Comeback Shot Down

Seasons over.
Bulls Lose.
More Coming Later

History in the Making

Tonight the Chicago Bulls try to continue their impressive comeback from down 3-0 attempting to tie up the series and bring it to a game 7 in Detroit. The Bulls are looking to become the first team in NBA history to go down 3-0 in a series and come back and win it.
The starting lineups will be the usual for the Bulls with Hinrich at the point, Gordon at SG, Deng at SF, PJ at PF, and Big Ben at center. The lineup will be no different for the visiting Pistons as well. The game will start at 7:00 PM on ESPN and Comcast SportsNet from the UC.
Go Bulls!

Back Home

The Bulls shocked the world by bringing this to a game 6 which will be Thursday Night at home.
The Bulls are looking to become to first team in NBA history to come back from a series down 3-0 to win it.
The game:
Ben Gordon was amazing, NO this whole team was amazing. At halftime we were shooting over 70%.

Bulls/Pistons Game 5

So we live to see another day but how about one more at the UC? As I said before, if we win this game we are right back in this series bringing it back to Chicago for game 6.
This will be one tough game and we have to give it our all. Send the Pistons fans home pissed off thinking this series is not over yet.

Game Time: 7:00 PM
Location: The Palace
Network: TNT

Take it one step at a time

Bulls stay alive tonight and played well. As I have been saying we really need to consider starting Tyrus Thomas game 5 over Grandpa Brown. I missed like the whole second half because I had to run and ended up getting in a car crash in the act. Don't worry I am okay but my car is kind of messed up. Good to know the Bulls did not completely ruin my day.
Game 5 will be in Detroit at 7:00 Tuesday. If we end up winning that game we come back to Chicago for game 6 giving us a real chance at making history.

Golden State Warriors Or Utah Jazz

Now that the Chicago Bulls season is on the verge of ending it comes up a question. Are you rooting for the Cinderella Golden State Warriors (George Mason) or are you rooting for the local guys on the Utah Jazz (Illinois). Dee Brown and Deron Williams former Illini stars are real raising some eyebrows this postseason and some are even saying Williams may be one of the best guards in the NBA in a few years. Personally I could care less who wins this series. Whoever wins I and the rest of the world will root for in the Western Conference Finals. Most people think the winner of the Suns/Spurs series will go on to win it all but I would watch out for these too teams.

For the Bulls it is make history or we're history. A loss means we go fishing. A win means we stay alive one more night. A win would bring it back to Detroit for game 5 and a win there would bring it back to Chicago where we may have a chance.
Let's play this one game at a time and see where we go. Possibly according to Ben Wallace we still have a chance in this series and we will not give up.

Something that will make us feel better?

You got it another soon-to-be classic Youtube video and Bull Horns is one of the first sites to give it to you. Maybe to get the Bulls recent suckiness of your mind.

I am so depressed....

So I am going to let Matt from Blog-A-Bull do the talking.

Topic: Anyone want tickets to game 4?

Man, Sunday's game will be like a freaking wake. I guess I won't have anything better to do...

I watched at a bar tonight so it was tough to get a full gauge of the collapse, but if anything the 2nd half reaffirms what the first two blowouts told us: this team is far far away from contention.

There is no implied destiny involved with these losses. The NBA doesn't work where you lose in the first round a couple years, then the second round a year, and eventually you get to the Finals. It worked that way 20 years ago because they had Michael Jordan. It doesn't work that way for every young team, and the history of the league is littered with abandoned young squads that once had the promise but never made it. The whole situation needs to be re-evaluated, not just because they've lost, but how every time Detroit wanted to put them away they simply did, making this talent gap seem pretty vast. If it takes minor tweaks (plus internal development) or a more thorough overhaul is up to Pax, but we can feel reassured to know that from what he's told the media Pax himself isn't satisfied with this cute fun little team he's assembled.

