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  1. Sammy Sofa
    It's not that they just need to copy everyone else, but to put together a team that flies so much in the face of what is typically working, and after hiring a coach they seemingly wanted to steer the team in the direction of the latter makes it seem a bit like flailing. To me, Hoiberg is big part of the glaring issue. Again, if Mirotic and McDermott actually step up and improve like we hope and need them to, things will be very different, but as it stands, adding Rondo AND Wade to go with Butler just seems like a really odd approach with a coach like this. It's not that it can't work, but it seems like the FO is sort of wildly oscillating around with what they want to do.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Did you see Hammel's last start? Do you realize that this is fortunately a sport where players aren't locked into performing like they did the last game?
  3. Sammy Sofa
    wade has a lot of pull around the league and can be a significant factor in giving us more than a puncher's chance at one of the big FA in 2017, along with having jimmy butler to play alongside. there's not much more you can do than that and hope you get one of the big dudes to sign on the dotted line. Agreed, but Wade isn't here for the long haul and having this weird, nebulous approach to what type of team they are that's seemingly completely contrary to the type of coach they're invested in doesn't seem like a good recipe to appeal to the type of big FA we do want them to sign to stick around for a while.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    I wasn't comparing basketball to baseball like they're the same sport; it was comparing organizational attitudes and lack of direction. This isn't a criticism hinged on how they sign FA, nor is it ignoring that the Bulls have been better at things like drafting and player development. It's a comparison based mostly out of a seeming lack of any kind of real focus or direction in terms of how they want to build a team for any kind of sustain success. Hell, you can compare it to the Bears until recently (including in how they are, yes, all but ignoring clear trends in how teams have the best shot of succeeding right now); all of this makes the Hoiberg signing even more inexplicable, so he's likely a dead man walking and you'll be switching him out sooner rather than later for a new approach. And yeah, it's nice that Wade and Rondo aren't anchors, but it's also seemingly done with the idea that they're suddenly going to be dominating FA thanks to the cap expansion. Why? Everyone will have the money, and it's not like it hasn't been an uphill battle to get impact players to sign here and that's unlikely to change, especially since they've likely just set themselves up to be hugely in flux again in the short term.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    It's not, but people keep talking like it's just a Band-Aid to a period of huge opportunity, as if the Bulls are going to be THE ones with the salary cap advantage as opposed to EVERYONE being the ones with that advantage. I don't think it's a stretch at all to want a smarter FO; I think that sentiment is pretty unanimous here. Just because you or I can't think off the top of our heads right at this moment how we could construct a better team doesn't mean it's not do-able. I mean, I'm not a fan of Hoiberg, but this is setting up a situation where you're really setting him up to fail and forcing yourself to have to replace your coach yet again, which just reflects back on how poor a choice it was in the first place, and then makes this current path of team-building all the more inexplicable. This seems like a very Hendry-like, reactionary, flailing approach to team-building.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    this is just let's see how good and entertaining we can be throwing some good players together while we wait for free agents and cap flexibility. it's as good an approach as any. That's the main thinking I disagree with; this feels more like just chucking horsefeathers at the wall and see what sticks. You gotta at least make an effort to try and construct a team/coach situation that has a real chance of gelling or works as a reaction to how the game is played today. This seems to be flying completely in the face of both of that.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, but the goal shouldn't have been to just technically get younger and more athletic seemingly to without thought to the type of team you're actually ending up with. Getting younger and more athletic while constructing a Frankenstein's monster of a team that pretty much runs as an antithesis to every other team in the league and general ideas of of the type of team you need in 2016 AND specifically in the face of the team you seemingly want to construct based on the coach you hired seems like a pretty counter-intuitive approach to building a team. Basically it seems like Mirotic and McDermott improving feels like the real key to this team doing anything; Rondo and Wade are basically just window dressing to keep people interested.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    It feels like it would be this weird miracle if he somehow started hitting at this point; he just seems so oddly "naturally" shitty at the plate that I'm kinda baffled he's had seasons of success when he's so easily pitched to.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    i seriously love how you like to give everyone crap but get so rankled and defensive when you get made fun of. I gotta give you credit for some pretty primo trolling here.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    http://img.pandawhale.com/92226-god-help-us-gif-Top-Gun-Imgur-CEz7.gif Fix it, butters.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    It is literally impossible for me to overstate how much I do not care how "meaningful" you think my opinions are. The Bulls are goofily flailing, and yeah, it's fun on a freakshow level, but it's kinda ridiculous how they've so readily flown in the face of their own stated intentions AND of the dumbass coach they have. My thoughts on Butler have nothing to do with how this is a pretty hilarious way to not create a viable NBA team in 2016, not try to play to the supposed strengths of your coach, and dumpster diving for old timey marquee names just to try and stir up the local yokels.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    So what?
  13. Sammy Sofa
    I think there's a fascinating Stockholm Syndrome-thing going on in this thread.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Maybe Reinsdorf is senile and he figures the Bulls can 2005 White Sox-their way to a championship.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Meet the new Knicks; same as the old Knicks.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    That's the best part! At least it's the entertaining kind of terrible. Yeah, but the season itself is gonna suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Wade's just a boring old turd who is going to miss a ton of games.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    What a hilariously entertaining trainwreck of an offseason. Nobody has any clue what they're doing.
  18. Sammy Sofa
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  19. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, I technically could have gotten better glasses at the time, but the selection as a whole was just awful. Nobody had good glasses in those days.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    I had to get glasses when I was 10, and I very stupidly picked those big ass glasses because I thought, and I remember this so clearly, that if I got glasses that big I'd be able to see more/better. I mean, yeah, you technically "see more," but [expletive], I wish I could travel back in time and just shake some sense into that kid. I realized very quickly that those glasses were a poor choice, but there was no way my parents were letting me replace expensive glasses that soon. I definitely tried to break them, but those horsefeathering frames were indestructible. I was stuck with them until I was almost 13. Stupid kid.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, the NBA has definitely trended mostly away from the same teams always winning the championship. The Bulls are the only team on that least that really ate up a chunk of largely consecutive title-time; within his arbitrary 30-year window, yeah, the Lakers won it 7 times, but it was 2, then 12 years until the next 3, and then 7 years until the next 2. Hell, I don't know why he didn't push it back to 40, when it actually was basically dominated by just 2 teams for a decade.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Thoat was the '89 card, and you aren't kidding about getting his card all the damn time. It felt like he was in every other pack.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    That'll do it! They just having been trying hard enough! Yeah, the pitching just hasn't been motivated to not suck.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    New blood? Like, half the team is brand new blood right now.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, the catching prospect coming up and looking amazing happens all the damn time. - Russell getting fixed - Bryzzo going on monster tears - Carl's Jr coming up and suddenly not walking guys - Warren coming up and giving five solid - etc. I was saving the rest for his replies, dammit!
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