Couldn't finish watching the game. Awful. Then seeing DRose in the corner looking like he don't give a f***
Looked totally resigned. How do you not get pissed off? Rose just not turning the ball over, and running the offense would have changed the first half. Where's city/team pride? Pride for your teammates? Hate that, hate that. Jordan always felt like it was his team, including when he sat out in 94 and said it was like watching bullies pick on your little brother with the Knicks. You don't have to be MJ, but as an MVP, hometown kid...
Disappointing not to hear him more vocal about his team. Just listen how vocal Kobe was in his games out these playoffs, and he deemed Rose and CP3 the only players in the game with his makeup. That's what everyone loved about Rose on the court, was how hard he played, how invested he was.
Embarrassing play by the Bulls to end the season on. Which you could put down as "out of gas" but they've been this up and down group all season. It's an inconsistent group of guys compounded by losing Deng/Hinrich. Not sure what you do next season, but something has to change besides just Rose returning. A little extra offense would be nice. And Boozer is definitely overpaid, has no ability to create for himself anymore. A very good ball movement player, but not good enough. Bulls FO won't want to pay the rest of the contract though, or make the moves to get them really competitive. Prepared for it all to go back on a longshot hope for Rose to make them competitive. Would love to see him and Thibs with a more stacked lineup, feel like Chicago teams always come at it with an underdog mentality.
Dude, they had the opportunity to ship Noah out for Melo.
The Nuggets offered Melo for Deng and Noah, and the Bulls said no. Bulls said no, before Melo could even accept or reject the trade. Their reason was that Noah was "untouchable" in a trade, even though they still had Asik on the roster.
That's how bad this FO is.
I will disagree about the medical staff, though. You can't blame an ACL tear and a man with chronic plantar fascitis on the medical staff. Deng also has a torn wrist that he refused to get surgery on, and now he has a terrible flu or something. These are just freak things, not med staff related.
Don't hate that, adding Melo with Rose still playing is a complete change of philosophy. They were trying to be a tough, defensive team with a superstar not '06 Nuggets.
