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I liked what they did on day 3.

I like the DB they drafted a lot. Probably means he will suck and the guys I complained about will deal. one thing I will say - Ben Johnson is someone I trust so I am going to hope if he flagged the TE and wideout than he has a plan and sees them being legit players. The LB from ASU was a solid get too. Nothing sexy but think that was much better than when they got cute with Hyppo but I hope Hyppo with an offseason put on a bit more strength and goes and wins a job.

I wanted them to grab McCoy. Don’t know how bad his injury is but dude was a baller and even if he missed the entire year I would take my chance cause the bounce back upside would be so high.

I don’t get it - I didn’t get a few of their moves last year either and the ones I didn’t get hadn’t / haven’t paid off yet.

I’m good with that - dude is a baller.

I'm not saying to be patient - I'm saying get good football players and don't force what you want because you want it - follow the board and where the talent is. Regarding Burns - if they seriously are willing to trade him - than yeah that is interesting. I'd expect they would get an absolute haul for him.

I just don't think this is the draft to address it. I think a ton of the players are flawed and my view is lets get players who I see having an impact and I think there are more options in other spots. I also should caveat - I think the Bears are likely to take a step back this upcoming year and are still a year away. Do this the right way - I like the Utah guy because I believe he has real upside and only reason he is lower in round 1 is because it will take an extra year (I also think the Bears aren't in a bad spot to be patient). 5th year option huge - a year from now Trapillo is a swing tackle and potential starting beast at guard (replacing Jackson). Next year we have more dline freeing up and make the change than while giving time for Turner and Booker to hopefully show something this year. We have a lot of bodies on the line already (and cap) and I see a lot of guys who are okay but with flaws and hard to project.

My dream Bears draft: 1st Utah LT 2nd IU DB or Tennessee DB 2nd Kyle Louis (safety) or Trevon Sykes 2nd Chis Bell (Wideout - ACL Injury); Dline or Center 3rd Dline or Center with our next pick

Find a way to score 13! Let’s go!

How could we have not beat that - purely for flippability if nothing else.

Is bido the new Jose Paniagua

Ah man he just missed two moon shots. Hitting that one to dead center on a sub 40 MPH pitch showed his strength.

Or not. Throwing strikes helps!

This guy stinks.

That last play was incredible range but man he almost had a career ending injury there - presume OF was calling him off. And if OF didn’t he almost got his SS killed.

And same for Vargas? Is he just applying his own rules? Mune should have challenged the 2nd pitch too - it missed by even more.

How can the ump ignore official reviews. Pathetic what he did to Vargas and then does it again. Wtf.

Sasaki is someone I would be intrigued to acquire if he finally gets to point he wants to get real run way so he can prove he can make it in this league as a starter. He wasn’t ready for prime time with the Dodgers but if he is healthy I think he is type of guy that needs a six month adjustment and than can be a pretty good long term piece.

There were some rumors if the Bulls went with BD in a president role around Thibs maybe being a HC. But I don't think that happens unless you get a Kerr or someone else like that to massage. I don't recall where Lloyd and Thibs came across but I'd imagine they go another direction. If you see Deng come in - it could get interesting and while him and Mesai were not listed in the report from Shams - technically Bulls could keep that pretty quiet since you don't need permission to connect with said players.

I believe the reports were that they wanted him to move up but he was not yet ready to decide that and he had a preference to continue to coach. I presume Bulls wanted to provide him with the respect they thought he deserved and so this was a big long orchestration maybe to give him a bit of time to process that given everything else going on but I think also trying to be respective of how highly they truly think of him (and I don't think they are wrong there). I think it was literally a day later and BD and Reinsdorf both basically implied he wasn't really going to stick around as head coach under all scenarios but it was more how they wanted to frame it in terms of their respect. But Reinsdorf point blank had already backed away from that statement 2 days later but in a smaller context and BD was saying same thing like I wouldn't read too much into what Reinsdorf is saying - but I appreciate how he is doing it and how he's respecting my time to process. And in fairness - BD is one of the more respected basketball individuals and leaders in the entire basketball circuit (college and pro) and is just an outstanding individual to work with at all levels. I'm not saying he is the world's greatest basketball coach - there are better - but when you bring the people aspects etc - he is near the top - hence why I think they really wanted to see if he was ready to step into a president role and oversee the whole thing - be the guy who hired the GM, who hired the next coach - and who served as the glue guy. I personally think he would have been a home run in that role - especially when you think of how important relationships are to the full NBA ecosystem.

In fairness to Lloyd - he is a pretty good candidate and the overall list they are looking at is deep and thorough. We also don't know who else is on the list. Don't want to give them the benefit of the doubt though - as they haven't earned that.

I think they always knew this was going to happen - but there is a level of respect for Billy D that they wanted to do it that way. Even Reinsdorf's quotes that came out a day or two later kind of implied that. And I think Billy even said he appreciated it because of how it showed that the respect was mutual. But ultimately - I think even Cowley mentioned it, the Bulls expected this to happen all along but I do think they were hoping he would step into the president role (and believe they offered it to him).

I agree - but I think I’m going to bet he is here more than 2 years. If he is legit - she fits into a rebuild and can be a big global draw and might even mean we add another international player or two on free agent market in Ishibia influenced world.

First and foremost let’s jump up into the top 4!

Just my opinion- that team looks pretty limited - when Dybansta starts to take off, Giannis is not there and they don’t have assets. I’m ok if they want to use cap space for more assets or to take a flyer but I’m not trading Matas at this point. I’d stick to draft approach and find ways to creatively get more picks and assume we suck again next year and get a high pick.