"DESTINY" 2014-15 Chicago Bulls Season Thread

[cornercommission2k12]

As @GoldenGlove stated, there is no excuses here. They had the opportunity to get back to the finals and these dudes blew it. I don't want to hear shyt about refs, blown calls etc. And I don't want to look at it like lebron is some immovable object or some huge hump in the road we can't overcome, dude played like trash for most of this series. Or even if you don't want to say trash his production was beatable and we have seen lebron get beaten and we know what kind of team does it.

These dudes didn't come through.

 

[AVXL]

bring some reality to the situation or just dont post in this thread. the Hawks have looked shaky these playoffs, period

Breh NOBODY has looked dominant in these playoffs, y'all included. So for y'all to act like playing us would be a cakewalk to the Finals makes no sense, period

 

[AVXL]

BTW, y'all will win tonight. I don't see CLE beating y'all in CHI for Game 6. If y'all do lose does this team get dismantled or does everybody pretty much come back (except for Thibs)?

 

[Brozay]

Breh NOBODY has looked dominant in these playoffs, y'all included. So for y'all to act like playing us would be a cakewalk to the Finals makes no sense, period

My point was to say that a Finals trip is a very realistic expectation, I didnt mean to imply it would be a cakewalk, sorry if it came out that way

East hasnt been this wipe open since the early 2000s

 

[Brozay]

BTW, y'all will win tonight. I don't see CLE beating y'all in CHI for Game 6. If y'all do lose does this team get dismantled or does everybody pretty much come back (except for Thibs)?

I could see them shopping Noah/Taj

 

[KillaCali32]

I predict a Bulls blowout tonight...and That momentum will be carried into Cleveland, and Bulls win Game 7

 

[cornercommission2k12]

I see the end of the Thibs era, because before they admit they personnel moves were absolute mediocre to trash they will act as if they did everything right and hang it all on the coach

I can see them using the mle to sign another big or some other washed up guard past they prime.

Then they draft some unknown euro we won't see for 2 years. Then re sign jimmy.

Then they will walk back to the fans like they done did some big shyt after they hire some unknown college coach who plays golf with them but will be they yes man.

 

[jerniebert]

Glad to see pau is back. I don't know if I can take anymore of these scoring droughts they go on. Pau should help that.

 

[Kane]

http://chicago.suntimes.com/basketball/7/71/606012/nba-honors-joakim-noah-citizenship-award

Joakim Noah won the NBA Citizenship Award.

I know he's been trash all year, and I honestly want him gone this summer, but he seems like a good dude. He's been puttin in alot of work with these kids in the Chi. Salute.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

You understand what is going on with this franchise my good sir. The Bulls FO have been incompetent on how they have built this team the last few years, and Thibs is being used as the scapegoat even though he has kept this team competitive with all the misfortunes. They should have kept their two first round picks and drafted a center knowing the situation with Noah's knee this past off-season. They should have used the other pick to pick up a young combo guard instead of going after Mcdermott. I don't have any problems with the Gasol signing, but the FO should have also signed a vet swing-man in Affalo or Corey Brewer.

And Thibs wouldn't have played either of those rookies this season either.

Asik showed that he could rebound and defend the rim well, and he still only played 9.9mpg in that series. He got hurt in that Miami series anyway, but he hardly played prior to that.

The Bulls front office has been trash for the most part since he's been here. But it's been proven that Thibs isn't going to play rookies period. Doesn't matter how well they play, he's going to revert back to his "guys".

He's done it with Jimmy, and he's done it with all the rookies he's gotten after that.

Yeah this is bullshyt that Thibs doesn't play rookies, he plays rookies just as much as every other coach in the league does that's competing for a title and not rebuilding. I don't get why this is so hard to understand, of course he's going to revert back to his "guys" - they have experience and know the system, he isn't going to sacrifice team chemistry and regular season wins by trying to wait for a rookie to continually work through his struggles. This isn't fukkin Minnesota or Philly where your team is forever stranded in lottery-land, where you can afford to drop a game or two in exchange of giving younger players more minutes to develop. You can't have it both ways - you can't give rookies x-amount of minutes to your approval and then want the team to have stable lineups, build team chemistry and finish as high as possible in the standings. You either do one or the other.

