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Kinda sorta cool |
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Posted on: Jan 4 2013, 07:36 PM | |
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The right move. |
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Posted on: Nov 23 2012, 01:44 PM | |
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Games without Derrick Rose: 12. This has reminded me much more of the pre-Thibs circus trips, where the Bulls might have been scrappy, but were on the road and outgunned consistently. And Kirk Hinrich is approaching the "terribull" level. He's gotta play some offense. I think he is clearly capable of distributing, but we don't need Keith Bogans to play point guard. Our pieces were put in place to have a PG that could score. The old Kirk that could knock down some jumpers is all we need from him. In the meantime, Nate the Great is going to be on the floor every moment that it doesn't cause an absolute nightmare on defense. |
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Posted on: Nov 21 2012, 07:38 PM | |
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I don't see the problem with playing Taj and Booz together now and then. I think Taj can guard a good deal of the 5's out there, since so few are scoring threats anyway. Or Booz can guard them. Whichever. |
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Posted on: Nov 21 2012, 07:37 PM | |
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Might have blown our load too early with the reboot. Too much "no news" time between launch and season. |
Forum: Bulls Talk · Post Preview: #46898 · Replies: 45 · Views: 131,338 |
Posted on: Nov 18 2012, 08:02 PM | |
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Joakim and Kirk were really giving us some offense in that one :| |
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Posted on: Nov 14 2012, 12:32 PM | |
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Forum: Bulls Talk · Post Preview: #46887 · Replies: 2 · Views: 2,706 |
Posted on: Nov 11 2012, 04:00 PM | |
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We shall ride into the sunset on the shoulders of Mr. Nate Robinson |
Forum: Bulls Talk · Post Preview: #46883 · Replies: 2 · Views: 2,219 |
Posted on: Nov 7 2012, 07:01 PM | |
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Forum: Bulls Talk · Post Preview: #46877 · Replies: 1 · Views: 1,582 |
Posted on: Nov 3 2012, 03:48 PM | |
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I wish I could see these games. No TV = failness Might have to janky internet stream these suckers |
Forum: Bulls Talk · Post Preview: #46870 · Replies: 2 · Views: 2,058 |
Posted on: Nov 3 2012, 03:47 PM | |
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The question is...can "this core" beat the Heat, even next year with a healthy superstar? I'm unconvinced. The fact is that we're 0/1. No way around that. On the other hand, we know that this core can at least make it to the fight. A prudent question may be...would you be okay with winning 1 title in the next 5ish years? Most would say yes. Then...what if the other titles belonged to a single franchise like the Heat, whom we lose to each year other than our title year? |
Forum: Bulls Talk · Post Preview: #46869 · Replies: 7 · Views: 4,232 |
Posted on: Nov 2 2012, 02:31 PM | |
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Well we have one huge part of the equation -- a superstar. We also don't have any truly bad money. Boozer is "bad money" because we'd have rather given that money to LeBron James or something, but in reality he's a huge contributor. The more I think about the cap issue, the more I feel like I'm okay sticking with this core indefinitely. You won't do what Miami did -- you'll wind up doing what all these other teams that are under the cap but are filled with s*** players are doing. |
Forum: Bulls Talk · Post Preview: #46863 · Replies: 7 · Views: 4,232 |
Posted on: Nov 1 2012, 04:33 PM | |
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It's not really that easy. The salary cap is $58 million and you already have three long term (3 more seasons) commitments in Rose, Noah and Taj. For 2013/14, the best you're going to be able to do is the MLE, which may be able to bring in someone useful but not a star. For 14/15, you've got about $15 million left for 8 roster spots. That also assumes that no one else gets signed to a multi-year deal next year. You can't just spend all of it on one guy and fill out the rest using exceptions later, you'll have cap holds at the veteran minimum for all of those spots, leaving you with maybe $7 million under the cap. That's not exactly a game-changing total. Even to get that total, you'd have to renounce Deng's Bird Rights (meaning they couldn't go over the cap to keep him), otherwise he'd have a cap hold that eats up all of your space. Their best chance to add a big-time player would be through a trade using Deng's expiring contract. Then the cap doesn't matter at all and they would just have to match the salaries. At what pace do we expect the cap to grow? I recall that it more or less didn't get higher from last season to this one. |
Forum: Bulls Talk · Post Preview: #46859 · Replies: 7 · Views: 4,232 |
Posted on: Nov 1 2012, 01:12 PM | |
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Rose/Gibson are now our longest term salary commitments. Lu is signed through next year, Booz's contract can be terminated whenever we choose, Jo and Jimmy are through 15/16, Rose/Gibson through 16/17. Teague, if he can stick, will be under team control through 16/17. Next year, if we brought everyone back, we'd have a salary commitment at about $78M with 8 or 9 players. Drop Rip, you're down to 73. Drop Booz, down to 58 and with a little wiggle room to sign decent FA(s). Going into the 14-15 season, we have Rose, Taj, Jo, Jimmy, Teague on the books (let's assume we let Boozer go at $17M by that year). That's $43M in salary commitments and we can look to that year as a time to make big FA moves if guys are available. For next year (13-14), it may just make more sense to keep everyone together, pay the big tax bill, and give it an honest title run. The next season you can shed a ton of salary at once and re-evaluate/reload. I haven't looked ahead at who is slated to become free agents in the next few years, but if you're willing to wait around two more seasons....that is clearly when we're most able to make a splash. That's a big if, of course. With every coming day and year, Luol becomes more movable as well which could allow us to perhaps make a run at a FA after this season, if there is anyone out there and we could trade Lu without taking on salary. ....winning cures all ills! |
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Posted on: Nov 1 2012, 10:22 AM | |
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Posted on: Nov 1 2012, 09:51 AM | |
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Hypothetical: would you rather Taj or Booz be signed under this contract (if you could only have one) |
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Posted on: Nov 1 2012, 09:49 AM | |
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Posted on: Nov 1 2012, 08:46 AM | |
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That's no small sum of money. |
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Posted on: Nov 1 2012, 08:46 AM | |
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Forum: Bulls Talk · Post Preview: #46847 · Replies: 6 · Views: 4,487 |
Posted on: Nov 1 2012, 06:43 AM | |
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Main criticism from me is the turnovers, from what I can tell. |
Forum: Bulls Talk · Post Preview: #46841 · Replies: 17 · Views: 6,872 |
Posted on: Oct 31 2012, 08:16 PM | |
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Things tightening up, what's going on? Time to pull out the shock troops? |
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Posted on: Oct 31 2012, 08:08 PM | |
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Posted on: Oct 31 2012, 08:01 PM | |
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Wish I could see this thing. I saw a minute of live look-in and was suddenly reminded of why I like Kirk Hinrich. From the glimpse I got plus the statlines, looks like we should be pleased with Kirk, Rip, Joakim especially so far |
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Posted on: Oct 31 2012, 05:19 PM | |
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Won't be able to catch the game tonight, running a big Halloween event on my campus. Should go well, methinks. Based on Thibs' pregame comments, he might be the one person in the USA that can name 9 Sacramento Kings and certainly the only one that could say nice things about that many of them. |
Forum: Bulls Talk · Post Preview: #46822 · Replies: 17 · Views: 6,872 |
Posted on: Oct 26 2012, 09:49 PM | |
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It will be interesting to see who gets brought back between Jaric and Fesenko We might have to wait and see who gets hurt. Another wildcard could be if Belinelli doesn't play well enough to get into the rotation, Jaric might make more sense. We know what we've got with our frontcourt. |
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