Chicago Bulls at Charlotte Bobcats 1/5/2010

[BIGCatBobcat]

First Home game of the New Year! Man it'll be nice to get back to the arena after all the holiday, family, work party crap! The Chicago Bulls roll, actually, they fly into the Queen City off of a loss to the Thunder last night. The Bulls had a 4 game winning streak rolling after that huge collapse against Sacramento. I'd never heard of such a thing, everyone was talking about it and I hadn't seen sportscenter or anything so I naturally assumed it was Sacramento stumbling.

The Chicago Tribune heralded the Bulls as working in the right direction with Ty Thomas coming back and a shuffle of starting lineups. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/bulls/chi-02-bulls-chicago-jan02,0,4555625.story

It will be an interesting game, as good as the Bobcats are at home, and their own 2 game ROAD (holy crap, road wins!) winning streak, the Bulls are like looking in a mirror. Each team 14-18 and each team with only 3 road victories. The math points to the Bobcats but we shall see tonight!

[LiquidWayno]

I'm going tonight, hoping the scalpers are good to me. Anyone else heading out? If you hear people giving Luol Deng shit everytime he touches the ball, that's me and my friends - will be pretty loud.

[Dlwhite83]

im going to , does anybody know when the doors open ?

[spectre]

I really want to beat these guys and we should. They just lost last night to OKC where they folded in the 3rd quarter and they suck just like we have on the road.

My main concern is help D in the paint on Rose. They're going pick Felton off at the top with Noah and that's going to make Nazr & Gana have to deal with him (like Mek did last year...remember when he blocked Rose like 3 times?). If we can somewhat contain that I think everything else will take care of itself.

[Keetch]

im going to , does anybody know when the doors open ?

Doors open at 6 pm (5:30 if you have season tickets).

There's usually some players shooting around early (like between 6 and 6:20, but the teams come out on the court for real just a little past 6:40.

[Keetch]

I'm interested to see how Nazr / Gana handle Noah's energy. The guy plays all out.

err...that is I'd be interested to see it, if it was on TV.

[rsxnova]

Ill be looking for a stream tonight..:thumbdown:

[spectre]

It looks like links galore!!!!!

http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=61214&part=sports

about 8 in that one.

http://sport-now.info/

http://www.vexcast.com/play.action?channel_id=643

RWB2 which we've been seeing for most is in the top link, and all those are courtesy of myp2p.eu.

We might actually get to see a game straight thru!

[rsxnova]

^^^ Nice. We got lucky this time!

[GoBobs]

Keys to the game:

Put a body on Noah and box him out

[Wolfpackbobcat]

lets go cats...

[Ghost Kat]

This should be on TV....But atleast I get to hear from Stacy King with all his basketball knowledge

[spectre]

http://sport-now.info/

This one is up and running, Bulls' feed. Pretty clear and no skipping yet.

Yah, Noah's been beasting. Our bigs need to step up tonight...and everyone LIMIT THE TOS!!!!!!!!!

[Ghost Kat]

Any bets on how long it takes for some random Admin. to shut these links down?

[rsxnova]

http://sport-now.info/

This one is up and running, Bulls' feed. Pretty clear and no skipping yet.

Yah, Noah's been beasting. Our bigs need to step up tonight...and everyone LIMIT THE TOS!!!!!!!!!

This one isnt working for me.

This one looks good
http://rwbsports.com/ch2.html

[Ghost Kat]

What NBA coach has 1000 wins and 1000 losses?

[rsxnova]

my stream is gone :(

[spectre]

rsx i've not had any problem with that sport-now link.

boris is playing some good defense!

and that's no typo.

[rsxnova]

Idk why, but it comes up with the internet explorer cannot open page.

[spectre]

that's weird. I'm running Vista and IE 8.0

Lot's of points in the paint on both sides, tho Crash did nail a 3.

[spectre]

They're subbing to match up. We pulled Nazr for Gana...they pulled Noah for Miller. Felton & Rose went out, DJ & Hinrich in.

[Woodsy23]

What NBA coach has 1000 wins and 1000 losses?

Don nelson has coached teams with both a + and - .500 win rate and has been around a while? also Jerry sloan? :confused:

[French_Cats]

Let's Go cats

[Black]

amen my French friend!

[Ghost Kat]

Please leave Derrick Brown on the court!!!


LB will put in Diaw , He will Suck and LB will cost us the game late with bad coaching

[Ghost Kat]

Typical Diaw foul on the fast break.......Damn he sucks

[Woodsy23]

what an idiotic foul! dj and flip didnt work that fast break well either but we're up and we're playing wells oo all is okay.

