Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:54 pm
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Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:44 pm
TheMC5 wrote:2. Skiles seems to be going with some strange rotations/match ups.
Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:15 am
Shannon wrote:AG, I think Tyrus had 4 in the Philly game alone.
His shot looks great, remember the play where he took someone off the dribble and pulled up (I believe it was Reggie Evans)... so sweet.
Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:12 pm
puttincomputers wrote:the bulls should trade wallace. who for? i have no idea. i just do not like the guy. maybe for tyson chandler an maybe someone else? just a thought
Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:30 pm
puttincomputers wrote:puttincomputers wrote:the bulls should trade wallace. who for? i have no idea. i just do not like the guy. maybe for tyson chandler an maybe someone else? just a thought
hmm yal still laughin?![]()
Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:07 pm
puttincomputers wrote:puttincomputers wrote:the bulls should trade wallace. who for? i have no idea. i just do not like the guy. maybe for tyson chandler an maybe someone else? just a thought
hmm yal still laughin?![]()
Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:11 am
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air gordon wrote:what exactly is wrong with the player rotations?
Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:51 am
Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:59 pm
what could skiles do that would make that team play better??
Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:42 pm
TheMC5 wrote:I can't remember which game it was, but I saw Tyrus Thomas out there at center. Center!
puttincomputers wrote:hmm yal still laughin?
Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:28 am
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Fri Nov 23, 2007 1:04 pm
benji, back in March, wrote:The problem is that the Bulls young guys are not improving in terms of changing their game to become great players, this season they are all hitting their likely peak in shooting percentage, otherwise they are the same players they were two years ago for the most part. If the Bulls players do not improve, and because Wallace is slowly becoming less useful, the Bulls do have to try and win now because this is not a team built to develop over the long term and they have little room to make moves. (I am assuming they MAX or near-max out both Gordon and Deng.)
benji, back in March, wrote:If those shooting percentages revert to career averages (51% Deng, 53% Gordon, 51% Hinrich) then the players have barely improved anywhere else offensively.
still benji, still in March, wrote:Losing Deng hurts, but you're replacing him and Brown with Gasol. If these guys aren't developing into stars and their big "third-year jump" was the shooting percentage (and it's not just a random change as shooting percentage flux often is) then this team will definately not be good enough to win while Wallace is still useful.
...
...Betting on a terrible offense and great (but not the runaway best) defense isn't the smartest idea.
Title teams are great on BOTH ends. (Even the suprise Heat of last year were top ten on both offense and defense.) The Bulls are only great on one end...
Sun Nov 25, 2007 4:08 am
Shannon wrote:what could skiles do that would make that team play better??
Honestly, right now, step down.
His player rotations are pathetic. He starts Adrian Griffin and has Jason fucking Gardner play as one of the first guards off the bench - and while we have no rebounding and inside presence, he feels that the smart thing to do would be sit Tyrus for the entire first half. Kirk Hinrich needs to be benched alot more often. I don't care if he's in a slump, I don't want him on the floor. He thinks that a 3-1 fastbreak is the oppurtune time to take a jumpshot and break out of the slump - he's not playing team basketball. Start Thabo, Duhon, I don't care. I'd take both those guys over Kirk right now. Maybe Kirk can come off the bench, get into a rythm and be that scoring guard we need off the bench. If he turns back to his old self, he can start again and Thabo would have earned plenty of experience.
When Kobe isn't aggresive and the Lakers are looking downright terrible in the first half, you don't bring on your 15th man and continue to sit the one guy other than Ben Gordon who has done anything this season - you get the best lineup out on the floor and crush them to ensure you don't lose by 30 when the Lakers wake up in the second half.
From what I can see, Skiles is only holding this team back.
Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:36 am
air gordon wrote:Shannon wrote:what could skiles do that would make that team play better??
Honestly, right now, step down.
His player rotations are pathetic. He starts Adrian Griffin and has Jason fucking Gardner play as one of the first guards off the bench - and while we have no rebounding and inside presence, he feels that the smart thing to do would be sit Tyrus for the entire first half. Kirk Hinrich needs to be benched alot more often. I don't care if he's in a slump, I don't want him on the floor. He thinks that a 3-1 fastbreak is the oppurtune time to take a jumpshot and break out of the slump - he's not playing team basketball. Start Thabo, Duhon, I don't care. I'd take both those guys over Kirk right now. Maybe Kirk can come off the bench, get into a rythm and be that scoring guard we need off the bench. If he turns back to his old self, he can start again and Thabo would have earned plenty of experience.
When Kobe isn't aggresive and the Lakers are looking downright terrible in the first half, you don't bring on your 15th man and continue to sit the one guy other than Ben Gordon who has done anything this season - you get the best lineup out on the floor and crush them to ensure you don't lose by 30 when the Lakers wake up in the second half.
From what I can see, Skiles is only holding this team back.
griffin was only starting because of luol dengs injury. he wasnt getting a lot of pt when he got his starting gig anyway. gardner is one of the few players who actually is playing aggressive/confident. i have no problems with him out there
Thomas was grabbing pine because he wasn't hustling out there. this isn't the first time that thomas practice habits/attitude is being questioned (which is killer because it seems like every time i check the Portland box score, Aldridge has 20/10). i don't know man- Skiles will bench Wallace for wearing a headband, surely he won't overlook Thomas not huslting
HInrich is sucking ass, i def agree. what can you do? you keep duhon & thabo out there against starter quality players- it will be the toronto game all over again. how can Kirk be the "scoring" off the bench when he can't make a shot. LOL
you want to blame skiles, that fine
but you should consider that their entire starting lineup is under peforming!! it's impossible for a team to overcome that. coaching/substitution patters has nothing to do with the team shooting like it has a blindfold on, or the players playing with no confidence, i don't care if you're larry brown or Red Auerbach. you're not going to win with that
happening
when a team is losing like the bulls, you point the finger at everyone, not just one guy.
the bulls are playing the knicks. they have to win this game
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