The Brooklyn Nets are not a good basketball team. When healthy, the Chicago Bulls will be a tough out for any team in the Eastern Conference. These two statements were rammed home in a lopsided affair at the Barclays Center Monday night. The Bulls overcame a sluggish start to completely outclass the Nets en route […]
Watch any network TV show and you’ll come across filler episodes. Most of the time, it’ll be an uninspired Case of the Week or Patient of the Week. Sometimes the show will sneak an important scene in at the end to make the episode still relevant in the grand scheme. Tonight’s Bulls-Sixers game was the […]
The Cleveland Cavaliers had one of those nights where every kind of crazy shot was falling against the Bulls. The Cavs hit a ton of ridiculous shots and enjoyed hot shooting across their rotation as they took advantage of a number of Chicago’s mistakes and lapses. Kyrie Irving hit a buzzer-beating three to end the […]
Continuing trends from their recent games, the Bulls played a ugly contest tonight with the Pistons in which they frittered away a large lead. The game began with an unremarkable hour or so of basketball, only marked by Reggie Jackson suffering what looked like a scary injury as he peeled around a pick on offense, […]
The Bulls blew the Toronto Raptors out of their own building Wednesday night, shooting a season-high 61% to turn a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit into a 13-point road victory and complete a season sweep of the Raptors. The incredible shooting was the Bulls’ best since November 2nd, 2012 (63.8%) and was the catalyst for them overcoming […]
He might not win Rookie of the Year or Sixth Man of the Year, but Nikola Mirotic is proving he will, given the opportunity, be a difference maker for a contender come May and possibly June. With early production from Pau Gasol plus Jimmy Butler back in the lineup (and immediately back to playing 40 […]
The Bulls already stole a game against Oklahoma City in thrilling fashion, and while they hung around in this morning’s game, there was never a sense that they were set to sweep the season series with a team that’s faced as many injuries as they have. The first hour or so of action was par […]
This certainly wasn’t a pleasant game to watch as a Bulls fan, but just about all of the bad elements were to be expected. Playing a Sunday morning game is hard and that’s before removing the extra hour due to Daylight Savings Time. The start time simply exacerbated issues like turnovers and transition defense that have […]
The Washington Wizards are in the midst of an implosion that began weeks ago, but the 97-92 victory a depleted Bulls unit toughed out at the United Center Tuesday night will go a long way in restoring some confidence to a team rocked by injuries in the past seven days. Without Derrick Rose (knee), Jimmy […]
When the Bulls mismanaged the PR portion of Derrick Rose’s meniscus injury and initially failed to note that it was likely just an expected maintenance procedure, the questions quickly turned from Rose’s career in a personal sense to “Can the Bulls trust Rose’s health enough to build around him going forward?” After three games, the appropriate […]
