Mavs come to town on thursday. Argueably the best team in the league.

Calling it now... Bulls win in a laugher that makes the Bears-Saints game look close.


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should be a fun game to watch, mavs are a great team, will be a great test for the bulls

If we do win that's fantabulous...we are gonna have a tough road swing West after Miami...hope we aren't embarassed on TNT. As always Go Bulls...and Go Bears!!!

Hope we bring our A game!

We usually can step up against these teams at home... the road is the problem.

is it just me, or does anyone else seem to think the refs generally favor the home team?

maybe im alone or?

Im excited to see this game. We hung with the suns and should of beat them so lets see what we can do with these guys.

gametime.
lets go bulls

Da Bulls!

Bulls with the early lead!

good start indeed

Gordon is feeling it!

Bulls held the Mavericks to a season-low 13 point quarter. I'll take it.

so far, so good.
id be really happy with a 10 point lead going into halftime.

I'm at work but this pumps me up. Lets find a way to play the rest of the game as good as we did in the first quarter and put away one of the 2 best teams in the NBA.

Please let me get off of work earlier enough to catch at least the final quarter of this game.

dam sorda let up there, but a 6 point lead, is better then behind.
2 quarters left. go bulls big win

Defense not as good in the 2nd quarter. 47-41 Bulls lead at the half.

Big Ben with 5 points, 7 boards, and 3 swats in the 1st half.

btw, jw, whats everyones thoughts on big ben at this point inthe season?

worth the money etc?

ive been away for about 3 weeks only watching a certain amount of games, havent got the total swift of things, hows big ben doing?

Honeslty, in terms of his on-the-court performance, he hasn't come close to earning the money yet. The nubmers actually say he's one of the least effective regular players in the NBA right now; the Bulls are actually better with him off the court than on. He's had a handful of games where he just takes over, but they're too few and far between right now. I don't know if its the lack of another big man or age or general malaise at having moved on from Detroit, but he's way down from last year.\

Hopefully he picks his game up for the playoffs.

The Good news tonight is that the Bulls held the Mavs to under 28% shooting in the first half. The bad news is the Mavs made up some of the difference at the line, but that's the defense we need to see the rest of the way to be at the top at the end.

ah, thats what ive heard has been happening and just wanted to make sure it was legit.

That sucks, if he could really be all that he could be, our team could take the East easily.

I didnt like the refs calls most of the third quarter...
but hey, i complain about that every game, nba officials to me do such a terrible job. I hate it.

You know a team has cranked it up on the defensive end when they give up a 27% clip from the field in the first half, and after the 3rd quarter, that number has gone down 1%.

Josh Howard is 1/15 from the Field. Dirk is 4/16. The defense came to play tonight. Now they need to finish the job.

The Bulls are also outrebounding the Mavs by 9. The only thing keeping the Mavs in this game is turnovers and free throws.

Is it just me or are the refs refusing to call fouls on the Mavs?

8 fouls on the Mavs all game, 16 on the Bulls. Nowitzki is 12/13 from the line. That's the kind of thing I'd expect to see more on a game in Dallas, but I'm not watching the game anywhere but online.

The Bulls look pretty good, but I'm still scared they will blow a lead here. Dallas is too good to not have another run in them. Gotta love being able to hold them below 100 (barring a miracle or a billion overtimes).

Im with ya on that one buddy.

Now finish strong Chicago!!!

Just play smart and they should be able to close this one out.

Quality win tonight.

Fuckin sick win.

Great games from Deng, Gordon, Wallace, and PJ Brown.

This team can be scary good when Ben Wallace and the Defense show up.

Held the Mavericks to 31% shooting. That's pretty darn impressive.

good win indeed

This was a big win.

BG is a keeper!

This game further proves why trading Gordon/Deng would suck major ass.

Definitely a monster game by the defense, everyone on Dallas had a bad shooting game. If it weren't for Dirk's free throws it would have been a blowout.

Freaking sweet...Way to go Bulls. They continue to prove that when they play hard and with energy that they can play with the best of em. I'd like to see some more consistency as well as the squad improving its killer instinct (of putting teams away) and I think we'll see us grab that 1 seed in the East.

So would Chris Duhon as the starting PG.

Those are the problems that arrive when you try to acquire an All-star post player in his prime...

Had to follow on my phone at work, but really excited to see that final score. Great W.

From the Trib recap of the game:

Anyone else think that Skiles is being very egotistical there? It's as if he's saying 'it's not my fault, those damn players won't try often enough.' Isn't that also the coaches responsibility?

Yes. I think he's being egotistical. Yes, I think he's also correct.

Was it me or were the TNT guys kind of ripping on the Bulls, toward the end.

im with ya on that one, it seemed like they did throughout the whole game.

But he's right. The biggest difference is the effort Wallace puts out. When Wallace puts out his A effort (or even B+ effort) we are the best team in the East no questions asked.


If they did it would be something new. They usually are always saying how nice it is to watch the Bulls play and how they are the best team in the NBA when it comes to ball movement and just how they run there offense (from a basketball standpoint).