Thursday, March 28, 2013

NBA Shootaround: The Chicago Way


Robert Mays: The lasting image I’ll take from last night’s game buy cheap nfl jerseysin Chicago came with about four minutes left in the fourth quarter. With the Bulls up nine, LeBron James began a drive to the basket, where two Bulls were waiting. The first foul, by Jimmy Butler, wasn’t enough. With James still in the air, Taj Gibson came in to finish him off, ensuring that James would get nowhere near the rim. LeBron peeled himself off the floor, headband askew, and without a word, nfl jerseys walked briskly toward the free throw line. By that point in the night, there was no sense in acting like he wasn’t ready for it.

As Tom Thibodeau has spent most of this season pounding his starters nfl football jerseys into dust, a common conversation I’ve had about these Bulls is why, after three years of leaving him hoarse, they still played the way they did. Three years is usually the breaking point for the NBA’s disciplinarians — Scott Skiles, Doug Collins — but without Derrick Rose (and without much else), Luol Deng and Joakim Noah and the short Bulls bench were again grinding their way to the playoffs. The question was this: Were Thibodeau’s words hitting differently, or were the types of players the Bulls had somehow different?

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