Bulls vs Hawks 7pm CT

[WindyCityBorn]

Smith's mirage 3-pointer keeps looking legit.

Huh? He was very efficient at shooting 3s last season.

[GuardianEnzo]

Smith's mirage 3-pointer keeps looking legit.

Huh? He was very efficient at shooting 3s last season.

It was the consensus of many on this board that it was unsustainable.

[SalmonsSuperfan]

it's the consensus of me on this board that this team is garbage and not worth watching and they somehow turned basketball into a boring sport.
imagine watching this **** 82 times a year. save yourself some trouble and watch the bears, it's a much shorter season if you hate yourself and enjoy being bored.

i watched a few minutes of this game. that's the game thread.

[Muzbar]

Smith's mirage 3-pointer keeps looking legit.

Huh? He was very efficient at shooting 3s last season.

He was called a fake 40% 3 point shooter during the preseason.

[CROBulls]

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Agreed


Trading out Craig, Vooch, Zach, Coby, Jevon Carter etc. should land the Bulls a considerable amount of young assets and picks by the deadline and offseason.


Let’s get the youth movement started and create a young team that can compete for a long long time.

VJ Edgecombe would look GREAT on this team

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There is no core without franchise player on roster. Draft franchise player and then we can talk about rest of young players contributing to grow and develop with it.

[DuckIII]

The Bulls are dumb af. They should be running the score up!

They are not aware. Plus, I question how seriously they take it.

Hopefully not seriously at all because this whole thing is stupid.

But I think they were trying to run it up. Look at the minute distributions.

[DuckIII]

Smith's mirage 3-pointer keeps looking legit.

Huh? He was very efficient at shooting 3s last season.

Quite a few of us, me included, recommended caution in thinking Smith’s vastly improved 3 ball from last year would arrive with him and without Hali. Several Pacers saw huge spikes playing with Hali in that style.

But it has. And we are playing a similar style. I’m frankly more excited we finally have at least one guy who makes the O think when they get near the rim.

[MrSparkle]

Ayo, Terry, Matas >>> Pat

[DuckIII]

it's the consensus of me on this board that this team is garbage and not worth watching and they somehow turned basketball into a boring sport.
imagine watching this **** 82 times a year. save yourself some trouble and watch the bears, it's a much shorter season if you hate yourself and enjoy being bored.

i watched a few minutes of this game. that's the game thread.

The game last night was extremely entertaining. Too bad.

Some maligned players - Terry and Giddey - had great games. For Terry his best game ever by a mile. Ayo continues to look, to me, like the first guy to keep from our guard glut. Zach played well. Smith had a ridiculously effective 15 minutes. Etc., etc.

[DuckIII]

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Agreed


Trading out Craig, Vooch, Zach, Coby, Jevon Carter etc. should land the Bulls a considerable amount of young assets and picks by the deadline and offseason.


Let’s get the youth movement started and create a young team that can compete for a long long time.

VJ Edgecombe would look GREAT on this team

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There is no core without franchise player on roster. Draft franchise player and then we can talk about rest of young players contributing to grow and develop with it.

Eggsmfingxactly. I don’t know who “Ross Pins” is and I’m not on X, but I got a good laugh at that tweet. Especially with Craig being identified as the primary trade piece. That’ll solve everything!

I don’t quite know what happened to the Bulls fan base. Maybe it was all the losing. But we of all people should know if you have no franchise player you have nothing.

I’m so tired of Bulls fans being excited by winning half the games.

[sco]

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Agreed


Trading out Craig, Vooch, Zach, Coby, Jevon Carter etc. should land the Bulls a considerable amount of young assets and picks by the deadline and offseason.


Let’s get the youth movement started and create a young team that can compete for a long long time.

VJ Edgecombe would look GREAT on this team

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There is no core without franchise player on roster. Draft franchise player and then we can talk about rest of young players contributing to grow and develop with it.

Eggsmfingxactly. I don’t know who “Ross Pins” is and I’m not on X, but I got a good laugh at that tweet. Especially with Craig being identified as the primary trade piece. That’ll solve everything!

I don’t quite know what happened to the Bulls fan base. Maybe it was all the losing. But we of all people should know if you have no franchise player you have nothing.

