NBA Hoop Thread (Non-Fro Dog Edition)

[BH]

Wow, that was terrible.

Which part--the 2.5 hour bricklayer union convention, or just that dopey tall foreign (I assume) white guy who failed to drop at least 1 free throw which may have made things interesting?

Did you really not know Omer is from Turkey?

CJ passed the ball off to a 45% FT shooter to take the final shots of the game. Then no one got back on defense. 

Anyways - is there anyone available this summer that can shoot free throws? I'm assuming CJ is good as gone, Korver most likely won't be back. Rose will be out for more than half of the year, Deng out for a large part of the year.

[Eli]

Wow, that was terrible.

Which part--the 2.5 hour bricklayer union convention, or just that dopey tall foreign (I assume) white guy who failed to drop at least 1 free throw which may have made things interesting?

I blame Watson for even passing the ball to him in that situation.

[Slaky]

I found it really hard to work up anger after Rose went down. Did I watch the final minutes with my butthole clenched? Yes. Was the last minute meltdown sad? Sure.

But I'm not going to start tweezing my sack hairs over this. It sucked the second Rose hobbled off the court.

Hopefully next year they find a nice groove with their role players while Rose gets healthy for the playoffs.

[Internet Apex]

I found it really hard to work up anger after Rose went down. Did I watch the final minutes with my butthole clenched? Yes. Was the last minute meltdown sad? Sure.

But I'm not going to start tweezing my sack hairs over this. It sucked the second Rose hobbled off the court.

Hopefully next year they find a nice groove with their role players while Rose gets healthy for the playoffs.

Isn't that what they were trying to do in this series?

[Eli]

While people are being dumb about needing to blow up the entire team, next year doesn't look very promising. There's no cap room to add anyone of significance in the offseason, they're not going to amnesty Boozer (and if they did, his replacement would probably be worse so it's not worth it) and they don't have the right assets to make a trade. So most likely, the same team is coming back next year with the caveat that Rose is unlikely to be completely 100% by the playoffs. He might be close, but that's probably not enough. And if Deng has surgery and also misses half the season it's not unreasonable the team limps to a 5 or 6 seed, making it even tougher in the playoffs.

It's depressing to already think of next year being a lost year, but I can't see it going any other way.

^*

* 2014 should be fine though

[PANK!]

Wow, that was terrible.

Which part--the 2.5 hour bricklayer union convention, or just that dopey tall foreign (I assume) white guy who failed to drop at least 1 free throw which may have made things interesting?

Did you really not know Omer is from Turkey?

I pretty much stopped watching the Bulls in 1998.

So, no.

[BH]

I found it really hard to work up anger after Rose went down. Did I watch the final minutes with my butthole clenched? Yes. Was the last minute meltdown sad? Sure.

But I'm not going to start tweezing my sack hairs over this. It sucked the second Rose hobbled off the court.

Hopefully next year they find a nice groove with their role players while Rose gets healthy for the playoffs.

Isn't that what they were trying to do in this series?

The bulls need more than rose + role players to ever have a chance of winning a title. They need a legitimate 2nd guy who is better than deng, who is a scorer.

[BH]

While people are being dumb about needing to blow up the entire team, next year doesn't look very promising. There's no cap room to add anyone of significance in the offseason, they're not going to amnesty Boozer (and if they did, his replacement would probably be worse so it's not worth it) and they don't have the right assets to make a trade. So most likely, the same team is coming back next year with the caveat that Rose is unlikely to be completely 100% by the playoffs. He might be close, but that's probably not enough. And if Deng has surgery and also misses half the season it's not unreasonable the team limps to a 5 or 6 seed, making it even tougher in the playoffs.

It's depressing to already think of next year being a lost year, but I can't see it going any other way.

^*

* 2014 should be fine though

The bulls could always amnesty boozer and tank the season like the Spurs did, then draft high.

