Good firsthand report Topper. You are now the second person to have gone to a game and mentioned specifically how ho-hum the players effort looked. And I mean specifically in relation to their interaction and demeanor on the bench and during timeouts, as obviously the bad play speaks for itself even on TV.
The Bulls were never a team that showed much emotion, but caring showed in their play instead. In diving for losing balls, making the extra rotation on defense, in fighting back in games that went bad early. This year, that stuff rarely happens. The team looks to be accepting defeat early and often and not really all that concerned about it either.
JUST GOT BACK FROM ATLANTA, THE BULLS GAME
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topper09 wrote:The players run Boylan. Not the other way around.
Great. We should have just hired Paul Westphal if he wanted a pushover. At least we could have gotten a pushover with head coaching experience. In lieu of Skiles being our most prominent leader, we now have Ben Wallace.
In fact, this whole season, the team's play has indeed seemed to mimic the sort of randomly on/off caring play of Ben Wallace. Where in past seasons, it had mirrored the no nonsense, never stop hustling determination of Skiles.
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sorry you had to see that nightmare, esp if you're a re-located Bulls fan and it's the one Bulls game you wait to see every year!
the bench tells a lot about the chemistry of the team. the few games i attend i spend more time studying the bench than the game since they don't show the bench on TV much.
just imagine being Khrypa - logging a DNP every game on this squad?
the bench tells a lot about the chemistry of the team. the few games i attend i spend more time studying the bench than the game since they don't show the bench on TV much.
just imagine being Khrypa - logging a DNP every game on this squad?
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ATRAIN53 wrote:sorry you had to see that nightmare, esp if you're a re-located Bulls fan and it's the one Bulls game you wait to see every year!
the bench tells a lot about the chemistry of the team. the few games i attend i spend more time studying the bench than the game since they don't show the bench on TV much.
just imagine being Khrypa - logging a DNP every game on this squad?
I missed all but 3 games every year since 1999. And attended many games in many arenas (Detroit, Chicago, Orlando, Atlanta, Cleveland, Miluakee).
Unless you're in wonderland, it won't even take anyone actually going to the game to see the body language on any of the players and how the coach performs during the game. The good thing about going to the game is to actually see what happens when the camera's go to commercials.
Let me tell you, the Bulls have alot more problems and issues than what we know. It didn't even look like a team, it looked like everyone was in their own world, with their own agendas.
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Bullsville wrote:No offense topper09, but this board still has memories of errisal's famous seat behind the bench when the players were laughing with him at Cartright.
True... I love Nocioni's act of innocence after every foul and especially after the ref T'd hiim up in the Atlanta game. The entire crowd was laughing at him.
I love Nocioni though.. I might go to Memphis to watch the game too.
I'll sit behind the bulls bench with a big.. "TRADE GASOL TO BULLS AT HALFTIME" poster.