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Everything posted by 17 Seconds
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The Bulls are still a better spot then NY, imo. the knicks can now afford 2 max free agents, the bulls can only afford 1
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once again we fail to unload hinrich meanwhile the knicks open enough space for 2 max free agents
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only if the player we're going after is a complete [expletive] who knows nothing about basketball and only looked at the bulls win-loss record you again ignore the main point though. if a player cares enough about the current state of the team to make a decision based partly on that, then why wouldn't that player do the extra 5 minutes of research and realize why they slumped down the stretch? seriously, it's as if you're under the impression that these players will look at win-loss record and nothing else. if what you say is true and the bulls slump to a much worse record due to losing hinrich/salmons/tt (which in itself is highly debatable), then the free agents will see that and understand why they slumped down the stretch. they are humans capable of thought.
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Maxim spread time! Mancuso>Vonn yessss
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mancuso and vonn are so fine
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I'm stunned that snowboarders curse. Seriously, who is the guy that decided to mic them. They had to have seen that coming. it was funny because the guy kinda looked at the cam with a half smile after he did it
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lol @ that guy cussing like 3 times when they're mic'd up
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it really is embarrassing.
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bosh will be a free agent.
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oh, and let's take the teams that are rumored to be going hard after max FAs this offseason and compare what they'll look like cleveland (without lebron) miami (without wade) knicks those are the main 3 teams that are going to be fighting for the big guys. which one of those 3 teams has the best team without any of the big free agents? the answer is chicago, and it's not even remotely close.
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and you're still not acknowledging the fact that these FAs will understand that the reason they slumped down the stretch was to have money to spend on them. your logic is just all kinds of flawed
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exactly. it's ridiculous to think a FA will be worried about whether guys like kirk/salmons/tt helped us win an extra 3-5 games or something ridiculous like that FAs will see a) money b) market/location c) rose/noah
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the bottom line is that if a FA player factors in team performance as much as spongeworthy is claiming, then he's going to do the extra 5 minutes of research and factor in the fact that the reason they slumped down the stretch was due to getting rid of contracts for money to spend on THEM.
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seriously. the argument being made is basically that the free agents care enough about the team to factor it in to their decision, but don't care enough about it to do 5 minutes of research on the team to see how they got the record they had.
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You're looking at a bad team with them. I think this is a 45 win team as currently constructed. The schedule is pretty soft from here on out. It's not THAT bad a team. if you think the schedule takes this team to a 45 win season, then you should also think it takes a crappy team to a mediocre record.
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salmons/tyrus/hinrich are not the difference between a playoff berth and tanking.
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and you think these free agent players are too stupid to realize that the reason those guys got minutes and brought the team down was to clear cap space for them? reaching
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seriously. after money, these FAs are going to be looking at market and supporting cast (the bulls are very attractive in both regards). theyre not going to care about playoff seeding.
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you're kind of making my point for me. the difference between being a 5th seed and a 9th seed is that small..... but you're acting like a free agent would make his decision based on that. "i don't know man.... the bulls were 2 games under .500 and a 9th seed. the heat were 2 games over .500 and a 6 seed! that settles it.. im going to miami"
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competetiveness does matter. the difference between an 8th seed and a 9th seed doesn't matter. you act like them making the playoffs suddenly makes them a different team than if they finish 9th or 10th. the quality/talent level of this team is what it is. a playoff berth doesn't change it.
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i mean, i'd prefer they make the playoffs The year that the Bulls got Rose, they weren't going anywhere if they made the playoffs. I'm glad they missed the playoffs. Imagine where this franchise would be without him. But on the other hand, last year's series against the Celtics was unbelievably exciting. if you're hoping for another series like that (exciting and/or the bull being competetive) then you'd going to be disappointing. the odds of the bulls making any kind of noise in the first round are very slim. we pretty much lucked out into playing a banged up celtics team last season
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what channel are you guys watching this on? cnbc?
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i mean, i'd prefer they make the playoffs, i just dont really care because it seems so futile. they aren't coming close to a title so it just feels so meaningless to me. plus outside of rose/noah and maybe deng at times, this team isn't that likeable. hinrich is annoying, salmons was annoying, VDN is an idiot, tyrus is a douche, etc. when i check the scores, i'm much more concerned with the performance of deng/rose/noah than i am with the actual score. i want to win a title, and i dont believe that anything that happens over the rest of this season (other than trades) increase the likelihood of us coming close to one any time soon. i'm really excited for the offseason.
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Tyrus will likely be moved, but it's not like that makes a difference money-wise since his deal was up after this year anyway, right? im dumb with nba contracts. i just saw this..... http://hoopshype.com/salaries/chicago.htm and figured "qualifying offer" was something similar to arbitration with baseball.
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the bulls have traded salmons to the bucks for the expirings of kurt thomas and fransisco elson. would have been nice to get a pick, but this trade gets the job done. the most important thing was getting rid of salmons contract. now if we can make one more trade (hinrich or thomas prob) for more expirings, this will be a very good trade deadline and set us up nicely for the offseason.