Are you saying that Deng and Kirk might play? Or that the Blazers might trade for them? Clearly it's the former, although the latter would be more exciting Ed O.
kirk is quoted on sunday as saying thurs the earliest and as far as deng, who knows? the bulls are much deeper then most think. with that said...gooden always plays well against us for some reason. this game will prob be the 1 loss on this trip. bulls lost to the thunder, and will wanna step up at home. also deng and possibly kirk are coming back. this will be very tough for us to pull out. this has win for bulls written all over it.
Funny how I asked myself the same question instantly. Man I'd love to have those two guys on the team, particularly Deng. Jeez, there are so many decent young small forwards in this league, it seems like Pritchard could get his hands on one of them.
Odd's are against the Blazers tonight according to a city built on knowing odds. I don't think it matters either way if they play. Portland isn't playing well despite beating a slumping Boston team and a Detroit team that missesd a shot in the last seconds. Without those two wins our record lately is God awful.
I'd rather it hit the over-hyped "DEEEEEEEEEEEEETROIT BASKETBALL!" guy. But that's just me. I guess I'll have to wait for the Finals for that to happen. Or next year.
How about the Golden State game? After that awful first quarter they played pretty good team ball. Four quarters of that effort will get us a win tonight.
Four quarters of that effort (32.3 ppq) will have us at 129 points. (Arithmetic, yay!) I submit we'll win most games if our effort gets us 32 ppq.
Yet we pulled those wins out. Something a lot of teams can't say they could do without their best player.
Detroit didn't have two starters either. Don't get me wrong they were nice wins, but don't make them out as anything more than winning against a bad team at home, and winning at the buzzer against a team without two of their better players. I get that we didn't have Roy.
