Player: Joakim Noah Per game stats: 80 games played, 35.3 minutes per game, 12.6 points on 47.5% shooting, 11.3 rebounds, 5.4 assists, 2.4 turnovers, 1.2 steals, 1.5 blocks. The Good: Joakim had his best regular season as a pro ever. He managed to play 80 games on a heavy minutes load and lead the team […]
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2013-2014 Year in Review: Nazr Mohammed
Player: Nazr Mohammed Per game stats: 80 games played, 7 minutes, 1.6 points on 42.9% shooting, 2.2 rebounds, .3 assists, .5 turnovers, .2 steals, .4 blocks. The Good: Nazr was still able to set pretty good screens and play physical post defense. He also managed to play 80 games, remaining healthy and also hitting the […]
Game #82 Recap: Bobcats 91, Bulls 86
The Bulls played a mirror of themselves tonight in Charlotte, with the home team Bobcats taking the win in overtime. Chicago had no real reason to care about this game, other than that they are the Bulls and they always care. They tried their best to win this one, despite its relative meaninglessness in playoff […]
Game Recap #41: Chicago Bulls 98, Cleveland Cavaliers 87
D.J. Augustin, man. D.J. freaking Augustin. In the second time in as many games against one another, D.J. Augustin went toe to toe with alleged superstar Kyrie Irving and just cooked him. Augustin finished tonight’s 11 point win over the Cavaliers with 27 points on just 14 shots, including a sizzling 5 of 8 from […]
Luol Deng has been traded
Chicago Bulls star Luol Deng has been traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Andrew Bynum and draft picks, league source tells RealGM. — Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) January 7, 2014 Wow. Talk about a bombshell. Luol Deng has been dumped after roughly 9 and half seasons with Chicago. The choice of words there is intentional. […]
Game 25 Recap: Thunder 107, Bulls 95
Another game, another double-digit loss for the Bulls. This one, though, was at least kind of, sort of entertaining in spurts. In the end, the Bulls, again, showed that they simply don’t have enough talent to win. They were without Luol Deng who sat with his sore Achilles tendon and Kirk Hinrich who sat with […]
Game #25 Preview: Bulls at Thunder
Tonight, the Bulls, undoubtedly one the league’s worst teams since Derrick Rose’s meniscus injury, travel to Oklahoma City to take on the Thunder, the league’s current best team at 20-4. The Bulls continued their struggles last night, getting blitzed by the Rockets by 15 in Houston. The Thunder come in to tonight’s game off of […]
Tire Fire: The Bulls since Rose’s injury stink to high heaven
This post is not going to tell you anything, really, that you don’t already know. It’s been 9 games since Derrick Rose hurt his meniscus (10 games if you include the game against the Blazers in which Rose was injured). In those 9 games, the Bulls have been really, really bad. How bad have the […]
Game #17: Miami Heat – Chicago Bulls Preview
Tonight’s game is home for the Bulls against the two time NBA Champions, three time Eastern Conference Champions, and hated “rivals” of the Bulls, the Miami Heat. I put rivals in quotes, because really, the Bulls haven’t done much to make that rivalry a real thing. Much of that has been bad luck, with injuries killing […]
Chicago Bulls 83 – Utah Jazz 89: Game Recap
Ugh. This is what Bulls fans have to look forward to the rest of the season. Chicago, on the heels of being blown out by nearly 40 points by the Clippers, was just defeated by far and away the worst team in the NBA tonight. The Jazz controlled the game for most of the way, […]