PG: The Myth of Sisyphus is over .500

[MrSparkle]

Nice game.

BTW this site is back to running it has the plague. Popup lag hell

Popup blocker, brother. If you're on an iPhone, install AdBlock Pro and enable it as a Safari extension.

Thanks-seems to work well!

[Chi town]

Nice game.

BTW this site is back to running it has the plague. Popup lag hell

Popup blocker, brother. If you're on an iPhone, install AdBlock Pro and enable it as a Safari extension.

Dang bro. That cleaned it up! Big thanks

[FecesOfDeath]

Bulls are taking these teams with bigger lineups and wearing them out with relentless pace. The faster you go, the less time you have to look at the scoreboard. They probably didn't know the score until Giddey hit the go-ahead 3.

[WindyCityBorn]

every year there are a couple teams that no one thought had any business being decent. Bulls could be that this year.

Not that its a great outcome long term, because this team tops out as a 2nd round team if everyone turns out great.

This is nowhere near what our team will look like in 2 or 3 years. Zach and Vuc are almost 100 percent likely to be gone. Hopefully for impact talent like Giddey or picks to draft one.

[Chi town]

Confident 3 Baller Giddey is quite the player. His D keeps getting better too.

Pat hasn’t gotten used to play with this much energy and pace. It’s going to take him a dozen games before things slow down and he gets his legs under him.

If Pat and Ayo play like they have in the past Bulls are going to be winning.

AK is working the phones right now with the POR pick to get another guard… that can play PF.

[MGB8]

They beat a good team. And not one that was struggling. And not by chucking 3s and being hot. and LaVine with very good D being one of the keys?

[Chi town]

Bulls are taking these teams with bigger lineups and wearing them out with relentless pace. The faster you go, the less time you have to look at the scoreboard. They probably didn't know the score until Giddey hit the go-ahead 3.

Magic bigs had no legs in 4th

[ImSlower]

Bloody hell. Two games in a row I had nights off, watched a bunch of terrible basketball in the first half, and tuned out to watch the World Series (I'm a baseball guy, what can I say).

Two nights in a row I missed huge comebacks. Damn. If this team is going to be too mediocre-to-average to get that lottery pick, I suppose I'd rather see our young guys develop comeback instincts than going up easily in the first quarter then blowing it like last year.

[Ccwatercraft]

Nice game.

BTW this site is back to running it has the plague. Popup lag hell

Popup blocker, brother. If you're on an iPhone, install AdBlock Pro and enable it as a Safari extension.

I use Chrome, but I may switch to Safari just for this site. This is absolutely ridiculous how poorly this site runs.

I couldn't get the popups to go away on chrome, but on duckduck it works perfect. I pretty much only use duckduck for realgm.

[GuardianEnzo]

Giddey obviously isn't going to shoot 59% from deep for long but even at 40% he's a damn good offensive player. He looks very decent shooting them, and not just because they're going in - maybe Patton is having an impact.

[R3AL1TY]

Good win but the team still needs to learn how to run plays for easier shots especially when the 3 ball isn't falling.

[Dez]

I f****ing knew he would do it......Stacey King said Giddey up.

Trade him now please, it hurts me to say thwat about an Aussie but I can't turn on him so he must go.

Or get rid of Stacey that would be better.

[samwana]

Popup blocker, brother. If you're on an iPhone, install AdBlock Pro and enable it as a Safari extension.

I use Chrome, but I may switch to Safari just for this site. This is absolutely ridiculous how poorly this site runs.

I couldn't get the popups to go away on chrome, but on duckduck it works perfect. I pretty much only use duckduck for realgm.

I use the realgm app and have no ads at all. It's very basic and outdated, shows what I need. Wonderful

[Muzbar]

I f****ing knew he would do it......Stacey King said Giddey up.

Trade him now please, it hurts me to say thwat about an Aussie but I can't turn on him so he must go.

Or get rid of Stacey that would be better.

Keep our Aussie on the team.

Agreed. Stacey can go.

[RSP83]

Giddey's per minute #s are insane. Per 36, 20 points 11 rebounds 7 assists. 59% 3P shooting.
His low minutes are stopping him from really stuffing the stat sheet. Great for a guy younger than some of the rookies in the draft.

I just checked the rookie ranking stats. Yuck. It's no lie that they said this is bad draft class.

Anyway, so far there's no way I'm taking any of this year's FRP over Giddey. This is for those who during the summer said they prefer getting a pick back for Caruso over Giddey.

[Chi town]

I hope no one gets too excited over this 3-2 start.

The Hornets and Wizards are 2-2. It's early season.

That being said, it's great to see Giddey playing very well. He was red hot from 3 today, hopefully he can knock these down when left open.

Pitty Jalen 'fake 40% 3pt shooter' Smith was out.

If Zach is injured again, that's terrible, it's one of his biggest knocks and a reason many teams don't want to give up much for him and his contract.

This was a very low scoring game, reminiscent of the 90s.

That FRP the Spurs have is still up in the air.

What about 5-2? If we beat Jazz and BKN. Bottom feeders.

[Chi town]

They beat a good team. And not one that was struggling. And not by chucking 3s and being hot. and LaVine with very good D being one of the keys?

Lavine’s D may have the best I’ve seen from him outside the Olympics.

[sco]

They beat a good team. And not one that was struggling. And not by chucking 3s and being hot. and LaVine with very good D being one of the keys?

Lavine’s D may have the best I’ve seen from him outside the Olympics.

Lavine's D reminds me of this eel I had in my fish tank as a kid. I knew it was there, but I rarely saw it.

[kodo]

They beat a good team. And not one that was struggling. And not by chucking 3s and being hot. and LaVine with very good D being one of the keys?

Lavine’s D may have the best I’ve seen from him outside the Olympics.

The fact that we're the 7th best defense in the league is the most random thing I've seen this year, which is a high bar.
The defense flipped like the offense. Last year everyone ignored the 3P line and collapsed the paint, #1 in 2P defense.
This year we're giving free lanes to the paint (29th 2P defense) and contesting 3P shots instead. 8th in 3P defense and 3rd in 3P% allowed (29%).

[MGB8]

The fact that the Bulls beat a fairly strong team does demonstrate a real risk of play-in. They did it against a tough defending team with a budding superstar in Banchero, probably the best non-big young player in the league (including Ant), and another legit all-star (sigh) in Franz Wagner (who was kept in check).

Zach had a poor shooting night but was hugely impactful… on defense and rebounding… which is great for him (and likely helps his trade value, but the contract will always be an obstacle).

If Giddey continues shooting well (over the longer average) and his D stops being a serious liability (didn’t seem to be yesterday), he is going to get paid… but also will solidly himself as a legit team building block. And it remains that besides LaVine (29) and Vuc (34), this is a very young team. The 22 and under are Giddey, Matas, Phillips, Terry. Pat is 23 (Steward, too, though his upside is likely NBA reserve). Coby, Ayo, and Jalen Smith (and even THT, who could carve out a spot for himself) are 24.

Not sure that there is a younger team in the league right now (but haven’t checked). The Bulls still need big additions and are draft asset depleted, but there is hope at least for a retool. It’s just that the hardest part is finding the Banchero level main guy.