Has he become their best player overnight? I remember me and FavreFan talking about the Bulls would suck if they depended on him to score more than 13 points a game. He's averaging 20 and gets to the line with ease.

Thibs gets another guy a huge payday.

Agreed. He was a nobody 2 years ago.

Has he become their best player overnight? I remember me and FavreFan talking about the Bulls would suck if they depended on him to score more than 13 points a game. He's averaging 20 and gets to the line with ease.

I think Ive asked this question before but what is his offensive game? He's not a jump shooter right? He's dribble drive then? How is he all of the sudden scoring all these points when it looked before like he didn't have much offensively/ Ill hang up and listen for my answer.

I think Ive asked this question before but what is his offensive game? He's not a jump shooter right? He's dribble drive then? How is he all of the sudden scoring all these points when it looked before like he didn't have much offensively/ Ill hang up and listen for my answer.

Last night he completely outplayed the guy who he'll want to get at least as much money as (Heyward).

I think Ive asked this question before but what is his offensive game? He's not a jump shooter right? He's dribble drive then? How is he all of the sudden scoring all these points when it looked before like he didn't have much offensively/ Ill hang up and listen for my answer.

Brooks will probably be the next beneficiary of Thibs magic.

I love Thibs and this Bulls roster but Thibs needs results in the playoffs.

If a healthy Bulls team goes into the playoffs and loses to the Wizards again,he might be tossed.

Not quite overnight ... 'over-summer' apparently -

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/chicago-bulls-breakout-star-went-224200695.html

The Chicago Bulls are a solid 9-5 this season, despite Derrick Rose once again missing games with injuries.

Fourth-year wing Jimmy Butler has emerged as the Bulls' best player. Butler is posting career-highs of 20.8 points on 49.7% shooting with 5.8 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game. He's also playing an absurd 39 minutes per game.

Butler was ready for a breakout season this year. In a profile on Butler from Sports Illustrated's Ben Golliver, Butler said he went the entire summer without cable and Internet so he would be forced to work out more:

Butler and his friends rented a house for the summer so that they could spend time together, but he says he purposefully chose not to furnish it.

“I wanted to be so good at the game that we didn’t have cable, we didn’t have the Internet,” he recalled. “Whenever we got bored, all we would do is go to the gym. We’d eat, sleep and go to the gym. We’d go three times a day because we didn’t have anything else to do. We were sitting on the couch, looking at each other, saying, ‘What the hell are we going to do all day?'"

Butler struggled last season, shooting just 39% from the field, 28% from three-point range, and posting a 13.5 PER, which is below the league-average 15. Butler also played extended minutes last season — 38 per game — but says he wasn't physically right: “I was hurt, I was moving sluggishly, I was heavier.”

This season, Butler says he's down 12 pounds from last year after he had previously tried to bulk up to guard bigger players. His offseason regimen included 7 a.m.-to 8-p.m. days, lifting, running on the track, doing individual skills work, yoga, Pilates, and breaks for meals and a nap.

Butler will be a restricted free agent this summer after turning down a four-year, $40-million extension from the Bulls. At the rate he's going, he may very well trump that offer, thus dignifying a strict offseason.

Wow. Pilates and yoga...what a fruit!

I love Thibs and this Bulls roster but Thibs needs results in the playoffs.

If a healthy Bulls team goes into the playoffs and loses to the Wizards again,he might be tossed.

Has he become their best player overnight? I remember me and FavreFan talking about the Bulls would suck if they depended on him to score more than 13 points a game. He's averaging 20 and gets to the line with ease.

Heard that stat this morning on Mully and Hanley.

You would.

I didn't want to. My body told me to get up at 5 even though I had no reason to be up at 5 and I had already cut off all alarms.

Vegan was right there with you as well iirc.
That said, as one of the guys who was on the other side of that argument, I'd still be surprised if Butler ends the season above 17 ppg and 46% shooting.