Thibs gradually increased Asik's minutes during his rookie season - he averaged 12.1 minutes from January to April. Nurkic would've definitely been used, if he had shown that he didn't fukk up defensive assignments.

 

[god shamgod]

This summer noah or taj and a future 1st for monta ellis.He may opt out if he doesn't make that trade.Sign gerald green with the mid level

Bulls starting line up with a better offensive minded coach

Rose
Butler
Gerald Green
Taj/noah
Gasol

Bench - Ellis,Mcdermott,nate robinson,Snell,Mirotic, '15 1st round pick(back up big),hinrich

That team has more athletes and scorers

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

As @GoldenGlove stated, there is no excuses here. They had the opportunity to get back to the finals and these dudes blew it. I don't want to hear shyt about refs, blown calls etc. And I don't want to look at it like lebron is some immovable object or some huge hump in the road we can't overcome, dude played like trash for most of this series. Or even if you don't want to say trash his production was beatable and we have seen lebron get beaten and we know what kind of team does it.

These dudes didn't come through.

Besides the bad game he had where he hit the buzzer-beater (the game could have gone either way) - the games he played trash in yall won. The other two games where he was virtually unstoppable - the Cavs won. Bron gon Bron - he's led weaker supporting casts past better teams for most of his developed career. It's just what he does.

 

[GoldenGlove]

Yeah this is bullshyt that Thibs doesn't play rookies, he plays rookies just as much as every other coach in the league does that's competing for a title and not rebuilding. I don't get why this is so hard to understand, of course he's going to revert back to his "guys" - they have experience and know the system, he isn't going to sacrifice team chemistry and regular season wins by trying to wait for a rookie to continually work through his struggles. This isn't fukkin Minnesota or Philly where your team is forever stranded in lottery-land, where you can afford to drop a game or two in exchange of giving younger players more minutes to develop. You can't have it both ways - you can't give rookies x-amount of minutes to your approval and then want the team to have stable lineups, build team chemistry and finish as high as possible in the standings. You either do one or the other.

Thibs gradually increased Asik's minutes during his rookie season - he averaged 12.1 minutes from January to April. Nurkic would've definitely been used, if he had shown that he didn't fukk up defensive assignments.

The Bulls lost 16 regular season games to sub 500 teams. Guys were banged up all year and Thibs still didn't really play any of the young guys much outside of Niko.

Jimmy missed 15-20 games and still lead the NBA in minutes played.

Thibs coaches the regular season like it's the NBA Finals and he still was losing to shyt teams while playing his starters their reg minutes and jerking Snell and Niko's minutes for a bit. We don't even need to discuss Doug because he didn't play at all really.

If you're right and the team can't be sacrificing games, and they can't afford dropping games for younger guy's to gain experience then what did this regular season accomplish exactly? Was the objective to get to the playoffs and not have a guys ready to contribute? You're fine with that right?

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Thibs coaches the regular season like it's the NBA Finals and he still was losing to shyt teams while playing his starters their reg minutes and jerking Snell and Niko's minutes for a bit. We don't even need to discuss Doug because he didn't play at all really.

He wasn't jerking Snell and Niko's minutes; they either fukked up defensive assignments, weren't providing anything of note on the offensive end or he wanted to build stable lineups with his best players. There's a rhyme and reason to everything that he does.

If you're right and the team can't be sacrificing games, and they can't afford dropping games for younger guy's to gain experience then what did this regular season accomplish exactly? Was the objective to get to the playoffs and not have a guys ready to contribute then? You're fine with that right?

What is it you're exactly saying here, you're gonna have to spell it out.

 

[GoldenGlove]

He wasn't jerking Snell and Niko's minutes; they either fukked up defensive assignments, weren't providing anything of note on the offensive end or he wanted to build stable lineups. There's a rhyme and reason to everything that he does.

What is it you're exactly saying here, you're gonna have to spell it out.

Clearly.

You mention that games can't be sacrificed for player development during the regular season. I'm pointing out that even with Tom going hard during the regular season and not playing the younger player they were still inconsistent as hell, and losing to bum teams all year.

To spell it out for you, maybe his philosophy is at fault. Maybe instead of playing Pau for entire quarters no matter how he's playing, or playing Jimmy for 45 minutes vs the Magic etc he should have played the young guys. He played Kirk even though Kirk was killing them all year.