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Bull sees changes; Chandler on the outer?Eddy Curry believes things will be different for the Bulls next season, and Curry is perceptive enough to know the mostly likely difference will be a major roster shakeup. Asked whether he believes he'll be part of the purge, Curry responded: ''Never know, might be. Hope not, but ...'' Fellow high school-to-NBA phenom Tyson Chandler may be the most likely to go. He didn't play Thursday, which was his first healthy scratch of the season. ''I have no clue why,'' Chandler said. ''I definitely was surprised. ''I didn't know coming into the game I wasn't going to play. I expected to play.'' Chandler is 0-of-5 from the field in his last four games, but Skiles' problems with Chandler extend beyond the stat sheet. Skiles wasn't happy with Chandler's appearance Wednesday against Detroit. Chandler wears black nylon shorts under his game shorts, and he tucked his jersey into the nylon shorts and let his game shorts sag. The Bulls' policy is to fine players who don't wear their uniforms properly. Curry and Eddie Robinson also have been fined. ''My intention was to play him quite a bit [Wednesday], but when he checked in the game, he didn't have the proper uniform appearance,'' Skiles said before the game. ''We made it clear that wasn't acceptable. ''So, we'll see. It's a shame you have to police that.'' ''I don't see how you could be displeased [with recent performances],'' Chandler said. "I'm playing the minutes he gives me, and I'm playing hard. So I don't think that's the case. ''I don't know. I wasn't in his rotation. Life isn't fair. I work hard and do everything I'm supposed to do. I can't sit here and try to figure out what his mind is doing. If I did that, I'd go crazy.'' Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Bulls activate Kendall GillCHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Bulls activated guard Kendall Gill Thursday and placed Chris Jeffries on the injured list with lower back pain. Gill, a 13-year veteran, was on the injured list since Jan. 25 with a strained right Achilles' tendon. He was injured two days earlier in a game against the Dallas Mavericks and has missed Chicago's past 14 games. The injury snapped Gill's streak of 138 straight games played. He averaged 10.2 points in the Bulls' first 43 games. Chicago was to play at Washington later Thursday. Jeffries, acquired in a trade Dec. 1 with the Toronto Raptors, has played in 14 games with the Bulls and has averaged 3.6 points. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Chicago running out of excusesThe 2003-2004 campaign will undoubtedly go down as a learning experience for Bulls VP of Basketball operations John Paxson. If anything, the first-year executive will learn to keep his over-enthusiastic pre-season proclamations to himself next season, instead of letting anyone who is willing to listen know that anything less than playoff appearance for his team will be unsatisfactory. In a city that believes in the ‘Curse of the Billy Goat,’ Paxson’s ‘No Excuses’ motto at the start of the season has proven to serve as somewhat of a curse in its own right and kind of makes his predecessor Jerry Krause’s “Organizations Win Championships” blast look like pure ingenious at this point. Not only was the proclamation premature at best- as the Baby Bulls were never ready to embark on a post-season journey, despite what all of us dupes were led to believe- but it’s proven to be- pardon the pun- a bunch of bull. This season has been nothing but excuses if you‘re the Chicago Bulls. The latest excuse used by the organization: Conditioning- or lack thereof. After back-to-back losses over the weekend to the Sacramento Kings and Memphis Grizzlies- another young upstart who has blown right by the Bulls in the rebuilding process- head coach Scott Skiles didn’t hesitate to use the C-word as the reason for his team’s latest struggles. “I’ll go this far: We just played two games, and in both games, the other team was in better shape than us. It’s not anything I want to harp on because somebody could take it as something negative or it’s a reflection on people before me. I’m just stating a fact…” A fact it may be. But it’s also been the same broken-record story Skiles has been conveying pretty much since running his first practice with the team three months ago. Bring it up once and you’re proving a point. Keep bringing it up constantly after mounting losses and it reeks of an excuse- something fans in the Windy City- deservedly so- have grown tired of hearing. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Bulls Feb 2004 Archive
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