I don't care how much Sam Smith badmouths him, I still like Okafor. How come Texas puts out midget PGs with initials for names? Does anyone think Pax is going to call down to the booth one day and tell Neil Funk to stop diagramming out every time Tyrus fucks up?
These Bulls are amazing....Gordon launched an unnecessary three..we should have went for an easy shot.
He hasn't been penetrating at all, either. It's not like he's freeing people to pass it to off dribble penetration.
This is why I didn't want OT. At least Augustine was huge, his game will help my fantasy team out today.
I can't believe we lost this game....we are a bunch of newbs for losing in this fashion. Train fuckin wreck.
Derrick Rose. Horrible, poor defense, and completely selfish. Worst game by any Bull this entire season.
You're hyperbole is the best. But it was by far Rose's worst game. He seemed unsure how to attack Okafor.
He's done poorly against shotblockers all year. He had a average game against Dwight Howard, a craptacular game against Greg Oden, a poor game against Duncan, and now this against Okafor. Still, this has to be partially on Vinny. He didn't run a screen for Ben Gordon until the fourth, and he is the one who decided to give it to Rose instead of Ben Gordon at the end, when it was clear Rose was playing like crap and Gordon was driving against Felton at will, leading to Derrick doing some poor layup and forcing it into overtime. My main complaint with tonight's game is that we played the Gordon stands in the corner game for the first 3 1/2 quarters. Gordon's clearly best when he's moving around, running off screens, etc. Not just standing in the corner waiting for the defense to collapse. Rose has blinders on half the time he drives, and it is pretty hopeless for anyone else to find the wide open player on the perimeter. Hopefully Rose snaps back with a strong game against the Clippers to make up for this loss, and then we can go into Boston to get back to .500!
Gordon scored 25 points and had 5 assists and just 1 TO, and shot 11 FT. He was plenty a part of the offense. It seems to me that when you play 49 minutes (Gordon) and 47 minutes (Rose) and big minutes for a lot of games in a row, the guys might get a little tired. Rose is still a rookie, and there is this concept of "rookie wall" that he'll surely run into. He played 1 season of college ball and the whole season was about as many games as he's now played as a pro...
Dubious call by the officials to bail out that Augustin three. Bulls didn't take care of business in OT though.
