Also, Derrick Rose's favorite movie's The Notebook, Joakim Noah's a bad dancer, etc. If you still don't understand what I'm getting at, give yourself 40 lashes, then look up recently added Will Ferrell videos on YouTube.
Now that I have that out of the way, the Bulls, as expected, demolished the New Orleans Hornets on '80s Night 90-67. That 67 came very close to a Hornets franchise low, showing further the damage left by the departure of Chris Paul. But this isn't a Hornets blog, so I'll cut my opinions on them to that.
Derrick Rose played, but continued to be limited by back spasms, scoring only six points. Normally when that happens, it doesn't translate into success for the Bulls. Didn't matter tonight though. A lot of players picked up the slack. Most notable in that department was mama's boy Carlos Boozer and his 18 points, which led all scorers. Taj Gibson had 14 points off the bench. Maybe this is a lately stated sentiment, but I think Gibson is fully recovered from his injury. Joakim Noah had yet another double-double, this to the tune of 13 points and 10 rebounds. There was also Kyle Korver with 12.
As this season has gone on, at least one of two things have become apparent. One is the Bulls really know how to beat up on the bottom feeders of the league. The other is said bottom feeders are really, really bad. Whether it's because of their overall talent or the effect of an increasingly criticized compressed season or any other reason, the Bulls are truly among the NBA's elite. You have the pound the bad teams and do well against the good teams to be considered in that class. The Bulls have done both.
Tomorrow, the Bulls get another terrible team, the worst team in the league in fact, in MJ's Charlotte Bobcats. Should be a snoozer, but an entertaining snoozer if you follow Chicago's team.
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