Billy Donovan SPEAKS OUT on DeMar DeRozan… | Chicago Bulls News

Billy Donovan SPEAKS OUT on DeMar DeRozan… | Chicago Bulls News

It’s no secret that deer de rosan is getting older and it is time for him to take less minutes on this team Billy Donovan has had to play him over 35 minutes a game in the absence of Zack LaVine and nicoa vuvi and as the focal point of the offense things are only

Getting tougher we’re going to discuss more of this in this episode of bulls digest I’m your host Joey Mercer and before we get into it there today I just want to say that about 88% of you that watch these videos are not subscribed so if you aren’t already to the channel

Make sure to go down below hit the Subscribe button turn on the bell for notifications and you will stay up toate with the team that we all know in love here which is the Chicago Bulls without further Ado let’s get into the topic of today and that is D rozan isn’t getting

Any younger so yes it’s no secret of course he is the focal point of the offense and it is even close now with Zack lven of the lineup and now with v down there’s a lot of pressure on dear D rozan last game against the Pacers was a

Really tough and brutal loss as they played Zone and we don’t have the shooters around to really help Andre Drummond who got out of the game early because of that however I want to mention that they really attacked our players when Drummond wasn’t in the game and we got outrebounded which isn’t what

You’d like to see Billy Donovan should have made some more changes there to allow Drummond to be incorporated in the offense maybe running more pick and rolls trying to get out of that zone and there needs to be more Shooters on the court of the time there were some really

Funky lineups ran there in that game and that’s why I don’t want to put as much blame on Drummond as a lot of people have that I’ve seen online demard Rosen was solid in that game of course but the amount of minutes that he had to play is

What was really alarming and opened my eyes to this article by Sports Illustrated it said with the bulls depth weak and due to injuries Billy Donovan will be cautious with the mid rosen’s minutes the minutes of the bull star are increasing as Chicago continues to rely

On him the most and that is by Stephen best lick of Sports Illustrated just posted there today next thing he said in the article was despite the uncertainty and the overwhelmingly pressure about his future demer continues to dust off any drama that tries to bind him and the franchise

He remained and will always remain committed professional and a willing leader of the Chicago Bulls while Debo is overjoyed and content to be at the Forefront of the Bulls charge there’s some concern about how he will keep himself motivated especially since both of his teammates Zack LaVine and Nicole

Vuvi are out for an extended period of time and the age is the biggest worry I mean it seems like it’s going to happen at this point that the injury bug will hit him just because he is of an advanced age if dear D rozan was in his

20s still or even just 30 people would say well you know maybe he can carry this sort of an offensive load but now that he’s in his mid-30s that’s not exactly what you want to rely on next thing we saw was so far this season Debo

Is averaging 36 6 minutes a game he sits a top the entire team on minutes log League wide he stands within the top six but considering his age and the amount of load he has to carry his current minutes average imposes such a risk on what could unfold in the next few games

In his last 10 games he managed to crack within 40 minutes of play or more five times very worrisome that’s a lot of minutes for anybody to play especially a aging Wing in the NBA however Debo looks very solid out there doesn’t seem to be bothered by the minutes played but

There’s been a few times that have been scares in the past couple of games where you see him go down maybe grab his foot his knee quickly and then get back up you can tell that he isn’t in the prime of his career to be doing that however

He does seem to be in the offensive Prime the past few years which is absolutely crazy to think that he’s kind of just mastered things to a point where he knows what spots he has to get to and the assist going up has meant that he’s even a more crucial point of that

Offense getting everybody involved had some crazy highlight assist so far the year next thing we saw was I am concerned Donovan said about Debo’s increasing minutes it is the situation we’ve been in with Tori Vu and Zack out I play him a lot I want to be mindful of

That I do check with him he’s good with communication about his ability let’s hope that the Rosen is accurate in what he’s saying and it isn’t just him saying no I’m all right I’ll I’ll be fine I do not want to see another player on this team go down with an injury and

Especially de M Ro where he’s so crucial to any sort of success that we’ve kind of dived into the next thing we saw was as it is the Bulls cannot afford to lose another body and they cannot truly survive if dear once unfortunately gets inflicted by an injury bug and yeah I

Mean we’ve already talked about that that in this video and it’s very accurate to come out and say that I mean dear is such a focal point of this we don’t have anybody to back them up I mean the Indiana game is something I really wanted to touch on because we

Just don’t have the bench right now to be running these players Terry Taylor played 13 or 14 minutes and not a lot of anything was happening out there for him I believe he’s a 6’4 or 65 what they call power forward I just don’t really understand how he fits on the court at

Any point in time not a huge fan of his game and it especially isn’t great to see him having to play over 10 minutes in a contest and some of the younger guys too I’ve been pretty underwhelmed with so it’s been quite worry out there

For the Bulls so far this year the next thing I saw was uh talking about Coach Donovan with the younger players and he actually came out and said he still has considerable pieces to consider which he can give increased minutes as a response to managing the load of deer besides

Alex Caruso and IOD dumu both dalen Terry and Julian Phillips appear serviceable enough to count on as the two can provide a fresher output as the team’s Young Guns I’m going to have to uh disagree with that strongly dalen Terry has looked pretty poor out on the

Court and Julian Phillips who has not played very much time at all doesn’t look like he belongs out there at any point in time and other teams have gone on runs while he’s been out there for sure in the limited time that he’s been out there I actually went on basketball

Reference to see if my eye test of the players while watching them is the same and it is accurate the first player we’re looking at here is Julian Phillips and in 18 games he’s only playing four minutes a game of course minutes have gone up more as of late but we can see

In 4 minutes it’s 6 points once again only four minutes but not even a point a game uh I mean nothing to mention in the counting stats there at all and you can see the Fiel goal percentage is 28% he’s hasn’t hit a three on half an attemp the

Game and 25% on a very few amounts from the free throw line hopefully in more playing time he can definitely pick up those numbers but those percentages in limited time are very very poor take it with a grain of salt of course cuz it’s very limited amount of time but I

Haven’t seen him doing much on the defensive end either that I would say is exceptional to have him play uh you know 10 plus minutes a game for example the next player we’re looking at is dalen Terry and you can see that since last year in increased time he’s actually

Taking less shots shooting worse uh more shots from three shooting worse much much worse and then free throw line is essentially the same and the points are actually worse because he’s playing more time that 38 games last year these are in 17 he’s playing more minutes per game

When I see dalen Terry out there it’s kind of like he’s just running around nothing is getting accomplished nothing’s getting done so I don’t really rely on those guys I understand they’re both young and they’ve both played very limited time in this league but from the very short time they’ve played they seem

To be an impact on the wrong way they seem to be negatively impacting the Bulls and assisting the other team in getting victories runs baskets whatever it may be this has been your host showy Mercer I hope that you all enjoyed the video there today lots more coming from

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In this video your host, Joey Mercer, discusses the recent reports of DeMar DeRozan’s play in a LOT of minutes and how the team worries for his safety.

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