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Effort, pace, and defense will be the key tonight. I would probably put Joseph on LaVine and make the rest of the team try to beat us.

Yup, contain Lavine and we should be okay. Control the pace too, Chicago will want to push it but we've been most successful with a slow, grind it out pace this season (which would have been an insane thing to suggest last year).

I'm a huge Wendell Carter Jr fan so I'm looking forward to the matchup between him and Holmes.

Do we get the Kings that play at the level of the opponents again?

I'm impressed by Justin James' play, he's going to be good.

Deadman and ARIZa just unplayable. Bench just gave up the momentum of the game

Ariza and Dedmon checked in and this game started going downhill real fast.

Kate Winslow wrote:I'm impressed by Justin James' play, he's going to be good.

I think he’ll definitely be able to carve out a real nice role in this league, he’s already an effective defender he just needs a reliable outside shot and he’ll be solid. He has good form and he seems to rim out a lot of shots so I think he’ll get there.

THose waste of free agent signings/bench just gave the bulls the game, now we can’t stop them and they have total momentum. TV off

We needed this one, with the 4 game road trip coming up, where we might get one of those.

Is there a way to see illegal screen totals somewhere? Dedmon has got to be near the top of the league there, I think he has three just tonight so far.

Bulls could throw it up blindfolded and make it. One of those nights.

Yep this is a bad loss.

Really poor loss, we showed some fight but chose a lot of bad options. A real set back. Ariza has been a real ill judged signing and Dedmon is not much better.

Lost in LA wrote:Really poor loss, we showed some fight but chose a lot of bad options. A real set back. Ariza has been a real ill judged signing and Dedmon is not much better.

And what about Baddy? His dribbling and shot selection is so bad. Luke really needs to limit his role. I think it's pretty clear that Baddy has no chanses to become a star. Prime Reddick is his best.

Lost in LA wrote:Really poor loss, we showed some fight but chose a lot of bad options. A real set back. Ariza has been a real ill judged signing and Dedmon is not much better.

IMO Ariza is playing good defense which is why Luke plays him.

On the other hand his offensive game is already in retirement.

City of Trees wrote:

Lost in LA wrote:Really poor loss, we showed some fight but chose a lot of bad options. A real set back. Ariza has been a real ill judged signing and Dedmon is not much better.

IMO Ariza is playing good defense which is why Luke plays him.

On the other hand his offensive game is already in retirement.

Justin James should really be getting all of his minutes. James defense has looked really good too but he at least plays within himself on offense even though his shot hasn't really been dropping either. I just don't see how you can watch that film and continue to give Ariza minutes, he looked awful last night.