PG - The bum slayers

[FranchisePlayer]

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There were quite a few funny replies to that tweet, like "I need to get Boylens weed guy".

So yeah, this definitely was a horrible win if it extends Boylen's time with the Bulls. And that timeout...WTF.

[FranchisePlayer]

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This is truly the most embarrassment I have encountered as a Bulls fan. It's off the charts stupid.

Luckily you will never be remembered as the schmuck who hired him so... little less embarrassment. Actually a lot less.

[FranchisePlayer]

Good for Felicio though. A couple of games more of this and some team won't hesitate to include him in a trade.

[Leslie Forman]

Bum cannibals is probably more appropriate than bum slayers.

[Dominator83]

Robert Horry was a super sub. Luke Kornet is a super scrub

[Dresden]

We're only 3 games out of the playoffs and a half a game behind 9th place Detroit. I assume we'll leapfrog them once they trade Drummond and Rose. Orlando is hanging on despite losing Isaac to an injury.

We'd better make hay now, because our final 20 games are brutal. I don't see any way on this planet that we could go .500 during that stretch -

Indiana
Brooklyn
Cleveland
Orlando
Miami
Boston
Miami
San Antonio
Houston
Denver
Philly
Knicks
Jazz
Denver
Phoenix
LAL
Clippers
Nets
Magic
Celtics

I'd say about 5 or 6 wins out of that stretch, unless teams are resting players near the end.

[humble servant]

Don’t want to be negative but I have watched Lauri since he has been here and he always look good when there is no power forwards on the floor
In other words chart his game with a decent power forward he is and always be a role player wcj role player as well as kris Dunn and coby

Yes role players start in this league but are role players that were drafted at 7 or higher wow

[chitowndish]

KAT trying to flop against Kornet (not) trying to attack the basket is one of the funniest basketball plays I've seen all year. If there is any way to lose every possible shred of street cred you possess trying to flop against Kornet on the perimeter is a great way to do it.

Funk was in rare form, his joke about King having the moustache of a magician on his T-shirt destroyed me. It reminded me of when Jason B said KFC Johnson's Halftime report and KC was completely blindsided.

Really enjoyed Zach's game he was trying to get Lauri going and was kind of coasting but just poking in baskets here and there when we needed it which is exactly what I want him to grow into. That is a great scorer at his best where they just take shots when their team is struggling but lean on their team as much as possible. Really impressed with him.

It's kind of fashionable to bash on Boylen but our defense looks pretty set and on offense I like how people are moving the ball. No matter what the team hasn't given up and there has been steady improvement. Before we were complaining that they were losing to teams they should beat, now they are bum slaying, overall these guys are playing decent basketball but good teams will beat them. Boylen does say goofy things but he has these guys playing hard and I feel like they are getting better, the fact that they are executing like this without WCJ and Gafford is pretty impressive.

It's also been pretty easy to rip on Kornet but I liked the way he's been playing basketball. His shot gives a different angle to the offense and really spreads the floor and he's been doing a great job knocking down open shots. The Horry comment is laughable but I like what Kornet has brought to the team lately.

I have to say I really enjoy Huch's game when that guy is playing with confidence he's fun to watch. If he can stay away from injuries and develop he's got a lot of really nice tools and effort on both sides of the ball. He will take the most insane charges but he's pretty smooth attacking the basket when he's feeling it and seems to finish strong.

Dunn I think has a bit of an ego problem, when he feels like the underdog and has a chip on his shoulder he can be such a positive impact but when he starts to get full of himself he can cause issues over dribbling or getting really intense about a pretty normal foul. I think in his career the more he can play with that chip on his shoulder underdog mentality the better he will do.

Overall I felt a bit like we were playing the Bulls in that Minny went through that huge scoring drought and fought back but I like that the Bulls had an answer for all of their their runs. It was a close and compeditive game for a lot of it and we just kept executing and finished so I was impressed with that. It may be bum slaying but bum slaying is better than losing winable games which is where we started. Basically bum slaying is the next step in this teams progression.

[Ccwatercraft]

felicio looked surprisingly good, give him a 3 ball and I'll **** my pants.

[JimmyJammer]

I see some of you complaining about KAT scoring 40, but he can actually do that on anyone on any given night. Besides, he had been out and his body is fresh, unlike most guys who have been dogging it over the past two months. Just the fact that we got 27 points, 13 rebs on 60% shooting at the center position is a cause for joy. Who would have thought that after losing both Carter and Gafford? In fact, I don't remember the last time we go that kind of production out of the center position. I kind of like Kornet, though many don't think he is part of the core. He is young, long, with decent athleticism which allows him to block some shots, and he has a nice long-range stroke. If we could get him to at least give us 6 rebounds a night, that would be awesome.

I liked what I saw in Hutch, Dunn and Coby White last night. Hutch plays an explosive brand of basketball, with an uncanny ability to get to the rim.. His defense is up there with anyone and he is not afraid to sacrifice his body to take a charge, which is kind of rare because not too many players are doing that in today's NBA. His shot is also developing, so I am hoping he'll stay healthy.

Coby's shot was not falling last night but I loved how he was able to get in the paint and score inside. He finished really well last night, which reminds me of the way Dennis Schroeder can finish at the basket. That's a really good sign in his development as player.

