DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Here are five observations of the Chicago Bulls from training camp:

	Crawford

1. The Bulls don't have any plans to move Jamal Crawford -- yet. The third-year guard is back from his knee injury and battling Jay Williams for the starting point guard spot. Williams is ahead right now, but Chicago isn't ready to bail on Crawford. "Getting Jay is huge, getting him in here," head coach Bill Cartwright said. "But you know what? Jamal's playing pretty damn good, too."

2. Eddie Robinson looks healthy after playing in just 29 games last season following a toe injury. The Bulls need to start seeing the explosiveness from Robinson that compelled them to give him a five-year, $31 million contract in 2001.

3. Jalen Rose says he has no further acting plans for the moment after getting a cameo appearance (but no lines!) in the hit movie "Barbershop." Like just about everyone involved with the movie, Rose doesn't believe the controversial scene in the film in which an older barber punctures the balloons of some of black America's most lionized figures like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., should have been viewed as offensive.

4. Cartwright's voice, affected when he got an elbow to the throat in his last season as a player in 1994, is still soft, but it appears to be much fuller than it was when he took over as head coach last season. The Bulls' practice is unlike any other in the league. When Cartwright stops play to make a teaching point, everything stops. But you can literally hear him across the floor, and he's not speaking above a whisper.

5. The Bulls will have to weather the storm early. Seven of their first nine regular season opponents are playoff teams from last season, and an eighth is Milwaukee. Then, Chicago embarks on a six-game road trip at the end of November, including games at Sacramento, the Lakers, Utah, Boston and Dallas.

David Aldridge, who covers the NBA for ESPN, is a regular contributor to ESPN.com.