Well, after that game I was pretty happy. Looks like ESPN is starting to get on the green bandwagon, talking about how much heart they put into blowout games like these.
I really like Derrick Rose from what I've seen. He didn't get any assists but when your team is shooting so atrociously it isn't really a surprise. I was very impressed with him.
That said, I thought Rondo did a very nice job covering him. He did some nice things, looked in total control handling the ball and the offense and used his quickness nicely to get some easy layups while the Chicago D was snoozing.
I didn't like anything else Chicago did (except Aaron Gray, thought he did some nice things), especially Nocioni. That temper tantrum which led to the tech foul was in no way the right way to respond to a foul he didn't agree with. Fouled out in spectacular fashion. Tyrus Thomas...eh. I liked him more as the game went on, but obviously very raw, but I liked his hustle at some points.
I thought Perk did a good job but got blocked around the rim a few times where he has the strength where he must go up hard.
Leon was huge tonight, he (and Perk too) really showed a much finer post game than I've seen from them last season; props to Clifford Ray.
I actually liked Tony today. He played hard for most of the game, got some steals, mainly stayed in front of his man and didn't force shots. I think he also solved the debate about whether he dishes when he drives as he had a number of wrap around passes to Leon and Baby especially which didn't really convert on the boxscore. His focus really seemed to go in the 4th quarter, where he took a lot more shots and stopped running in either offense or defense. That's forgivable though when up by 20 in my opinion (well, moreso than other times he's shown off his propensity to lose focus).
I hope nobody here was making the Scalabrine chant. It's an embarassment to everybody.
Did anybody else think Leon's flip shot that he banked in was actually purposeful? I've seen him do it a few times now. A final note, Leon is one of the people in the game where I'm confident that if he gets the ball he's going to either score/get to the line and make the right decision more often than not. Which is more than impressive for a bench player.