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11/28/2006  11:20 AM
With two of our starters down, what do you see as our best lineup to put on the floor? Will Lee starting detract from our bench? Will Balkman at small forward allow the bulls to sag and clog the paint? Does a three guard starting line up go too small? Is Mardy big enough to play small forward?

[Edited by - izybx on 11-28-2006 11:21 AM]
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11/28/2006  11:23 AM
Is Q definitely out? I'd go with Steve, Jamal, Balkman, Lee, Curry but I doubt Isiah will.
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11/28/2006  11:25 AM
Q is a gametime decision...dont you think that starting balkman will be a bad idea just because we would have no perimeter shooter out there?
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11/28/2006  11:28 AM
Posted by Bonn1997:

Is Q definitely out? I'd go with Steve, Jamal, Balkman, Lee, Curry but I doubt Isiah will.

me too... i actually love that lineup
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11/28/2006  11:32 AM
start jj and lee
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11/28/2006  11:35 AM
Posted by babyKnicks:

start jj and lee

Start Jerome James? A little early for you to be smoking bro?

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11/28/2006  11:38 AM
Posted by izybx:

Q is a gametime decision...dont you think that starting balkman will be a bad idea just because we would have no perimeter shooter out there?

Ideall you'd have a good perimeter shooter out there, but that doesn't look like an option unless you want to start Nate. I did give some thought to replacing Jamal with Nate in the SL, but I didn't like having a huge height disadvantage at both backcourt positions.
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11/28/2006  11:39 AM
Posted by izybx:
Posted by babyKnicks:

start jj and lee

Start Jerome James? A little early for you to be smoking bro?
ROFL.

Perhaps he meant start Jerome James as in *start* working on a contract buyout?
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11/28/2006  11:44 AM
he's a body and can do the dirty work along side curry. the sf pos is looking like lee. he's a better start inho than rose.
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11/28/2006  12:02 PM
He cant play for more than 4 minutes before hes completely out of breath. Why start him when youre going to have to sub him after four minutes? And is Jerome James going to guard Deng?
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11/28/2006  12:23 PM
Bulls are a small, athletic team that can run the floor... u can't start lumbering turds like Jerome James, are u kidding me? u have to think about matchups... here's the lineup that best matches up w/the Bulls imo:

C - Curry / Cato (vs. Wallace / PJ)
PF - Lee / Malik (vs. Nocioni / Allen)
SF - Balkman / Crawford (vs. Deng / Sefolosha)
SG - Francis / Collins (vs. Duhon / Gordon)
PG - Marbury / Nate (vs. Hinrich / Barrett)

i would love to start Francis at PG & have Jamal start at SG, but that would leave this team w/zero depth at the 3 spot... Jamal's been run at the 3 by Isiah this season in small G sets, so we might be able to get away w/it if the Bulls run Sefolosha at the SF off the bench
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11/28/2006  12:27 PM
Posted by TMS:

Bulls are a small, athletic team that can run the floor... u can't start lumbering turds like Jerome James, are u kidding me? u have to think about matchups... here's the lineup that best matches up w/the Bulls imo:

C - Curry / Cato (vs. Wallace / PJ)
PF - Lee / Malik (vs. Nocioni / Allen)
SF - Balkman / Crawford (vs. Deng / Sefolosha)
SG - Francis / Collins (vs. Duhon / Gordon)
PG - Marbury / Nate (vs. Hinrich / Barrett)

i would love to start Francis at PG & have Jamal start at SG, but that would leave this team w/zero depth at the 3 spot... Jamal's been run at the 3 by Isiah this season in small G sets, so we might be able to get away w/it if the Bulls run Sefolosha at the SF off the bench

I agree, it looks like that may be the best lineup...What about Mardy backing up balkman at three?

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11/28/2006  12:31 PM
Posted by izybx:

I agree, it looks like that may be the best lineup...What about Mardy backing up balkman at three?

i guess u can do that too, but Isiah's been using Mardy as a facilitator of the offense, not as a spot up shooter... Jamal can get his shots out of the 3 hole & Mardy can orchestrate.
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11/28/2006  12:34 PM
of course, if Skiles chooses to use Gordon at the 1, Sefolosha at the 2 & plays Khryapa at the 3 off the bench, we're pretty much screwed w/mismatches at the 1, 2 & 3 spots in the 2nd unit... which is why i was saying they should sign Qyntel Woods or bring in another SF to give us some depth while Q Rich is out.

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11/28/2006  12:35 PM
do we even know if qyntel woods can walk? is in shape? is not in prison?
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11/28/2006  12:38 PM
Posted by babyKnicks:

do we even know if qyntel woods can walk? is in shape? is not in prison?

He just left my house, we was taking bong rips.
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11/28/2006  12:38 PM
ROFL
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11/28/2006  12:48 PM
Posted by babyKnicks:

do we even know if qyntel woods can walk? is in shape? is not in prison?


obviously if he's not in shape, u can sign someone else... he played pretty well for us last year in limited duty... we need some depth in the 3 spot if Q's going to be out of action for any length of time... JJ's at least another week or so away.
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