Blame Game- Bulls-Magic 3/8

There's no shame in losing to a team like the Magic, especially when they're shooting so well from beyond the arc, and the 2nd night of a back-to-back and all. But it's frustrating anyway, because the Bulls really had the Magic where they wanted them, then had too many missed open shots and gave up too many offensive rebounds to pull it out. This was a total team loss for the Bulls tonight, so there's plenty of blame to go around.

Deng- 30%
Lu is 14-41 from the field over the last 4 games, and as you probably noticed, he wasn't even close on a lot of wide open shots. Worse, he wasn't exactly great defensively, either. Yet he played 39 minutes tonight. So I'll get to that later.

Fredo- 20%
I've said before that I love when a streak shooter on the other team gets hot early, since they usually end up shooting their team out of it. Kyle did that to the Bulls tonight. He just need to hit 1 of those 3-4 wide open threes he had in the 4th quarter to make that a different game late, and he didn't. If he hadn't been so hot in the 2nd quarter, he might not have played so much in the 4th.

Derrick- 17%
It always hurts to give Derrick any percent in the blame game, since even when he has a bad game, he still does so many good things for the Bulls offense. But yeah, 6 for 22...

TT- 15%
Yeah, Carlos was having a good game offensively. Know who the only player shooting better than him was? Taj. 6 for 7 from the field, and probably wouldn't have given up terrible offensive rebounds late.

Boozer- 10%
Which is why Boozer is on here at all. He had his usual terrible rotations on defense all game, but Ryan Andersen's offensive rebound with 46 seconds was unforgivable. Boozer just completely spaced out and watched the ball instead of boxing out (which is part of the reason Boozer gets WAY too much credit for his rebounding abilities.) The Bulls get the ball there, and they're down 3 with 45 seconds left and the ball. That offensive rebound sealed the game.

Joakim- 5%
Not terrible, but some silly unnecessary fouls at the wrong times.

Turkish D- 3%
Was Asik the reason we lost? No. But he's not contributing as much as he should be lately.

Absolved-
Taj- I mentioned it above, but he should have played more than 18 minutes tonight.

Jimmy Butler- He couldn't have played worse than Lu. And while I wanted to give TT credit for pulling Lu in the 4th, he could have realized the foul on Turkoglu was a complete flop. Good start TT, now keep giving Jimmy a chance.