I have watched a lot of Chicago Bulls basketball, growing up just 20 miles away from the United Center and come November and the annual Circus trip I don't expect too much out this constantly developing team.
I have watched some awful offensive games and some awful defensive games. I have watched this team struggle to rebound, block shots and even dribble at times. But last night was a combination of all of these. Poor professional basketball.
The Bulls (5-7) were out of this from the first quarter. Down 30 points at one point. It took them four minutes into the first quarter to have a field goal and that point the Portland Blazers (7-5) already were up 21-3. Yes, 21-3.
It doesn't get any better for this "young" Bulls team. Foul troubles for second year player Joakim Noah and veteran Drew Goodin didn't allow this already poor post defense a shot as Portland stuffed it down the middle all night long.
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The Bulls leading scorer came from Andres Nocioni who came off the bench to score 13 points. The Bulls struggled from the arc, the foul line. With Luol Deng sitting out this game with hamstring issues from Tuesday's loss to the Lakers, this team had no answer for Portland's half court offense.
Rookie Derrick Rose could not rescue this team, he was only one of eight and scored just six points. And the numbers don't get any better for this team. The Bull's were outscored in every quarter Wednesday night.
The Bulls looked sloppy and ill-prepared for a very good Portland team. At times you would see players on the Bulls barely making it back up the floor and Portland offense would already be back to work.
All night long I watched poor rebounding. The team only had 17 offensive rebounds and 16 defensive rebounds. Compare that to the Blazers 49 total rebounds.This Bulls team was outplayed both on the court and on the sidelines. They executed poorly when on offense and couldn't defend in the paint or the outside jump shot.
The Bulls head to Golden State (5-6) on Friday night. While Portland heads to Sacramento Kings (5-8) also on Friday.
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about 1 month ago
Love the Zers!
from about 1 month ago
it was impressive to see how good they are.. I had never seen Oden play before so i was lookign forward to it. i hope for a loss for them, but they just plain outplayed us..
about 1 month ago
Excellent read Patti, congrats on branching out, I've enjoyed writing my non-NASCAR articles and hope it's likewise for you.
from about 1 month ago
thanks so much. yea i write some baseball stuff too. But I like basketball jsut as much so i thought i'd see how it went.. but thank you.
about 1 month ago
Gaaaaah,
last nights game was just disgusting. I could not even watch after half time. I kept thinking "mavs, mavs, mavs, just remember what we did against the mavs."
But before I knew it, gross, it was just to late. The team looked ready to quite after 3 minutes into the SECOND QUARTER
Did you see them passing the ball in? Everything they did from the middle of the 2nd quarter on was half-bleeped and sloppy.
They looked really really bad last night.
I don't want to watch another game like that, haha.
from about 1 month ago
Oh I know they looked awful. Probably the worse i have seen in a long time. hopefully thats the low point this season. It was like they didn't care. this team did not show up and if your a bulls fan we should be ticked off at the effort by this team last night. it was pitiful.
i think form the moment of the tip off, they were rushing the offense and not getting back quick enough to defend.
about 1 month ago
I am primarily a Blazers fan but would like to see Pax get the ship righted there. So I pull for the Bulls when not playing the Blazers or a couple other teams. And even as a casual Bulls guy, there were signs that this ship has already sunk.
One particular moment came to mind when someone, I think Gordon but it might not have been, launched what is charitably called a "pass" in the general direction of Noah on the low left block...except Noah was facing out of bounds, and was blanketed by Oden.
After the turnover, the passer and Noah spent several seconds just glaring at each other. It was at that moment I knew Del Negro has lost his players if he ever had them. Instead of the good team "my fault" mea culpas players throw out, they just tried to blame each other. So sad to see. Hopefully they get it turned around soon.
about 1 month ago
Actually, the Bulls were down 47 at one point, late in the fourth quarter.
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