Archive for November, 2014
Posted on Nov 30
Jimmy Butler’s story is well known, homeless at 13, junior college, Marquette taking a chance on a kid no one wanted, bottom of the first round, 30th, in 2011, then barely playing for almost two years. And then last summer, back to his beloved Texas with a training routine that may now become the rage of kids everywhere, or, at …
Posted on Nov 28
The Bulls got some wonderful individual performances Friday in a big time comeback victory over the Boston Celtics, 109-102 that gave them a 10-6 record and 3-3 on the long, circus road trip. It closes Sunday in Brooklyn.
Jimmy Butler led with 22 points, including six points in a late fourth quarter stretch when he was the only Bull to …
Posted on Nov 26
It’s still the first month of the NBA season, so no time to panic about Derrick Rose sitting out the second half of the 114-109 Bulls loss to the Denver Nuggets Tuesday; no great concern about the loss that dropped the Bulls to 9-6 and 2-3 on this long road trip.
Better to celebrate perhaps the birth of a star, …
Posted on Nov 25
Derrick Rose Monday wasn’t spectacular in his return from missing four games with a hamstring injury. There were no ooohs and aaahs plays, though perhaps a deep breath from fans as the Bulls avoided blowing a 21-point lead with a 97-95 victory over the Utah Jazz. Rose had 18 points and a team high five assists in just under 25 …
Posted on Nov 22
As John Winger famously said in the movie Stripes, “And then depression set in.”
Hey, you don’t get great literary references for a November game.
But like seeing his girlfriend walk out the door to close a terrible, horrible, no good very bad day, the Bulls Friday in losing 105-87 to the Portland Trailblazers began to see this road trip …
Posted on Nov 21
Kirk Hinrich Friday joined the rest of the world in the quest of being day to day.
“Day to day, I joke,” Hinrich said before Friday’s game in Portland about his bruised ribs/chest contusion which put him out of the game. “I hope I’m better tomorrow. Today was tough.”
Hinrich played the role of human pinball in the loss to …
Posted on Nov 21
If it’s Thursday, it must be Sacramento.
Too bad, because this Bulls Western tourist group doesn’t find much precious in those hills near where the famous gold rush took place. Instead, the Bulls came up empty and frustrated again in yet another double digit loss in Sacramento, this time 103-88. But getting better: The last two were by 42 and …
Posted on Nov 18
Why can’t Jimmy Butler be the MVP of the league?
No, he didn’t say it, and, in fact, the Bulls leading scorer Monday went to great lengths after the Bulls impressive comeback 105-89 win over the Clippers to deny he’s even one of the team’s go to scorers.
“I don’t think I’m a scorer,” said Butler, who led six Bulls …
Posted on Nov 17
Pau Gasol said he suffered a mystery calf strain Saturday in the game with the Indiana Pacers, thus forcing him to miss Monday’s game with the Clippers. Gasol said he hopes to play Thursday in Sacramento.
“Happened during the last game,” said Gasol before the game as he again was greeted by numerous Los Angeles media on his first return …
Posted on Nov 17
It was terrific Monday to hear Derrick Rose on the right path to a long career.
”Getting better every day,” Rose said about his hamstring injury, which will keep him out of Monday’s game against the Clippers. “Taking my time. (It’s) calming down, not as sore. Trying to listen to my body again and get the most out of every …