[KT#20]

Diaw's filling out the stat sheet nicely.

[Ghost Kat]

what an idiotic foul! dj and flip didnt work that fast break well either but we're up and we're playing wells oo all is okay.

Flip should have shot that instead of giving to The Smurf under the basket.

Diaw's lack of defense is going to kill us all season.

Diop playing good, way better then Tyson

and Diaw sucks, not sure if I said that yet

[KT#20]

Diaw's lack of defense is going to kill us all season.

Interesting, considering we have the third best defense in the league.

[French_Cats]

we have to win by 20 easily

[Woodsy23]

Interesting, considering we have the third best defense in the league.

now imagine if we actually got some solid defense from our 4 aswell :cool: and as you mentioned we are third thus meaning there is room for improvement... ;)

[Ghost Kat]

Interesting, considering we have the third best defense in the league.

Thats TEAM defense

[Ghost Kat]

Is Gerald Henderson even still on the bench? It's been about 5 games or more since I last saw him

[spectre]

You do know Boris has 3 blocks, 4 boards and 4 assists with no TOs. I think he's done pretty well so far. Couple of farts, but they've all had a couple else we'd be up by 20.

Disappointed we let them get it back to 7. We need to come back strong and push that back up.

[Ghost Kat]

New Jersey is 3-30 , thats just shameful. But I hope they beat the Bucks, Gives the Cats a little more breathing room.

[Woodsy23]

:cool::thumbdown::facepalm:

[Woodsy23]

cya nazr thanks for the great start to the 3rd :facepalm:

[spectre]

Ugh. Opened up a little sluggish.

Gibson with 5 fouls.

NICE half court D that last play!

[Ghost Kat]

Capt. Jack must have a green light to shot anytime he wants....Seems Flip has a lifetime membership too

[Woodsy23]

oh Diaw :facepalm:

[Woodsy23]

Daymmmmmmmmmm Crash!

[spectre]

Dag Crash almost got killed. Pass could have been a little closer to the goal, but I think he'd have gotten undercut regardless.

Our strategy on D this entire game has been switching off the pick. It's let a lot of paint points, but for the most part I think it's faired pretty well considering.

[BobcatsAllDay]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG2SxNDnnBk


Think Kirk has nightmares.......

[Woodsy23]

if we lose this........... :g:

[spectre]

LOL @ Felton and his half court buzzer beater!!!!!!!!

[Woodsy23]

Felton the magician. :biggrin:

[Black]

awesome shot!

[Ghost Kat]

Lets Go Cats!!!!!

4th qrt

[Black]

great pass by jack too

[spectre]

great pass by jack too

It was indeed!

Too many fouls too early here.

[Ghost Kat]

Flip has hit more 3's then my Uncle James. Always used to tell me 5 2's still makes a dime and u have more girls

[spectre]

Think maybe we ought to rethink this 2 PG lineup.

[Woodsy23]

back to within 2 effing points! what a joke, if we lose this... dj's defense sucks also.

[Black]

why can't we put this away?

[spectre]

Man this is a real nail biter.

Derrick Rose is damn good. He makes mistakes, but he's pretty unstoppable when he wants to be.

[BobCatsFanInTx]

The Bulls should be blown out and not keeping this thing close. I guess I should give the Bulls credit because they do have talent on the team but have underperformed.

[ziggy]

Boris is working on a bizarre box score. He's at 6 assists and 4 blocked shots but only 3 points and 4 rebounds.:g:

[Ghost Kat]

if we lose this... dj's defense sucks also.

He's scoring on Felton too

Told ya'll LB would put Diaw in, Why is he in playing C, We always get out rebounded when he plays C.

[Woodsy23]

why can't we put this away?

Maybe they hate the rookies and they think if they keep every effing game close then LB wont put any of the rookies in:o

[BobCatsFanInTx]

tonights feeds are terrible for me.

[Woodsy23]

Diaw take the fucking shot dont dump it on someone else :facepalm:

[BobCatsFanInTx]

fucking feed went down NOW!!!!

[Chef]

diaw needed to shoot or pass much earlier. he killed that possession.

[spectre]

Crash with the stellar D!!!!!!!!

[Chef]

gw not an all star?

[spectre]

That ball is off of Rose.

and LOL at their announcers trying every way to say it was off of us.

Fuck. I don't believe that.

[Woodsy23]

Our fuckingball!!!!!!!

[Woodsy23]

bullshit call but luckily he missed.

[spectre]

C'mon Felton...redemption time.

YES! 4 pt lead!

