Ryne Ween

We have discussed this I think before but a rebuild doesn't really exist in the NBA. The better and more accurate way to say "rebuild" in the current NBA is "not have multiple bad, expensive long term contracts on the books" and in the sense the Bulls are rebuilding because we don't have any of those. Considering we can go into next year without Rondo or Wade, I can't argue that. But a rebuild, in my mind, constitutes adding the picks and young guys obviously. Let's face it, if those guys aren't here next season, its likely Jimmy won't be either. Extremely wide range of outcomes now, which makes for entertainment. As long as Wade has his usual injuries and plays 65 or so games and is healthy for the playoffs I think we are in great shape moving forward. Likely Wade will have a good year, start the all star game etc. I watched the heats playoff games this past year and Wade was a beast with a less talented group than he will have with us. We should finish in the top 3 of the East and win one or two playoff series. Rondo either plays well and we re-roll with him or he holds the ball for 22 seconds a possession and we dump him. Let's say rondo plays well and we reroll. We have a max available for a big man. If rondo sucks we have two maxes assuming the cap goes up as expected. We will be a major destination for FAs. Wade basically ensures that. He's a respected guy in the league. His signing here validates our program and gives insight into league wide esteem for Butler. Basically the only thing not to love about this is that our FO is a bunch of turds who legitimately set out to go young with year and ended up signging Rondo and Wade. That just shows they are ridiculous and had no plan. Other than that there are no negatives here. To be here today, compared to thinking we were going to trade Butler for the 3 pick in a shitty draft three weeks ago; its a pretty good place to be.

lol that's exactly what "rebuilding" in the nba would be, only with a much higher chance of being terrible We obviously disagree on the rebuild. This'll be interesting, no doubt. And yeah, I'm not sure whether this is a 30 win team or a 50 win team. If it misses completely, we'll see a rebuild though. We have discussed this I think before but a rebuild doesn't really exist in the NBA. The better and more accurate way to say "rebuild" in the current NBA is "not have multiple bad, expensive long term contracts on the books" and in the sense the Bulls are rebuilding because we don't have any of those.

We have two guys who would be considered floor stretching perimeter 4s in Niko and Doug. Maybe they can find a way to add a shooter. Niko was decent from the 3 with the most ridiculously useless inept offensive sets ever run by an NBA offense. With a somewhat competent PG and Wade I think Niko will look better. More good looks hopefully for Doug.

as silly as I think they are, the Bulls front office may have backed into a masterstroke. They have room for 2 max deals next year I think if they dump rondo. They could make a move for Heyward or Westbrook. Rebuilding would have gotten them nowhere and wasted prime years of our current franchise player in Jimmy. They also kept Taj which we badly need for rebounding. Lopez can rebound and defend and is a solid NBA starter. The front court is weak but still the team is maybe the 2nd or 3rd best in the east. If the cavs get injured again in the playoffs who knows the bulls could do some real damage. Main issue here is the coach is a jackass I wish anybody else was coaching.

It would have been more like Lebron going to the celtics but if Ray Allen Pierce and Garnet were 10 years younger.

Watching Rondo and Jimmy completely disregard Hoiberg will be fun.

I want my objective measument that Rose is dumb I was promised that and I want it.

I mean, he's really [expletive] stupid by objective measures What objective measurement of Rose's intelligence do you have available to you? Assuming you know what objective means? Dwayne wade had a 16 on his ACT do you consider him a moron?

I think he will be fine. They are so starved for anything that could be positive for that franchise that people are very ready to get behind him. I simply don't understand why the Chicago radio guys and a subset of idiot fans give a horsefeathers how he interviews. I also think it's stupid to brand Rose a moron. He's obviously somewhat shy and also doesn't give a horsefeathers what media and fans think of him. I don't think I'm a bulls fan anymore. I can't hang with this group of executives running the team. There is no way they are able to right this ship. Back to the discussion about the 2010-2011 team being a real contender. They Definately were. They played the best team to a tough series and would have matche'd up nicely against the Mavs. That said we ended up with Boozer in that offseason and then GarPax refused to upgrade the two gaurd position when somebody like Courtney Lee would have been an enourmous upgrade to the 25 minutes that Bogans was playing. They refused to take a chance to put that team over the edge. Seeing rose go is just sad. So much potential wasted by this team. I know roses injuries killed us but I still put it on GarPax for not maximizing a core that had a player like Rose paired with what was a fantastic front court defensive monster with Taj and Noah and coach like Thibs who got everything out of those teams and developed middling prospects into great players like Taj and in the case of Noah Butler stars.

Also Chicago would have hosted a semi of US Mexico potentially has US not won the group. I was robbed of attending that event.

Well basically I think Nadal because he will play in 10 more slams. And Fed realistically only has this last chance. But I don't rule roger out because he is still by far the second best grass player right now. Something about Novak bothers federer. He converted like 1 of 30 break points in the USO final last year. It's weird because federer rolls Murray who plays similiar. Maybe the all England club will speed up the courts and give him a chance.

