Road World
As far as the Road Rules of Basketball go, a lot of times you hear players and coaches say that they just hope to break even during a long stretch of away games. But that’s the kind of attitude that will get you straight into a Gauntlet Challenge, or a laughingly uninformed socio-racial dispute with the person you’re counting on to guide your blindfolded face on the rope bridge. It’s just a loosing philosophy.
What I’m trying to say is that the Bulls should have won vs. the Jazz Monday night, and I’m glad nobody blamed it on the road. Basically it was Mehemet Okur who won the game. You couldn’t detect much weariness, road fatigue, or 2-1 road record complacency, they just met up with a solid team, with a clutch shooter.
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Wallace, We Kneed You
It seems like a rather curious affair when you hear that Ben Wallace’s knee hit a guy in the head, but that it was Ben’s knee that suffered the most damage. Curiouser still is that Big Ben wasn’t the one instigating the knee-face match-up. Although, come to think of it, reverse head-butting Ben Wallace’s knee cap is unconventional, but probably the only thing any of us would do when faced with the 6’9’’ 240 four time Defensive Player of the Year.
At any rate, the Bulls need that knee something fierce. Their recent road loss to the LA Clippers proved that they need an inside presence to stop the likes of Elton Brand and the next big man on their road trip. P.J. Brown is months away from growing a presence like Wallace’s unwound dreads. Right now his coif isn’t scaring anybody.
Perhaps the biggest rebound for Wallace this season is going to come while riding a stationary bike, rebounding from a knee injury that will bring the Bull’s road record up where it ought to be.
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