The Bulls continue to disappoint me. If they came out and played with half the fire and passion as they show in the 4th than the Bulls would have swept and won each game by 20. They still seem to be in cruise control. Only putting the gas down on the 4th come backs. Tonight it bit their asses. Rose struggled pretty bad. Might have been his worse game of the season. Not sure how much was the ankle and how much he is just off right now. The injury is a whole other can of worms.

I am not sure I have seen a series were the other team out plays the other 75% of the time and is still down 3-1. The Bulls lack a lot of effort on defense which is bizarre. The Pacers do pretty much whatever in the paint and not much is done about it. It goes back to how this team just doesn't have that killer instant(I really dont wanna use the word soft). They are beyond lovable but they have failed time and time again at stepping on opponents throats They have yet come out and just wanna murder someone yet. Hell the Bulls have yet to send a real message to Jeff Foster for his antics and its going on game 5! You know back in the day that shit would have been dealt with by game 2.

The Bulls need to come out with a fire lit under their ass and I'm not sure it will happen. It hasn't happened yet. Not sure if it ever will but if they don't take care business in game 5 then consider the Bulls in trouble.

Put it on the shelf for just a bit Derrick
His three point shot has been hideous. He needs to kill the jack a 3ball stuff for a while. I mean if hes open then he should take it but the dribble dribble jack needs to stop. Or to come down with 18 secs left in the shot clock and just jack a 3 is just dumb basketball. Derrick Rose is 5-28 in the series. Let the 3 come to you.

Careless
Its even more alarming how careless the Bulls have gotten with the Ball. I'm pretty sure they lead the NBA in turnovers in the playoffs. It just goes back to playing regular season ball with a team that is playing playoff ball. I thought it was a one or two game thing but even tonight they were wasting their positions. At one point the Pacers scored 18pts off turnovers. The blame is going all around but Rose again has put the team in some bad situations with some of his choices.

Why?
I didn't get why Noah sat so long in the forth. He was the Noah we all know and love. Hes pretty much back. Why was Korver in on the out of bounds play where he lost Dunleavy and then fouled him? Why didn't Thibs or a player call time out when  the play went to hell?

Officiating
It was pretty bad tonight. From Boozers BS foul for smacking a hand away to his lame Tech. What was even better was the phantom calls on the Dunleavy 3pt shots. He pretty much acted on both. I never really complain about refs to much since I am one but tonight they were pretty bad.

The Good
-Noah is back
-The Bulls crowd
-????

The Bad
-Deng still hasn't played 4 quarters of good basketball.
-The Pacer crowd
-Watson on all fronts

The Ugly
-Maybe Rose's worst game of the season.
-The Bench has been out played pretty bad by the Pacers bench.
-Rose's skill to finish at the hoop has vanished.
-Turnovers not just a problem but a team trait thus far

The Players

Noah: The only one who has shown energy(not surprising but still...). He is now back to form.
Boozer: Struggled with the refs tonight. They were out to send a message. I think he got it.
Deng: Picked up his game in the 4th, Needs to do it for 48 mins.
Bogan: Zilch,zero,Nata
Rose: Played like Marbury tonight. Just jacked bad shots. At least he found teammates.

The Bench Sad

Korver: Still on fire. Needs even more PT
Gibson: puts out the effort. Just needs to knock down the jumpers.
Watson: His playoffs play gets worse by the game.
Brewer: Where did this dude go?
Asik: Not enough data..
Thomas: Still waiting on him to enforce the paint area... has not makes me sad.