ITS OVER: 2015-16 Chicago Bulls Season Thread

[Brozay]

I just want to see this thread excited about Bulls basketball again

Rose is shining. Jimmy and Pau back. Doug making strides. Taj beating and turning into a leader.

We still got some fight left brehs.

 

[Brozay]

We could get lucky and move up into the top 10. That is a great trade asset.

But again, garpax could screw it up, so it's whatever. Not like if we got a top 10 pick they could turn it into something positive anyway. They like just draft another guy and sell him to us like he can help right away then he gets on the court and we see he needs 2-3 years development. So I'm somewhat seeing both sides of the coin.

We could only move into the top 3, and it would be like a 1% chance

 

[cornercommission2k12]

Oh believe me I know it's the roster. But the coaching staff seems wholly less effective this tenure than the last. Sure' it's only a year, but it feels like the team just has recess instead of practice most of the year.

Doug's emerging and Rose's return to form is the only thing I liked about this year (so far).

The coach I'm looking at with the is hoiberg. Boylen has really only 2 solid defenders with taj and jimmy and a couple ok defenders like moore and rose. Holiday seems ok too. Past that we don't have anymore defenders. But we have more guys who supposed to be good on offense. So how hoiberg has not turned that into at least a top 10 offense is mind boggling.

And I agree, I only still watch to see old rose show he back. Jimmy brings some good things to the table too. Not really that excited with everyone else. If any of them were gone next season I wouldn't shed a tear.

 

[cornercommission2k12]

We could only move into the top 3, and it would be like a 1% chance

Or maybe a 1.7% chance

 

[cornercommission2k12]

I just want to see this thread excited about Bulls basketball again

Rose is shining. Jimmy and Pau back. Doug making strides. Taj beating and turning into a leader.

We still got some fight left brehs.

I mean I still watch, I'm not totally checked out, and if we get into the playoffs it's go time like always I'm right there banging on other fan bases.

But I'm not lowering my standards to root for some 7th 8th seed shyt. Not when we were supposed to be top 3. Not when this mess was preventable. I could see if jimmy or rose was out for the season or something. But they made no roster improvements while the east did improve, they threw thibs under the bus and brought in a unknown and made no significant move at the deadline. So being happy for 8th seed not that appealing for me.

Hopefully something great happens this offseason and I can get excited again.

 

[Brozay]

I mean I still watch, I'm not totally checked out, and if we get into the playoffs it's go time like always I'm right there banging on other fan bases.

But I'm not lowering my standards to root for some 7th 8th seed shyt. Not when we were supposed to be top 3. Not when this mess was preventable. I could see if jimmy or rose was out for the season or something. But they made no roster improvements while the east did improve, they threw thibs under the bus and brought in a unknown and made no significant move at the deadline. So being happy for 8th seed not that appealing for me.

Hopefully something great happens this offseason and I can get excited again.

To be fair, without the horrible injuries we suffered, we're surely the 3 seed right now (only 4 games back as it stands)

 

[cornercommission2k12]

Missing the playoffs doesn't really guarantee Garpax being gone, pretty sure they'll be back anyways. Just get into the playoffs with a healthy squad and anything can happen

No it doesn't but I think missing makes our argument stronger. I'm fully aware they will play the injury/1st year coach, angle and have they puppets out here selling it. I'm just hoping it's enough people with common sense not to buy that crap.

 

[cornercommission2k12]

To be fair, without the horrible injuries we suffered, we're surely the 3 seed right now (only 4 games back as it stands)

Cmon breh, you been watching this team like I been watching it. You know the mess with this team reaches far beyond injuries. You had several post before saying you saw nothing special with this roster for various reasons. Nothing has happened to change my mind on that.

I respect your optimism tho

 

[Brozay]

Cmon breh, you been watching this team like I been watching it. You know the mess with this team reaches far beyond injuries. You had several post before saying you saw nothing special with this roster for various reasons. Nothing has happened to change my mind on that.

I respect your optimism tho

I agree but Rose returning to all star type form and Doug starting to figure it out has been refreshing and reinvigorated me a bit

 

[Populair]

Fred Hoiberg suggests Derrick Rose shouldn't have played to start season

With every slithering drive to the basket, and every under control 3-point attempt that has been shot with more accuracy than Doug McDermott this month, Derrick Rose is making a believer out of Fred Hoiberg.