In comparison to the roster, I don't think the coach is as much of the problem, but for tonight Skiles wasn't part of the solution either. After getting contributions from Tyrus and Thabo in the first half, they were completely benched in the second. Thankfully our man Duh got a DNP tonight, but even with the starters in the game for most of the second half Skiles bizarrely didn't make any substitutions until the lead was slipping away, and only then it was Nocioni (And if this series hasn't proved the need for Noc to go, I don't know what does) who came in after Tyrus was the first big off the bench in the first half. In a series where you're out-manned it takes some risks to try and get an edge, and I think everybody was willing to accept the risk of playing rookies whereas Skiles was hoping just to stick with his guys until the bitter end. It was a play-not-to-lose strategy that can't be used in a game that was firmly in control. They had to make it a blowout in the third so the Pistons would pack it in for the night. Once they were let back into the game it was already lost, because they simply use their possessions better.

But a bigger problem than the frontcourt rotation is their supposed star perimeter players, of whom you can't think leads to a championship after such an abysmal stretch in that half. The problem with 'ball-movement' offense is that it gives the ball opportunity to find the other team. It'd be nice for a few possessions to find one player to give the ball to and just let him create, as in the boring yet effective isolation NBA basketball. I had thought Gordon was the type to be that guy but he's been extremely disappointing all series, and like the rest of the team he had a great first half only to fall back towards mediocrity after that. Perhaps a team better than mediocre can beat most of the teams in the league. But it's not good enough to beat a team playing at an elite level, and while there's incremental success this season it does not imply that the Bulls ever get to that same pinnacle.

Bulls/Pistons Game 3

Game 3 is a very important game considering the fact no team has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit in the NBA playoffs. Hopefully returning home will do the trick and will tie this series up 2-2 going back to Detroit. One loss may be the dagger on this wonderful season. We got beat down by the Pistons on Monday night. This will be an odd late game for us because the game is going to start at 8:00 PM for some odd reason. Not sure why we can't start the game at 7:00 or 7:30 because ESPN has a hour of NBA Shootaround before the game. Nevertheless the later the better since most people we be home at this time. The game will also be seen on Comcast SportsNet so you get an extra dose of Stacey King. "Go ahead and roll it. Freeze It!. Stop It!. Sefalossssssssha!" and an extra dose of Johnny Red Kerr (*Cough, Cough, Cough*) and an extra dose of Tom Dore (zzzzzzzzzz) I guess the majority will watch the ESPN edition and pray we get Hubie Brown and Mike Trico rather than Bill Walton.

GO BULLS!

Bulls/Pistons Game 2

As I said in the last post this is one important game.
Nothing can be worse than our 69 point effort on Saturday. The game is scheduled for Monday at 7:00 PM on TNT in Detroit. GO BULLS

This one hurts

Tonight's loss was one of the worst efforts I have seen out of a Bulls team since the dark days in 1999. We got 69 points tonight and only 12 points in the 4th quarter. We came out with absolutely no energy at all and basically embarrassed ourselves. It proves we are not a good team coming out after a week long break. Hopefully we will come out Monday night ready to fight in game 2 which will be a very important game. A win gives us momentum...a loss basically puts the icing on our season cake.

Next Up:
Monday Night
Detroit Michigan
Time: 7:00 PM
Network: TNT

Round 2 Game 1 Pistons/Bulls

Bulls/Pistons
Palace at Auburn Hills
Detroit, Michigan
Time: 7:00 (TBD)
Network: TNT
Date: Saturday

Our first second round appearance in 9 years and it is sweet finally getting back. The Pistons recently swept the lowly Magic rather easily. This will defiantly be the best 2nd round matchup in the playoffs. The Bulls beat the Pistons 3 times this year out of 4.

The video above can be seen here.

Classic Bulls/Pistons:



Bulls:
PG: Kirk Hinrich
SG: Ben Gordon
SF: Luol Deng
PF: PJ Brown
C: Ben Wallace