We're Not Trying, So You Shouldn't Try Either

Bulls hand slumping Knicks most lopsided loss of season

"I think they were definitely trying to rub it in," said Eddy Curry, who spent his first four seasons with the Bulls. "But we'll see them next year."

Fans get free Big Macs if the Bulls score 100. Chicago's Chris Duhon acknowledged they were trying to feed spectators but denied trying to run up the score. Thabo Sefolosha missed a 3-pointer with 1:04 left, and Duhon missed two in the final minute. Malik Allen also missed a layup with 10 seconds left.

Is this a joke?  No, seriously I'm not joking.  Is this a joke?  The New York Knicks are complaining that the Chicago Bulls were running up the score on them.  They got to 98 points and the Knicks are saying that the Bulls were running up the score.  They have got to be kidding me.

"As a veteran, I have been in the league long enough, and I know when people are trying to run up the score on you," Francis said. "And I told their players, if I was in the game, it would've been something different. If it was a threat or whatever, I'm a veteran. I won't do that to nobody, and I don't expect nobody to try to do that to younger players on my team, so that's what it was."

Oh really Steve?  If you were in the game things would have been different?  Why weren't you in the game?  I'm sure that sprained big toe of yours really hurt.  Nothing says we aren't going to try in this game quite like your star player sitting the game out because of a sprained toe. 

It was 21-10 after the first quarter and 45-27 at halftime. It finished 98-69.

It is a completely different story in the amateur ranks.  Things are not always going to be fair.  Certain teams will always be better than other teams.  That does not give the better teams the right to embarrass the other team.  Here is where I get upset.  Players look up to professional athletes.  What are they supposed to think when the Knicks blame the Bulls for kicking them to the curb?   There is not a set way for teams to lose a game. 

To borrow from Jim Rome:

"You're a professional athlete.   It's the NBA.   You have to love that there is a protocol or an etiquette for getting your heads beatin in.  Like; 'We gave up.  You knew we gave up.  So it's on you to stop trying.  Let us off the hook and not embarrass us.'  That is hilarious.  If you don't want to be embarrassed guard somebody.  If you don't want to look bad, get a hand in some bodies face.  If you don't want to be humiliated, go to the glass.  You're confusing their running it up, with them actually trying."

This sounds a bit familiar to something.  Oh yeah.  It's today's culture.  It is not my fault I did something wrong.  It is yours.  It's not my fault that I have done some bad things.  It's yours.  Why would you hold me accountable for my actions?  How dare you?

Who knows where people get this mentality that it is never their fault for what happens.  You're the New York Knicks.  It's your job to actually play basketball.  I hear they are an up and coming team.  A force to be reckoned with.  Everyone has a bad game.  But when you quite in the first quarter, don't blame the other team for still trying and giving their full effort because that is what they are supposed to do.  If you don't like what is happening around you put forth some effort to change it instead of waiting until it is finished and then complaining that the other team tried too hard.