My Bulls are playing everyone down to the water boy and still making the Dream Team nervous.
I am really looking forward to a healthy team next year. Not just having Rose back, they will be tough with all the good play they have had from their depleted bench. I really like the way Butler has played this year for a second year/last draft pick guy.
Thibodeau is a plug-and-play coach though. He can probably get more out of role players than any other coach in the NBA except maybe Popovich. I think this Bulls team is much better put together than most realize:
Noah was an AllStar this year. Great on D and rebounding.
Boozer can score on the block.
Robinson can score 10 points just as fast as anyone in the NBA.
He's got to have something on the league that they're afraid of. Between his consistently detrimental and attention-seeking officiating, multiple reprimands, suspension in 2007, and the tax scandal on top of it all, he shouldn't still have a job.