Television analyst Stacey King said one thing should change next season in order to help the Chicago Bulls perform better in the postseason. "The coaching staff is going to have to dial down a little bit during the regular season," King said Thursday on "The Carmen & Jurko Show" on ESPN 1000.
DEERFIELD, Ill. -- The Chicago Bulls' unofficial slogan heading into the 2013-14 season will be "Beat the Heat." The theme already started in earnest Thursday, one day after the team's season ended with an Eastern Conference semifinals defeat at the hands of LeBron James and Co.
DEERFIELD, Ill. – Although he wasn't on the premises Thursday, Derrick Rose remained the topic of conversation at the Berto Center, one day after the Chicago Bulls' season ended in an Eastern Conference semifinals defeat to the Miami Heat.
DEERFIELD. Ill. -- Rest and recovery is now on tap for many Chicago Bulls players now that the season has come to a close. The walking wounded included Joakim Noah and his sore feet, Kirk Hinrich and his calf injury, Luol Deng and his complications from a spinal tap and, of course, Derrick Rose, who still needs to regain the necessary confidence after his ACL injury last April.
A message to Gar Forman: DO NOT TOUCH. Please don't touch or do anything that would have any significant impact on this team. We all know that it's almost by nature that general managers make serious changes or drastically "tweak" their teams in the offseason if they don't win their last game, but just once let this team be the exception to that rule.
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MIAMI -- For the second consecutive year, the Chicago Bulls head into the summer knowing that their team will look a lot different in October than it did at the end of the season. The Bulls' core, led by a presumably healthy Derrick Rose, will be largely intact barring a major trade this summer.
One of the arguments against Derrick Rose returning this season was that even with Rose healthy and playing, the Chicago Bulls didn't have enough firepower to get past the Miami Heat. Did the Heat winning the Eastern Conference semifinals 4-1 support that argument?
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MIAMI -- The Chicago Bulls deserve all the praise in the world for dragging themselves to the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. They played the underdog role well and continued fighting all the way up until Jimmy Butler's 3-pointer clanked away just before the buzzer of their 94-91 loss to the Miami Heat in Game 5 on Wednesday night.
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