The Bulls coach said what everybody is seeing and stating: Rose is playing his best basketball of the season when the Bulls need him most, with Monday’s efficient performance against the Sacramento Kings as the latest evidence.

Since the All-Star break, Rose has been a model of efficiency, averaging 20 points and 5.2 assists on 52 percent shooting and 50 from 3-point range.

“He’s playing his best stretch of basketball. There’s no doubt about it,” Hoiberg said. “He’s raising up and taking and making clutch shots with no fear. He’s attacking the basket. He’s doing a good job finding mismatches and throwing ahead on the break. And his defense has been much better the last few games, applying more hand pressure, getting deflections and getting in the ball better on the pick-and roll.”

[BULLS ROAD AHEAD: Derrick Rose cruising for the Bulls]

Unprompted, Hoiberg added he felt Rose came back too soon after his orbital bone surgery, the injury he suffered in the first 30 minutes of training camp in October. It something the Rose naysayers are sure to shoot down, considering it goes against the narrative surrounding the point guard says he’ll find any reason to sit out games.


“Did he come back too soon? Looking back on it, we could’ve got him in better rhythm and better shape to start the year,” Hoiberg said. “But he wanted to be out there with his teammates for the first game.”

Given the benefit of hindsight, Hoiberg doesn’t know if he would sit Rose if something freakish like that happened again, given how he looked when he played the last couple preseason games.

“Maybe. That’s a hard decision to make at that time because he wanted to be on the floor,” Hoiberg said. “And he had a really good game in that Cleveland game (18 points). He didn’t shoot a high percentage but his attack was really good. It’s hard to say. Hopefully he doesn’t have the same thing happen to him next year.”

His sluggish start to the season had many openly questioning whether he could get back to an elite level, but he’s showing very few effects of the nagging injuries that caused him to miss games here and there the last two months.

His play has gradually improved month to month, as he originally stated from the start of the season, and his post All-Star offensive rating of 108 points per 100 possessions is the highest since his 115 mark in the pre-All-Star break 2011-12 campaign.

[SHOP: Gear up, Bulls fans!]

As in months before his first serious knee surgery.

“It says a lot and you can tell because he puts in so much extra work on off days, he's in here shooting,” Doug McDermott said. “Even before the team photo today, he was in here getting a bunch of shots up. It's really paying off, his shot looks great and he looks very explosive getting to the rim.”

And it’s coming in the nick of time.

Hoiberg unintentionally shytting on the media's agenda and finicky Bulls fan that follow suit.

 

[So-Chi]

Cavs are looking shaky and the rest of the East doesn't scare me

Just need to get Moore back, no injury setbacks and make this playoff push. Could ride some solid momentum into the playoffs.

Getting Rose in playoff basketball is important to his full recovery IMO. He has mentioned taking his game to a new level in the playoffs. Honestly thats enough reason for me to be in the playoffs, along with getting Doug/Bobby some experience

Can't front the Rose thing is accurate, you gotta realize though most of us feel the only way to put pressure on front office at all is to miss the playoffs. nikkas are sick of second round exits and no changes made, that's all, breh

 

[Brozay]

Can't front the Rose thing is accurate, you gotta realize though most of us feel the only way to put pressure on front office at all is to miss the playoffs. nikkas are sick of second round exits and no changes made, that's all, breh

I'm not sure when it became some certainty that Gar would be fired if we missed the playoffs. I don't think that's the case at all

 

[So-Chi]

I'm not sure when it became some certainty that Gar would be fired if we missed the playoffs. I don't think that's the case at all

True, I'm just saying I understand the thinking at this point. No one believes we are Winning it all, so it's fans time to grasp at any hope of getting better. Breh's just tired

 

[LEEeveryday]

There is no way anyone is getting fired if we don't make the playoffs. That's just not how this FO works. Their are too many plausible excuses.

If anything....Gar can get the stepping...I just don't like HIM...something about him.

 

[Cadillac]

finally I will be able to watch a game

hopefully will stomp the knicks out