Opponent score averages under 90 is good news for Bulls defense. It seems like our stamina is getting better, which is something important for the upcoming game against the Nuggets. Of course, against the Nuggets, we have to watch out for Melo, and remember that this is a high-scoring team. Picking up the defense against them to hold back their scoring will be vital, and so will picking up the offense end to keep up with them. I hope the Bulls do well, but I’m expecting a score similar to this:
Den: 101 Chi: 94 Something like that. I’ve never predicted the score before, though, so don’t expect much as for accuracy… ;D

PG- Derrick Rose
SG- Luol Deng
SF- LeBron James
PF- Tyrus Thomas/ Taj Gibson
C- Joakim Noah

Bench 
Kirk Hinrich
John Salmons
James Johnson 
Taj Gibson 
Brad Miller

This would be a young team to win many championships!!!

Basketball has been his LIFE for many years now, he’s been coached for many years, and yet he still makes poor decisions on a regular basis.

I do believe that he could become a very useful player under the right coach and system, but it’s not likely to happen under the current conditions in Chicago.

As I mentioned above, Taj Gibson, in sharp contrast, has a fine understanding of the game, as well as his role in it. And even though he doesn’t have quite as much natural ability as TT, he’s already a better all-around player, and will certainly improve further.

Here’s a guy who’s had his NBA learning curve stunted by the fact that in his first 2 years – for whatever reason this organization didn’t allow his game to naturally develop. He was drafted essentially 4th overall that year, yet spent the first 2 seasons with little to no improvement on his game – not because of lack of desire or basketball IQ as many would put it, but because this organization really didn’t have the propert tools in place to help cultivate all the “raw talent” and “potential” they raved about on draft night 2005 when we traded for him. Skiles didn’t let him play through his mistakes as all rookies need to do, we didn’t have ONE big man on our roster his first 2-3 years to mentor the boy, and further still prior to this season, the Bulls hadn’t had a big man coach on staff to work with him at all.

Now, that all three of those things have improved and changed for the better everyone wants to dismiss him as a bust!? It’s 4 years later everyone is ready to run him out of town because we have Taj Gibson. Doesn’t make any sense to me. Let the boy play ball and get off his back and he’ll produce. Tyrus worked just as hard a J-Noah this past offseason, and finally seems like he’s poised to have a decent break out season. If anything, having a solid contributing rookie like Gibson in the fold will only push Tyrus to bring it every night, thus making our team very deep.

Ease off the Tyrus hate and let’s play this season out before we ship him off. I know Chi-Town is the land of haters, but let’s be smart Bulls fans and recognize what we have here. He’s still a kid, and with a full season – given starters minutes and a big like Miller to help season his game – he could easily contribute 16 and 8 and help this team out tremendously.

you drafted tyrus to be a project. he has had 1 full season where he was given starter minutes and now you want to just give up on him after 5 games? skiles NEVER gave him the chance to succeed and even Vinny didn’t last year to a degree.

i just wish the media and you so called fans would just shut up and actually give the guy a chance to grow into a star. he was drafted as a PROJECT!