Bulls Moving Forward

Merry halfway to Christmas, Chicago. Meet your present – Derrick Rose. In all likelihood this is the best present anyone has ever received for Jesus' half birthday. He's going to be a star – you can book it now. I could go further into that, but someone already has, and he's probably done more research than me, so let's move on. Which [read more...]

Beasley v Rose

The Bulls lost a lot this season. They lost 49 of the 82 games they played. They lost two head coaches in the span of four months. And they lost a lot of respect by botching the chance to sign former Phoenix Suns coach Mike D'Antoni. Yet thanks to the NBA Draft Lottery that took place on last Tuesday, the [read more...]

Ten Years Later…

When was the last time you went on YouTube and watched some old Michael Jordan highlights? Can you remember the smile on your face when John Paxson's three beat the Suns in the 1993 Finals? Do you still consider Phil Jackson a Bull, or has his time with the Lakers adjusted your thinking? It has been ten years since the Bulls [read more...]

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 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...]

Bulls Season In Review - Part 1

Wow, that was painful. The only solace Bulls fans can take from a miserable 2007-08 season is that it wasn't just Chicago that was optimistic about the team coming into this season. After three straight playoff appearances and an 06-07 season that featured 49 wins and a first-round playoff sweep of the Miami Heat, even the World Wide Leader was buying [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...]

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...]

FSR Daily

-Devin Harris owners can breath a sigh of relief, Jason Kidd won't becoming to Dallas: "For us to make the numbers work in a deal like that, we'd have to trade away half the team," Cuban told The New York Daily News. "We're not doing that, so it just doesn't work. And, we like our team. We've got a lot of [read more...]

FSR Daily

-Good story here from ESPN.com's Keith Lipscomb breaking down this year's rookie class and their fantasy impact. As the season wears on, be sure you keep an eye on the younger players as their minutes tend to rise. -Apparently yesterday was 'Make my Most Disappointing Players list look ridiculous day.' The Bulls Kirk Hinrich dropped a career-high 38 points, adding 10 [read more...]

Most disappointing players

I always like to hear the bad news first, so before we here at FSR get to the most improved players tomorrow, we'll start with our list of most disappointing players midway though this fantasy basketball season. As a note, I tried not to include guys who seasons are disappointing only because of injury (like Agent Zero and D. Wade). PG-Kirk [read more...]

FSR Daily

-Apparently Phillip Rivers didn't get the message that he has a partially torn ACL. The Chargers quarterback continues to say he expects to start today against the Pats. -Looks like Damon Stoudamire will have a new team soon. Mighty Mouse will probably be a backup for a playoff team, but if he can go somewhere and get 30 minutes a game [read more...]

FSR Daily

-Kevin Martin is awesome. The Kings guard played for the first time in more than a month last night and scored 25 points in 28 minutes. John Salmons and Francisco Garcia's fantasy value will continue to drop, see if you can't trade them before Ron Artest returns sometime next month. -Luol Deng owners can remove the noose from their collective necks. [read more...]

Is That A Mask? Or Is He Really A Superstar?

Friday night against the Knicks, 22-year-old Bulls resident hopeful superstar Luol Deng shined, torching NY for 29 points and outrebounding Eddy Curry by 7 for a double-double. Heading into the 2004 NBA Draft, critics told us that Deng lacked athleticism and would never be a top-level talent, allowing him to slip to the Bulls at #7. Deng has since embarrassed [read more...]

Bad, Bad Chicago Bulls

Even though I know for a fact that Bulls coach Scott Skiles reads my columns on a regular basis looking for guidance, he neglected to take my advice concerning changes to the starting lineup. He ended up replacing Tyrus Thomas with Andres Nocioni, rather than moving Ben Gordon to the bench. While Noce had been playing well enough to deserve to [read more...]