Alex

Fatigue? Absolutely. I was saying the same thing. He had offense, rebounding, and a pulse on defense. Everything Jamal wasn't.

Jamal Crawford hasn't shown up this series except for game one. He brings nothing on the defensive end and is too streaky to be a consistent scorer. I would love to say see you him this off season.

The refs played a big role in this game again. However, our defense was non existent in the 4th quarter. Our offense was awful as well. There were some bad calls, but this isn't the reason why we lost. It looked like we were gassed and out of energy. We fought hard for three quarters to get even and actually take a one point lead. We dug ourselves a hole earlier on and that is ultimately what beat us tonight.

Chicago has nearly twice as many free throws attempted right now. The almighty Derrick Rose has two less attempts than our entire team.

How do you get a foul called on Chicago?

When Josh plays like this we are a solid basketball team. When he plays to his strengths we are such a fun team to watch.

Worse because we were supposed to lose tonight. We spoiled the leagues plan and now we must pay the price.

Teague shot the ball very well early in the series though. It was strange to see him pass up all these open looks tonight. He gets to the cup well enough to be effective though. Still he needs to get his confidence and pull the trigger on those open jumpers.

No call on Jamal's last drive.

Referees are the ones who kept Chicago in the game. Hopefully we can still overcome it and pull this one out though.

Marvin get raped each time he drives and gets nothing called ever.

Yeah, it's been awful. It's blatantly obvious that the Bulls are getting the calls.

Yeah, if we're calling a timeout again 49 second into the game than we're done. We cannot come out slow and get down early.

Noah makes Al look like a b*tch. It's as simple as that. It's real sad to see Al touch the ball and Noah knows what he is going to do before Al does.

Sounds like a good approach. I suspect he'll get the Josh Smith treatment from the fans. Not a single player on this team can score effectively if they face a tough defense.

One word sums this up. Pathetic.

Well he tried to shoot the team out of the third quarter. He did the things he needed to aside from that. Get boards and play tenacious defense.

Agreed. He seems to be playing his best ball when he needs to. Now is the perfect time. :biggrin:

Great pass to give Rose a wide open dunk. :banghead:

So we're just going to continue to leave Rose WIDE open behind the arc? That's multiple times we've done this. Jamal continues to make these huge shots. Up by 11 with a minute left.

Joe needed to have a big series for us to have any chance. He has definitely done his share tonight. Still have six minutes to go and I feel a Bulls run coming on. We need to run out sets on offense and execute. Nobody else needs to shoot unless they're wide open besides Joe and Jamal.

If JJ wasn't hitting shots we would be down by 15 right now. He is the only one keeping this game from being a blowout. It more than likely will end up with Chicago winning by 15 anyway.

Chicago is about to run us out of the United Center. We have to be the team in the league with the least amount of on court intelligence. It's frustrating to watch this team do this game in and game out.

I feel the exact same way right now. Josh is looking real dumb out there save for a couple good defensive plays.

Refs suck. They are swallowing their whistles a lot on Chicago fouls. Teague or Crawford got tackled to the ground on Korver's three.