Post. game. Analysis. Bulls shaky early, get a grip late

[dice]

nice team victory. has rip finally arrived in chicago? let's hope so. korver also a nice surprise. but for the love of god give mike james some PT over lucas

[Gnarc90]

Fell asleep at halftime. Missed Rip owning NY. I'm mad.

[drivewayball]

Boozer's defense=atrocious. Hmmm. He guarded Chandler almost exclusively, who barely scored during Boozer's twenty-some minutes in the game. His fouls were largely in the act of playing help defense ... vs. a Douglas or Fields who had blown by their primary defenders. He led the team with three key steals that led to scores on the other end. The atrocious claim is simply unwarranted. Over the last two seasons, the Bulls have the best record in basketball. I don't recall that being the case in the years immediately before his arrival.

[genbar]

Fell asleep at halftime. Missed Rip owning NY. I'm mad.

Hit up ESPN3.com. I have the app on my Xbox and watched the entire replay last night.

[danzou]

We have a 2 guard? Rip sighting! Hope it's a sign of things to come, he needs to knock down some more of those open shots still, but he has a few more games to work it out. Please stay healthy.

It's amazing how many people on this forum were proclaiming that rip would be a non factor when he came back and that we should just roll with starting brewer for the rest of the year. Looks like the rust is comng off. I can't name 10 shooting guards I'd rather have for the playoffs this year.

[BR0D1E86]

I saw the game. The Bulls did nothing special. With Stoudemire & Lin out, the Knicks best scoring option is streaky a$% J.R. Smith. Carmelo had 30+ FGA last games, so NY was able to overcome the sh$#%iness that is J.R. This game he had 19 FGA.

I will give you that the Knicks are a sham of a defensive/rebounding team.

You are correct, the Bulls played relatively poorly. Their defensive rotations on the interior were as bad as they've been in a game under Thibs.

And they won by 12.

[Red-Bulls83]

I don't know. It almost seems like a dream but I thought there was an extended period of time where the ball movement was good and the turnovers were low. The defense was tighter too. Remember beating Cleveland by 40 or Phoenix by 20 without Rose? Holding orlando to 59?

Reading through the game log, its not as bad as I remember. The poor play started 3/24/12 where the Bulls beat Toronto on a last second shot by Deng. That's a span of 9 games where Chicago is 5-4.

True, but if you look at those games you had Watson playing well. It may have been before his concussion or ankle injury that he got. Then you had 3-4 games where Lucas played way out of character that definitely gave the Bulls a spark and win.

In this 9 game span, the back-court has really struggled and has been exposed by opposing defenses and PG's in general.

And there have been a decent amount of PG's that have kind of taken it to us in Rose's absence recently.

[supermario]

If Korver played yesterday, every game. He would be making 10 million dollars a year.

[tclg]

Korver really benefitted from rip being on the floor with him. After rip started hitting shots korver was open a lot more

[Ice Man]

My Knicks friend here in Chicago told me that they weren't trying yesterday because the matchup w/the Bucks is the real challenge. Hehe.

The Knicks win every game that they try in, the problem is that they only try half the time. But when playoffs come and they try every game, they will dominate. Fo, fo, fo, and fo.

[Beith Kogans]

My Knicks friend here in Chicago told me that they weren't trying yesterday because the matchup w/the Bucks is the real challenge. Hehe.

That makes perfect sense.

[johnnyvann840]

Watched the game again this morning. All i can really say is that we won and Iman Shumpert committed about 21 fouls and got called for 5 of them. Good defense is good defense but this kid just hand checks and shoves guys constantly and doesn't get called for it. It's almost as bad as Lebron with his off arm on offense committing dozens of blatant fouls nearly every time he touches the ball and drives. 21 Shump St. gets away way too much on D. It's really becoming annoying.

Thank God for JR Smith is all can say. Jon Barry said it best when he said.... "JR Smith is great.... if you;re a Bulls fan". He just keeps making stupid play after stupid play and chucking bricks. the Double Agent Lives! Thank God he's on the Knicks.

oh, and has anyone else developed a burning hatred for Tyson Chandler and his reactions after every play? What a tool that guy is.

[Judrix]

the funny thing is Melo is much less effective when Amare is on the court with him...getting Amare back might actually hurt them.

[Red-Bulls83]

Yeah, I noticed it a lot last year that Tyson never seems to think he commited a foul.

[jumpmanjay]

I will give you that the Knicks are a sham of a team.

fixed.