<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">[IMGR]http://www.nba.com/media/bulls/chandler1_060509.jpg[/IMGR] I don?t know about you, but when I was a kid, I never practiced a game-winning blocked shot. Not once. I don?t think any kid does. I was no different from anybody else. When I was younger, playing ball on my own and imagining myself on the court with the game tied, I did what everyone else did: I counted out, ?Three?two?one?? and let go of the shot I was certain would fall through for the game-winner. A game-winning block? Nah, no kid thinks that way. But I?m getting ahead of myself. The real story starts about eight or 10 years after I was bouncing that ball as a kid, taking game-winning shots: at the start of the 2004-05 NBA season. I?ll be honest. The season didn?t begin the way we wanted. In fact, we got out of the box 0-9, the worst start in team history. The coaching staff was frustrated. The fans were frustrated. We players weren?t very happy, either. There?s one thing that almost every player in the NBA shares, whether he played in college or just high school or overseas. Nearly every NBA player is used to winning. By definition, if we?re the best players in the world, it makes sense that we made the teams we played on before entering the NBA among the best out there, right? What I?m saying is that you never get used to losing. And here I was, starting my fourth year in the NBA, and losing was about all I knew as a pro with the Bulls, who were getting rebuilt into winners. It had been a hard stretch. No matter how many people you have around you telling you that you?re a great player, no matter how good your stats may be or how much you?re getting paid, if you?re losing game after game, you start doubting yourself. All of us had to take a look in the mirror after starting 0-9. I thought that this was the best Bulls team I?d played on, and the timing of our Thanksgiving West Coast trip, where we lost five games in the streak, didn?t help us any. But the name of the game is winning, and you can?t make any excuses when you don?t win. Our team was still mostly made up of young guys. Eddy Curry and I were the longest-tenured players on the team, yet we were only the age of college seniors. We weren?t just getting accustomed to each other and finding out where we fit in the league, but we were still learning a lot about ourselves within the game.</div> <div align="center">Source</div>
Just made me realise both playoff season the Bulls have come back from terrible situations to make the playoffs. Last year was 0 - 9 worst start ever. This year 6 games under .500 or whatever it was with a handful of games left.
