Archive for November, 2015
Posted on Nov 30
Mike Dunleavy likely will be unable to play longer than previously anticipated.
Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg said prior to Monday’s home game against the San Antonio Spurs that Dunleavy experienced a setback in his recovery from preseason back surgery and would now be going to see additional specialists.
The preseason estimate was that Dunleavy would be out eight to 10 …
Posted on Nov 28
There was a dog in the locker room and he ate the game plan. No, they ate a seafood pregame meal and pulled a mussel. Wait, no, they couldn’t get their pregame naps because there was a loud chess team staying in the hotel on a holiday trip and the chess nuts were boasting in an open foyer. They thought …
Posted on Nov 25
Remember those days for the Bulls when the fourth quarters were like a slog through a swamp with players standing around on offense, barely getting off shots to beat the clock while pressuring and switching and closing and finally creeping above 90 points to win a game?
Oh right, Tuesday.
Because that’s when the Bulls with Derrick Rose back in …
Posted on Nov 22
The Bulls are in big trouble.
Wait, let me structure that a different way.
The Bulls bigs are troubled.
“I’ve got to be more aggressive offensively and look for my opportunities,” said a somber Joakim Noah late Friday night after the Bulls loss to the Golden State Warriors. “Right now I’m not really sure where I can get them, but …
Posted on Nov 21
There is a method to that madness that has become Jimmy Butler’s life, the multiple workouts per day, starting basically every morning at 5 and pounding away.
“I want to give us the best chance of winning,” Butler was saying in Oakland late Friday night. “That’s why I train as many times as I train per day, as early as …
Posted on Nov 20
When in the course of basketball events it becomes necessary for a player to dissolve the beliefs he’s lived by and the laws of the game, it becomes necessary to declare what impelled him to the separation.
Derrick Rose holds these truths to be self-evident, that it’s no longer time to sacrifice reason and good sense in the name of …
Posted on Nov 20
The Golden State Warriors qualify these days in the NBA as the irresistible force not only with their 13-0 start, but also Thursday’s 23-point comeback win against the Los Angeles Clippers. The question for Jimmy Butler and the Bulls Friday in Oakland is whether they can become the immovable object.
Because then something’s gotta give.
“Impossible to guard,” said Bulls …
Posted on Nov 19
Jimmy Butler didn’t drive the team bus to the arena Wednesday in Phoenix. He didn’t tape anyone’s ankle. He didn’t sing the national anthem. But Butler did pretty much everything else for the Bulls in a spectacular down-the-stretch shooting and defensive performance to carry the Bulls to a 103-97 victory over the Phoenix Suns.
It was an unlikely and perhaps …
Posted on Nov 17
Jimmy’s under the boards, Jimmy’s in the open, Jimmy makes the shot.
And then Jimmy made the block. And the Bulls won!
Jimmy likes it when the Bulls win.
“We’ve got to learn to build on our leads,” said Bulls guard Jimmy Butler Monday after the Bulls 96-95 victory over the Indiana Pacers. “But a win’s a win,”
Butler had …
Posted on Nov 14
Hush, hush not so sweet Charlotte.
The Bulls may not have finally quieted and solved the mystery of the Charlotte Hornets. But Friday in the United Center, the Bulls at least got a measure of justice for themselves in a hard earned 102-97 victory.
“This was a good one,” said Jimmy Butler. “At home, after what they did to us …