Link: <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <p class="News">But that doesn't forgive the Bulls for their poor start. The Kobe Bryant rumors and lack of contract extensions for Ben Gordon and Luol Deng may have been minor factors, but I see a couple of built-in flaws as better explanations for the Bulls' repeated slow starts.</p> <p class="News">One is how the absence of a dominant player makes it tougher for the Bulls to start clicking. The Bulls rely on a team concept, ball movement and superior defense to win games. It would be much easier to hand the ball to Bryant or LeBron James in the fourth quarter and wait for something good to happen.</p> <p class="News">"We really do rely a lot on each other," Gordon said. "We don't have many guys who can go out and get 20 points every night. So a lot of our offense is predicated on good ball movement, setting good screens so guys can get to their spots and shoot the ball."</p> <p class="News">Of course, the Pistons are another of those team-concept squads, and they aren't plagued by poor starts. That's because of the Bulls' other disadvantage -- they are still very young.</p> <p class="News">The average age of Detroit's starting lineup is 30.6 years. The Bulls, when Tyrus Thomas was a starter, were at 25.2 years.</p> </div></p>
Excuse me if I sound dumb, but I was under the impression that Gordon was their fourth quarter guy, still. Obviously, I don't watch many Bulls games, and I don't really pay attention to the team.</p> Has this changed the past couple seasons?</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (peg182)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> Excuse me if I sound dumb, but I was under the impression that Gordon was their fourth quarter guy, still. Obviously, I don't watch many Bulls games, and I don't really pay attention to the team.</p> Has this changed the past couple seasons?</p> </div></p> This season is just weird, the Bulls were expected to be a strong EC team, but they've been blown out in 2 of the games so far, and not really in the other losses.</p> Last season, going down the stretch in games, Gordon was a solid scorer. There were many games I can recall where he was shooting lots of free throws toward the end of games or hitting the shot next to the last shot.</p> Nobody is playing up to expectations, aside from Nocioni, this season.</p> </p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> Two basic fundamentals are lacking: scoring and defending.</p> </p> </div></p> LOL exactly.</p>
