[Syd Thrift]

Heh, I went to see the Bulls take on the Nets the other night and it definitely felt like a “they couldn’t hit anything” night, although at the same time Brooklyn had very few open and uncontested looks. Their lack of anything resembling a good playmaker or shot creator was a big factor but virtually everything they put up was off-balance, put up too quickly, altered, or just thrown up from a part of the floor the player is clearly not familiar with.

The Bulls have actually been playing decent defense recently - they’ve been imploding because the half court offense has no depth and they’ve lacked anything resembling a true point guard to push the ball forward and create transition and early offense plays - but the addition of Beverly suuuper helped. They actually opened the game with Pat Bev and Caruso as the guards with LaVine and DeRozan at “forward”, a lineup I mostly don’t like because I feel like one of Beverly and Caruso should be on the floor at all times and this lineup did lead to Ayo and Coby playing minutes at the 1, but defensively that was a fantastic group (yes, even with DDR). We’ll see how things progress when they play actual teams, but it was nice for one night.