Thursday, August 16, 2012

The Bulls' strange summer




Derrick Rose
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With Derrick Rose on the sidelines, the Bulls have been excellent in the past. Can they keep it up?




The Bulls really know how to cap off two straight years of having the best record: With one of the league's worst offseason. Though Derrick Rose-- still recovering from his knee season-- would be the only starter missing in the line-up early in the upcoming season, but the bench has been blown up. Bench Mobsters Omir Asik, Kyle Korver, C.J. Watson and Ronnie Brewer are all gone. That's the crew that, along with Taj Gibson, won plenty of games for Chicago over the last two years by overwhelming opposing second units with tremendous defense and an offense built on fastbreaks and Korver's shooting.

Chicago has restocked with Nate Robinson, Vladimir Radmanovic, Marco Belinelli and Kirk Hinrich, leading some to wonder whether the Bulls have been making personnel decisions with the luxury tax, not a championship, in mind.

Read the rest of the article by Beckley Mason
on Espn.com




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