Official Game Thread: Hardly-Hawks at Bulls

[terrell]

6 minutes ago, bleachkit said:

We might have to send out a draft pick to dump his contract,  he looks absolutely terrible

Give up the Fake 1st.. lol. Been telling people,  Nate preferred OO and Solo over Capela and Collins, late game especially in the Playoffs, but he tried to hide it....... lol

Edited December 30, 2021 by terrell

[TheNorthCydeRises]

12 minutes ago, hawkman said:

How do you get run out of the gym in 3 minutes? The Hawks were right there with them.

 

When you can't make shots and you turn the ball over.

[GameTime]

If Lance can't get minutes in this game i'm not sure if he ever can for this team.

[Peoriabird]

1 minute ago, marco102 said:

Can't be too upset about the defense.

LOL!  Bulls shoot 71% from the field and 60% 3 and you ain't mad at that effort.  What would bother you 80% from the field?

[marco102]

2 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

 

You need to understand basketball sir.

In a game like this, we need Trae and Cam to combine for damn near 70 points to even have a shot.  If Trae is at the 30+ shot mark, he's more than likely shooting close to 50% for the game, which would be good enough to keep us in it.

The G-Leaguers have played about as well as can be expected.  It's our main guys that needed to play better.

So instead of asking Skylar Mays to pump in 20 points, you ask Trae to go for 40 . . which he has done during his career and led us to wins.

 

Trae still needs to get Cam the ball in his spots to get him going.  Sometimes he has it and he doesn't have to do it, but tonight seems like one of those nights to get him several spot up threes.

Just now, Peoriabird said:

LOL!  Bulls shoot 71% from the field and 60% 3 and you ain't mad at that effort.  What would bother you 80% from the field?

If we had more than three of our actual roster out there with a bunch of g leaguers.

What will make you accept the fact we are short handed? 

Edited December 30, 2021 by marco102

[Final_quest]

I’d have to say the Bulls passed us in the pecking order, even with our full roster.

May have spoke too soon about Cam’s drives.  His set shot is getting good.  

[Peoriabird]

2 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

 

You need to understand basketball sir.

 

 

LOL!

[marco102]

Just now, Final_quest said:

I’d have to say the Bulls passed us in the pecking order, even with our full roster.

May have spoke too soon about Cam’s drives.  His set shot is getting good.  

Agenda coming back after one iffy half? 

Consistency isn't having 82 straight excellent games. It's not having six bad games in a row. 

[ATLHawks3]

This is unacceptable. 

 

 

If Capela is winded due to COVID he needs to sit the rest of the game. He ain't helping the team right now on both ends.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

11 minutes ago, Bonkers said:

Like I said before this season is over. We need to decide on which players stay and which players go

 

 

 

 

Season is nowhere near over.  We're not going to win many games with our main guys out.

The great thing is that the rest of the league ( at least most of them ) are going through the same thing.  The 6th spot in the East is only 2.5 games ahead of us, despite us holding down the 11th spot.

The NBA knows that their product is being extremely harmed by keeping asymptomatic guys out for almost 2 weeks. 

Hopefully we'll have most of our squad back by the time we play Portland on Monday night.

[Carmine]

7 minutes ago, terrell said:

And we extended him for 2 more years.... What a joke..If Im Ressler Im pissed at Travis for that...  lol

Complete headscratcher of a move..... CC needs to go, I like the guy as a person but we have OO.

 

[Peoriabird]

2 minutes ago, marco102 said:

If we had more than three of our actual roster out there with a bunch of g leaguers.

What will make you accept the fact we are short handed? 

News flash!  This is not unusual for this team.  Plus some of the G-leaguers are playing better defense than Trae.

[terrell]

20 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

Quick 8 - 0 run by the Bulls .  . fueled by our inability to at least make a few shots and then not getting back on defense.

If you're trading buckets, you can at least stay in the game.  That's how even a team like the Rockets can stay in a game.  They can't stop anybody, but they can keep scoring the basketball.

Let's see if the Hawks can get this back under 8 points below halftime.  Or does it swing the other way, and they go down 20+ and throw in the towel for tonight?

[mrhonline]

11 minutes ago, bleachkit said:

You mean the wide open dunks the Bulls are getting? Clint is useless

Seriously? The NBA isn't that complicated, folks.

The Hawks have zero help defenders right now. So what do the Bulls do? They pull Capela out to cover Vuc at the top of the key, leaving a wide open lane for guys to slash or cut. 

Were all the uncontested dunks by Bulls guards not obvious enough? Would you prefer Capela leave Vuc wide open to run to the lane?

And are you blaming Clint for the poor communication between guys who've never practiced together before? Or for the terrible transition defense?

Give him 10 games with John (and, hopefully, Hunter) and then start whinging if the defense is still so bad.

[Final_quest]

Just now, marco102 said:

Agenda coming back after one iffy half? 

Consistency isn't having 82 straight excellent games. It's not having six bad games in a row. 

Sensitive.  His overall numbers driving to the basket are bad.  A couple good games doesn’t suddenly mean he has it in his bag. 
 

 

[ATLHawks3]

Yeah these guys quit on this game. 

[terrell]

23 minutes ago, hawkman said:

Okongwu can't come back fast enough.

He should be the starter going forward, but Nate wont do it...Especially after Travis extended him... smh

Edited December 30, 2021 by terrell

[TheNorthCydeRises]

Wow Capela.

Then he gets the easy dunk . . . but his post game is garbage.

[RedDawg#8]

18 minutes ago, Bonkers said:

Like I said before this season is over. We need to decide on which players stay and which players go

 

 

 

God we are regretting that Clint extension. Dude played above his head for 1 season. He wasn't even a difference maker for us in the playoffs.

He is useless and a liability in the 4th quarter. Im voting him off the island.

[hawkman]

1 minute ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

Wow Capela.

Then he gets the easy dunk . . . but his post game is garbage.

5-12 from the field and all of those shots were in the paint. Some were right under the basket.