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Outside of James, Bosh and Morrow would be my semi-realistic dream offseason. A low post guy and a sniper would do wonders.

Leftwich is going to be the starter in Pittsburgh? What about Dennis Dixon? Leftwich is a known commodity at this point. He's pretty bad.

At least we get the Jets and Pats at home.

The fact that Ramirez can swing hard coming off a shoulder injury is why I'm not too worried. I figured we'd see a drop off in bat speed but it doesn't seem to be the case. If he's getting bad mechanically to compensate then that would be bad but at least the explosiveness is still there.

What's funny is that what everyone said about losing BG and getting a healthy Deng back turned out to be true to a fairly extreme degree. After the Salmons/Miller trade last year, the Bulls became one of the better offenses in the league but couldn't rebound or defend very well. Now it's pretty much the exact opposite.

There aren't a lot of point guards out there generating more assists on much worse teams, CB. The Bulls are one of the worst offensive teams in the league (27th out of 30 in offensive efficiency, 28th in eFG%). The Bulls are semi competitive because of rebounding, defense, and Derrick Rose.

Cleveland destroyed Atlanta last year and they'll do it again this year if they meet. Orlando I still give a good chance to but come on. No one can stop Howard? Howard can't even get out of his own way on the offensive end a lot of the time.

It's a shame Chip isn't the one calling a potential Fister no-hitter.

What's funny is that I still hear/see many Lakers fans lamenting the fact that they didn't acquire Hinrich. When one team really wants a guy and the other team really wants to get rid of that same guy, putting a deal together shouldn't be that hard.

Even Shaq was 4-4 from the line.

Cleveland would usually win that game by 20+ shooting that well. Kudos to Noah for locking the paint down. He was magnificent. Kirk is just fail.

Jamario Moon is on my John Starks Memorial [expletive] List now.

Wow.

This is pretty demoralizing. I don't think they'll win a game now. The Bulls couldn't have played better (aside from shooting it which they suck at) and Cleveland just has had an unconscious shooting night.

Jamario Moon couldn't make outside shots until the last two games.

Bleh, what can you do when an atrocious shooter like Jamario Moon suddenly can't miss 3s? I think he's like 4 out of 5 this series so far. ONLY MY TEAMS

8 offensive rebounds and 2 turnovers is keeping the Bulls in it. Did you guys see Lebron dunk James Johnson through the hoop? Vicious.

The rebounding is there tonight. If we can keep that up and shoot a bit better they could sneak out with a win. Cleveland is making jumpers and the Bulls aren't.

UI is only so high on those engineering rankings because they're paying off US News and World Report staffers. The rest of the country has to worry about running a clean engineering department.

Not really. He shoots an OK percentage, doesn't get to the free throw line at a particularly high rate, is a below average rebounder, and doesn't block shots. A nice piece, but just a solid #2 or #3 on a good team. It's much easier to find Lamarcus Aldridge and a good (not great) young guard than one great player you can build a contender around. Rose needs to learn how to shoot and not be a one-dimensional scorer before I put him in that category. Rose is a great driver but that is it for his scoring abilities. He can average 20 points a game, maybe more, with that but will never become a top player if he can't shoot better than 25% from 3-pt on less than one attempt per game. He's atrocious at shooting from out. He may be the worst 3-pt shooting PG in the league which will always limit his game and stop him from becoming truly great player. Most great point guards are not great 3 point shooters. Steve Nash is a rarity in that regard. And Rose is a very good shooter from 15-20. In fact he's one of the best midrange shooters in the game. Rajon Rondo is an example of a guy with a broken jumper. Rose isn't in that category--not even close. A 3 point dimension would open up the rest of his floor game, no doubt but he doesn't need to become a 40% guy. Anything close to 35% on decent volume would be gravy. If you think Rose only gets his points on drives you haven't seen him play much.

Not really. He shoots an OK percentage, doesn't get to the free throw line at a particularly high rate, is a below average rebounder, and doesn't block shots. A nice piece, but just a solid #2 or #3 on a good team. It's much easier to find Lamarcus Aldridge and a good (not great) young guard than one great player you can build a contender around.

I'm enjoying Joakim Noah trolling the NBA: http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2010/04/chicagos_joakim_noah_spends_a.html Shots at the city of Cleveland and KG. Now play better in game 2 plz.

Not me. If we had LMA, then I doubt the Bulls land Derrick Rose. And I take Rose over LMA every day. That's pretty dumb. Sure I would rather have Rose than LMA but Rose wasn't part of the deal. You traded LMA, who was picked No. 2, for Tyrus Thomas, who was picked No. 4, and some foreign guy who never made to my knowledge. That was the trade. If you have LMA you would be a lot better and while you likely wouldn't have Rose you would have some other draft pick in his place in addition to LMA. That could be Beasley, Love, Mayo, Westbrook, Lopez, Gordon or some other player that is pretty good. I would take LMA + one of the guys mentioned over what you ended with which is Rose and a couple years of Tyrus sucking. If your 2nd best player is Lamarcus Aldridge you're not contending for a championship. He's a nice piece but pretty replaceable. Jump shooting power forwards who don't rebound or block shots are nothing special. I'd rather have Rose and nothing than Aldridge and a guy that isn't nearly is as good as Rose.

I don't like any of the safeties at this spot so I'll go Corey Wootton.

Wow, this game was unwatchable. Was OKC even running sets?