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I guess we're talking about Rose in this thread...

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/best-knicks-derrick-rose-part-ways-article-1.2943119?utm_content=bufferebe78&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDNSports+Twitter

 

Rose, according to two independent sources who spoke to the Daily News on the condition of anonymity, was such an emotional wreck Monday afternoon that his only solution was to abruptly leave the Knicks to be with his mother and his son.

 

In fact, Rose’s state of mind was such that for a brief time he talked about walking away from basketball for an extended period of time to clear his mind. That seems hard to believe since Rose is only 28 years old and could land a lucrative free agent contract this summer, something he talked about two years ago.

I'm stealing the joke, but he already did walk away from basketball for an extended period of time. What was it, 7 games he played between May 2012 and Oct. 2014?

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I guess we're talking about Rose in this thread...

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/best-knicks-derrick-rose-part-ways-article-1.2943119?utm_content=bufferebe78&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDNSports+Twitter

 

Rose, according to two independent sources who spoke to the Daily News on the condition of anonymity, was such an emotional wreck Monday afternoon that his only solution was to abruptly leave the Knicks to be with his mother and his son.

 

In fact, Rose’s state of mind was such that for a brief time he talked about walking away from basketball for an extended period of time to clear his mind. That seems hard to believe since Rose is only 28 years old and could land a lucrative free agent contract this summer, something he talked about two years ago.

I'm stealing the joke, but he already did walk away from basketball for an extended period of time. What was it, 7 games he played between May 2012 and Oct. 2014?

 

10 but that doesn't include preseason and Team USA

SouthSideRyan MVP

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I guess we're talking about Rose in this thread...

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/best-knicks-derrick-rose-part-ways-article-1.2943119?utm_content=bufferebe78&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDNSports+Twitter

 

Rose, according to two independent sources who spoke to the Daily News on the condition of anonymity, was such an emotional wreck Monday afternoon that his only solution was to abruptly leave the Knicks to be with his mother and his son.

 

In fact, Rose’s state of mind was such that for a brief time he talked about walking away from basketball for an extended period of time to clear his mind. That seems hard to believe since Rose is only 28 years old and could land a lucrative free agent contract this summer, something he talked about two years ago.

I'm stealing the joke, but he already did walk away from basketball for an extended period of time. What was it, 7 games he played between May 2012 and Oct. 2014?

 

He hobbled away.

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So at this point in Bulls fandom, it is basically fun bad time. Now we wait for Reinsdorf to someday wake up from one of his many daily naps and decide to fire the front office.
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I think it was Cowley who said that the Bulls weren't even thinking of signing Rondo, but the corporate sponsors were starting to complain that this team sucked and had little appeal. Bulls brass clearly fixed that problem with Rondo.
David GOAT

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hey the bulls are fun when jimmy and wade handle the ball a lot. crazy.

 

seriously though they're putting on a hell of a show tonight.

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hey the bulls are fun when jimmy and wade handle the ball a lot. crazy.

 

seriously though they're putting on a hell of a show tonight.

 

 

And.........An L.

 

Blow it the horsefeathers up.

David GOAT

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hey the bulls are fun when jimmy and wade handle the ball a lot. crazy.

 

seriously though they're putting on a hell of a show tonight.

 

 

And.........An L.

 

Blow it the horsefeathers up.

 

the right answer is add good players around butler and wade in the offseason (much like they did in 2010), not blow it up and become irrelevant and unwatchable for years so that maybe they can end up with someone as good as jimmy if they're lucky and then we can be all excited about being mediocre but watchable for the first time in years.

 

i am honestly not sure i'd stick around again after a repeat of 99-03. all in search of the pipe dream that is winding up with the next lebron on your roster, because short of that or the miracle that is managing to put together something like the warriors did, you're not truly contending for titles. not in the nba.

David GOAT

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oh, and maybe hire an actual coach.

 

i'd be good with firing the FO if they actually hire someone good and not some more reinsdorf loyalty hires like randy brown or something

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This ship has horsefeathering sunk. Wade ain't gonna stick around for this horsefeathers show. He wants to actually win. There's no way you're keeping him here.

 

Jimmy is awesome. You're also not anywhere near close to winning with him.

 

This FO and Hoiberg need to go. I don't think Reinsdorf will rebuild it like that. And yeah, letting THIS group of idiots even attempt a rebuild IS a bad idea.....Its still got a better shot at eventually contending again, than these guys keeping Wade AND piecing together parts that are good enough to get past the 1st round, especially with Wade declining.

 

Sell high on Jimmy, get what you can for Wade, and anything else that someone may actually want.

 

Hell, give horsefeathering Hoiberg the the athletes and the shooters he wants and let him at least fall flat on his face trying to use his own horsefeathers.

 

The Cubs just won the damn Series. I'm fine with serious shittiness out of the Bears and Bulls.

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is there even one example of a great nba team that was built on an intentional tank? even one? because i can name a bunch that have yielded mediocrity at best.

 

the closest thing i can come up with is the spurs, but that wasn't intentional...that was just a crazy confluence of good and bad luck with robinson missing that season.

 

 

trading jimmy butler is a horsefeathering insane idea. [expletive] horsefeathering insane. it's not going to help you get better in any way.

 

 

here's what'll happen if they push the magical "blow it up" button and tank. they'll be terrible and unwatchable for 3-5 years, a soul crushing irrelevant afterthought. then they'll eventually maybe have a year like this year, and people will get excited to watch "meaningful" games and maybe some playoffs.

 

they have one of the best players in the league, he's still relatively young. put a squad around him.

 

look at what adding a supporting cast (boozer, brewer, korver, cj watson in what was a really good job of recovering after being rejected by the heat guys) and a coach did in 2010. i'm not talking superstar pipe dream acquisitions. just a solid roster.

 

and to be honest, until this past offseason's weirdness (namely rondo...because if wade falls in your lap, you might as well say horsefeathers it and take him), i've found it hard to find fault with what paxson has done OVERALL in his tenure (and i guess whatever the hell forman does - actually, what little i think can be separated, like the hoiberg thing, has been awful). they put together a few good teams, have had some awful luck, especially with rose (yeah, some insanely good luck that got them rose too), they picked jimmy butler 30th, etc. they can't put a gun to a superstar's head and force them to take their max offer. recent drafts have been shitty, though, and i have no problem with them going. i'm for it. i just don't think they were the disaster FO that seems to be the narrative. the whole thing with the coaches has been an embarrassment too (from VDN to the later thibs years and now this hoiberg mess).

 

i wish basketball were baseball and you could just hire the smartest guys to figure it out and put together a championship team, but all you can do is hope you somehow end up with one of those 2-3 players if you really want to contend for titles. i'm not willing to completely sacrifice my semi daily enjoyment of watching basketball for years so that one year we might happen to have the lottery balls go our way the year that once a decade player shows up in the draft.

 

or we can just get really shitty, get that pick, draft someone awesome like anthony davis, and still be the pelicans.

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