Bulls Season In Review - Part 5

Welcome to the finale. In cased you missed the first four parts of CSR's Bulls Season in Review, here they are: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4. Feb. 13 - At 20-31 the Bulls are still playing uninspired basketball, but they're also still on the verge of being a playoff team in the Eastern Conference. Thabo Sefolosha and [read more...]

Bulls Season In Review - Part 4

Easy there, before diving into this one don't forget about Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of CSR's Bulls Season In Review. Jan. 15 - A 102-88 loss tonight to Orlando will drop the Bulls to 14-22, but still not out of the playoffs. The team is a very average 5-6 since Jim Boylan took over, so really nothing [read more...]

Bulls Season In Review - Part 2

In case you missed it, here's part 1 of the Bulls season in review. Dec. 8 - After a big 98-91 win over the Pistons - the Bulls second defeat of Detroit this season - Chicago has won four of five games. Joakim Noah plays well, scoring 11 points in just 16 minutes, prompting Charlie Danoff to write a column [read more...]

Playoff Push

Current Record: 24-36 ... 1.5 Games out of a playoff spot. Following Tuesday's easy, but important win against the Memphis Grizzlies, the Bulls record is now 24-36. Following Wednesday night's action, they are 1.5 games out of the playoffs. Despite the fact nearly every possible thing has gone wrong this season, the Bulls still have a very solid shot of making the [read more...]

The New-Look Bulls

Thursday's deadline three-way trade by John Paxson may well go down one day as the move that saved his legacy as GM of the Chicago Bulls. Doing the impossible and trading what is easily one of the NBA's worst current contracts allows Paxson to finally move on from the most egregious error of his tenure. As many have said, losing Wallace is [read more...]

FSR Reviews the NBA Trade Deadline

Undoubtedly, this will go down as one of the greatest trade deadlines ever. And as much as the flurry of trades we've seen this month will change the landscape of the NBA, they will also have a huge impact on your fantasy league. So without further ado, here's the FSR review of the NBA trade deadline (note: I didn't include [read more...]

Evaluating The Bulls

Now that all the pre-season dreams of contending for a conference title have long since been unmercifully crushed, I thought it'd be appropriate to do a re-evaluation of the Bulls current roster. I will look at each player, taking into account their age and salary and determine their current worth TODAY. I will forget what we though about them heading [read more...]

Start the Fire

Following the "inmates running the asylum" 2nd benching of Joakim Noah, the Bulls played terrible against a team that hasn't made the playoffs this millennium. Heading into the 4th quarter versus the Hawks Sunday, they were down 80 - 66. Ben Wallace and Joe Smith had already played most of the night at the PF and C positions. Aside from [read more...]

Let’s Play Trade

Growing up in the Chicagoland area, I was constantly barraged as a teenager by the crazy machinations of trades and moves from Chicago Tribune columnist Sam Smith. It got so bad that on his way out of town, Jerry Krause actually made business cards for Smith with the title of "Fake GM." Despite their usual implausibility, the ideas were always [read more...]