Big day, I mean a HUGE day, for the cheese. First the addition of Squints, and now Ling Ling the Basketball Panda. Chairman Chet asked me to come in and write about the Bulls. But screw the Chairman, because I'll do what I want in this space.
Like everyone else that writes here, I'm a fan of all the Chicago teams (Bulls, Bears, Hawks, and Sox, in that order). I also heavily follow other less popular sports like golf and international soccer. Maybe I'll write about those things too, who knows. What I do know is that there will be more sports related pop culture entries from me than my counterparts. Chairman Chet probably will disagree with that choice, but who cares what he says. Like Squints, I also plan to use this space to hate on our "boss".
So to actually talk about what I was brought on here for, da Bulls. They played two dominating games (w/o Boozer) against the Hawks and Jazz. Thibs hit them with a heavy dose of DRose and stellar defense. The MVP candidate went off for 34-5-6 and 26-4-1 respectively. Not to mention 17 pts in the first quarter against the Jazz (5-6 from 3pt land). The man puts the team on his back and carries them for win after win. This isn't surprising seeing as he's done it the entire year. He's going to have to do it again without the injury prone Boozer who is still day-to-day. We should now accept that he is just gonna miss at least 10-15 games a year because his body is made up of popsicle sticks. At least the team has proved that they can win efficiently without a key player in the line up. The rotating platoon of the TajMahal, Big Sexy, and AsikTheFreak shows how deep our bench is and that we can still compete night in and night out.
Next game is Tuesday against the Wiz, which brings us to a section that I like to call "Asian Athlete of the Week". I'm sure a lot of people have seen this already, but in case you haven't I'd like to introduce you to Jeremy Lin. This kid grew up in California and wasn't recruited by any D1 schools. He ended up going to Harvard (he's Asian) and killing it in the Ivy League. Instead of becoming a doctor (again, he's Asian), he got a call to play on the Mavs summer league team and killed John Wall on both ends of the court. He eventually got signed to play for the Warriors and could pretty much be the Asian version of Scalabrine, but a lot smarter obviously. Bulls should trade one of our 1st rounders for him this summer (kidding......maybe).
Best part about that clip comes at 1:34... "...didn't over-penetrate." (cause he's Asian).
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