Officially worried about DRose's back.

Me too. With Rose, sit him as along as it takes. Just make sure he's good to go in early April.

It's crazy that we still have the best record in the east despite all the injuries and 20 of our first 30 games have been on the road.

Agreed Deluxe. This team is good enough to win plenty of regular season games without Rose. Let him heal fully and then get him back out there. I know Thibs wants to win every game but he's got to let Rose sit for a while. I nearly kicked a puppy when I saw he played against the hornets.

They should just scrap the season in the eastern conference altogether and have a 20 game playoff series between the Bulls and Heat.

Triple double for Noah tonight.

if Gasol goes to the Bulls for Boozer and Watson, Deluxe had better fear for his life.

you know i've thought boozer was overrated garbage for 6 years. if he ends up on the lakers, it's corporal hudson man.

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Is it bad that the only thing that makes me hesitate on that deal is losing Watson, not Boozer?

I like Watson, but I do that deal in a heartbeat.

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I saw 14 years $260MM. That's a lot of Skittles.

Good win last night. I am still a little concerened with Rip's inability to hit a shot. Bulls are really going to need him to be a perimeter threat when the playoffs roll around. I did like that Thibs played Taj with Noah in the 4th Quarter. Boozer was playing terrible defense and couldn't hit a jump shot to save his life.

Wasn't that only his second game back? It'll take a while for him to get his legs back.

Ho hum. Another Bulls win.

hate to rain on your parade, but the bulls are way overrated.

case in point, per ESPN, the Bulls have played the second weskest schedule in the league so far.

they are not the best team in the league by talent. top 5, maybe.

http://espn.go.com/nba/stats/rpi/_/sort/SOS

also, the bulls are in the easiest division in the NBA. the average win percentage of the bulls division is .500

not including the bulls .80 in that, and the rest of the teams in the bulls division is an amazing .42

and they play them more than than anyone else in the league.

You're delusional if you don't think the Bulls are in the top 5. You can fault them for having one of the easiest schedules in the league, but they have also had a large number of injuries this year.

The Bulls are overrated? Where exactly would you have them rated? Obviously they have had a weak schedule but I'm not sure they should be penalized for that. This isn't the BCS. Who would you put ahead of them? I can definitely see arguments for Miami and OKC but after that I think you would be stretching it quite a bit.

Bulls have a much tougher second half of the schedule although they will get some home cooking because they have played a lot of road games. We will see where they end up at the end of this next stretch ending with OKC on 4/1. I think the picture will be much clearer at that point.

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statistically, yeah i think the bulls are overrated.

do i think they are the best team in the league (they have the best record)....no way.

do i think they will win the championship (generally a reflection of having the league's best record)....nope.

and genius Hollinger doesn't think they are the most likely to win the championship either:

http://espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/playoffodds/_/sort/champsOdds

thus, by definition, of having the league's best record and i dont think their record reflects their talent. so maybe...."statistically overrated"

i suppose another way you could look at it though is the bulls are underrated. people don't think they will win the championship, and have the league's best record.

and just to clear things up, here's who i think is most likely to win the championship (in order):

1. Miami
2. Thunder
3. Lakers
4. New York (lol jk.)....Chicago
5. San Antonio

and what I think will happen will be Miami vs. Thunder in the finals, and Miami happens to match up perfectly with them. Play the same style of game. And has a bona fide closer that's been on that stage before and come through (Wade. lol @ Lebron. no way).

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Simplebay is a simpleton. Pay him no mind.

The overrated Bulls just won again. 8 in a row.

Windy city assassin

cubby are the bulls the best team in the nba?

They are ONE OF the best teams in the NBA, no doubt. I'd say no worse than top 4, probably top 2.

They just said in the broadcast that all 29 teams have called otis smith about howard.

Howard already with a double double two minutes into the second quarter. Think he's putting on a showcase?

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the spurs called about howard? how did that phone call go?

holt - ya, umm, we want howard. we can offer you half our roster, 25 million in cash, and some construction equipment being used on the 281/1604 exchange project

smith- ...click...

THE WINDY CITY ASSASSIN STRIKES AGAIN! WOW!

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the dude is undoubtedly in the top 5 in the league right now, but that nickname is super gay.

Like any Bulls fans give a **** what you think?

GD Korver is going to cost us this game.

simple**** will be by shortly to explain how the bulls are lottery bound this year and y'all should go ahead and blow it all up and start over with his precious 6th place lakers as your model.

No Deng, No Noah, No Rip, No CJ, No Problem. 

Rose vs Lin tonight

48-50 NY up at HT

Taj Gibson going nuts on the boards tonight.

And no Deng, no Rip, no CJ, no problem.