We've been beating up some pretty bad teams at the end of bad seasons lately. Except for Toronto, who was missing their all-star the last two times we played them. But still, these are games we're supposed to win.
Its nice to see the Bulls take care of business against a bad team. And by bad, I mean dear God bad. That Knicks squad was the worst starting lineup I can remember seeing in a long time.
Lou Amundson starts for them at PF. He was a 10 day contract kind of guy for the Bulls who didn't get much PT at all.
Right. The people who seem to know about these things seem to all believe that point differential and not record is the best statistically way to judge playoff readiness. Its nice to see the roster beat up on cream puffs because they haven't done that consistently this season .
Not really, Nazr and Baristow are the guys you would expect to see at that time, right? I was looking forward to seeing McDermott a bit in the 4th. But then I remembered he's hurt. What exactly happened to his back, does anyone know? He has a bad back now? Jeez.
Yeah, Thibs must just be trying to work Taj back into the shape. He looks a little heavy and a step slow to me after all that time on the injured list.
Sorry SST, I misread your question. Yah, I heard Thibs in the post-game presser say that Taj is a repetition guy and needs playing time and practice time to get back into an effective state, so that is the likely reason.
My take, too. Taj needs the time to play himself back into shape. He's had plenty of bench time due to injury.
Yeah, when I saw the Knicks starting lineup, my first thought was, "Now THIS is what tanking looks like!"
Ditto what everyone else said. This game didn't really signal much WRT our ability to win in the playoffs, but it's still nice to see us kick some ass when we're supposed to. No one had to play big minutes, and some bench guys got some nice burn. On to the next one!
If we used our offense to build early big leads, we would have the luxury of more garbage time to rest the starters and play Bairstow. It's hard to build up leads when your starters include Dunleavy and Noah, both don't provide much offense.
The Chicago Bulls did what so many other teams have done against the New York Knicks this season: They made it look easy. They handed New York its franchise-record 60th loss, too. Nikola Mirotic scored 24 points, Pau Gasol added 19 points and 12 rebounds and Chicago pounded the Knicks 111-80 Saturday night. Read more http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=400579380
