One or both of Gordon/Rose will have a great game. Deng or Nocioni will have a good game. Gooden will have a decent game if he can stay out of foul trouble or gets Oden in foul trouble. Close game, but the Bulls are horrendous on their circus trip. Blazers win by 6.
My circus trip preview: http://dabullz.com/2008/11/18/sobering-look-at-bulls-circus-trip/ I have the Bulls pegged as going 2-5, beating the Warriors and one of the six other teams. The Blazers are probably the Bulls best chance for that second win. The Blazers defense is complete crap, so Gordon should be able to shake his shooting slump against them, and Rose will tear them up. Still, Aldridge traditionally kills our team.
Bulls played in LA last night, got into PDX later than our Trail Blazers, are probably still adjusting to the time zone, and they dont have the deep bench we do. Bulls - 88 Trail Blazers - 97
I hope we see Roy on Rose a few times. At some point the Blazers will lose a home game, but with Oden's home debut -- boy.... I am going to guess the big guy gets nervous and that somehow leads to a Bullz win. Taking a look at the November standings I am pretty horrible at this game so you can all rest assure that Oden will be impressive. Bulls 107 Portland 99
I think GO is in full destroy the world mode (can you blame him after the frustration of being out for so long) and the team is going to be super pissed after last night's debacle. POR - 98 CHI - 90
