The Good Here's the best thing about last night. The Pacers unexpectedly cruised past the Bobcats and ended their winning streak. As an interesting to Bulls fans side note, Tyrus sort of mouthed off something as he walked off the court, which apparently displeased Larry Brown. Brown got in his face, and then immediately put Tyrus back in the game. He responded by rolling off 8 points and 3 rebounds in the next 5 minutes. Your score: Larry Brown 1416, Vinny Del Negro 0. Here's the next best thing about last night. The Spurs beat up on the Heat, who were, I guess, a little woozy from the return of Dorrell Wright. That means that although the Bulls lost their 8th in a row, they didn't lose that much position The Bad Oh wait, I'm supposed to talk about the Bulls. Despite a relatively gutty, gritty, yeoman's job of hoisting up shots and actually trying to impersonate a point guard by Jannero Pargo, and a nice job of impersonating a shooting guard by Acie Law, the Bulls lost. From the bit I listened to, isn't it just kinda odd that the Bulls had Pargo bringing the ball up so much? Law had some nice moments, but he and Pargo had 5 turnovers a piece, which isn't very good from your backcourt no matter how you slice it. I thought Flip did a nice job of impersonating a small forward. The Giz tried to post up Rudy Gay on him a couple times early, and Flip at least played it right. James Johnson had another fairly solid outing despite losing his starting job for disciplinary reasons, and he seemed fairly contrite about being late, so I see that as a good thing. That is, I think benching him is kind of silly, but I'm glad to see he didn't seem to let it get in his head. The Ugly JJ also managed to tie for the team lead in fouls, though he narrowly lost (by 8 seconds) the "who can foul out first" game he played with Taj last night. JJ has the season lead for the entire league, by the way. He once fouled out in only 8 minutes, while Taj's personal best is 11. Joe Alexander was for some reason put in the game for 6 seconds right before the end of the first half. Can someone explain this one to me? Is there a reason to just jerk this guy around or something? Hasheem Thabeet, of all people, seemed to give Brad some problems. I dunno what to say about that, but it sure would be nice if Miller could give us an extra 5-7 minutes a game when every other legitmate big we've got is hurt. Tonight we play a well rested Dallas team. Should also be ugly.
Atlanta just blew the game against Toronto by not rebounding a missed FT with 16 seconds left and Bosh hit a jumper to win it. This doesn't feel like the Bulls year.
