Scott Skiles isn’t messing around

Down 0-2 and arguably playing really good basketball is tough. It’s much like everything you read here – lots of effort, but there’s just nothing to show for it. That goes for both the reader and the writer.

That being the case, Bulls coach Scott Skiles isn’t taking time to listen to Ben Gordon’s complaints about the offense not giving him enough shots.

“He should know it by now,” Skiles said. “We constantly are running things for Ben. You can ask any team in the league, and they all would tell you the same thing.”

“It’s something he’s going to have to get over. He needs to face the personal responsibility of what he needs to get done. … It’s an opportunity for him to learn a good lesson at this time of year.”

What’s that lesson?

Perhaps getting benched for tonight’s Game 3, which is back in Chicago. Replacing him would be Luol Deng, who is an allegedly better defender and also more foreign, which fits in better with the werewolf Andreas Nocioni.

Either way, we don’t see the Bulls taking a game from the Heat, no matter who’s playing. There are also rumblings that Tyson Chandler could see minute number one of the game, which would balance out the fact he makes $10M per year a bit. What this really means for you is you get to read Ben Gordon’s name is roughly 1400 different trade rumors this summer, half of which involve Kevin Garnett and/or Jermaine O’Neal.

As we like to do, let’s bring it back to us. We’re six posts away from our 1000th post – seven if you count the thousandth one. That means the sixth is 999, and the next one is 1000. We can’t tell you much about what’s going to happen, but we can tell you a little.

Seriously – we know we mess around here a lot, but we’re totally dead being for real – nothing will ever be the same here again.