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I have a love/hate thing with Asik. Taj too.

Yep. Whatever he had briefly at the start of the season is LONG gone.

Why have the Bulls lost the ability to hit jumpshots?

I'm encouraged that he didn't go straight to the locker room. Hopefully hes ok.

Yeah, well Mikael Jordan just showed up at Cubs camp!

No doubt this is true (22-57 for .386 % in 4 games prior to break). But rather strangely he has been red hot from 3 (12-22 for .545 %). That means he's only been shooting 10-35 from 2 those 4 games (.286). Thats. Then last night he did the exact opposite. 5-11 from 2 and 1-5 from 3. And it's not like he's just barely missing. He's had an alarming amount of airballs.

James was on a 10 day contract. If we picked him up, his contract would be guaranteed for the rest of the season. Lucas's contract is already guaranteed for the rest of the season, and I'm sure Jerry doesn't want to get any closer to that luxury tax. Yep. I understand all of that, and even mentioned a week or two ago that I figured it would happen this way. I was just hoping that the the Bulls would make the decision based on talent instead of money. I know it's only the third string PG position, but I thought James was quite a bit better than Lucas.

Yeah, pass on that.

Yep. He was especially bad defensively last night too. It's silly how many times he'll intentionally wrap up a guy going in for a fast break layup and still somehow let them get the bucket and the +1.

They got that with this much cooler looking one Definitely better. Agreed. But it hides his face, so I still understand the thought process behind the other pic.

Dengs shot has really been off the last few games. Korver too. We were absolutely awful from 3 last night. That and rebounding were the main reasons the game was close. I hope Rip can stay healthy. I'm a bit disappointed that the Bulls released Mike James. I'd rather have him than Lucas.

Rip is a game-time decision. He'll take part in warmups. It'd be nice to get him out there tonight, and get a bit of time on the court before the Spurs tomorrow.

Yep, I'm getting similar sentiment.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they wanted to somehow show the flag on his glove. It's a weird pose, but at least somewhat understandable with that goal in mind.

CJ cleared to play. Rip practiced yesterday, but still may not play tonight.

Well it's at least closer in topic than the discussion currently ongoing in the Theo thread.

In all seriousness, it's also who was doing the passing. Jordan had 4 rings before he passed to Kerr for the game winner. He'd built up just a bit of fan trust/goodwill by then. There's a belief out there that Lebron can't deliver at the end of games. There was never that belief with MJ. Lebron was 20 and had carried a collection of mediocre role players to the finals. This is basketball, plays are set up to have other options and it was nice that Jordan had the luxury of having his 7th/8th man be one of the best shooters ever whereas Lebron had Boobie wide open on the baseline. Remember when MJ dropped 55 at the garden, he passed the game winner to Bill Wennington, definately just a guy. I understand most people arent smart enough for perspective, and most others are usually too emotional with respect to lebron for some reason to even try. The knocks against him are he passed (at 20) to boobie gibson in a finals they were never gonna win, he gave up on the Cavs in that boston game (where he had a triple double with 30 points and 20 boards), and he passed at the end of an all star game. Again, Jordan had 3 titles by the time he made the pass to Wennington. Jordan had a rep of being this uber-competitor, wanting to win at everything he ever did. Lebron has plenty of time to erase these criticisms. But if somebody wants to look at Lebron and find something to criticize about his game (which plenty of people are wont to do), the one viable criticism they can make is his ability to deliver a dagger in the final seconds of the most important games (all star game aside, cuz well...who gives a [expletive]).

They'll never have to run fast on a football field? Not from a track stance.

In all seriousness, it's also who was doing the passing. Jordan had 4 rings before he passed to Kerr for the game winner. He'd built up just a bit of fan trust/goodwill by then. There's a belief out there that Lebron can't deliver at the end of games. There was never that belief with MJ.

I wonder what the value of my Matt Murton/Sean Marshall signed baseball is? 8-[

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It's keeping him from getting rings. He doesn't want rings because they'd throw off his balance. For dunking or dancing?

It's keeping him from getting rings.