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6A Friday, January 20,1995
No bull: Chicago struggling to win
The Associated Press
DEERFIELD, Ill. — There's no use pretending any more. These Chicago Bulls aren't champions. Unlike last year, they aren't even decent imitations.
Only one season removed from its third consecutive National Basketball Association title, Chicago is just another struggling, sub-500 team.
"Reality stinks, doesn't it?" coach Phil Jackson said yesterday. "You just have to accept what we are now."
Some of his players already have.
"We're right where we're supposed to be," B.J. Armstrong said. "We're not the most talented group. It's a struggle. We're just overmatched."
The Bulls went 55-27 last season because they had enough firepower left to survive Michael Jordan's retirement. This season, however, they haven't been able to survive the additional departures of Horace Grant, Bill Cartwright and Scott Williams to free agency and John Paxson to retirement.
Wednesday's 97-93 loss to Milwaukee was Chicago's fourth straight. The Bulls, now 18-19, haven't been below. 500 this late in a season since finishing 40-42 in 1986-87.
"It is disappointing," Scottie Pippen
said. "This organization has always been able to win. As a player who's dedicated myself to winning and been around winners, it's a tough situation."
Players such as Pippen and Armstrong never experienced a fourgame losing streak when the Bulls were winning championships in 1991, 1992 and 1993.
"That's the way it is." Armstrong said. "I've enjoyed years when we've had great teams, and now I'm enjoying this year. It's a new challenge for me, a new challenge for us. We have to go out and get it done. So let's quit crying and whining about it; let's go out and play and try to win."
He wasn't talking about any one player crying and whining. But he might as well have been referring to Pippen, who last week told the Bulls to trade him because he's upset about their refusal to negotiate his contract. The team's four-game skid began after Pippen aired his demands publicly.
Pippen spoke briefly to his teammates before Wednesday's game.
"I just tried to pull us back together," he said. "I don't think it helped as far as the outcome, but we just needed to get that unity back."
Players banned after fight
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — The NBA suspended six Portland Trail Blazers and Sacramento's Olden Polynice for one game each yesterday for their fight in Tuesday night's game at Sacramento.
Kersey were fined $2.500 each.
Polynice and Portland point guard Rod Strickland also were fined $5,000 each. In addition, Blazers' Clyde Drexler, Mark Bryant, James Edwards, Harvey Grant and Jerome
Strickland and Polynice were involved in the fight. The other five Blazers violated a new league rule that prohibits players from coming off the bench during a fight. Strickland, Bryant and Drexler missed yesterday's game against the Phoenix Suns. Edwards, Grant and Kersey will miss tonight's game against the Clippers. Polynice missed yesterday's game against Golden State.
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