th...but Salmons is gone for any expiring they can get.
Totally agree. This is why traded for Devin Brown to play spot minutes and then we can play JJ a bit more.
IMO, the reason we have been playing well are actually simple.
* Vinny finally decided on the rotation that was BEST SUITED for this team.
* We finally have a set rotation and everyone is accepting their roles.
* nobody is sucking as much as they did earlier in the year (Hinrich/Salmons)
* Rose has become the Star that we thought he would.
* Shooting - we are finally making our most of the open shots.
Those 5 things are really the reason we have been winning now and everyone is gaining confidence. NBA is a lot about confidence and believing in themselves. Now Bulls are finally believing in each other and accepting Rose as their best player and lets him do the things and Rose is taking advantage of it and helping the team win with some major clutch shots - that people look into their star player or go-to player.
Also, Bulls are 3 full games better than last year even though Bulls lost their leading scorer in the off season and everyone knew that we would take a small step back - but instead we took a step forward. :woohoo:
I am sooooooooooo excited about Bulls that I don't even get enough sleep any more. :laugh:
Some of us saw the pace we were at to finish last season and assumed that even though BG would be gone, we'd still do better. Those people probably predicted in the 44-49 win range. That, I think, is a little bit much. Then there are those of us who said that BG being gone would ruin this team because we have no clutch scoring/consistent outside shooting etc so we would probably suck. Those people predicted 30-39 wins. The rest probably figured that either losing BG would negate the fact that the team was better or they figured Deng would come back strong, Noah and Rose would improve, etc, but losing BG would result in us losing a bunch of close games or something like that. Those are the ones who predicted 40-43 wins but figured there was a potential to do much better or much worse depending of how things worked out. On average, were the team is at right now is probably on track or a little above what people on the whole expected.
