It’s nearly 11 PM here on the West Coast and the weekend has just started in the rest of the country, but NBA Hot Stove news has no bedtime apparently. According to Spanish sports outlet Marca, and now Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Bulls are about to get Pau Gasol from the Los Angeles Lakers in […]
Ah, Sunday afternoon basketball. It’s been too long. The Chicago Bulls salvaged a 3-3 road trip after they beat the injury-ravaged Los Angeles Lakers, 92-86. The game had its moments, but we’re kidding ourselves if we call it anything but mostly ugly. Anyway, on to what we learned, if only so we can stop thinking […]
The Bulls head to Los Angeles looking to finish their road-trip with a win against one of the poorest Lakers’ teams of the past ten years. Chicago enjoyed a 16-point second-quarter lead in Golden State in their previous game before allowing the Warriors to record a comeback victory on the back of some hot three-point […]
Let the games begin here at Total Recall. If you missed the introduction to the series last week, check it out here. Our first game is from October 12th, 1979, as Magic Johnson makes his NBA debut against Lloyd Free (not yet World B. Free) and the San Diego Clippers. To watch, check this playlist. […]
The Bulls do not have “more than enough” to win. They just don’t. Not right now. Not without Derrick Rose, whose status remains as murky as ever. Not without Kirk Hinrich (swollen right foot), Rip Hamilton (bask spasms) and Taj Gibson (sprained left knee). Not with Joakim Noah limited by plantar faciitis. Not with Luol […]
The Bad: The Bulls shot only 41.9 percent — including 39.5 percent on two-pointers — and got outrebounded 50-40. They managed only two free throws before halftime and a paltry 12 for the game. The Good: Despite their poor overall shooting, the Bulls went 9-for-17 from three-point range (52.9 percent) and scored at a rate […]
Going into last night’s game against the Lakers, I was mad. In case you missed it, there was a post about Derrick Rose on TrueHoop yesterday. It highlighted a recent post on HoopSpeak in which bloggers Beckley Mason and Ethan Sherwood Strauss took pot shots at everything from Rose’s personality (or, in their view, his […]
I just want to say up front that, when the Bulls were searching for a shooting guard last summer, I really wanted them to sign Shannon Brown. I felt like he had greater potential and a more complete skill set than the other players the Bulls were considering. Instead, management went with Ronnie Brewer and […]
The last couple weeks have been good times for the Bulls. They’ve won four of their last five games — including legit wins over the Denver Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks — and currently have a 2-1 record on their annual circus trip of horrors. They’re leading the Central Division and are currently ranked 5th in the […]
For three quarters, the Bulls played their most inspired basketball of the season. They hustled. They scrapped. They crashed the boards with a manic vengeance. And, most improbably, they held a 73-72 lead over the defending champions going into the fourth quarter. It was last spring all over again, only this time the Bulls were […]
