Toronto away

Another very tough loss for the Bulls in OT. This game sums up our season very nicely.

Ben Gordon is our main go-to guy.

Derrick Rose is often great and just needs time to be always great.

Tyrus and Noah can't play defense or really do much of anything. Actually, Tyrus can block shots and Noah can get some junk rebounds, but that's about it.

Luol Deng is MIA.

Salmons and Miller were good pickups, but we need a whole lot more.

Toronto away

One clear pattern with the Bulls is the second half collapse, and this game was typical. They stay in the ballgame until about midway into the third quarter and then roll over. Vinny needs to change up his rotations.

Hinrich was the only Bull who played well and that was mostly in the first half. Noch broke out of his slump a bit. Otherwise, we were bad, bad, bad.

Toronto away

One of the Bulls best efforts this year, particularly because Drew Gooden was out. We won because we moved the ball well, racking up 33 assists. A big reason for this is because Hinrich played 33 minutes and Larry Hughes played 0 minutes. He's just a huge upgrade over Larry and it helps the Bulls tremendously, both on offense and defense.

Another factor in the win was Deng showing a bit more restraint with his bad jumper and going to the hole more. He still has a long way to go, but this was his best effort of the year. The final factor was Derrick taking over during crunch time and pulling out the win for us. There's no doubt now that he is option number one on offense going into the home stretch. Overall, Rose had a great game, putting him back in ROY spotlight.

Defensively, we were up and down. Bargnani just killed us and Bosh wasn't far behind. However, we stopped them at the end, where even Noah came up with a block. A big win.