Another monster game from Patrick Single...3-3-1

Thieving Lavine.

Lavine has been awful in first 2 games.

They are 1-1. A good picture of what they are, a .500 team.

Not sure what else they expected when you bring back this same group where 2 of your best guys are a yr older. What could go wrong?

Williams appears to be a bust.

Lavine with 51 and bulls lose by 16.

P will a no show

Maybe it is Billy Ds fault but i think he is done here in chicago. He will probably grow into an all star in another town

Billy Donovan is and will continue to be THEE biggest problem associated with the franchise. His inability to hold his "coveted' veterans accountable is a huge problem. Derozan and Lavine can call their own number anytime they feel like it. And neither gives a damn about playing any defense. Neither does Coby White. The guards on the opposing teams have been baptizing the Bulls thus far this season. Expect that trend to continue as with exception of the Paw, all of the team's best defenders are on the bench.

I think you have always said it best when you talk about Lavine and Derozan playing, "hero ball", watched a few minutes of last nights game and Lavine was going off, but you could see wide open guys slump their shoulders and jog back on D after he looked right at them and chose to hoist up a shot or dribble around rather than pass them the ball. You see Derozan do the same thing, but Derozan flops around after his misses bitching to the ref while his man is running down the court uncovered leaving his teams D to play 4 on 5.

The other teams know this and exploit the Bulls lack of cohesion defensively with reckless abandon, hammering them on the boards.

The lowly Pistons outrebounded the Bulls 53-32, and more importantly had 29 assists to the Bulls 16, including a startling 1 assist from the starting guards to the Pistons 14 and 7 rebounds for the Bulls staring C to 21 for the Pistons starters.

Hero ball is not team ball, and while you may get 5 wins a year where your heroes come through, you lost 20 plus when they fail, this is the story of the Bulls for the past several years and it will not get any better without significant roster reconstruction.

Donovan may not be the answer, but Lavine is a huge problem. He got deservedly roasted for two pathetic games to start the season, and then basically said look at me as he scored 51 — and they still got destroyed with two starters getting zero points.

Lavine should have never been resigned. He's not a winning player or a box office attraction.