loweyecue wrote:I stopped watching, atlanta really bad. I have no idea how their record is better than ours.

Because they beat the teams they have to when they need to.

nixluva wrote:It doesn't hurt that they have Noah, Gibson, KT and Asik inside to help anchor the defense. They have a much better group of bigs than we do in terms of defense and rebounding. Until we address that in the off season we have to make due.

It helps, but give them credit for their hustle no matter the score. If NY did that they wouldn't be 7-9 since the trade.

franco12 wrote:

nixluva wrote:It doesn't hurt that they have Noah, Gibson, KT and Asik inside to help anchor the defense. They have a much better group of bigs than we do in terms of defense and rebounding. Until we address that in the off season we have to make due.

KT is 40 years old already! And he was run out of here in his prime, with many citing addition by subtraction.

None of those guys are really skill players- doubt D'Antoni would play any of them, save maybe Noah.

D'antoni sucks as a coach. Period. We have players that suck as players also, and that's the problem.

CrushAlot wrote:The Bulls have only given a 100 pts 15 times this year including an o.t. game. That is a coaching and effort stat.

Bulls have a star player who plays very good defense in Derrick Rose. The rest of the team follows.

MSG3 wrote:

nixluva wrote:It doesn't hurt that they have Noah, Gibson, KT and Asik inside to help anchor the defense. They have a much better group of bigs than we do in terms of defense and rebounding. Until we address that in the off season we have to make due.

This is very true. But they aren't one of the biggest teams in the league. They hustle and outwork everyone.

The hell they aren't.

martin wrote:

franco12 wrote:

nixluva wrote:It doesn't hurt that they have Noah, Gibson, KT and Asik inside to help anchor the defense. They have a much better group of bigs than we do in terms of defense and rebounding. Until we address that in the off season we have to make due.

KT is 40 years old already! And he was run out of here in his prime, with many citing addition by subtraction.

None of those guys are really skill players- doubt D'Antoni would play any of them, save maybe Noah.

you haven't either watched the Bulls or MDA enough to make that kind of statement.

This is the kind of inane, bias crap that Anti MDA crowd keeps repeating Martin. They overlook the fact that we play Turiaf and Jared neither of whom have any skills. I guarantee that if we had Noah he'd play. The thing is that we're looking for help that can defend and also still be a threat to score. They don't have to be great on offense, but it does help if your big can score so it's not 4 on 5. However if you have to, you simply have to play a non offensive C, which Mike has done.

Also KT is still a VERY good defender. He'll always be tough in the post. His man D is still top notch. He makes his man work for everything they get.

MSG3 wrote:

martin wrote:

MSG3 wrote:

nixluva wrote:It doesn't hurt that they have Noah, Gibson, KT and Asik inside to help anchor the defense. They have a much better group of bigs than we do in terms of defense and rebounding. Until we address that in the off season we have to make due.

This is very true. But they aren't one of the biggest teams in the league. They hustle and outwork everyone.

The hell they aren't.

LAL, SAS, ORL, DAL, POR, DEN, BOS, UTAH are all bigger than Chicago. That's just the first teams that came to mind. Even if Chicago is top 10 in bigs, the way they defend would make you think they were top 3.