Posts Tagged ‘jimmy butler’
Posted on Dec 1
The Bulls’ 96-90 loss Wednesday to the Los Angeles Lakers was what the critics contended before the season with the Bulls. Could they make enough shots? Where were the points going to come from? Mostly so far, the Bulls have defied the doubts and disbelief with competent shooting along with physical play, competitiveness and the excellence of Jimmy Butler.
The …
Posted on Nov 26
Teams, though usually more media and fans, talk about certain games as so called measuring sticks, like when you play the best. It’s a look at perhaps where you rank in the league, how good you really are, your needs. A long road trip, particularly across multiple time zones to the opposite conference, also can be as meaningful and illustrative. …
Posted on Nov 23
We all know a basketball game with some 200 possessions isn’t decided by just one play, certainly not when the Bulls’ reserves were outscored 61-13, the team was outrebounded 55-48 and 17-10 on the offensive boards and the Bulls gave up a 24-0 run on the way to a 110-107 loss to the Denver Nuggets
“Teams never lose a game …
Posted on Nov 21
It didn’t seem very promising. Dwyane Wade to rest was missing Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Lakers, the second of a back to back after Wade’s brilliant 28-point game Saturday was squandered in a last minute loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. Rajon Rondo was out on the court testing his sore ankle to see if he could play. …
Posted on Nov 20
Technically, it was a defeat Saturday night, the Bulls losing an early 19-point lead and their four-game winning streak in falling to the Los Angeles Clippers 102-95.
But it was much closer than even that score suggested, a fierce, emotional, physical game that was the best of the NBA, a game in which the Bulls continued to declare themselves serious …
Posted on Nov 20
Do you ever wonder what they’re saying out there on the floor, like late Saturday night in the Bulls crushing 102-95 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers?
When Dwyane Wade, who was brilliant again with 28 points and five of nine threes, cornered lead referee Marc Davis after Taj Gibson was called for a technical foul with 8.9 seconds left …
Posted on Nov 18
The Bulls’ 85-77 victory Thursday over the Utah Jazz wasn’t artistic, elegant or dazzling. There was little of the fast paced play, the fancy playmaking, the high scoring or the sublime connection. Instead the Bulls did what the really good teams do—not ready to say great quite yet—when the shots go awry and they’re hitting all the wrong notes.
They …
Posted on Nov 16
That’s it? That’s what that vaunted West Coast offense looks like, the famed pace and space for three pointers? That’s what they’re all excited about, this new NBA of three pointers raining down like another damp day in Portland? Well, it was a stormy night for the Portland Trailblazers Tuesday as the Bulls with a deluge led by the lightning …
Posted on Nov 13
Dwyane Wade is most familiar with that rare air colloquially known as the next level, that heady place in the NBA reserved for the truly elite, the stars among stars. Wade’s had his time there, like when he led the league in scoring while being in the top three in voting for MVP and Defensive Player of the Year, that …
Posted on Nov 11
It wasn’t exactly a religious experience in Miami Thursday, though many came to worship former Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade. And Wade did admit he said a little prayer and, in the end, Jimmy Butler delivered.
It was enough to revive the Bulls with a ground out 98-95 victory over the Heat in Wade’s much anticipated first return to Miami. …