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CourtsideTV wrote:the official courtside magic killers of the night:
Joe Smith will play amaresque on us
Chris Duhon will pull a Pargo on us by draining at least 4 3's
Ben Gordon and Ben Wallace will have crappy games
Loul Deng and Heirich will be mad annoying by not missing a shot.
thEthIEf wrote:Magic didnt win by nearly 15 two weeks ago...
Cliff Levingston wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
The Bulls were in on their honeymoon with Jim Boylan as their new coach. The honeymoon has been over for a little while now and the Bulls are as bad ever.
Look at the starting lineups:
1. Nelson > Duhon
2. Evans > Hinrich
3. Turkoglu > Nocioni
4. Lewis > Smith
5. Howard >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Wallace
The Bulls sport 3 of the worst players in the NBA, in their starting lineup: Duhon, Hinrich and Wallace. How does anyone expect this team to win any games?
laVal03 wrote:Ben Gordon>Evans, dooling, J.J.,Bogans combined
I think if Hinrich was your point guard:
Hinrich>Nelso, Arroyo
and Deng is healthy for you again
Cliff Levingston wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
Hinrich is having his worst season by far. He can't defend, shoot or create. He's a 100% liability every moment he's on the floor this year.
And yea, Deng and Gordon are our best players this year, followed by Smith and Noah. Too bad Noah won't get any playing time because Ben "i'm having the worst offensive season in the history of basketball for the center position" Wallace needs to play at least 40 minutes per night.
Trust Cliff Levingston; the Magic will handle the Bulls with ease. The Bulls have no more desire or passion to play the game and are incredibly flawed on both ends of the floor from a roster and scheme standpoint.
Cliff Levingston would predict a triple double for Howard (points, boards and blocks) but the Bulls don't drive the lane enough for him to get the blocks. Cliff Levingston is expecting something along the lines of:
40 minutes
22 points
80% shooting
30 rebounds
7 blocks
5 assists
4 steals
laVal03 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
I know he is having his worst season but I think he will snap out of it
anyhow, what do you think is the solution? You think they should make a push for Gasol again?
suckfish wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
The best way to make use out of the remainder of the season is to play the young guys, Noah, Tyrus, Gray and Thabo should all be given minutes so that we can try and develop them. Personally I think we would be just as good or even better if we played them good steady minutes consistently to finish the season.
It's clear that the bulls aren't going to challenge for anything simply because they just aren't good enough. Why bother giving huge minutes to Ben Wallace when he has done nothing productive? Joe Smith has been huge this year, but theres just no need to use all the frontcourt minutes up with temporary veteran players who are doing nothing but eating minutes up for the young guys.
It's time to prepare for the future and what better way to do that by playing the players of the future, sitting on the bench is doing them no good.
I don't think there is a quick fix solution for the short term. Changes need to be made, but not stupid trades. You can't get low balled by trading players under pressure just for the sake of trading them, particularly when our players are at an all time low in regards to trade value.
Cliff Levingston wrote:The Bulls have horrible schemes on both offense and defense, with no good players to boot.
The Magic have good players and a good coach.
Magic will win by at least 15 points, and that's not a joke. The Bulls might be the worst team in the league aside from the Heat and TWolves.