Granted I'm biased because I hate the way Novak plays the game. But let's not crown him. I can recall Nadal torching Novak in the 2013 USO. That was Nadals 13th at a time when Novak had 5-6 and they are less than a year apart in age. You'd never have guessed where they stand now. I agree. I don't know who will mount a challenge. The best hope now is Nadal (who was in form and I think would have given Novak a true challenge). Kryrios or Thiem are the two young promising players. Mostly Novak is winning on strong mental makeup and fitness. He's able to play a style that grounds down his opponents. He's coverinng the court very well and he is not wearing down. His baseline game is incredibly consistent, his defense is insane, and his ability to square back basically any serve is otherworldly. But in a low bounce fast court era he would not have thrived like he is now. A guy like Sampras would destroy him with lower tennis and tactics. It's a shame Pete isn't around to stop the Novak freight train. At this point I still bet we will see a drop in no cams form or fitness before he wins 18.

Does this Italian training camp mean Giovinco is not called for euro?

Regarding be LCFC odds you can't compare that to our understanding of American sports futures. There are so few sports books here that they take enourmous margins on futures. If we had more competition we would probably get teams at 5000-1. The odds aren't bookmakers estimation of likelihood. Something like this doesn't happen in the U.S. because the teams at the bottom of the leagues are often not trying to win. What were the 76ers odds this year to win the title? Not anywhere close to 5000-1. But they are less likely to win than LCFC for a number of reasons. Namely, they aren't trying to win and the margins of basketball are much less thin than soccer. The ML odds of any EPL team winning a game are rarely ever higher than -200. In a sport where scoring is so sparse the possibility that a long shot team could sustain for the entire season is greater. The reality is that LCFC was a much better team than was originally thought, they had players make breakthroughs, they didn't spread resources and energy in non-EPL competitions and they got lucky. In retrospect, the way they finished last year made that 5000-1 look great.

Vardy's first yellow was never a yellow. His second; yeah, he flopped like an Italian and didn't need to do it because he got to the ball, but there was contact. But okay, fine. Reid body blocked Schlupp and stopped an attack; it was a professional foul but should have been a yellow as there was zero intent to play the ball. The PK for WHU was a garbage call. You see contact and pulling on corners every time and that wasn't even much contact and Reid flew down like he was shot. Huth got dragged down by the neck on the other end. Terrible no call especially given the PK you gave WHU. Either they're both PKs or neither one is. And the PK in stoppage was more of a dive than Vardy's yellow. There was contact, sort of, but it was shoulder to shoulder and Schlupp just flipped. What I'm saying is that the ref had a terrible, terrible game. The handball to end the orlando game was the worse thing I've ever seen.

The first link says that reports say that players avoided thibs in the offseason. Which players? The second link is saying Dan Bernstein says he's heard that 3 "starters" said they wouldn't come back if Thibs came back. First off its Bernstein and thus meaningless. Second, three of Taj Noah Pau Rose dunleavy and Butler were willing to not report this season if thibs was back? There is absolutely no way that's true. Your third link has nothing in it relevant to your point of view. It's about management and thibs not getting along which all concede.

Why do you think that you know this?

more like tanking for picks only works (as far as becoming a championship contender) if you happen to do it the year there is a once a decade super-duper-star available. otherwise, making the right picks will just get you into a place similar to where the bulls were (not that they got there entirely this way)...which is a very good team that wins a bunch of games with little to no shot at a title. Buy even getting a HOFer in the draft at 1-3 picks hasn't translated into a title for anybody but the Spurs since the 1984 draft. Getting a superstar guy at 1 pick rarely translates to a title or even a long run at the top. OKC had three top lottery picks got two all NBA players and all time great and they have been around the 4th best team in their conference over the past 5 years. Cleveland will probably be left without a title despite having maybe the best player ever in his prime with 3 additional #1 draft choices. Its pretty obvious that the best way to win titles or contend seriously for a long period of time is to continuously improve your team every year. Rebuilding doesn't work. Drafting well (curry at 7 clay at 17 green and Barnes later in the draft) using free agency well and getting lucky with health has been what translates to success. Constantly improving your team and trying to win more and more games each year is best. Also when you have a top coach you don't Fire him for making your players put in exceptional effort.

I miss del negro over this guy. I have to say hoiberg is the worst thing I've ever had to experience.

I want to say Serena is covered more in the US than Novak. That's saying something.

10th in the east. I think we are entering another post-Jordan era without having had the Jordan era.

I got the suite of tickets when they went up and was hoping to see Uruguay get into the non us non Argentina game.

Chicago also didn't get a great draw for our three games.

What kind of horsefeathering name is Gar anyway. Has anybody written an article about that? It's not a name. Is a component to a few names but also not an accepted shortening of any name.

This shouldn't surprise anybody. This front office will not do anything ever.