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bocaj,

Good god, you're a twat.

I almost walked into Will Forte the other day.

Quote from: CT II on May 10, 2008, 03:13:36 PM
So, it'll be that assistant coach from Boston who loves teh defense, then?

That's the lone hope, but he's already turned Paxson down, and I'm just left to assume that Reinsdorf will offer him a low-ball offer as well.

Bulls are insignificant right now.

The brother of my brother's best friend got drafted by the Jets in the first round.

Sorry, dude.

poifact

This guy can't be real.

He has to be some hoo-ha with a midwestern sensibility having some fun with us.

Right.

RIGHT?!?@?!?!?@#$?!?!

Quote from: RV on April 17, 2008, 08:40:47 PM
40 shekels to whoever can figure out what Creed's going to do with that third chair.

Great episode.

God that was good. And you know the writers will never touch it again. Nothing could compete with the imagination.

That said, they have come close. Especially with that "blog" of his.

Quote from: EG on April 17, 2008, 10:19:05 AM

Quote from: RV on April 17, 2008, 10:08:26 AM
Well, that train wreck of a season is finally over. I don't know about you guys but I think Aaron Gray can put up that 19 and 22 every night next season if he dedicates himself to his craft.

In case you are an idiot and don't read KD over on Yahoo:

QuoteHere's what Chicago's starting lineup should look like next year:

PG: Kirk Hinrich
SG: Thabo Sefolosha
SF: Luol Deng
PF: Tyrus Thomas
C: Joakim Noah

Bring Aaron Gray (19 points and 22 rebounds) and Ben Gordon off the bench, banish Larry Hughes (1-6 tonight, 38 percent shooting on the season) to the end of the pine, trade Andres Nocioni for a lower-rung draft pick and potential cap relief that can be spent on re-signing the parts to what could be a special, special team.

Find a coach. Find a real coach. Show the coach a tape of this game. Understand that Noah and Thomas are this team's two best passers, and run things through those two. Drink in the potential and watch as it works when you give players consistent minutes and roles they can count on. Watch 55 wins pile up.

Saw that.  Pretty much agreed with it.  The parts I didn't agree with, I made myself agree with, because KD knows a lot more about basketball than me.

I still can't shake the feeling that the Bulls should be able to do better than Kirk Hinrich. 

They could, but I don't see anyone taking on Hinrich's salary at this point. Any trade involving Kirk would likely result in a lesser talent being brought aboard to run things.

I don't have a mini-column in me, I'm sick as tits and was actually guilt-tripped into going to the ER soon after I wrote that post up there. I don't really know who I'd want, all the ex-head coaches have bushels of caveats and mitigating factors (Carlisle would get the Bulls defending again, but he doesn't know how to run a high-speed offense, and that's what Chicago has to be; that's when it was at its best under Skiles).

There are a ton of assistants that I like, but with someone who's never run a team, and no proof to build off of (save for the occasional three quarters of coaching after, say, Gregg Popovich gets two Ts) Paxson's guesses are as good as mine.

I'm hearing Carlisle might go to the Bucks, so there's hope.

Or is there?

Never thought much of Jane (though I like her on the show), and have adored Dratch's work for years ... but Dratch wasn't working on this show. It was a shoe-horn.

It was also a good idea. The, "cool, look what she's playing now"-bit could have worked, but not in a 22-minute format. And with so much formidable talent (this might be the best show on TV, and yet, how many amazing episodes have ended with us thinking, "I could have used more Baldwin/Morgan"?), it's hard to shove another one in there.

That's what she said. Twice.

Quote from: butthead on April 12, 2008, 09:40:13 PM
Solid episode, except for the bald dude that got his hand stuck in the vending machine. That guy brings nothing to the show.

I remember the first two or three episodes where he had a very prominent role, as big as Baldwin/Morgan's. Since then, they've (thankfully reduced it).

I just thought about this in the midst of bashing out this post -- where was the blonde from Vacation/Ally McBeal?

Nobody liked Jim trying to walk out on Pam, but it was a dick move, and it was nice to see the writers attempt to execute a dick move with Halpert for once.

It wasn't enjoyable, but it was needed. And the episode was like the first episode of a season: something that sets the stage for a series of call-backs as the season moves along.

Quote from: butthead on April 11, 2008, 01:20:00 PM

Quote from: KD on April 11, 2008, 01:09:47 PM
Once again: he couldn't have traded for KG/Gasol/Kobe. Those players weren't available to trade for.

I get that those trades couldn't have worked, no matter how much they were hyped, but what the hell should he have done? Obviously something, since the team is shit now. Was there anything obvious he missed out on by being too passive?

I can't think of anything, honestly. My stance now is the same as it was before the Wallace signing: I wanted him to go after either Chris Wilcox/Drew Gooden and Joel Przybilla/Nazr Mohammad with the money (a PF and C), and retain them as tradeable parts (as the Cavs did with Gooden), instead of blowing all of it on one player (which happened to be Wallace). Smarter NBA people should have looked at Chandler's stats, taken the context of his free agent summer (of 2005) into account, and written 2005-06 off as a fluke year. Which it was. And he's bounced back big-time, as expected by everyone save Pax.

But other than that, I don't know. This team didn't need Brandon Roy, and as someone who watches a lot of Portland, believe me, you don't want LaMarcus Aldridge on the Bulls.

The big mistake was not coaching himself, not having a viable replacement in line when Skiles burned out (as everyone assumed he would, just like the Hubies and Doug Collins-types do every time), and not impressing on Boylan to play the f'n kids. The Sixers GM told Mo Cheeks to either play their rookie, or it was his job, Cheeks played the youngster (and others), and Philly is in the playoffs. If Pax had done the same thing to Boylan, this season might be different.

Instead ... Larry Hughes!

I couldn't tell you of a trade that could have been had. One thing he might have done would be to send PJ Brown (and a pick) to Phoenix for Kurt Thomas in February of 2007, thus giving himself another expiring contract to use in a potential trade, but I don't know if Phoenix would have wanted the pick (they don't want the luxury tax, either, and trade all their picks), and Reinsdorf may not have signed off on it because he doesn't want to pay the luxury tax. Also, Pax was trying to work a Gasol deal in the final seconds of that trade deadline, so he can't really turn around in a matter of seconds and ship Brown to Phoenix instead of Memphis, should Jerry West change his mind at the last second.

The biggest issue is Reinsdorf. The Bulls are going to needlessly lose Ben Gordon this year or the next because Larry Hughes makes too much money, and Reinsdorf won't pay for a winner. Read this, from Memphis' owner:

"Just look at Chicago. Chicago's record over the last 10 years has been worse than ours. I've been to the playoffs more times than they have. They've been the worst team in the league like 3 or 4 times. I've been the worst team once.

Their record, even though they play in the East which by any stretch is a hell of a lot easier than the West these last 7-10 years, but Chicago sells out every game. They have local TV revenue of $30-40 million dollars which is about my total revenue so how am I going to compete with Chicago?

Of course, Chicago makes a lot of money for their owners and we lose a lot of money for ours."

No team in the NBA has made anywhere near the amount of money as the Bulls have over the last decade, it's not even close, and yet Reinsdorf won't take any of that money and put it into paying for a winner. In fact, it may cost the Bulls a good coach this summer (I don't want Carlisle at all, but he is an OK coach) because Jerry is already paying Skiles next year.