The Pacers may be legitimately a better team than the Bulls even when Rose gets right. Their roster is deeper and their starting 5 is more complete. The Bulls are getting nothing on offense from Noah and Butler, Boozer is prone to his 4-point games like he had last night, and Deng isn't a go-to scorer, he only feeds off others.Good game between Pacers and Bulls.
Pacers played solid D in the 4th and really forced a number of Bulls turnovers. Pacers improve to 5-0 and get their first win against a quality opponent.
Mavs vs OKC wasn't so great.
I like the Bulls, but the Pacers are definitely the better team, and there's no question they are the deeper team.The Pacers may be legitimately a better team than the Bulls even when Rose gets right. Their roster is deeper and their starting 5 is more complete. The Bulls are getting nothing on offense from Noah and Butler, Boozer is prone to his 4-point games like he had last night, and Deng isn't a go-to scorer, he only feeds off others.
Without Rose dropping 25 a night that is a pretty bad offense.
Then on their bench, their best scoring option might be Taj Gibson, as sad as that is. Hinrich is a scrappy role player who can't score anymore at this stage of his career, and Dunleavy hasn't been knocking much down.
I dunno. I might try to trade Deng midseason for a scoring 2 guard off the bench and a pick or something. Then you move Dunleavy into the starting lineup. Dunleavy is an effort player who can hit open threes, but he's not getting the looks with no other offensive threats in the bench group.
The Pacers were getting good production from their bench -- Scola killed us -- and a guy like Hibbert is good on offense AND defense (whereas Noah is mostly a defender) so they can put us in some bad spots.
Regardless, I think the Pacers are the better team.It's easy to say the Pacers are definitely the better team when the Bulls two best players are playing like absolute shit, we'll see where these teams are in 3 months.
Crazy, but that band of nobodies is producing right now.My Lakers without Kobe are 3-3. W00t.
Blake is killin' it with the 3 pointers. It's about time the bench guys stepped it up.Crazy, but that band of nobodies is producing right now.
No team in the league is getting more production from its bench than the Lakers right now.
I didn't get a chance to watch the Rockets/Lakers game but I plan on watching the replay this morning.After losing to the Heat, the Clippers fall to 3-3. Not the start they were looking for.
Also, the Rockets lost at home to the Lakers. They allowed that team to score 36 points in the first quarter after giving up 78 points in one half to the Clippers just a few days ago.
If they want to be an elite team, they cannot lose games at home to a crappy team like the Lakers, and they certainly need to get their defense figured out.