Dunn was very good last night. The defense was there as usual and he was aggressive. Dunn went to the line 9 times and made 8, which kind of says it all. I liked how he was making quick decisions without pounding the heck out of the ball.

Felicio, omg. What can I say? The legend of Felicio lives on, despite all the hate and ridicule.

[Stratmaster]

Also can’t agree with the PG thread title. At this point, any win is a good win considering we’re down two starters and have to play our third AND fourth string Cs 48 combined minutes.

If anything, tonight was an embarrassing loss for Minny given they’re fully healthy.

Agreed, a 22 win team from last season missing 2 starters and their best big bench player with what most call the worst coach in the league is supposed to have an easy win?

Minny's record is this bad because Towns missed almost all of Dec and half of January. They had a winning record in Oct/Nov. They're a borderline playoff team when full strength like they were
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[Stratmaster]

Great games by ... gulp... Felicio and Hutch.

Lauri was at least active and a positive contributor.

I am trying to figure out how my boy Coby was +21. Is that an error in the box score? I thought he was going to single handedly lose the game for a while there.

Sato has been in a funk. He's got to get his head back in the game.

Lavine was looking for Lauri on every possession. Almost to his own detriment. If that is what it takes to get Lauri going, so be it.

The Bulls as a team were driving recklessly snd then looking for a pass at the last second. I think there were at least 5 or 6 times a player jumped in the air and then looked for somewhere to pass to. That has to stop.

There was an NBA head coach sighting on the Bulls bench end of the first half when Boylen actually made offense/defense subs. No sign of that coach in the 2nd half though.


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[sco]

I'm not Shrek fan, but I gotta give him credit for a 2015 vintage game. He rebounded, made shots around the rim, even dunked. Maybe he's been working on his conditioning...he looked quicker - although this was against KAT.

Kudos to Lauri for not sucking too.

Hutch is still lacking offensively, but I like him playing minutes at the 3 more than Dunn. His ability to score or get fouled in the paint is a nice wrinkle.

[Indomitable]

Great games by ... gulp... Felicio and Hutch.



Sato has been in a funk. He's got to get his head back in the game.

Sato is struggling the physical play of late. Team are really being physical with him now. Hopefully he stops letting it bother him.

[Indomitable]

I'm not Shrek fan, but I gotta give him credit for a 2015 vintage game. He rebounded, made shots around the rim, even dunked. Maybe he's been working on his conditioning...he looked quicker - although this was against KAT.

Kudos to Lauri for not sucking too.

Hutch is still lacking offensively, but I like him playing minutes at the 3 more than Dunn. His ability to score or get fouled in the paint is a nice wrinkle.

Hutch offense is a thing in the making. He has some skill. I love him in the open court more then any Bull not named Lavine.


I actually want to see Lavine in the 3pt shootout. It would help the world to stop looking at him as a unskilled dunker. His shot is beautiful and it would change the narrative.

[Ice Man]

It's kind of fashionable to bash on Boylen but our defense looks pretty set and on offense I like how people are moving the ball. No matter what the team hasn't given up and there has been steady improvement. Before we were complaining that they were losing to teams they should beat, now they are bum slaying

All true. To which I will add -

1) The team cared more about winning than the fans at the game did. The guys played hard.
2) Deciding early in the game to assign Felicio to KAT was a good move.
3) Closing with four guards + Lauri was a seemingly bizarre move, but the Bulls pulled away down the stretch. If this had been another coach, fans would be calling that decision genius.

[League Circles]

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the rare good excuse for a team to simply walk off the floor before the final buzzer

Why? I don't understand the dismay. It's not like Boylen went out and did a 360 dunk. He believes in using that scenario as a teaching moment for his young, dumb team. I fail to see why it's so egregious.

[coldfish]

We're only 3 games out of the playoffs and a half a game behind 9th place Detroit. I assume we'll leapfrog them once they trade Drummond and Rose. Orlando is hanging on despite losing Isaac to an injury.

We'd better make hay now, because our final 20 games are brutal. I don't see any way on this planet that we could go .500 during that stretch -

Indiana
Brooklyn
Cleveland
Orlando
Miami
Boston
Miami
San Antonio
Houston
Denver
Philly
Knicks
Jazz
Denver
Phoenix
LAL
Clippers
Nets
Magic
Celtics

If the Bulls beat every team with a losing record they play the rest of the year and lose to every winning team, they will end up at 35-47. They would likely miss the playoffs at that. Just to spitball, the 12th worst record lottery odds has roughly a 7% chance of moving into the top 4 (making it very unlikely but not impossible)

The big variable is OPJ. If he comes back, I think they could steal a few games and push towards 40 wins.

[Ice Man]

If the Bulls beat every team with a losing record they play the rest of the year and lose to every winning team

Thatwould mean a big improvement, because right now they reliably beat the really bad teams, but also reliably lose to the kinda bad teams like Orlando, Brooklyn, Portland. To put the matter another way, if they can beat the Magic and Nets every time they play them, then yes they deserve to go the playoffs. But they haven't yet shown that they are at that level.

[Louri]

Lauri didn’t stand in corner 24/7 and Lavine shot many mid-range shots. Win. Boylen is loosing it?