IGT: 1/05 Chicago Bulls @ New Jersey Nets 6PM CST on CSN

[pinkizdead]

The Celtics have lost to the Pacers or something...or the Lakers did. The Heat lost to its fair share of crappy teams in the beginning of the season. No team is immortal.

i agree. this was inevitable.

 

[Diddy1122]

I missed the whole game but I can't believe what I'm reading in the box score. Boozer only played 26 mins wtf!? Rose only 33, but Deng logged 43, what the hell is going on? Why in the hell where our 2 best players sat for such long stretches? They didn't even play the 4th last night! After the best all around team effort of the season last night, this is just plain pitiful. But this is what we get without Noah. I said it from the get go, it would be a real struggle without him even with a cake schedule. Maybe some of the doubters are seeing the light now. Sure we're finding ways to win but we've had to fight back into almost every game with the exception of Raptors & Sixers games.

 

[Venom]

We lose to the Nets and plus we're winning ugly versus sub par teams. Hopefully this is not the case versus the Heat or Celtics, and any other elite team in the NBA

 

[Crystallas]

The minute I heard that the team was stuck in an airplane, delayed for hours, and didn't get somewhere to sleep until late, I knew we were going to have trouble.
I didn't think they would have this much trouble, even if Lopez is legit, and we're without Noah, the Bulls should have attacked the basket more.

We lost this game in the paint. Boozer couldn't stop Humphries for a good chunk of his 26 minutes(partially thanks to Carlos splitting matchup time with Lopez), but at least he would have helped trade baskets with NJ near the end.

 

[pinkizdead]

it's weird we always tend to get beat by scrubs while playing nj. this time it was humphreys.

 

[pinkizdead]

Wait, chill out everyone. Noah is a really good player. He's a decent offensive option, and he's a really good rebounder/help defender. he's ridiculously good. We lost a really important member of our team.

yeah we lost to the nets, but we lost to the nets w/o noah. at the beginning of the year, we all knew there were two spots we couldn't afford injuries to. rose and noah, sadly we lost noah. so far, we're weathering the storm rather well.

 

[clonetrooper264]

it's weird we always tend to get beat by scrubs while playing nj. this time it was humphreys.

Wait a second, Humphries is no scrub. He's leading the Nets in rebounding and and we saw today, scores in a very Noah like fashion doing the dirty work. He's a decent player.

 

[Shakes]

I missed the whole game but I can't believe what I'm reading in the box score. Boozer only played 26 mins wtf!? Rose only 33, but Deng logged 43, what the hell is going on? Why in the hell where our 2 best players sat for such long stretches? They didn't even play the 4th last night! After the best all around team effort of the season last night, this is just plain pitiful. But this is what we get without Noah. I said it from the get go, it would be a real struggle without him even with a cake schedule. Maybe some of the doubters are seeing the light now. Sure we're finding ways to win but we've had to fight back into almost every game with the exception of Raptors & Sixers games.

Rose didn't play until late in the 4th because Watson was playing really well on both ends. When Rose came back in for Brewer Harris scored on the next 3 trips down the floor, if anything we should have kept the Watson/Brewer back court out there a little longer.

As for Boozer, his defense was pathetic and he didn't really have it going offensively. We needed strong D to get us back so Thibs went with Asik and Deng at PF, which really worked well. They were playing zone a lot so Thibs wanted Deng to stretch it, and I much prefer Asik at the C to Boozer given the game situation.

 

[Capt. Serious]

The Celtics have lost to the Pacers or something...or the Lakers did. The Heat lost to its fair share of crappy teams in the beginning of the season. No team is immortal.

Problem is, all three are still better than the Bulls.

 

[clonetrooper264]

Problem is, all three are still better than the Bulls.

The point is, teams better than the Bulls have lost to worse teams. Therefore it makes sense that teams that are worse than them would do the same at some point.