UMFan83

Why would you want a shot at Boston. It's not catharsis, if they just beat you all over again. Troll all you want, I don't care, just want to see you in April. I think we'd have a better chance against vs. Atlanta to be honest, and by better chance I mean 0.5% vs. 0.2%

lol Twitter is ready for Schuster's head on a platter.

USA GOAL! 1-0

Holy crap what a horrible goat. That guy must be a terrorist.

LOL this Schuster loser has another big shot that will redeem himself for the other miisses or completely finish off blowing the game.

The swapping of picks is meaningless. The Bucks will finish worse than the Bulls How can you assume that when 1/4th of the Bulls rotation just left the team? Yes I think the Bulls are probably still better, but I certainly do not know that for sure. Care to wager? The Bulls will continue to go as far as Rose, Noah, and perhaps Deng take them. We're better than the Bucks. And it pains me to see Hinrich, in all likelihood, escape another deadline and remain a Bull. What the hell is it going to take to see this guy get moved? Why would I wager with you when I just said I probably agree? But it's not guaranteed at all, changes to rotation can sometimes really throw off a team. Plus there are whispers that the Bulls are considering shutting down Noah for a longer period of time. If that happens, I could see the Bucks passing the Bulls in the standings. But right now, I'd put my money on the Bulls.

Sweet

The swapping of picks is meaningless. The Bucks will finish worse than the Bulls How can you assume that when 1/4th of the Bulls rotation just left the team? Yes I think the Bulls are probably still better, but I certainly do not know that for sure.

Apparently, the Bucks also have the rights to swap 1st round picks with the Bulls this season (top 10 protected). So if the Bulls don't make the playoffs and don't finish in the top 3 in the lottery, we are not going to get a draft pick to reflect that. They are also saying that the Bobcats pick might not be until 2014.

Salmons and Tyrus aren't garbage players, but if they're really good enough to carry Milwaukee and Charlotte over us then we weren't deserving of a playoff bid to begin with. Why would a Bulls fan care about the playoffs? This is not some organization that hasn't seen the postseason in 20 years and should be happy with making an appearance. Shouldn't the preference be to do whatever possible to move from a bottom seed type team at best to an actual contender that could win more than 3 playoff games? It's not like making the playoffs in the NBA is an accomplishment. And it's not like "anything can happen". because a) I enjoy watching the playoffs when the bulls are in it, b) I really enjoy watching the bulls play and would lose a lot of that enjoyment if they were not playing for something this year, c) Derrick rose + playoffs = nothing bad, d) trading thomas in that deal doesn't really change our future unless there's another trade brewing or the bobcats miss the playoffs and that 1st (assuming it's this year) becomes something worthwhile whcih still doesn't bother me because of the microscopic odds of getting a top pick. So yeah I really want to make the playoffs this year unless it severely damages our future prospects which it doesn't. I realize the team will probably lose in 5 games or worse but I don't care.

Salmons and Tyrus aren't garbage players, but if they're really good enough to carry Milwaukee and Charlotte over us then we weren't deserving of a playoff bid to begin with. well it's a combo of losing them and those teams gaining them. The only player I can see working into the rotation is Warrick. I'm personally going to be down on this trade because I have the opinion that Tyrus gives us really good minutes most of the time when he plays, and I know not everyone agrees with that opinion.

Sweet we've helped out the only team that likely has a shot of passing us for the last playoff spot and also the team with the best shot of fading in case that first team takes over a playoff spot.

Yeah. My brother was (and still is) the eternal optimist, and he got super pissed at me when I told him that the NCLS was over, and they might as well not even play Game 7 because no matter what, the Marlins would win. He started yelling at me, and I took out my wallet and slapped a 20 (the entire contents of my wallet, which was a lot because I was a poor college student) down on the table. I said "If the Cubs win this game, this is yours. You don't owe me anything if they lose." When Kerry homered, he was bragging and wondering how he was going to spend his 20 bucks. All I did was look at him and say "just wait." After the last out was made, he didn't talk to me the rest of the night. Optimist, pessimist or otherwise, you had no idea whether the series was over or not. The loudest prediction was all yours was. Go look in a game thread, people like you love being the one who "called" the loss first, as if it is some sort of badge. Really though you are simply a loud mouth oaf, and putting it on display for everyone. For every "I called the loss" that is correct, there's 3 instances when you called the loss early and they win. I saw it all the time in game threads last year, hell I used to do it on the regular. If the Cubs had in fact won Game 7, you would have never remembered thinking the series was over after Game 6. I thought they were going to lose Game 7 for the same reason I thought the Lakers would against the Suns in the first round of the playoffs a few years ago. Both had their chance in Game 6 and blew it. And if either had won, I definitely would have remembered not thinking either had a chance, especially in the Cubs' case since I went to class that day right after Miguel Cabrera's homer in the first inning and missed most of Game 7. OK maybe not completely forgotten, but it would have been an afterthought. I wonder how many Reds fans gave up on their team after Fisk hit the HR in 1975. The team didn't as they won game 7. I've never heard anyone say "I knew the Reds were going to lose Game7 but they didnt"

