Clever girl....

I could only catch the 4th since I had a mens league game at 7:30(damn you team jimmy johns!). What I saw in the forth wasn't pretty. I was pretty surprised that the issue was our defense. Raptors who have won a whooping 16 games shoot a blistering 58% and put up a 118 pts. The Bulls putting up 113 should have been enough. More than enough. I can't even name the Raptors starting line up! ahhhh Vince and T-Mac? I have no freakin clue! Thats how bad this team is. I expected some bumps with Noah back but nothing the Bulls couldn't play through with the Raptors. I was very wrong.

James Johnson had his super bowl and he treated it as such. He had every reason to have his best game and he did. From my 4thQ view I saw a lot of terrible defense. Out of time outs the Bulls were owned by the X and Os the Raps coach came up with. A curl play sticks out in my mind when the Bulls just didn't talk on the curl pick and DeRozan got to the hoop with ease. I didn't get a chance to re watch the play due to watching the game on my computer but at that point in the game with it tied its pretty much laying an egg so to speak.

I don't wanna throw Booz under the bus but he had two terrible defensive plays that cost the Bulls big. Both times not keeping his feet. One on a pump fake that cost them two free throws and Amir Johnson took Boozer to house on a up and under that left Booz shaking his head. He needs to improve on that end of the court and I think he will. Tibs will demand it going forward.

Derrick did play well and did everything he could do dodge a awful lost. In the end the Bulls defense was just too terrible to pull it out. Noah only had 5 points but did grab 16 REBS which shows how no matter how out of shape he maybe he will always bring effort every night. I really think the Bulls can use this to beat the Heat(not saying they will). They wanna get this taste out of their mouth. They wanna prove it to be a off night. This game with the Heat will be tough. It was tough last time out with only Wade and Bosh(who didnt play a lot of the game). I hope this is a good kick in the butt and we come out like gangbusters... whatever that means.

Random Note
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