David

you are a good 4-5 minutes behind

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

It's moreso that I think moving from 15 to there primarily through the draft is a lot harder than you do.

i've never said i'm fine with watching .500 or average teams, I'm pretty sure. i'd rather watch them than 15 win teams, sure, but my goal is to become a 55+ win team. and jimmy has somewhat of an old man game. i think he can play at a high level for a while as long as he isn't run into the ground.

wtf eric aybar

In his first 34 games, Happ has hit HR on something like a 45 HR full season pace.

Details, please. beyond description. you have to hear it.

oh my god that call by coomer might be his worst ever

ian happ good at hitting dongs

this game sounds hella boring

i get where you're coming from with a lot of this. i just don't agree that it is a clear cut better option toward reaching true title contention nor do i think it's absolutely a better path toward being very good. it is definitely a better path toward being very bad, though. the "nobody wants to play here" narrative is so vastly overstated good players have and will come here. we've had great players almost come here. yeah, yeah, "almost doesn't count," but there is no doubt in my mind those guys had serious interest. chicago isn't horsefeathering oklahoma city and players aren't not coming here because jordan and pippen didn't like jerry krause. i mean, hell, this organization is loyal to its ex players to a fault. in the end, though, they can only pick one team. tracy mcgrady picked orlando (pretty sure he since stated he regretted that). if miami couldn't make the cap thing happen, who knows where lebron ends up. take what you will about what wade said after signing here, but he has indicated there was talk of making the 2010 move happen here. carmelo wound up (thankfully, in retrospect) deciding that NY and more money was more attractive. i do think that awkward goofy ass gar forman probably doesn't help us, nor does the clown show coach we have, but hoiberg can be fired, and butler has been making connections as his stature has grown in the league.

Good sport, definitely not completely broken. i don't really see a way around it though. and it's how it's always been. you have 5 guys and you can pretty much have your best player have the ball all the time if you want. just the nature of the game. only way around it would be to go single elimination and turn it into a crapshoot.

i still think paxson is capable of some level of competence if he takes the reins back from gar. who knows how much either guy is involved with what, but they have definitely seemed to become extra strange and stupid since it was reported that forman truly took control and paxson went hands off. that said, paxson still would've had to sign off on whatever the hell he was doing. i will never understand not trading gasol.

i'd like to see an actual logical argument instead of this from you. you act like one route is idiotic and one is absolutely the right way to go. i really don't think the math even close to on your side on that. at best, one is a marginally better route than the other, and i'm not really sure you can definitively state which one that is, as much as you seem to have dug your heels in.

And what are the odds of turning into a championship contender over this stretch? You'll get your wish. Our idiots will keep him. And you can find ways to get excited over being in NBA hell for the next 7 years he's here, plus the time after that, that it takes to get back towards the playoffs. Bulls are the Mariners. I get that meatbally desire to confuse activity with achievement and BLOW IT UP!!!! I really do, especially with the goofy ass season the Bulls just went through. And I get that the unknown and promise of the draft fools people into thinking the odds of success are better than they really are. Your odds in basketball of having your team be in true championship contention in your entire lifetime are pretty low. It takes absurd luck, and it doesn't really matter how you try to get there. The Cavs got insanely lucky to both get the #1 pick in 2003 and to also have him be from the area (otherwise no way he goes back). The Warriors got insanely lucky with how everything played out with Curry before he became a superstar. Yeah, they drafted well aside from that...whatever the combination of skill/luck was there is debatable. Yeah, the Warriors have a great and smart FO and I'd love to trade with them, no doubt. Not gonna deny that. But they still needed lots of good fortune. You can build a very good team though. That's not that hard. Keeping Butler and hoping he can get someone else to come here in the next 2 years likely has better odds of yielding a very good team than trading Butler to spin a very low probability wheel instead. Both have insanely low odds of resulting in a championship contender. Even if the odds of becoming pretty/very good are low with Butler and praying he can recruit someone, they're still probably higher than the magic blow it up button. Anthony horsefeathering Davis...that would be a hell of a great outcome if we traded Butler for the best haul you could conceivably come up with. And the Pelicans are still horsefeathers every year.

http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1580597 This guy gets stuff (i mean in terms of the overall premise, not necessarily in the precision of the math/probabilities)

non-CSN weekday games are the absolute worst

except what made dusty's lineups nonsense was that he'd stick guys like rey ordonez, ramon martinez, tom goodwin, macias, and alex gonzalez at the top on a daily basis it was basically a staple to have a very low OBP CF or MI in at least one of the top two spots

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omg rizzo hahahahahah

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Free baserunner. Sure, why not?

god damn it now i'm gonna be imagining kyrie on the bulls all summer

That's what they said.