Yes, I am still continuing my own writers strike, where I have refused to post until the Bulls finally win back to back games.  I figured I just had to post once to let everyone know what I was doing, as it was not clear.  Clearly, the Bulls will have to win given their disappointment in the blog not being updated with so many losses.

Win, Bulls, Win. And not just once. Against the Hawks. At home.  While almost blowing it early.  Just win convincingly.

In other news, Devin Hester is the man. 

We’ll see if the upcoming road trip takes some pressure off these young Bulls.  With no home crowd "Kobe" Chants to worry about, the Bulls may just be able to play a little more freely, and return to the United Center with at least a .500 record, and bring the UC back to a feared place.  Field Goal % continues to haunt the Bulls.  Especially 3-pt% where the Bulls were second in the league last year. 

K.C. Johnson’s anatomy of a mess breaks down the Bulls’ problems and offers 1 reason for hope.

I think a player by committee or performance would backfire, but Sam Smith offers his take here.  I do like some of his points (getting Nocioni in more) but I believe a system where players are constantly worried about their roles may fail.  This type of system isn’t going to give us the Thomas Jones effect. 

From the Daily Herald:  Shooters keep slumping: Through Saturday’s games, the Bulls rank 29th in the league in points per game (86.5), field-goal percentage (.381) and 3-point percentage (.264).

All four guards in the rotation are shooting well below 40 percent — Chris Duhon (.371), Ben Gordon (.354), Kirk Hinrich (.318) and Thabo Sefolosha (.214).

"Defense wins games, but you’ve got to put the ball in the basket to have a chance out there," Gordon said. "I don’t feel I’m pressing on every shot. It’s contagious almost."

I’m starting to feel sick too.

What a game!  This is just what the doctor (SP) ordered!   A little redemption for last year’s playoff exit to the Pistons, and a much needed win at home against an undefeated team as well.  Lets get a nice little run going here.  If you look back at all 5 games from this season, we could be 5-0 if we played well at the end of the 4th quarter.  That’s where we have to come up big, and not look so nervous.  Game ball goes to Tyrus Thomas for his sick play, AND to Skiles for 1) not sitting Tyrus excessively again, and 2) for apologizing to Noah (and criticizing the media) for comments made.  Let the man speak!  Speaking of "speaking", after the Bulls dropped to 0-4, Joe Smith, the talented and smart veteran made the comment ”What I see at times is when teams go on runs, we kind of put our heads down a little bit. We need to back each other up and kind of get each other motivated to go on runs of our own.”  Looks like the Bulls heeded his advice in Game 5, and it paid off.

Up next: a rising Raptors team, which could be the surprise of the East this year, comes to UC on Saturday.

Jalen Rose apparently doesn’t think this Bulls team will be able to get it done in the playoffs. He offers his ten cents here….(which is about all its worth).

Check out this sweet clip of some Tyrus Thomas highlights on the Bulls.  First couple plays have some static, but then it clears up nicely.