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If you're aching for basketball to follow, the U20 European championships are going on right now, and the Bulls first round pick, Nikola Mirotic, is basically torching the competition. Spain won today 120-47, and Mirotic scored 28 and got 7 rebounds in 16 minutes.

This is my view on bunting: Outs are the most precious thing in baseball, the limiting factor in a game that isn't timed in any way. You have, in 99.9% of cases, 27 outs to work with to win the game. In almost no situation does it make sense to voluntarily trade an out for a base advancement. Trading an out for a run straight up is more sensible (i.e. a sac fly or squeeze play), but even then if you ask for that in advance you're still basically instructing the hitter to try to give away a set part of your scoring opportunity in a game. That is why purposely making an out to advance a base is nearly universally statistically inefficient. There are basically two cases in which trading outs for base advances is viable: 1) When the batter has a less than 10% chance of success at the plate (i.e. a pitcher) 2) When one run will win the game, and one out won't lose it, and the batter doesn't have a significant chance of driving the runner home from first himself. So, for example, tie game, bottom 9, runner on first, Koyie Hill batting.

I can get on board with that. Rose was a good rookie PG in his rookie year, but he wasn't more than average overall in the NBA. He improved to top 50 in the NBA his second year, and top 5 in the NBA his third year. EDIT: Oh, that's a projection for next year, and not a weighted average of the past 3 years? I think that's a little low for him, but it was a big jump this year.

So...I just got home and lo and behold, DVR didn't record any of the game. Is there a rebroadcast planned for later today?

So when's the last time the Cubs allowed 7 runs in an inning and won?

Sharapova has 8 double faults in 6 service games...and leads 6-4, 2-0. Not a very pretty match.

While poor Nick Leddy wastes away.

I'm just going to take complete responsibility for Pena's resurgence, based on the timing when I dropped him.

Well it makes me sad about Demetri Mccamey...he's not a bad guy, he just regressed heavily as a player. I dunno, it happens, he has a very odd mindset, and I don't think Weber is blameless in this as well. Jereme Richmond...well yeah he brought this all on himself. I don't see how it's Weber's fault that McCamey decided in January that he'd done enough to get drafted and then coasted for 3 months. Should he have benched him more?

Both McCamey and Richmond go undrafted.

The Bulls didn't draft Lee. Minnesota did. The Bulls got Mirotic and Butler.

Best I can tell, here is the draft and what team each player actually ended up with tonight: 1. Cavs - Kyrie Irving, Duke 2. Wolves - Derrick Williams, Arizona 3. Jazz - Enes Kanter, Turkey 4. Cavs - Tristan Thompson, Texas 5. Raptors - Jonas Valanciunas, Lithuania 6. Wizards - Jan Vesely, Czech Republic 7. Bobcats - Bismack Biyombo, Congo 8. Pistons - Brandon Knight, Kentucky 9. Bobcats - Kemba Walker, Connecticut 10. Kings - Jimmer Fredette, BYU 11. Warriors - Klay Thompson, Washington St. 12. Jazz - Alec Burks, Colorado 13. Suns - Markieff Morris, Kansas 14. Rockets - Marcus Morris, Kansas 15. Spurs - Kawhi Leonard, SDSU 16. 76ers - Nikola Vucevic, USC 17. Knicks - Iman Shumpert, Georgia Tech 18. Wizards - Chris Singleton, FSU 19. Bucks - Tobias Harris, Tennessee 20. Wolves - Donatas Motiejunas, Lithuania 21. Blazers - Nolan Smith, Duke 22. Nuggets - Kenneth Faried, Morehead St. 23. Bulls - Nikola Mirotic, Spain 24. Thunder - Reggie Jackson, Boston College 25. Nets - Marshon Brooks, Providence 26. Nuggets - Jordan Hamilton, Texas 27. Celtics - JaJuan Johnson, Purdue 28. Heat - Norris Cole, Cleveland St. 29. Spurs - Cory Joseph, Texas 30. Bulls - Jimmy Butler, Marquette 31. Wolves - Bojan Bogdanovic, Bosnia 32. Cavs - Justin Harper, Richmond 33. Pistons - Kyle Singler, Duke 34. Wizards - Shelvin Mack, Butler 35. Kings - Tyler Honeycutt, UCLA 36. Nets - Jordan Williams, Maryland 37. Clippers - Trey Thompkins, Georgia 38. Rockets - Chandler Parsons, Florida 39. Bobcats - Jeremy Tyler, The World 40. Bucks - Jon Leuer, Wisconsin 46. Lakers - Andrew Goudelock, College of Charleston 47. Clippers - Travis Leslie, Georgia 48. Hawks - Keith Benson, Oakland 49. Grizzlies - Josh Selby, Kansas 50. 76ers - Lavoy Allen, Temple 51. Blazers - Jon Diebler, Ohio State 52. Pistons - Vernon Macklin, Florida 53. Magic - DeAndre Liggins, Kentucky 54. Cavs - Milan Macvan, Serbia 55. Celtics - E'Twaun Moore, Purdue 56. Lakers - Chukwudiebere Maduabum, NBDL 57. Mavs - Tanguy Ngombo, Qatar

From what I've heard, it wasn't so much his call to leave Illinois, though.

Just 10 picks left and Moore, Richmond and McCamey are all still on the board, along with Greg Smith, Isaiah Thomas and Scotty Hopson.

Selby finally goes with the 49th pick to Memphis.

Also, Minny finally gets a pick of their own and they take a PG. :)

Feel-good Jimmy Butler story: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2011/columns/story?columnist=ford_chad&page=Butler-110618

I think Hamilton went to the Mavs, then Portland, then Denver.

Hamilton to the Mavs. :(

Celtics grab Brooks. EDIT: And send him to Jersey, I guess?

I like Mirotic, but I like Jordan Hamilton a lot more.

My problem with him is that he's not a particularly efficient player and piled up counting statistics because of Providence's fast pace and heavy minutes. His usage and efficiency just isn't there, and as a senior he's not likely to get all that much better at it over the next few years.

Jordan Hamilton, plz.

Ahh, crap, another SG drafted and Brooks is falling.

Not at #9, but at #28 or #30? Hell yeah. I don't even like him there. His stats were boosted by Providence's fast pace, coupled with the fact that he played almost every minute for them. His efficiency was subpar, and he's not really young among the draft prospects. I don't want the Bulls to be the team that takes him in the first round. Second, though, sure.