I’m so tired of Bulls fans being excited by winning half the games.

I'm with you bro!

On the game, kudos to Terry on another strong game and sinking those 3's. I'm under no illusion that he'll shoot 40% for the season, but I have consistently said that he's a 3pt shot away from being an NBA starting talent. His time with Johnny-dribbles-a-lot really paid off too.

Matas made a ton of rookie mistakes out there, but he's starting to match those with some good plays as well. His 3 point stroke looks good, but his feet aren't set consistently and if mucks with his balance. I do like his combination of quick feet on defense with his ability to look for blocks in the paint. The last thing that he needs to do is bulk up. IMO he should be a tall 3 for several years.

Shout out to Vuc who is noticeably trying harder on the defense, coupled with another great all around offensive game.

Lastly, I'm hard on Billy, but again, he managed to take a bottom 5 team in terms of pace and 3's and turn them into a top 5 team on both in one offseason. If he can somehow figure out how to insert defense into that, he'd be a COY candidate IMO.

[burlydee]

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Agreed


Trading out Craig, Vooch, Zach, Coby, Jevon Carter etc. should land the Bulls a considerable amount of young assets and picks by the deadline and offseason.


Let’s get the youth movement started and create a young team that can compete for a long long time.

VJ Edgecombe would look GREAT on this team

Read on Twitter

There is no core without franchise player on roster. Draft franchise player and then we can talk about rest of young players contributing to grow and develop with it.

Eggsmfingxactly. I don’t know who “Ross Pins” is and I’m not on X, but I got a good laugh at that tweet. Especially with Craig being identified as the primary trade piece. That’ll solve everything!

I don’t quite know what happened to the Bulls fan base. Maybe it was all the losing. But we of all people should know if you have no franchise player you have nothing.

I’m so tired of Bulls fans being excited by winning half the games.

I'm not sure what you want Bulls fans on a message board to do to acquire a franchise player but I like basketball and you admitted it was an entertaining game earlier in the thread. Me being unhappy isn't going to materialize Jayson Tatum.

[Stratmaster]

Rotations tonight are the best Billy has played all season.

Smith Buz Dalen work well with the offensive players that play no D in Vuc Giddey Coby.

I’m somewhat concerned after seeing what Billy finally did tonight with the rotations and it did what I thought it would do… help us win.

I said it before. The Bulls first 16 games were the 4th most difficult SOS, and the rest of the season projects to be the 3rd easiest schedule. Despite that, they are a .500 team so far when Lavine has played. The East has 2 top teams followed by parity. If the Bulls avoid major injuries there is no reason they can't be a playoff team.

[Stratmaster]

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Agreed


Trading out Craig, Vooch, Zach, Coby, Jevon Carter etc. should land the Bulls a considerable amount of young assets and picks by the deadline and offseason.


Let’s get the youth movement started and create a young team that can compete for a long long time.

VJ Edgecombe would look GREAT on this team

Read on Twitter

There is no core without franchise player on roster. Draft franchise player and then we can talk about rest of young players contributing to grow and develop with it.

Eggsmfingxactly. I don’t know who “Ross Pins” is and I’m not on X, but I got a good laugh at that tweet. Especially with Craig being identified as the primary trade piece. That’ll solve everything!

I don’t quite know what happened to the Bulls fan base. Maybe it was all the losing. But we of all people should know if you have no franchise player you have nothing.

I’m so tired of Bulls fans being excited by winning half the games.

And we are all tired of you wanting us to watch h the team lose most of their games for the next 3 seasons in the hopes that maybe they will win some 4 years from now.

This team looks like an over .500 playoff team right now when you consider they have already played their toughest schedule stretch of the season. I would rather see that than what you are proposing.

[Stratmaster]

it's the consensus of me on this board that this team is garbage and not worth watching and they somehow turned basketball into a boring sport.
imagine watching this **** 82 times a year. save yourself some trouble and watch the bears, it's a much shorter season if you hate yourself and enjoy being bored.

i watched a few minutes of this game. that's the game thread.

IKR? It was so much better watching Demar dribble for 20 seconds and then take a 13' jumper.