[Chef]

imagine what we could do with a real pf

[BobcatsAllDay]

imagine what we could do with a real pf

How about a productive PF? One can dream

[Chef]

the pa guy is even annoying on an internet feed

[spectre]

Crap Boris.

[Woodsy23]

DIAW you USELESS prick! losing this game single handedly.

[Chef]

good job diaw

[spectre]

C'mon Jax...make some love to that ball.

[spectre]

WHEW!!!!!!!!!!

We won!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gotta give it to the guys...we played some good D here at the end.

[BobCatsFanInTx]

Those wide open looks might not have gone in for the Bulls but we can't bank on giving teams those opportunities most nights.

[ohara831]

WHEW!!!!!!!!!!

We won!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gotta give it to the guys...we played some good D here at the end.

Agreed! But that was too close for comfort. But a win is a win!

[ammofan]

WEEEE WINNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!

Only 3 games off of .500!

[Jennings]

Good Ole Clitoris Diaw....got to love him.

[BobCatsFanInTx]

If Diaw wants out of Charlotte he is going about it the wrong way.

[Woodsy23]

a wins a win, cant handle many more of these close finishes, bobcats are gonna be the death of me. :mad: wallace with 32 and jax with 25! Flip scored 25, big night for him, Diaw i was almost gonna say he played better but tbh he was his usual useless idiotic self the stat line is better but hes still a freaking idiot! up to 7th and a 3 win, win streak, roll on memphis!

[spectre]

Agreed! But that was too close for comfort. But a win is a win!

No kidding...my heart's still pounding!

Back to 7th I think, pity tho MIL is looking like they're going to beat Indy.

We really missed a big who could cover the paint like Mek did last year. Both Nazr & Gana have been doing good, but having someone who can defend the paint against guys like Rose would really have helped.

[BETCATS]

tic tac toe 3 wins in a row!

Im glad we pulled it out. Sure we gave up a late game lead, but we do that a lot. The fact we did not go into complete self destruct mode like we usualy do when we lose a lead is what really made me happy. We fought on until the end and our defense came through in the clutch.

[Ghost Kat]

That was a big win for the Cats.....Good job holding on in the 4th. The bench did thier jobs in what little time LB used them. Diaw needs to be traded, If he's not looking to score he needs to ride the pine. But his gay ass probably does that anyway. Wallace once again is a beast :cool:

[ohara831]

This is the type of game, close in the 4th and we are about to give up the lead, where the Cats would have choked it away in the past. But there is a toughness about them now, and we have a few scorers who can get a tough bucket. We have turned a major corner as a team. We are not elite by any sense of the word. But we are a good team.

[BobcatsAllDay]

I think we can learn a lot from this win b/c we had some miscues tonight and didn't put this team away when the opportunity was there. On the other hand Chicago put up a good fight and they're not playing like a team who has a coach on the hot seat. Clutch FTs by Ray and Jack. Another tough one coming up. Lets GO CATS!!!!

[Woodsy23]

tic tac toe 3 road wins in a row!

Im glad we pulled it out. Sure we gave up a late game lead, but we do that a lot. The fact we did not go into complete self destruct mode like we usualy do when we lose a lead is what really made me happy. We fought on until the end and our defense came through in the clutch.

the massive Bobcats logo in the middle of the court was a figment of my imagination? damn i thought that shit was sherbet!

[Slam]

We really missed a big who could cover the paint like Mek did last year. Both Nazr & Gana have been doing good, but having someone who can defend the paint against guys like Rose would really have helped.
Agreed.

When Rose started going ape shit in the 3rd I thought it would have been a good move to bring Gana in and tell him not to chase the guy setting the screen out to the arc but instead to stay at home in the paint. It's not like Rose has 3pt range on his J any way.

Then make Rose drive right into the heart of Gana's shot blocking and see if he could get away with those drives.

I'd rather send Rose to the line 5 times and Gana pick up 5 fouls than Rose pick up 10 easy points like he did.

The lane was way too open for him.

[Slam]

In saying that, the PG defending him (mainly DJ) should KNOW that Rose is no shooter and would rather drive so he should have been going to the back side of the screen - not trying to go over it or through it and just getting hung up on it allowing Rose the 1st step.

[dav7z]

In saying that, the PG defending him (mainly DJ) should KNOW that Rose is no shooter and would rather drive so he should have been going to the back side of the screen - not trying to go over it or through it and just getting hung up on it allowing Rose the 1st step.

Agreeded i watched it all night . Thought we was going to give it away. They made great adjustments to our press in the 2nd half.

