Comments on: Carlos Boozer benched in fourth quarter, not sure why

By: icu84bs

icu84bs — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:05:35 +0000

Tom Thibodeau, rookie coach –> rookie mistakes. He will need to improve for Chicago to compete with the best teams in their conference. Cheers.

By: kd2150

kd2150 — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:10:42 +0000

Jerry Sloan always had Boozer in at crunch time. He’s probably the best COACH in the NBA, Phil Jackson included…

By: kd2150

kd2150 — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:07:32 +0000

A vast majority of NBA coaches think they are mad scientists pushing the buttons. They are unable to put the players out there and let them play. They have to constantly tweak lineups and egos. Westphal can ruin a good NBA prospect or even an established player. They are stroking there own egos. I guess they want everybody to think that they were the main reason that the team had success. The ones that have had the most success have had great players. Winning had nothing to do with their knowledge of the game or their ability to play mind games. It was all because of the players. And a very good front office and scouting. They have to look like they just stepped out of GQ to boot. Egos, egos, egos………

By: tubal22

tubal22 — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:31:30 +0000

Booz is a defensive liability. He’s soft. His offense usually makes up for it, but maybe Thib thought he needed defense instead of offense to finish out that game.

By: ponchi1

ponchi1 — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:04:38 +0000

I totally get the “sitting a player to make a point” thing….But don’t cut your nose to spite your face. The “great” coaches in the NBA don’t let wins go by the waste-side to make a point to a player. You can further your point w/the player in practice, shoot-around, fines, etc but when the game is on the line you need your stars on the floor.

Last night the starters were “flat” for whatever reason. The reserves got them back into the game and in a position to win it. With the game on the line Booz needed to be in the game w/DRose. For all that Booz lacks on the defensive end (and there is a lot that he lacks) he is a significant option on offense and should’ve been in the game.

I sincerely hope that Thibs isn’t getting too emotional because he will lose the players and if he loses DRose he is as good as gone (see Scott Skiles & Vinny Del Negro). As Herm Edwards is famous for saying…..”You Play To Win The Game”. Put your best players on the floor @ winning time and deal with Booz’s lack of defensive prowness in another way.

By: thestudiokida

thestudiokida — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:56:34 +0000

A) Boozer is just fine against the zone. If anything you need a guy like him moving around in the paint so a cutting Derrick Rose can pass it inside behind a zoning defender for an easy score.

B) Tom Thibodeau has made a lot of curious lineup changes in games that are close and that the Bulls end up losing. He has left Rose out of the lineup deep into the 4th quarter several times and lost. When asked about why he did it he says the group that he had in there were playing well so he stuck with them. I would agree except that IT’S F***ING CRAZY NOT TO HAVE DERRICK ROSE IN THE LINEUP AT THE END OF A CLOSE GAME!!!!

Let’s hope these are rookie mistakes by the coach.