[drosestruts]

People want the team to get younger so we get younger - and everyone complains

Our young pieces are showing good development - everyone complains

We play a fast-paced modern offense - everyone complains

Last night's game was fun. The young guys are playing well and showing good development.

From my view, you're all getting exactly what you wanted and yet you're still upset. It's exhausting.

I signed on this morning thinking the board might be in a good mood and over half the posts are still complaining or declaring the team not worth watching.

Some posters here seem like debbie downers to the point of being trolls. Others are just very critical of the team and org, while still admitting in a vacuum the game was fun - I chalk those posters up as overly focused on the big picture. Don't miss the trees for the forest guys.

I like that Buzelis seemed to have a chip on his shoulder going all the way back to the draft when he was calling out Risacher for a 1v1 workout and I like that that attitude seems to have carried over to this game against Atlanta. Feel like those dunks had a little extra emphasis to them tonight.

I think I've simultaneously been the biggest advocate for patience with Patrick Williams and fully recognizing that he's been getting entitlement minutes. Pat needs to earn his minutes - now more than ever. Matas, Phillips, Terry, and Craig are all able to contribute to winning. If Pat can't, he should sit.

Bogdanovic continues to always shoot lights out against us. This guy would be an all-star if he played the Bulls every night.

Giddey seems like an emotional player. I saw on social media he was at the Blackhawks game with Dyson Daniels the night before and now he put in a good game tonight. We need to acquire some Aussie buddies to be on the team and keep Giddey in a good mood. Doubt that could be Daniels who's playing well in Atlanta - but maybe Londale or McVeigh from Houston or wherever the heck Patty Mills is.

10 blocks on the night was fun to see. I love blocks.

[Indomitable]

it's the consensus of me on this board that this team is garbage and not worth watching and they somehow turned basketball into a boring sport.
imagine watching this **** 82 times a year. save yourself some trouble and watch the bears, it's a much shorter season if you hate yourself and enjoy being bored.

i watched a few minutes of this game. that's the game thread.

Do what makes you happy. Football is by far a more boring game to me.

[Indomitable]

People want the team to get younger so we get younger - and everyone complains

Our young pieces are showing good development - everyone complains

We play a fast-paced modern offense - everyone complains

Last night's game was fun. The young guys are playing well and showing good development.

From my view, you're all getting exactly what you wanted and yet you're still upset. It's exhausting.

I signed on this morning thinking the board might be in a good mood and over half the posts are still complaining or declaring the team not worth watching.

Some posters here seem like debbie downers to the point of being trolls. Others are just very critical of the team and org, while still admitting in a vacuum the game was fun

A lot of these guys are burnouts on this board. They act like they're in an toxic relationship with the Bulls.

[DuckIII]

There is no core without franchise player on roster. Draft franchise player and then we can talk about rest of young players contributing to grow and develop with it.

Eggsmfingxactly. I don’t know who “Ross Pins” is and I’m not on X, but I got a good laugh at that tweet. Especially with Craig being identified as the primary trade piece. That’ll solve everything!

I don’t quite know what happened to the Bulls fan base. Maybe it was all the losing. But we of all people should know if you have no franchise player you have nothing.

I’m so tired of Bulls fans being excited by winning half the games.

I'm not sure what you want Bulls fans on a message board to do to acquire a franchise player but I like basketball and you admitted it was an entertaining game earlier in the thread. Me being unhappy isn't going to materialize Jayson Tatum.

I agree that none of us are GMs of NBA teams. It’s an observation about the lowered expectations of Bulls fans, which is odd to me. I assume it’s because all of the losing makes us fear the losing required to win. .500 has become Eddie Murphy’s joke about how delicious a saltine is when you’re starving. Lots of Bulls fans affirmatively want to make the playoffs this season even though it is objectively true that it will materially harm the team to do so.

[DuckIII]

One can enjoy watching the games - which is finally true again this year - and keep focus on the importance of the bigger picture. It’s not a choice between the two. I’ve loved the games this year and watched every one of them I think.

Again, you can all root for whatever you want. Fans are motivated by all sorts of things and all of them are personal and 100% fair and correct because they are personal. I’m just surprised by how much it has shifted in the fanbase of the Dynasty Bulls.