[Eli]

While people are being dumb about needing to blow up the entire team, next year doesn't look very promising. There's no cap room to add anyone of significance in the offseason, they're not going to amnesty Boozer (and if they did, his replacement would probably be worse so it's not worth it) and they don't have the right assets to make a trade. So most likely, the same team is coming back next year with the caveat that Rose is unlikely to be completely 100% by the playoffs. He might be close, but that's probably not enough. And if Deng has surgery and also misses half the season it's not unreasonable the team limps to a 5 or 6 seed, making it even tougher in the playoffs.

It's depressing to already think of next year being a lost year, but I can't see it going any other way.

^*

* 2014 should be fine though

The bulls could always amnesty boozer and tank the season like the Spurs did, then draft high.

They're not going to tank.

[Slaky]

I found it really hard to work up anger after Rose went down. Did I watch the final minutes with my butthole clenched? Yes. Was the last minute meltdown sad? Sure.

But I'm not going to start tweezing my sack hairs over this. It sucked the second Rose hobbled off the court.

Hopefully next year they find a nice groove with their role players while Rose gets healthy for the playoffs.

Isn't that what they were trying to do in this series?

Now they'll be EXTRA prepared next year. Genius.

[BH]

While people are being dumb about needing to blow up the entire team, next year doesn't look very promising. There's no cap room to add anyone of significance in the offseason, they're not going to amnesty Boozer (and if they did, his replacement would probably be worse so it's not worth it) and they don't have the right assets to make a trade. So most likely, the same team is coming back next year with the caveat that Rose is unlikely to be completely 100% by the playoffs. He might be close, but that's probably not enough. And if Deng has surgery and also misses half the season it's not unreasonable the team limps to a 5 or 6 seed, making it even tougher in the playoffs.

It's depressing to already think of next year being a lost year, but I can't see it going any other way.

^*

* 2014 should be fine though

The bulls could always amnesty boozer and tank the season like the Spurs did, then draft high.

They're not going to tank.

Then you're right. This team will be an overachieving, try hard, decent team like they were this year.
Unless they get creative in trades, which hasn't been something garpax has been too interested in before.

[PANK!]

I found it really hard to work up anger after Rose went down. Did I watch the final minutes with my butthole clenched? Yes. Was the last minute meltdown sad? Sure.

But I'm not going to start tweezing my sack hairs over this. It sucked the second Rose hobbled off the court.

Hopefully next year they find a nice groove with their role players while Rose gets healthy for the playoffs.

This is pretty much everything right here.  Without Rose they had no chance anyway, so the gnashing of teeth over the game and series is a little melodramatic.  It would have been a nice story to come back down from 3-1 and deliver some asshurt to that weirdo Doug Collins but that likely would have been the high point once DR went down.

[Eli]

Then you're right. This team will be an overachieving, try hard, decent team like they were this year.
Unless they get creative in trades, which hasn't been something garpax has been too interested in before.

My biggest worry with next year is that Rose gets rushed back too early in an attempt to be competitive and does long-term damage to himself. The Bulls organization obviously has a pretty sketchy history with injured guys, even before these last few weeks.

[Richard Chuggar]

I found it really hard to work up anger after Rose went down. Did I watch the final minutes with my butthole clenched? Yes. Was the last minute meltdown sad? Sure.

But I'm not going to start tweezing my sack hairs over this. It sucked the second Rose hobbled off the court.

Hopefully next year they find a nice groove with their role players while Rose gets healthy for the playoffs.

This is pretty much everything right here.  Without Rose they had no chance anyway, so the gnashing of teeth over the game and series is a little melodramatic.  It would have been a nice story to come back down from 3-1 and deliver some asshurt to that weirdo Doug Collins but that likely would have been the high point once DR went down.

Thought you didnt watch the Bulls?

[BH]

Then you're right. This team will be an overachieving, try hard, decent team like they were this year.
Unless they get creative in trades, which hasn't been something garpax has been too interested in before.

My biggest worry with next year is that Rose gets rushed back too early in an attempt to be competitive and does long-term damage to himself. The Bulls organization obviously has a pretty sketchy history with injured guys, even before these last few weeks.

Hopefully the bulls listen to rose's complaints about the training staff and get decent doctors on board.