David
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What 2 players on the Bulls before the PG trade happened you think would've beaten Oladipo/Sabonis offer in order to land him? i'm not here to argue about what mediocre to bad players are better than which other ones. my point is that if the trend seems to be star players are going for too little, you don't trade your undervalued star player. you start doing GM things and attempting to acquire one of said star players. and you have jimmy butler attempt to recruit to get you somewhere if need be. odds might be slim but i have little doubt that it's a higher percentage play toward contention/being very good than making an awful trade of one of the best 10-15 players in the league wherein you receive poor value in order to tank toward draft picks.
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Absolutely correct. Other than Oladipo would have been the 2nd best player on the Bulls. Interesting. He would've ranked as follows on the Bulls' roster last year and then vs. players currently on the roster (even though in this theoretical world, jimmy would've still been on the roster - I'm figuring that second part manually so forgive any errors) PER - 9th (efficiency stat so obviously playing time is a factor here)/5th Win Shares (his 2222 minutes would've been 3rd on the team) - 3rd/2nd WS/48 (win shares adjusted for playing time - per 48 minutes) - 10th/6th VORP - 7th/5th I get if you aren't all about basketball metrics/efficiency stats, but that would seem a long way from the certainty you seem to have about it. Mainly my point isn't so much about the Bulls players as much as it is I have no idea what you see in Oladipo nor what makes you think he beats the crap out of anyone.
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Those are two absolute garbage players. They don't beat the horsefeathers out of anything.
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How valuable are future picks from a team that you're dealing a superstar for? The Nets trade is obviously the best example of a team that got beyond desperate and forfeited 10 years of viability for 1 year of a potential run. That trade is looked at as the biggest deal of buffoonery ever. Look at the Demarcus Cousins deal. The Kings got a future first round pick in this draft and it ended up being number 10. A good spot to draft a quality player, but not a franchising changing position. Who's the star talent traded at the deadline in the last five years that yielded an amazing return? Again, looking at the Cousins deal, people thought the return was pretty weak. That's the nature of deals in the NBA. Star players aren't going to be bring back what we think they're worth. Again, would I have preferred a package that SSR said he would have done for Butler a couple pages ago? Of course. The Bulls would have too, but if its not there, its not there. And you're seeing what the market will offer you for a top 15 player (George) in their year before FA and its not pretty. Then, if you still want to keep Butler, is he, as a 29 year old, going to be worth a supermax deal? The Bulls clearly didn't love Jimmy enough to offer him that years down the road and look at him as the franchise cornerstone for the next Bulls Championship run. So trade for a star instead of trading one.
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His value isn't going to go up from a trade perspective. By bringing back the same group of players, you're staring at a team that is going to be too competitive for any sort of meaningful impact player in the draft next season. Now Jimmy would be 1 year away from free agency and his value is going to be lower. Paul George, a superior player to jimmy, just netted a horsefeathers package that ties up a ton of money to a decent nba starter and no draft picks for any future hope for the pacers. Their trade was bold and while I wish they hadn't included 16, I don't think the trade gets done without it. Trades in which you receive significantly less value than you give up are not good trades. And Jimmy Butler is better than Paul George. George, even prior to his injury, has never had a season as good as the one Butler just had.
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If that's the best offer out there for Butler, you do not trade him.
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Start winning and playing like a good team (even though eddie butler is starting and half our AAA team is on the 25 man) [tweet] [/tweet] also KB is back, yay would not've guessed he'd be back before zobrist and heyward -
teague is pretty good and that's not really a lot of money. he's also 3 years younger than teague and hill, and about as good as hill.
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In a rare meatball opinion for me, I fully believe he's a playoff choker
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basketball still has a lot of meathead former player GMs they need more actual smart guys
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so for anyone who doesn't know, all or nothing just came out on amazon. it's on the rams this year. it's like a hard knocks for regular season but better. it's a little weird that jon hamm is narrating it.
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guess we'll see if he turns out to be all talk or not when it comes down to the money
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Why the horsefeathers do I keep seeing this as a story? I saw the video where Gammons said it and I know he didn't really say it like it was a joke, but its freaking obvious that the Cubs were really not going to have Trump "fire" Miggy. Even the most tone deaf front offices would know that this wasn't a good idea, much less a sharp and tactful one like the Cubs think he's just annoyed by the clickbait headline that says something like "The Cubs considered having Trump tell Montero, 'You're fired!'" instead of just saying they joked about it or whatever but yeah you'd have to be an idiot to think they really considered that but there are lots of idiots, which is why clickbait works i love the clickbait ads that are like "You'll never believe what happened in !"
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I was hoping his was a subtle joke. Didn't realize his coding was sophisticated enough for subtle jokes. It would seem more like yours isn't. :-k
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Lol. Kind of surprised David didn't notice. I was hoping his was a subtle joke. It absolutely was.
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uh presented without comment sidenote: for some reason i'm pretty sure this was rizzo
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john lackey sucks and we were always right to hate him
David replied to treebird's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Only thing that worries me against that happening is his bromance with Lester. -
It would be amazing if this is Gar Forman's number. or maybe it's MJ's
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doesn't NECESSARILY mean that he's not making the approach changes they want to see, especially in a small sample but yeah i'd like to see some more non strikeout outs lol
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only all of the negative things, regardless of how likely, can be seen coming.
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looks like we'll have to wait for tomorrow for the reds to start helping us get into first place
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without 3 of our best 5 starters pitching too not even to speak of these buttholes in the lineup
