Hello again everyone! This week we have 2 Bulls games that
happened and a preview of happenings yet
to happen. To be concise, this column is happenin’. Let’s start with the
Bulls!
Bulls 95 – Heat
107
Not exactly the best case scenario for game 1 but it’s hard
to be too down about losing to the 2-time defending champions, in their house,
on the night they get their rings. There were a few bright spots: Boozer
dropped 31 points and 7 rebounds and he even looked fairly aggressive. Several
plays he actually made strong moves towards the basket (his normal move, the
back-to-the-basket turn-around fade-away is easily the #1 thing I take issue
with about Booze. He’s a big guy, and strong. If he would just assert himself,
well… Tuesday night happens) and he showed no fear in trying to shoulder the
offensive burden when nearly everyone else was ice cold.
Jimmy Butler also had a very nice game, putting up a mini-Paul-George line of 20pts, 5 steals, 3 assists, 3 rebounds, and even a block. He hit half his threes and his early foul trouble (and resultant benching) was certainly a factor in the large halftime deficit the Bulls incurred.
But the real issue in this game was that the bench simply didn’t play correctly for the first 3 quarters. Dunleavy, when he came in, was very obviously lost on several plays. All those open 3s the Heat took? If that wasn’t Dunleavy’s guy it was Hinrich’s. There was even a play where both of them ran to the same guy, instead ran into each-other, and the Heat hit a wide open 3, pretty much encapsulating their entire night. Mike finally got going on offense later on in the fourth, but he did just enough (or not enough, as it were) to earn week 1’s…
Bulls Player Who
Will Absorb My HATERAGE
I’m watching you, Dunleavy.
