I see Boston getting upset in the 1st round...hopefully we can match-up vs them again. The C's aren't the same anymore.

I doubt ATL or ORL loses in the 1st round.

i would much rather play ATL over ORL. Bogut was a matchup problem for the hawks, and they can match some of the length they have with johnson and smith. ORL is just bad because howard negates the big aussie.

Anyone see D-Rose posterize Zach Randolph?

We dont have the talent to play with these teams. Sucks balls. Mavs are running Kidd, Dirk, Butler, Marion, and Jason Terry out there every night. We have Derrick Rose and friends.....

Rose with 34 and 8 last night kept us in the game, but he can only do so much.

5 L's in a row...wow just wow. No words. Derrick continues to do everything by himself.

you needto pull out of the tail spin. doen't help when you have derrick rose and 4 random players either.

Fuck the Bulls. Cubs are where its at now.

When the Cubs sucked balls we turned to the Bears. When the Bears sucked balls we turned to the Bulls/Blackhawks. Now when the Bulls start to their downward spiral we go back to the Bulls.

Its a never ending cycle in Chicago.

Im still going to be following them, but im not gonna put much stock into it. We'll see what happens. If they make the playoffs, GREAT. If they dont, oh fucking well.

it happens. the bucks are on a roll for a change. bogut has been dominating.

We still can make playoffs...I will not quit watching unless we get eliminated from contention...hell, we are .5 games behind 7th and 8th.

It all evens out. The SKED is brutal right now. After the next 5 games it gets easier. I can honestly see a 10 game losing streak followed by a 9 game winning streak. Plus, Noah will be back after 5 games.

bogut>noah

Not good news for the Bulls:

Bulls' Rose suffers sprained left wrist

ORLANDO, Fla. -- For the second time this season, a collision with the Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard has knocked the Chicago Bulls' Derrick Rose out of a game.

Rose suffered a sprained left wrist when he collided with Howard with 55 seconds left in the first quarter of Thursday's contest. He stayed in for the rest of the quarter before leaving the floor.

An X-ray initially revealed the sprain. Bulls coach Vinny Del Negro said after a 111-82 loss to the Magic that the All-Star guard would have an MRI done on the wrist on Friday. Del Negro was unsure if Rose would play against the Miami Heat.

"Derrick has a sprained wrist," Del Negro said. "I have no idea how bad it is. He's going to get an MRI [Friday] to see how bad the damage is and see how he feels."

Rose's injury comes on the heels of center Joakim Noah's absence due to plantar faciitis in his left foot. Forward Luol Deng also sat out Thursday because of a strained calf muscle. Center Brad Miller has a thumb injury and rookie guard Taj Gibson plantar faciitis in both feet, though both started.

"We're a different team than we were," Del Negro said. "From our injuries, to the trades, to everything involved. We're without a lot of our guys. There's no excuses. It is what it is. We've got to find a way to get healthy and weather the storm like I talked about, but there's no question we are a battered bunch right now."

On Feb. 10, Howard fouled Rose in Chicago just two minutes into the game and Rose was diagnosed with a hip bruise. Speaking after Thursday's game, Howard said he didn't remember much about Rose's injury, just that Rose went up and fell.

Howard also said that he didn't think Thursday's injury was a case of deja vu, noting that he and Rose were on good terms.

"As a big man, you never try to hurt anybody when they come down the lane," Howard said. "Me and Derrick are cool. I think he's a great player. A great person. Never wanted to see him get hurt. But I always tell him, if you come down the lane, always come off two feet. That way you'll be on balance. You come off one all it takes is for somebody's body to hit you and you're going to fall. I hope he gets better. I hope there's nothing seriously wrong with him. But I never intended on hurting him. It's just the way it happened."

Dwight isn't like that, it was no doubt an accident and he was just defending him. If he needs rest for like 1 or 2 weeks, I say shut him down and call it a season. Get ready for the summer and next year were expectations will be high with a Free Agent. Vinny may be gone because the goal was to at least make the playoffs. I'm fine with that, I mean I like Vinny but things need to be shaken up.

So, unless Derrick comes back in a game or two, I say shut him and Noah down for the season. It would be a brutal last month to say the least.

LOL this unbeleivable. Our 3 best players hurt. Plus, we traded away 2 guys who were top 6 players in our rotation. We are running a lineup of:

Kirk
Flip
James Johnson
Warrick
Miller

Thats worse than the current Nets.

8 and counting...although we almost won without our 4 best players on the floor.

im pretty sure we get your 1st round pick this year. hello greg monroe!

betroit02 wrote:im pretty sure we get your 1st round pick this year. hello greg monroe!

Lottery protected so it may just be a matter of 6 picks or so ahead. Oh well as long as it is lottery protected, all I care about.

Its top 10 protected.

LOL at the lineup we are running out there

Pargo
Flip
Law
Gibson
Miller

That has to be the worst starting 5in the history of the NBA

NJ Nets.