Dyess is really making me uncomfortable right now. I know he's doing a lot of rebounding for us, but where this his offense go?

The combination of Webber and Dyess not showing up on offense is a killer. With Sheed playing the perimeter, these guys are our interior presence.


The worst part about that game yesterday was that every time a call went against us, or we made a stupid play, it seemed like the Bulls drained a 3 to reinforce our frustration.

All of these comments make me glad I bit the bullet and took the Mothers to dinner during gametime. Honestly I'm kind of happy we'll play one more game for the home crowd, while shortening our downtime ahead of the next opponent.

With that said, LETS END THIS THING ALREADY.

the main thing about the loss is that it shouldn't result in a turnaround of momentum. it would have been much worse had the bulls gone on to win by 25 and go into game 5 on a high, feeling like they had solved some of their problems.

they just managed to hang on at home and it took a great effort from them. hinrich hardly missed any of his long jumpshots.

flip played a good game.

don't stress too much about c-webb. if we make it to the next round webber should be back to himself against big ZZZZZZ and gooden. they have no chance of stopping him in the lane, and his lack of lateral D will be less noticable. remember webber is going up against an active, quick, athletic bulls team. against the cavs, or even nets it won't be a problem so much.

i was a bit frustrated they didn't go to tay more in the second half, especially in the 3rd.

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The hope is that they will play minor minutes. We went quite a spell in this game with someone else besides Billups running the point. My point is that our odds of winning it all increase if you plan for such things as injuries, or extensive foul trouble. Last season it was Sheed with an ankle injury, while believe it or not, Dale Davis was already on the roster, as was Maxiell. Just that they had not played any and therefore could not come in and take some of Sheed's minutes. Did I mention we traded away Darko, and if thats not bad enough, we never played Cato any. We just flat out ignored the concept of depth at the big position.

By the way, I love Joe Dumars, but I sure don't think his opinion on this matter is very good. Last year he pretty much stated that if we lost any of our starters we were toast, and so what. He has changed his tune this season, but it does not excuse him for last season. Was he backing up his coach in saying this kind of thing? I have to think so as I hate to think bad about Dumars.

Who was the last team to win a title with an injured starter?

I don't know the answer.

Wasn't it the '80 Lakers with Magic at center?

1994/5 Rockets - Vernon Maxwell (Sam Cassell)

He also punched Flip Jr in his Flip Jr! Check out the 45 second mark of that clip, just after they freeze the shot. Hinrich PUNCHES Flip in the groin. I completely missed it when I first watched it.

Man, that is NOT cool.

I'll even repost the link:
YouTube - Murray Posterizes Hinrich