Yeah. My brother was (and still is) the eternal optimist, and he got super pissed at me when I told him that the NCLS was over, and they might as well not even play Game 7 because no matter what, the Marlins would win. He started yelling at me, and I took out my wallet and slapped a 20 (the entire contents of my wallet, which was a lot because I was a poor college student) down on the table. I said "If the Cubs win this game, this is yours. You don't owe me anything if they lose." When Kerry homered, he was bragging and wondering how he was going to spend his 20 bucks. All I did was look at him and say "just wait." After the last out was made, he didn't talk to me the rest of the night. Optimist, pessimist or otherwise, you had no idea whether the series was over or not. The loudest prediction was all yours was. Go look in a game thread, people like you love being the one who "called" the loss first, as if it is some sort of badge. Really though you are simply a loud mouth oaf, and putting it on display for everyone. For every "I called the loss" that is correct, there's 3 instances when you called the loss early and they win. I saw it all the time in game threads last year, hell I used to do it on the regular. If the Cubs had in fact won Game 7, you would have never remembered thinking the series was over after Game 6.

What are the contract situations of those players? I don't think Alexander is an expiring....I think he's only been in the NBA for 2 seasons. Aren't rookie contracts 3 years guaranteed? Edit: Nevermind, they are both expiring

Does he make Thomas obsolete? I mean in terms of a SF that takes Thomas' slot in the rotation, yes. But they are fairly different players. For one, Thomas is a very good weak side shot blocker, while Warrick averages 0.2 blocks per game. Joe Alexander must be a huge bust. I didn't understand at the time why Milwaukee made that pick, and it looks like the Bucks might have given up on him already. He hasn't played in a game all season.

whatever, you know what I meant lol

omg, Geo looks sickly. I'm officially worried he lost too much weight. How's he gonna hit for any power with that frame?

:( Yeah giving Penn state it's only Big 10 win of the season in Evanston no less is pretty damaging for a team's NCAA hopes. Carmody has his team playing worse as the season goes on...

Unless we had a sign and trade, that's correct.

And now I read...

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports' Twitter: Does anyone know what the Bulls are going to do before the deadline now?

... Think about it for 2 seconds. It has nothing to do with what anyone thinks he can still do as a player. I assume you are talking about an expiring contract. But what are the chances that the Bulls don't actually end up signing a good free agent and then just go ahead and resign McGrady in the offseason if they make a trade? That would scare me if I were a fan and they were talking about trading for such a guy. Is that really a legit concern? I think even if McGrady does amazing averages 25/6/6 the rest of the season and the Bulls advance to game 7 of the first round (the farthest in the playoffs a team who is playing with TMac is allowed to advance), I still think at worst they target him as a secondary signing to their big FA (Bosh, Wade, Boozer, etc). Even if McGrady posts the above numbers, he's not going to get anywhere near a max deal with all the issues. Even if he posts those numbers, the Bulls are not going to all the sudden overlook all the issues he's had as well as his age and throw the farm at him. I am pretty sure the Bulls would exhaust every other FA option before attempting to resign McGrady, and even if they do, he's not going to get a franchise crippling contract from the Bulls or any other team in this economy, IMO. And to the above poster, yes the number 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, and 9 reasons the Bulls are interested in McGrady are for his expiring deal, but the Bulls also have significant interest in him because he probably has the highest upside of any expiring available deal. If they make trades to get rid of Hinrich, Salmons and Miller lets say, they need something back to finish out the season respectable.

Which is why the Bulls are trying to get a 3rd team involved. I think the Bulls think they need McGrady to offset the loss of Hinrich or Salmons. Also they want to get rid of the malcontent Thomas sooner than later. From what I've read, he's having a Milton Bradley effect in the locker room. Not saying that's effecting their play, but he's not good enough for them to put up with that.

The fact that he has a history of being good...not ace good but good, the fact that he was injured last year, and the fact that he's making the switch from AL to NL. I know part of Wang's struggles from mid-2008 to now were a release point issue, but it's possible his shoulder injury was what was causing this. Am I going to look at the 4 seasons that he had an ERA of 4.07 or lower, or the 9 starts before surgery last year when his ERA was awful? You are right though, he might not bounce back. But assuming he does, he's definitely going to be better than last year's rotation members on the Nats.