Dwyane Wade not pleased with hometown Chicago fans booing Bulls at home
The guard said the team didn't deserve it
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Dwyane Wade wants his hometown fans to be more supportive. The Chicago Bulls guard told reporters Wednesday that he was not thrilled with the United Center crowd booing them last Friday during their 95-69 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.
"I'm an honest guy," Wade said, via CSN Chicago's Vincent Goodwill. "I was very disappointed our fans booed us. We're trying to figure it out. We win home games against Cleveland, San Antonio. And then we get our butts kicked against Milwaukee. I don't think we deserved to get booed. We're out here trying. I'd like to see more patience and more support from everybody. Like I said at the beginning of the year, we're not winning a championship today. We're not winning a championship tomorrow. We got stages and levels to get to where we want to get to. And everyone gotta understand that."
Wade has a point. It's not as if the Bulls have been a disaster this season, and they generally seem to be getting along much better than last year. This is not an elite team, and given the amount of new faces, the lack of shooting on the roster and the number of young players in the rotation, Chicago has some impressive wins and a perfectly fine record. Some might argue that, at 14-13, it is overachieving.
On the other hand, let's not forget how awful that Bucks game was. The Bulls had lost two games in a row, including a game in Milwaukee the previous night, and yet they were outscored 34-15 in the first quarter. They shot 30.4 percent and recorded their lowest point total since April 2014, per the Chicago Tribune's K.C. Johnson. It was so bad that it compelled coach Fred Hoiberg to hold an extra-long practice that "felt like training camp," according to forward Doug McDermott, who called the boos "embarrassing."
Personally, I'm not a big fan of crowds turning on the home team. If there is a kind of loss that calls for it, though, the Bucks game probably fits into that category. And if you need a positive spin on this story, Chicago has already rebounded from that game -- it destroyed the Detroit Pistons 113-82 on Monday at the United Center. Maybe the boos served as motivation.
