Ryne Ween

Yep probably, but I wonder if people thought the same about Steve Nash before he got a real shot in Dallas. Lin was an undrafted free agent who was let go by 2 teams for nothing. Nash was the 15th overall pick who was traded 2 years later for that year's 19th pick, plus the next year's draft pick from a team who just finished the season 20-62. Steve Nash was (still is) one of the best ballhandlers (w/both hands) the league has ever seen, to go with supreme court vision, unbelievablely accurate passing ability (w/both hands) and and among the best jumpers ever. At his age now, without his former quickness, he can work in traffic better than any other guard in the league. Lin is not that kind of playmaker, doesnt have that type of handle or shot and never will. Not to say Lin wont be useful, but comparing him to nash is asinine, as they dont share any similarities in their game.

I guess Dantoni just knows how to get stats out of his points that arent toney douglas or chris duhon. Id love to love what Lin is doing but simply cant becasue i absolutely despise that franchise and its fans. Shortly somebody is going to come along and zip up Lin, and give everybody a blueprint on how to disrupt his game. Its probably gonna be carmelo anthoney. I heard that in new york they are saying hes basically Tony Parker, despite the fact Parker had 2 titles and an all star appearence by the time he was Lin's age. So if the Bulls continue to play great, we are looking at Bulls-Knicks in the first round? I cant wait to see us dismantle that team.

I agree that luol shoulda been used less in the second milwaukee blowout. But on a whole, I think thibs rotation isnt abusive to lu or d rose. And his bigs rotation is fine. Luol's minutes are basically the ONLY possible gripe you can have on Thibs and I think its not that big of a deal. Luol being top ten minutes played isnt a big deal in my opinion. Also Luol and Derrick are what 26 and 23? They can handle minutes.

18th is about where rose should be and everybody in the NBA is batting injuries to some degree this year. We are not a deep team when it comes to guard play, and one of our bench guys (korver) cant matchup against 95% of 3s on ball. With Rip missing as many games as he has, Ronniue dropping down to the 2, and CJ/Taj missing some games, etc... Thibs had had to use a lot of Luol Deng. Hugely flawed using the team +/- as a reason why our guys shouldnt be in the usage top 20.

Other than Deng, nobody on the bulls is playing egregious minutes, and I would imagine most coaches would play deng 37-38 a night. I dont think the extra minute a game makes any difference. Rose plays star minutes, same as any other young or prime star.

Magic's laker career is being disrespected like crazy. I dont think "greatest laker" is shaq's to crown. I would even question that Kobe's mvp coulda easily went to cp3 who behind lebron was the 2nd best player in the league at that time.

Durant tweeted something like "I only went to college for a few months what does ____ mean" I forgot what the word was but it was pretty funny.

And if Perkins gets another ring its because Durant, who tweets often, won it for him.

Perk needs to grow up a little. At least Mozgov took it like a man.

Bill ups is just another guy refusing to pair his style to his diminished skills. They may be better without him because how much he can kill a teams offensive flow. Clip will be fine without the pull up three.

If Bernstein' the moron what does that make Boers? The guy never has an original thought, all he does is regurgitate whatever Bernstein says. Yea obviously Boers is a complete idiot, but thats his brand (and for some reason) appears to work for him. Bernstein's brand is acting like a 50 year old whiney but precocious child. He began talking about basketball like a year and a half ago and now appears to think hes an expert. I remember at one point after a run of exceptional derrick rose games he began overhyping him and said you cant compare him to Dwayne Wade because "Wade doesnt have rose's physical strength". Bernstein also said rose "needs to learn how to get rest while on the floor, like ray allen does". He couches all his opinions in pomposity and I hate him. He also tries to use semi-advanced baseball stats without any comprehension of how they are formulated or how they should be applied.

Obviously if you have a shot at Howard you take him, but Bernstein is such a moron its hard to agree with him even when he is right.

If wanting to play for Mark Cuban pushes big D up the list than not wanting to play for Don Sterling should drop LAC off the list. LAC have NEVER landed a free agent by doing anything other than massively overpaying them. There are rarely situations where many teams are all capable and willing to give the max allowable contract to the same guy. July 2010 only happened once and I guess in 1999 with Duncan, Tmac, and Grant Hill something similiar happened, but these are extreme rarities. The CBA makes it even more of a rarity. Guys are gonna go where the money is and for superstars, its gonna be the team that drafted you. If Orlando calls dwights bluff, and does not deal him, I bet he stays. I think Carmelo may have stayed in Denver had they called his bluff. I cant recall a single star player leaving as much money on the table as you would have to under the CBA to sign where you want to sign. Joe Johnson definately wanted to be a Bull, but Atlanta made an offer he couldnt turn down. Rudy Gay probably wanted out of Memphis as well. Both guys got the NBA hometown premium. Stat went to New York because the knicks spent 5 years shedding contracts in order to land Lebron James and after failing that, they threw 5/100 at Amare, something no other team was willing to do. Amare could get amnestied before that deal is finished. Basically, if you take the outlier of Bosh/Wade/Lebron conspiring to play together (in miami) during the '08 summer games, everybody that signed went to the highest bidder. I dont think the city/franchise is as important as people are making it out to be.

The post was drunk on iPad autocorrect.

First off you are wrong about getting all three. Miami event get the 3 max deals n they had purged their roster of everything but I think Mario chalmers. Iirc we could get a full max an under the max and still keep rose and Noah. An the rest of the post is wrong. NBA players like Miami for reasons other than Mickey arison, pat Riley and whoever their fan base is. Chicago cannot change climates, geographical features or club scenes to entice free agents. I think you are completely missing the reasons these guys wanna play here they wan to play. Also we have the reiging MVP, won 62 games and played a respectable ECF series against a legit great team. With our centerpiece bing 23 years old we have already eclipsed the pinnacle reached by the 80s an early 90s caves teams an I soil say our floor is to hav a 90s Knicks-like run.

Love Durant dunking that ball for a miracle cover on the second half ttp over 47.5.

oh so the kris humphries thing now means that double doubles aren't good? your expectations seems to be ridiculous. for the last few weeks noah has been as good as he basically ever was. My expectations are he plays to a 5-60. We signed him a year and. Half ago. Not two weeks ago.

Anybody with league pass knows knows this blazer booth is far from among the worse. Tommy heinsohn is horrendous.

Nate McMillen thought of everything on that play except Russ west brooks ability to fly.

Jamal Crawford will take this shot.

Wow. Terrible call and even worse celebration after the call by the ref.

Only KG is allowed to set a screen like that serge.

This is as lost as I've ever seen okc. Pull it together scott Brooks

He did. If he were on any other team I'd be pulling for him.

I find that to be the case with many people who use god as a crutch like he does. To be fair he did impregnate a magic dancer like 5 years ago.