Close game, though it shouldn't be. Seems like the Bulls have played 3 games in 4 nights, or 3 in a row or something. And on the road, too.
So I got home a little late, what happened to Hinrich? Or are the Bulls just going with Gordon and Hughes. Pretty effective looking tonight, from the little I've seen.
I wasn't able to watch, but that's a very good stat line by Hughes. And yeah, what's up with Hinrich? I'm looking for technicals and not seeing any. I'm not really excited by a close win against an average Pacers team where the Bulls needs to hit 9-16 3s to win. Of course, they sucked from the FT line.
Bulls were losing in the 2nd half until Boylan went with Hughes and Gordon in the back court. Gordon had his best game at PG yet. He had a turnover late when Indy pressed full court. Gordon wasn't involved in breaking the press; Nocioni ended up bringing the ball over half court and passed to Gordon on the sideline and a double team. Gordon ended up getting called for an offensive foul. Hughes, obviuosly, had a fine game. Hinrich? He wasn't playing particularly badly or anything, the team just wasn't playing well (losing) when he played. I don't fault him for it. Our bench is far superior to our starting lineup - it has two starters from last season's ECF champs (I'm going to drill that point home yet ) as well as Gordon and Nocioni.
The bench vs starting weirdness is getting almost too weird to describe. The really goofy thing was on the Pacers postgame wrap up they were talking about how they got walloped in bench scoring and that's why they lost. Well yeah, i'd expect every team to be outscored by the bulls bench.... sheesh. Their starters outscored our starters 83-46. But hey, our bench kicked their bench's ass. I mean, I'm glad we won the game, but I guess I don't understand the gimmick. Our bench really beat up on the Mavs' bench the other night too. 61-29. We more than doubled them up! <span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:100%">Oh yeah, our starters lost to their starters 73-33.</span>
