Good guy Billy doesn’t want Bulls games to drag out any longer than absolutely necessary.

Which is really dumb

Spo is the same

He lost one last night and then we had a play that was an easy challenge we couldn’t later. Not that it matters, we’re cheeks.

I mean, losing a time out is not nothing, and it depends on the situation but losing a challenge can really sting if there is a particularly egregious call later in the game. I don’t think you’re totally wrong but I don’t think you’re totally right either.

I’d be interested in a points +- from challenges. Sometimes you can win a challenge and it not be all that impactful

Feel exactly the same way. Also not sure why this is such a heavily discussed stat during games. Seems like announcers need to spit out some facts about this during a challenge.

Unless it’s a recurring problem that you run out of challenges I agree

heres rarely situation where losing the challenge costs (other than a TO)

There are frequently times when a team doesn’t have a challenge left to challenge an important call in the 4th quarter.

Challenging an obviously wrong out of bounds call in the first quarter with 4 seconds left on the shot clock will increase your number of successful challenges, but it won’t help you win the game.

Loss of timeout really depends on situation. But the big penalty is losing your ability to challenge later in the game.

Like - if it’s 3 minute left in the game and you haven’t challenged yet and are sitting on 3 timeouts, it’s a no brainer to challenge anything borderline. But - you don’t burn a challenge on a random out of bounds play in the 2nd quarter just because.

Nah I think y’all paying them more than enough.

Nah you guys are elite. Good win % very high volume. You have won more challenges (45) than half these teams have even attempted

They live by “Ball don’t lie”.

Why use them when we’re usually wrong anyway?

The indifference has permeated the entire franchise down to the coach.

I think they publish the numbers weekly, these were posted today for games played through March 8th. Last night they were probably citing numbers for games played through last week.

It’s nice that we didn’t lose our effectiveness at challenges with Thibs. Meanwhile fans have been kinda upset thinking Brown should challenge even more calls than he does.

I feel like Brown basically always waits for bench approval and more or less ignores any player telling him to challenge unless it’s Brunson. Which I think is fair to a degree, because we have some guys who have never committed a foul in their life in their mind.