Not a good start for the Bulls. Ben's been off on open looks and Rose hasn't gotten off a shot and turned it over twice. Salmons is 3-5
The Bulls are getting killed on the boards it seems. You can only do so much when you can't make shots and can't play any solid D.
Our bigs have really sucked all season. We get a 17 board game from Noah and then nothing for 2 or more. That's been the pattern.
Yeah, the Boston bigs have really been way too physical for the the Bulls tonight. Low post D, rebounding, you name it.
Talk about an ass whooping. We just need to defend our home court, and then try to beat them in game 7 now. I expect us to bounce back from this and win game 4. I expect Ben Gordon to bounce back with a big game. Probably around 30 points, or more. Derrick Rose will probably be useless the rest of this series. Kid needs to learn how to shoot the three, otherwise teams can just cut off the lane and render him ineffective.
The most noticeable thing to me early in the game was Salmons and Rose completely missing on a few shots and Rose, Miller, and I think it was Tyrus who repeatedly were badly short on their jumpers. They looked like Vinnie had made them run sprints for six hours before the game or something. Completely dead. I don't get it.
That was exactly my reaction. They looked flat worn out. Sloppy ballhandling, no defensive effort, jumper after jumper coming up short, clanking free throws. Its like they started the game completely gassed and regressed from there. Absolutely inexplicable. Clearly what this team needs is a strong infusion of jib. (Kidding! Kidding! Nobody panic! I'm kidding!) But it sure did look like they played the whole game wearing wrist and ankle weights and didn't particularly care to try to match the Celt's effort.
