2024 Bulls Offseason Thread

[gflore34]

33 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

No but I've heard GMs say stuff that basically equates to 'we're rebuilding' without actually saying it.  That said, GM speak is whatever, I've learned not to take it at face value.  Though, my lack of faith in the Bulls FO makes me believe that they do actually think they can compete for the playoffs with this roster.

Honestly, besides the White Sox, of the remaining Chicago sports franchises, the Bulls are the least worthy of attention.

[Tryptamine]

11 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

Honestly, besides the White Sox, of the remaining Chicago sports franchises, the Bulls are the least worthy of attention.

I wonder if there's a connection there?

[gflore34]

4 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

I wonder if there's a connection there?

You think?

[We Got The Whole 9]

The Curse of Michael Jordan

[Tryptamine]

28 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

The Curse of Michael Jordan

Jordan is the one man keeping him from being in the pantheon of worst sports owners in American history. I'd say worst, but there's racist scum bags like Marge Schott out there whose impact went beyond simple inability to put a competitive team on the field. 

[SpongeWorthy]

1 hour ago, UMFan83 said:

No but I've heard GMs say stuff that basically equates to 'we're rebuilding' without actually saying it.  That said, GM speak is whatever, I've learned not to take it at face value.  Though, my lack of faith in the Bulls FO makes me believe that they do actually think they can compete for the playoffs with this roster.

can't wait for zach to play well enough to build back some kind of trade market and we hold on to him because we're like the 7th seed 12 games into the season

Edited September 25, 2024 by SpongeWorthy

[Brian707]

47 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

I wonder if there's a connection there?

[BigSlick]

Oh man. That 2008-2013 period of the Bulls was the time where I paid the most attention to them since the Jordan years and the team was so much  fun. Such a shame what's happened since. You had the injuries and then the weird and offputting....sex stuff.... it's really too bad. You'd like to feel good about memorializing Rose but it feels a little wrong. 

 

[UMFan83]

18 minutes ago, BigSlick said:

Oh man. That 2008-2013 period of the Bulls was the time where I paid the most attention to them since the Jordan years and the team was so much  fun. Such a shame what's happened since. You had the injuries and then the weird and offputting....sex stuff.... it's really too bad. You'd like to feel good about memorializing Rose but it feels a little wrong. 

 

I'm assuming you are referring to the Rose retirement announcement?  Yeah, it was really fun to watch a young Derrick Rose rise to superstardom.  Since Jordan retired he's the only super-duper-star we've had on the Bulls.  Butler came close and maybe got there after leaving Chicago but while here was not on that level of inner circle stars that the NBA markets the hell out of.  Very sad that in 26 years since MJ we've one had 1 player of that caliber that the entire NBA pays attention to.  So it was fun to be relevant until the injuries hit.

But yeah, I see a lot of Bulls fans over the last few years feeling nostalgic about Rose and rooting for him, but after the rape allegations I never really felt comfortable rooting for him.  I think he was cleared or it settled out of court or whatever, but his comments about not understanding consent and when asked why Rose and his friends thought that they were coming to the woman's house for a gangbang said something like "We men.  You can assume" really turned me off on him.

So great career...it was admirable that he was able to overcome the injuries that robbed him of his otherworldly athleticism and explosiveness to become a solid role player.  But I'm not exactly rushing to retire his number or sign him to a 1 day contract or anything.

[Derwood]

So much of the social media around Rose's retirement is presented like he just died

[SpongeWorthy]

incredible memories of that time but between signing boozer in the 2010 FA class and rose's injury everything that transpired was basically like a bottom 3% percentile outcome

[SpongeWorthy]

 

remember kids, this is the result of people in the organization trying their best 

[bukie]

I'm not convinced there's anything Patrick Williams does at an NBA-quality level.