Game Thread: Thunder @ Bulls Jan 4th 7PM CSN

[cool007]

Happy New Year Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!

Game# 32:

OKC Thunder vs Chicago Bulls.

vs

Kevin Durant vs Luol Deng
Westbrook vs Rose
Thabo vs Gibson

 

[theCHI_Life84]

the thunder are a huge surprise this season (although, for me not really). this will be a good game

 

[theCHI_Life84]

bulls blow a lead and now trail by 16 entering the 4th. these are the bulls we all know and unfortunately love blindly.

 

[theCHI_Life84]

tyrus needs to sit down, he ruined 4-5 possessions already off of bad jumpers, getting blocked, and turning it over.

 

[Diddy1122]

I'm at work so I haven't been watching the game, but what the hell happened?

21 offensive boards n we can only muster 66 measley points?

 

[theCHI_Life84]

they switched thabo over to rose. thabo is a good defender, but rose should be a better offensive player but thabo was able to stop rose.

switching thabo over to rose SHOULD HAVE created a mismatch at the 2-guard but bulls were unable to take advantage. not that it mattered anyway, all they did was jack up midrange j's again.

derrick can only score against westbrook.

 

[theCHI_Life84]

rose is doing everything he can right now, noah is rebounding and boxing out with 5 fouls, while everyone else miss their midrange j's and brick 10-ft floaters.

 

[theCHI_Life84]

horrible. another embarrassing loss.

 

[Shakes]

Disappointing second half, disappointing to see Rose back to only 1 FTA too. The bad Tyrus certainly showed up again today as well.

It's a bit of a worry when you force 20 turnovers and grab 25 offensive rebounds and still lose comfortably. 99 shots for 85 points is back to the Bulls of before the recent hot streak.

 

[clonetrooper264]

I didn't get a chance to watch the game because I was too busy losing one of my own. Looking at the box score, it looks like Rose is still trying to be aggressive, but his FTAs plummeted. I take that to mean a lot of jumpers for him. I also saw a crapton of rebounds and yet only 85 points. That is unacceptable (yet strangely reminiscent of the game I myself was playing in). Kirk shot over 40% for once which is nice for me anyway. Unfortunately for me, it took him 44 minutes to do so. What was up with Salmons this game? 1-8 after 3 games of good play. Clearly, if we shoot 35% for a game, we're not winning.

 

[mj275]

trade everyone short of rose and JO. I dont care if you get nothing in return, and exp. deals. The Bulls mang. poo pooed Ben clutch Gorden and now everyone can see if u can't strech the floor all the other teams bottle neck in the paint. drives that Derrick makes lay ups. he would be throwing it down over centers or forwards. he is a special talent. that needs runnners. Throw whatever u can get for Bosh. I'm tired of idiot Bulls fans lottery, lottery. It's discusts me and I vomit in my mouth Dang great guy but cant hit beyond 18? dont get me started on the captain he needs to find a phone booth. I love the bulls; However they cannot ruin this kid. Not cause he's a chicago kid; cause he's that dynamic. his upside is endless. THERE IS NOBODY TO SPREAD THE FLOOR WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GREAT SALMONS, AND ARE 3 POINT DEAD EYE DICK PARGO. LIKE I SAID EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRYONE SHORT OF ROSE AND JO.

 

[Shakes]

clonetrooper264 wrote:

I didn't get a chance to watch the game because I was too busy losing one of my own. Looking at the box score, it looks like Rose is still trying to be aggressive, but his FTAs plummeted. I take that to mean a lot of jumpers for him. I also saw a crapton of rebounds and yet only 85 points. That is unacceptable (yet strangely reminiscent of the game I myself was playing in). Kirk shot over 40% for once which is nice for me anyway. Unfortunately for me, it took him 44 minutes to do so. What was up with Salmons this game? 1-8 after 3 games of good play. Clearly, if we shoot 35% for a game, we're not winning.

Rose padded his numbers a bit at the end when the game was all but over (most teams who aren't the Bulls don't give up 20 point leads in the 4th). During the middle part of the game he wasn't doing much at all, he certainly wasn't as aggressive as he has been.

Basically the Bulls looked pretty bad (think earlier in the season, not like the last few games where the offense picked up). They looked alright when they got out and ran but when forced to try to set up any offense it's just a lot of hot potato between players before someone throws up a bad jump shot.

 

[cool007]

This is what happens when GOOD defensive team come with good schemes.

They adjusted at the half time - we DID NOT.

They put Thabo on Rose, Rose tried to get to the hoop but saw a wall of defense and they forced others to make shots (Deng/Taj/Hinrich/Salmons) all bricked shots and then Tyrus joined them as well and didn't miss a bit bricking shots.

This is what GOOD teams will do to us. When we don't have a good reliable outside shooting to open up for Rose. They build a wall around Rose and then put a taller guy like Thabo so Rose just can't shoot over him and when he drives there are 3-4 guys building a wall to stop him.

I also wonder why many teams don't play Zone defense on us? We are 1 pathetic shooting team and teams should be forcing us to take outside shots.

To sum up. We are a Jump shooting team that can't shoot if their lives depended on it.

Rose did try to go to the hoop few times in the 3rd but never can get a call from this stubborn refs. NBA at it's best.