The Doctor Of Style wrote:
Tall Midget wrote:
This team still blows.
Missing Vuc. Offense can't crack 100 points without him. They need to start trading guys. Lavine is scheduled to come back Friday. Once he demonstrates that he can positively impact the game they should move him. Derozan should go next.
Yep!
Sam "The Man" Smith just simply telling like it is.
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And the small ball Bulls really could have used Vučević with Hartenstein’s breakout game. But even more so for his offensive contributions scoring and moving the ball and defensive IQ. Substitute Andre Drummond is doing his best and had good numbers again with 13 points and 16 rebounds, but his statistics often belie the impact.
The Knicks repeatedly forced him into pick and roll situations in which he often was caught in the middle, leaving Hartenstein to finish with dunks or leaving Knicks with easy floaters and pullups. There was one play toward the end of the first half when Caruso seemed to be telling Drummond he had to pick up someone on a Brunson three. That was just after Caruso’s three gave the Bulls their biggest lead of the game at 54-44.
Then early in the second half, Bulls coach Billy Donovan called a quick timeout after Drummond picked up on a screen. But Hartenstein rolled uncontested for a dunk in another apparent miscommunication. But then when Drummond went out it got worse and perhaps was the consequential sequence when 6-foot-4 Terry Taylor returned to center and the Knicks ripped off six straight points that turned a two-point New York lead with 8:29 left in the game into 99-91 about a minute later. That included one Knicks possession with three offensive rebounds that ended with an OG Anunoby dunk. The Knicks then pulled away against a weary Bull team finishing consecutive nights in Philadelphia and New York.
Andre Drummond finished with 13 points and 16 rebounds -- his fifth straight game with 15+ rebounds.
“Most definitely (missed Vučević),” said DeRozan. “Stretching the floor, being able to have a post scorer, someone like in a game like tonight, we definitely would’ve fed it to the post in to Vooch and let him go at their big. Given him some trouble. With Vooch down there to be able to throw the ball, even coming off screens, guys like me and Coby [White] and the rest of the guys, you got to be able to pay attention to Vooch if you’re running or he is popping. Him stretching the floor. He kind of changes the dynamics of the game, so we definitely missed that a lot.
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Darkside wrote:
I've seen hundreds of dicks in my life.