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Portland injury report:
- Brogdon OUT
- Sharpe OUT
- Timelord OUT
- Grant OUT
- Thybulle questionable
- Brogdon OUT
- Sharpe OUT
- Timelord OUT
- Grant OUT
- Thybulle questionable
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Operation enter April over .500 is in full go. Need to win the games we're favored in to even have this be a possibility.
Hopefully Ayo continues playing well - was great to see Ayo and Vuc step up big in the previous game.
Hopefully Ayo continues playing well - was great to see Ayo and Vuc step up big in the previous game.
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Ah, the soft underbelly of the schedule. Wiz, Blazers, Rockets. OK then the Celtics, that's not going to be fun, but we'll take this one.
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drosestruts wrote:Operation enter April over .500 is in full go. Need to win the games we're favored in to even have this be a possibility.
Hopefully Ayo continues playing well - was great to see Ayo and Vuc step up big in the previous game.
We've been flirting with .500 all season long. I'm beginning to think that'll continue to be the case. Hope I'm wrong and we actually reach it or get over it.
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I felt good about winning this one until I saw Brogdan and Grant out. They don't really play the young inexperienced athletic type game that gives the Bulls so much trouble. Grant, to me which is why I don't want him for the Bulls, can score plenty in iso but get his teammates involved or helps them add to the offense. Ayton is much the same
Murray likely at the PF is that above mentioned young kind of threat. So If Simons and Banton don't get hot the Bulls might be able to take this one since there isn't much defense on the PORT side.
Murray likely at the PF is that above mentioned young kind of threat. So If Simons and Banton don't get hot the Bulls might be able to take this one since there isn't much defense on the PORT side.
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Just...2...more...wins...
If they win can we just count this game as 2?
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No game is easy with the Bulls injuries. If AC is out then we’re down 6 possible rotation players (White, AC, Phillips, Zach, PW, Lonzo).
It puts an enormous offensive workload of DDR, Vuc & Ayo given outside of those 3, no one else is an offensive threat at all.
It puts an enormous offensive workload of DDR, Vuc & Ayo given outside of those 3, no one else is an offensive threat at all.
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Miami and Philly play each other, and then both have games following that where they are expected to lose.
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AC is in according to Billy.
dumbell78 wrote:Random comment....Mikal Bridges stroke is dripping right now in summer league. Carry on.
I'll go ahead and make a sig bet that Mikal is better by RPM this year than Zach.
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It's been 2 whole games of blowouts, Bulls are about due for another nail biter. Doesn't make sense vs Portland, but it's our fate.
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ChettheJet wrote:I felt good about winning this one until I saw Brogdan and Grant out. They don't really play the young inexperienced athletic type game that gives the Bulls so much trouble. Grant, to me which is why I don't want him for the Bulls, can score plenty in iso but get his teammates involved or helps them add to the offense. Ayton is much the same
Murray likely at the PF is that above mentioned young kind of threat. So If Simons and Banton don't get hot the Bulls might be able to take this one since there isn't much defense on the PORT side.
How is Banton doing? I see he's putting up solid stats, but it's on a bad team so that can be deceiving.
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GoBlue72391 wrote:drosestruts wrote:Operation enter April over .500 is in full go. Need to win the games we're favored in to even have this be a possibility.
Hopefully Ayo continues playing well - was great to see Ayo and Vuc step up big in the previous game.
We've been flirting with .500 all season long. I'm beginning to think that'll continue to be the case. Hope I'm wrong and we actually reach it or get over it.
14 games left while being 2 games under .500. 27-21 since Dec 1st, so it's possible.
Looking at the schedule we have an opportunity to get to .500 and then porbably get smacked right back down agains the Celtics.
but half our remaining games are against team under .500.
My optimistic take, which would include guys coming back at playing well and healthy, is to finish the season 10-4 for a record of 43-39 on the season.
Perhaps good enough to leap frog Philly or Miami
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drosestruts wrote:GoBlue72391 wrote:drosestruts wrote:Operation enter April over .500 is in full go. Need to win the games we're favored in to even have this be a possibility.
Hopefully Ayo continues playing well - was great to see Ayo and Vuc step up big in the previous game.
We've been flirting with .500 all season long. I'm beginning to think that'll continue to be the case. Hope I'm wrong and we actually reach it or get over it.
14 games left while being 2 games under .500. 27-21 since Dec 1st, so it's possible.
Looking at the schedule we have an opportunity to get to .500 and then porbably get smacked right back down agains the Celtics.
but half our remaining games are against team under .500.
My optimistic take, which would include guys coming back at playing well and healthy, is to finish the season 10-4 for a record of 43-39 on the season.
Perhaps good enough to leap frog Philly or Miami
Celtics are def in the rest mode phase of the season now. There's a chance we could play them when they are resting guys.
dumbell78 wrote:Random comment....Mikal Bridges stroke is dripping right now in summer league. Carry on.
I'll go ahead and make a sig bet that Mikal is better by RPM this year than Zach.
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drosestruts wrote:GoBlue72391 wrote:drosestruts wrote:Operation enter April over .500 is in full go. Need to win the games we're favored in to even have this be a possibility.
Hopefully Ayo continues playing well - was great to see Ayo and Vuc step up big in the previous game.
We've been flirting with .500 all season long. I'm beginning to think that'll continue to be the case. Hope I'm wrong and we actually reach it or get over it.
14 games left while being 2 games under .500. 27-21 since Dec 1st, so it's possible.
Looking at the schedule we have an opportunity to get to .500 and then porbably get smacked right back down agains the Celtics.
but half our remaining games are against team under .500.
My optimistic take, which would include guys coming back at playing well and healthy, is to finish the season 10-4 for a record of 43-39 on the season.
Perhaps good enough to leap frog Philly or Miami
That’s what I’m hoping for too.
Would love a shot at playing the Bucks in round one.
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I don’t mind Bitim. He seems to play the right way. It would be great if we could find the next Max Strus out of nowhere to add to the rotation.
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I hate how quiet the board has gotten. Especially during game threads. But I'm part of the problem too
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Scoot looks terrible
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It’ll be interesting to see if the Bulls can get to 0.500 over the next few games with the soft schedule. In recent seasons they’ve constantly teased us and dropped easy games when they get close.