[GoBobs]

Rose was unstopable tonight. Big win for us. There was one posession where Rose got by his guy and came down the lane and met Wallace right at the rim. I was sure Wallace was going to block him but Rose faked him out and scored easily. When you can fake a bigger guy out after you are already up in the air and still hit a lay up that is pretty special. I doubt Oak would have helped that much.

Big win for us though, I was hoping to win by 30 but we can do that next time. Go Bobcats!

[TheBeagle]

Sweetness. Well, something has to be said for the growth of this team because even though the Bulls tied it late, I never feared for the outcome of the game. I suppose it's that swagger that Bonnell talked about in a recent article that Jack and Flip bring to the team, but it includes Raymond and GW as well. For whatever reason, most obviously at home, I feel these guys will get it done if it's close late.....and they have.

Larry bringing in the small backcourt of DJ/Raymond late in the 4th nearly cost the game, but the guys exerted their will and got intimate with pressure again and ta-dah....WIN! Special stuff, kids, special stuff.

[LiquidWayno]

Man - got tix from the scalpers for five Bucks. We looked incredible in the first - Rose was contained well.. DJ & the rest kept letting him hit that layup on the right side - I really wish Hendo could have played, he has the size and athletic ability to shut D. Rose down.

The fans in my section were all trashing Boris. Felt good to not be alone. Lotta drunks tonight. We were ripping the Bulls verbally, kept making fun of Noah's ugly face, Rose's academic record, Salmons beard & Deng's softness. Great night!

[spectre]

On DJ v Rose I think the main thing was DJ was playing him too closely above Noah's pick. Rose was able to beat him before the pick got there and then all he had to do was get by Nazr. Felton had slightly more success staying back, waiting for the pick and assuming he was going to drive around it instead of shoot.

The counter that worked was putting Crash on Noah when he set that pick. We knew Rose wasn't giving it up, so Felton stayed on Noah and Crash then took Rose...which usually stopped him and made him give up the ball. It left guys open (Salmons for that 3) but luckily they choked.

I know those 8 quick points looked bad, but I think if DJ had stayed back a little bit it would have worked a little better. He'll learn. As Slam says you have to know your opponent and what he will/won't do.

That's what it looked like viewing it the one time anyway. Times like this DVR would be very handy.

Rose is damn fast and he's pretty sick at finishing. Figures the Bulls would luck into him.

[Keetch]

In saying that, the PG defending him (mainly DJ) should KNOW that Rose is no shooter and would rather drive so he should have been going to the back side of the screen - not trying to go over it or through it and just getting hung up on it allowing Rose the 1st step.

Spot on. Rose doesn't shoot well and the Bulls lose easily if he can be forced into jump shots. Not an easy thing to do against a very talented No. 1 draft pick; but we sure could have done better.

Some things that come to mind during these recent games:

Diaw has stopped trying to force passes into traffic inside the paint and so causing fewer exasperating turnovers. He's limiting himself to passing out of the paint, setting screens and moving the ball around the perimeter. That's helped.

Maybe the coaches are finally getting through to him.

Saying that; its amazing how he can pass up so many opportunities for shots in the paint. He simply refuses to go to the rim. If he can't find a way to flip up a hook; its not going up. It's kind of bizarre to watch.

Flip Murray can be an asset on any given night; but long-term, I don't trust him. Smarter defenses can turn him over too easily.

Gana Diop has returned to play effective minutes. I guess the coaches are working on him and its helping.

Nazr on the other hand is looking slower each game.

How much Jax's game has helped Felton, I don't know. But, after a horrible start, Raymond has found a stability on the court that he's never before had. Even though he forced a few shots late in this game; his shooting percentage, defense and overall control of the game is much, much better. That's exactly what we've been hoping for.

[spectre]

I was a little disappointed in Felton's game last night, mainly in the 2nd half. Not really defensively, but he seemed a little "off" offensively. Thing is a disappointing stretch from him now vs. a few months ago/last few years is a helluva lot better. Lots easier to live with.

Jax was a very good signing for him and for us.

[ArcandiaS]

Man - got tix from the scalpers for five Bucks. We looked incredible in the first - Rose was contained well.. DJ & the rest kept letting him hit that layup on the right side - I really wish Hendo could have played, he has the size and athletic ability to shut D. Rose down.

The fans in my section were all trashing Boris. Felt good to not be alone. Lotta drunks tonight. We were ripping the Bulls verbally, kept making fun of Noah's ugly face, Rose's academic record, Salmons beard & Deng's softness. Great night!

Oh.. ok... If you all hate Boris at this point I just hope that he will be traded, but it will be sad for me. But it seems like LB see that Boris work for the team and like his game.