Wizards home.

OK, they won, but they Wizards are really, really bad and the Bulls didn't win that easily either. I know people are going to look at the box for Tyrus and think that he had another great game. The fact is that he had a great quarter (the first) and then went back to being both good and bad. He still takes bad jumpers when he should go to the basket (is Deng giving him pointers?) and he still plays bad defense.

While I'm taking note of bad defense, let me point the wagging finger at our golden boy, Derrick Rose. He's been playing crappy defense lately and he has got to learn how to take a charge. Several times, Wizards were driving to the basket and Derrick just got out of the way. We need Kirk back to show him how it's done. In fact, we need Kirk back offensively as well because the Bulls once again just completely fell apart offensively when Rose is on the bench. Ben Gordon showed once again that he is a terrible ball handler, and should only stick to shooting, which he did well in this game. Hunter was shaky as hell bringing the ball up, and Hughes is a mess.

From the box, Hughes didn't look so bad, with 6-12 and 1 turnover, but he looked much worse than that. He continues to jack up bad shots and he was lucky he didn't have a lot more turnovers with some sloppy passing. The crowd was on him, probably because there was more trade rumor talk in the papers. In Larry's defense, he's handled the boos pretty well. He's just going to have to accept the fact that he isn't an NBA starting caliber player any more and find a niche. If he played a little defense and passed more/better then that would help. The papers keep talking about Larry wanting to find a place where he can get more minutes! I mean, come on! If you can't get more minutes on this crummy Bulls team, where you need only show signs of a pulse to get in the game, where does he think he's going to play? Well, maybe with these Wizards (who already got rid of him once) but not too many other places.

Gray got a DNP, which is curious. Sometimes Vinny starts him and sometimes gives him a DNP. Now there's a guy who should be questioning his minutes, especially when Tyrus and Noah get in there so much. I'm not going to question Vinny on this though because for the most part, Tyrus and Noah were better than usual, so I guess they deserved the court time. And Gray wasn't super last few outings, although you could say that about all the Bulls.

On the Wizards side, Nick Young was eating us up and the rest of the Wizards looked totally lost. It wouldn't have taken much to score on this Bulls defense