2022-2023 Regular Season Game 58: Orlando Magic (23-34) at Chicago Bulls (26-30) - 8pm

[thelead]

Paolo was much more aggressive to start the season. He's definitely gassed and missing bunnies but he's also getting much less opportunities in the paint. Look at what he was doing in November:

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Almost everything was in the post/paint

[basketballRob]

Tomorrow will be really tough. I think we're like 1-8 on the second night of a B2B.

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[Husky1]

Fultz is fantastic. We’re a good team. We should of dealt with NY and Miami, beating teams were meant to. Give me a 7 game series against anyone in the east.

[eyriq]

One thing in Fultz's favor is that organization intelligentsia seems to really like him.

[Viper1500]

Chicago is terrible, no excuses with the amount of talent they have... Our bench has won us majority of our games this month and they were pretty terrible tonight, yet we still win quite easily.

[Optimus_Steel]

Paolo was much more aggressive to start the season. He's definitely gassed and missing bunnies but he's also getting much less opportunities in the paint. Look at what he was doing in November:

Watch on YouTube

Almost everything was in the post/paint

This is most likely the most games he has played in a season and he is playing against grown men now so not surprising that he is probably dealing with fatigue, rookie walls are real, but people seem to forget that.

[thelead]

Paolo was much more aggressive to start the season. He's definitely gassed and missing bunnies but he's also getting much less opportunities in the paint. Look at what he was doing in November:

Watch on YouTube

Almost everything was in the post/paint

This is most likely the most games he has played in a season and he is playing against grown men now so not surprising that he is probably dealing with fatigue, rookie walls are real, but people seem to forget that.

Yeah. I'm not worried even a little. He is a hooper and will figure it out. Even tonight, he started backing guards into the paint which was nice to see instead of trying to shake them.

[ORLMagicGirl15]

Shoutout to Mosley for putting Suggs in for defensive purposes the last few possessions of the game.

[NavalAviator94]

Paolo was much more aggressive to start the season. He's definitely gassed and missing bunnies but he's also getting much less opportunities in the paint. Look at what he was doing in November:

Watch on YouTube

Almost everything was in the post/paint

This is most likely the most games he has played in a season and he is playing against grown men now so not surprising that he is probably dealing with fatigue, rookie walls are real, but people seem to forget that.

This and teams have seen enough to make adjustments against him.


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[NavalAviator94]

I gotta say, I would hate to be a Chicago Bulls fan right now.


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[FFBlitzace]

The Bulls are really a pathetic team. It's not all Donovan's fault, but when you underachieve so severely, he's part of the problem and has no business returning next season.

Derozan succeeds on an individual level of going against the grain and being a unique type of scorer, but he has never elevated his teams. Vuc is a good guy but he's not a winner, we know that very well. And Lavine's play has become pretty despicable, no sense of urgency whatsoever, just wants to get his shots up.

[Husky1]

Shoutout to Mosley for putting Suggs in for defensive purposes the last few possessions of the game.

Thats it. Progress from every one, players and coaches. Love it

[JojoSlimbiid]

I don't know how much the defenses have adjusted to Paolo. He is just settling more and just straight up missing easy shots at the paint. I see very little that has changed from his game from early on in the year until now other than missing bunnies.

[eyriq]

Half a game back of the Pacers who were the early season darlings before Haliburton got injured. 2.5 games behind the Bulls, 3 games behind the Raptors.

[Optimus_Steel]

I gotta say, I would hate to be a Chicago Bulls fan right now.


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Their PG situation is a mess right now, they are missing Ball and now Caruso is injured. But they could potentially hand us a lottery pick this year and they just lost to Franz/Wendell. I would be pretty upset tonight if I was a Bulls fan.

[ibraheim718]

I gotta say, I would hate to be a Chicago Bulls fan right now.


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They absolutely need to tear it down and rebuild.

[basketballRob]

Vuc probably won't get the big payday he was hoping for at the end of the year.

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[RookieStar]

I thought the Bulls were standing pat because the east is wide open with BKN dissolved.... they shouldve made deals

[Knightro]

I thought the Bulls were standing pat because the east is wide open with BKN dissolved.... they shouldve made deals

The East even without Brooklyn is decidedly not wide open.

Boston and Milwaukee are both legitimately great basketball teams. Philly is having a great season. Cleveland has 3 all-stars and is playing great.

The decision by Chicago (and Toronto) to not blow it up at the deadline was a pathetic one. Neither team has even a possibility of getting to the conference finals. Probably not even the 2nd round.

[SOUL]

I'll give Bulls fans props because at least they know they're in no man's land and they had a better big 3 than we had and we still had a decent amount of vocal fans not wanting to tank because they couldn't handle winning 20 games instead of 30.