I was sorry to hear about Carlos Boozer’s injury.
Because I was hoping he had been benched for stinking it up again.
Get a load of this line from Game 5 of the Bulls’ playoff series against Indiana: one basket, five rebounds, four fouls. I became a writer because I thought there was no math involved, but I believe that works out to $80 million per basket.
It’s that kind of stuff for which I was hoping that Boozer’s deserved time on the sidelines was common sense. I was hoping that Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau had grown as sick of Boozer’s act as I had.
Part of the act is that he can put up the kind of line he authored in Game 5, but the more aggravating part of the act is that he appears to be mentally or emotionally unable to rebound from a bad start to finish with a good game. If he doesn’t get off early, it seems, he never gets off. He just gets worse.
The Bulls are supposed to depend on that guy for the next two months? Yeesh.
That’s why I was hoping that Thibodeau had figured it out and decided he didn’t want to see more bad Boozer late in a game he needed to win after seeing all that bad Boozer early. There was Taj Gibson coming off the bench, adding 10 points and grabbing seven rebounds in 30 minutes, and looking like he understood how the game needed to be played. He didn’t act like a guy who was demanding his touches. He was going after them. I was hoping Thibodeau had wised up and was going to win a game, no matter whose feelings might be hurt.
But no. Boozer said he suffered an injury to his right big toe. Of course he did, because that’s part of his irritating act, as well. It’s something every month with this guy. Did he buy a timeshare on the injured list? How can a guy who’s that cut be that injury-prone? How can a guy who has no idea how to guard anybody get hurt so often?
The Bulls got rid of the Pacers and now will get some rest before the winner of Orlando-Atlanta shows up. That’s good for Derrick Rose. That’s bad for those of us who are tired of Carlos Soriano.