Bulls offseason Thread

Liked what i saw from rose would have like to seen him take a jumper or two, i get it he going to the hole letting the world know he healthy.

I know its preseason cant be critical hated everything I saw from Dunleavy

One thing however that i hope continues is what we saw from Taj tonight we all know he the future starting PF he played like it
 
Taj was great. Rose played ok, good if you wanna consider everything. I liked Kirks and Jimmy's energy but they played a lil too sloppy even for preseason. Overall, we are gonna be serious contenders once the defense and outside shooting gels again.
 
had so much hope to get home and watch this game but i was at work for a half hour longer than i thought then ended up going to world of beers so in all i probably watched about 10 minutes
 
#WojBomb

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Derrick Rose's return could help mend fracturing Bulls
Adrian Wojnarowski 13 hours ago
Yahoo Sports

INDIANAPOLIS – Pushing past defenders and doubts and delivering the Chicago Bulls flashes of a genius gone too long, Derrick Rose demonstrated the truest antidote for the franchise's dysfunction. Ball in his hands, blur on the floor, Rose tethers enemies to the common cause of the championship chase.

With so much distrust and downright disdain between the Bulls' front office and coach, the ripples of Rose's resounding return on Saturday night ought to remind general manager Gar Forman and coach Tom Thibodeau of the stakes of surviving the organization's power struggle.

Between Forman and Thibodeau the disconnect is deep, but Rose's reconstructed knee could be a powerful agent of reconciliation. With transcendent talents, there come redemptive powers. No one wants to be ousted with Rose on the roster, because he is one of those once-in-a-lifetime players for executives and coaches.

"The speed, the quickness, the power … there's no one like him," Thibodeau marveled.

Still. Seventeen months later, Rose had finally recovered from the excruciating rehabilitation of a torn anterior cruciate ligament. For 20 minutes of a preseason victory over the Indiana Pacers, Rose was long on speed and strength, and understandably short on precision. Most of all, his body is back. Rose played at a fever pitch, delivering the ball end-to-end on layups, hurdling one Pacer to a loose ball at midcourt and punctuating the play with a dunk.

"I'm not slowing down," Rose said. "I don't care who is [at] the hole. If they're going to foul me, I'm going to get up and keep going hard at them."

As Rose returns to the Bulls after missing a full season, his most important teammate – Luol Deng – is privately disappointed over the franchise's unwillingness to engage him in serious contract discussions. Deng could leave as a free agent this summer, could be traded before the February deadline – everything is so unsettled over his future.

An assistant coach that Rose deeply valued, Ron Adams, was let go over Thibodeau's wishes this summer because Forman didn't like Adams' defiant disposition. Eventually, Rose could be trapped in the middle of the Forman-Thibodeau cold war.

As the months passed without Thibodeau signing his name to a four-year contract extension last season, the coach privately feared the consequences of fully committing himself to that inevitable signature, league sources said.

If Thibodeau had been convinced that his GM was usurping the coach's influence without a signed deal, he knew the finalizing of his contract would move him further to the mercy of the GM. The Bulls had a news conference for that four-year, $18 million contract on the eve of training camp in 2012, but it was months and months until Thibodeau signed his name.

"It is a toxic relationship that I believe will ultimately derail them," one NBA coaching source with close ties to Thibodeau and Forman warned.

As Thibodeau delivered one of the best coaching performances the NBA had witnessed in years, pushing past the loss of Rose and core rotation players to beat the Brooklyn Nets and take the Miami Heat to five games in the conference semifinals, management kept pushing to exert controls on him.

What had been a strained, fractured partnership descended into permanent disrepair with Forman's firing of Adams, the Bulls' top assistant coach and decades-long confidant of Thibodeau's. If Bulls management had to take Thibodeau's criticisms and pushback, they refused to take it from Adams.

As one league source told Yahoo Sports, "Ron didn't drink the Kool-Aid there, and this was a message from Gar to Thibs that he's running the show, especially on picking the players."

Now, Rose is back and insists he's better than ever. His vertical leap has improved through months and months of work with his trainer, Rob McClanaghan. His 3-point shot is surer. Rose believes he's better than ever.
Rose changes everything in the Eastern Conference, but most of all he needs his transcendent talent to impact the fabric of this franchise. As the Chicago Bulls threaten to come undone at the organization's highest levels, Rose remains the reminder for everyone to find a way to make this franchise functional and free of discord. Gulfs are deep, but so is the talent of Rose.

Derrick Rose is back, and make no mistake: His burden has never been bigger.
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Had a chance to see it all live last night...he is every bit of quick as he was pre injury. blur on the court...taj was on beast mode

anyone concerned that Deng will try too hard this year, playing for a contract???
 
CAto312 said:
Great pics Ant :hat

Is it just me or was Lu forcing up some wild stuff?
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he was def forcing it a bit...

Taj is also back..... with derrick kinda overshadowed... he knows boozy's spot is his to take
j buckets looked great

geeked for the season ..... **** im kinda geeked for the next pre season game tonight vs memphis lol
 
Thanks CA.

I hope that won't be an issue. He is already proven in the league. No need for him to overdo it on his own agenda.

Do you think Rose can hit 25 and 10 this year? It's only two more assists than the MVP year. Jimmy is a big upgrade over Bogans, and I anticipate Rose scoring a lot more efficiently this year. AND NOT TO START COMPARING...but MJ did have his highest scoring year the year after his injury.
 





also you guys see he made a point to not take a single jumper...all drives

& took a couple hard hits with no foul before he started complaining

& he *****ed at thibs when he got pulled in the 3rd :lol
 
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