Official Game Thread: Hardly-Hawks at Bulls

[hawkman]

End this quarter with a stop and score. Or score and stop. Either one.

[JTB]

3 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

 

You see what's happening in the game now, right?

Trae is more assertive, and the game which was about to get completely out of hand, is at least now back down below 20.

Trae is our most talented offensive player.  He's most lethal when he's scoring the ball.

Cam is our 2nd most talented offensive player in this game.  He's most effective when he's scoring the ball.

 

You worry way too much about turnovers.  I worry more about the type of turnovers he can prevent.  If he's committing a turnover trying to score the basketball, that doesn't bother me.  If he commits a turnover with a lazy pass , that's far worse because that can lead to an easy bucket on the other end.

Trae is the scoring SUPERSTAR on this team.  When he scores, the Hawks are most successful.  Those are facts sir.

Bulls "cooling off". 

Down to 64% FG now . . . lol.

I get this but others will never understand how special a players offensive impact can be!

lol but hey I love that you repeat yourself every game specifically towards @Peoriabird

in reality you both are right. There’s problems on offense and defense. Just have to acknowledge the team has problems all around even when healthy. We need a better defensive strategy, we need better committed defenders, we need another true offensive scorer to pair with Trae ….it just is what it is.

[hawkman]

1 minute ago, hawkman said:

End this quarter with a stop and score. Or score and stop. Either one.

So close. 

[TheNorthCydeRises]

And keep Trae in the game to start the 4th.  He's 23 years old.  He can play the whole 4th quarter if needed.  The old school guys used to play 38 - 40 minutes all the time.

LOL . . and of course he takes him out right as I was typing this.

 

Come on Nate.  Don't start this 4th quarter without him on the floor.  The only shot you have at this, is to put up a huge number and hope the Bulls continue to cool off.

[Spud2nique]

We got this! Down 17 no problem.

[Peoriabird]

1 minute ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

Come on Nate.  Don't start this 4th quarter without him on the floor.  The only shot you have at this, is to put up a huge number and hope the Bulls continue to cool off.

Yeah Trae usually has these amazing 4th quarters!  LOL!

 

[JayBirdHawk]

4 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

No comment until we have a real team. What's the point.

I lied....can't do this in this NBA.

 

[TheNorthCydeRises]

1 minute ago, JTB said:

I get this but others will never understand how special a players offensive impact can be!

lol but hey I love that you repeat yourself every game specifically towards @Peoriabird

in reality you both are right. There’s problems on offense and defense. Just have to acknowledge the team has problems all around even when healthy. We need a better defensive strategy, we need better committed defenders, we need another true offensive scorer to pair with Trae ….it just is what it is.

 

The crazy thing is . . I agree with him about the defense, and have similar beliefs when it comes to defensive philosophy.  

But he and I vastly differ when it comes to offense.   Trae is the engine . . so the engine needs to be running at full speed for us to go.  Until the others on the team can consistently play without him on the floor, Trae has to be that guy.

[Final_quest]

Derozan is filthy.  

[terrell]

33 minutes ago, ATLHawks3 said:

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.

Pathetic..

[JayBirdHawk]

2 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

And keep Trae in the game to start the 4th.  He's 23 years old.  He can play the whole 4th quarter if needed.  The old school guys used to play 38 - 40 minutes all the time.

LOL . . and of course he takes him out right as I was typing this.

 

Come on Nate.  Don't start this 4th quarter without him on the floor.  The only shot you have at this, is to put up a huge number and hope the Bulls continue to cool off.

#That'sTheRotation

[terrell]

Just now, Final_quest said:

Derozan is filthy.  

If its true we couldve had him on a sign and trade for Collins.....Just damn.....

[TheNorthCydeRises]

1 minute ago, Peoriabird said:

Yeah Trae usually has these amazing 4th quarters!  LOL!

 

 

You should ALWAYS root for our guy to have amazing quarters, instead of rooting against him, or asking him to defer to other guys who definitely can't get it done.

Trae is the engine.

[terrell]

35 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

 

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.

"Most of our sqaud"

That never happens..

But I hope youre right...

 

[hawkman]

Get Trae back in the game Nate. 

[TheNorthCydeRises]

G-Leaguers are playing hard defensively this half, which is why our star players need to focus on the scoring.

Of course, the longer Nate leaves Trae out of this game, the less likely chance we can cut this lead down.

Still holding between that 17 to 20 point decifit range.

[Spud2nique]

Just now, TheNorthCydeRises said:

Of course, the longer Nate leaves Trae out of this game, the less likely chance we can cut this lead down.

No Trae no comeback.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

46 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

Trae is 5 - 13 . . Cam is 2 - 8 . . Capela is 3 - 9.   Combined, they're 10 - 30

 

Updated:  9 min to go in the 4th

 

Trae is 9 - 21 . . . which means he went 4 - 8 in the 3rd

Capela is 7 - 14 . . . which means he went 4 - 5 in the 3rd

Cam is 5 - 14 . . . which means he went 3 - 6 in the 3rd/4th

[Spud2nique]

Dominique said it: We are just outmanned. Missing 3 starters and almost all our bench. 

[hawkman]

Just now, TheNorthCydeRises said:

 

Updated:  9 min to go in the 4th

 

Trae is 9 - 21 . . . which means he went 4 - 8 in the 3rd

Capela is 7 - 14 . . . which means he went 4 - 5 in the 3rd

Cam is 5 - 14 . . . which means he went 3 - 6 in the 3rd/4th

This game was "lost" in the 2nd quarter. Stagnant offense and sexy defense led to that 18-1 run by the Bulls.