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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 1, 2015 -> 01:33 PM) I know he's put up better numbers already in his career...but is love really that different in style from Mirotic? Love is a multi-time all star who is in his mid 20's. I think it is insanely short sighted to not accept him because of Mirotic. Mirotic was a nice player but Kevin Love is a top 20 player in this league and a year ago people would have argued he was possibly top 5 and for sure top 10. I'd also say that Love is an insanely better rebounder than Niko. I would agree that Gasol is probably the best fit as he plays that physical big position very well but Love's stock is down further then it probably should be.

QUOTE (shipps @ Jun 1, 2015 -> 10:24 AM) To go for both Love and Aldridge? Is that financially possible? I never said both, just one of them.

Super Regionals @ Louisville. Bring it on. Lets go TITANS!!! 14 inning game on Saturday against ASU was a nail biter!

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jun 1, 2015 -> 06:40 AM) The latest mock draft on SheridanHoops says that the Bulls are exploring the option of trading Taj and/or Noah. Says the Bulls and Celtics have been the 2 most active teams in trade talks (not with each other). http://www.sheridanhoops.com/2015/05/30/mo...-and-then-what/ That is the scenario which gives the Bulls the cap space to go for Love / Aldridge / Gasol.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 29, 2015 -> 02:01 PM) People do want it. Problem is a lot of the power in terms of votes comes from those nations benefiting from said corruption. It is why it will take the power of those nations that drive the finances behind soccer to put serious pressure on FIFA and its way of life.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 29, 2015 -> 11:09 AM) It will be interesting to see how efficient an offense based on launching 3s is with DRose "feeling it". Really, how many guys on the Bulls roster other than perhaps McBuckets, and Dunleavy if he is even back, do you really think can hit 3s with much consistency? Nik should. He struggled at times this year due to being winded, etc, but he should be a good 3 point shooter. Brooks is as well (not sure if he will be back).

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 29, 2015 -> 10:29 AM) The player push back is a new thing that has come out in recent days. Considering Thibs was a known goner, I'm going to assume that is just players trying to placate the people who will still be here knowing that Thibs was out anyway. Cowley had an article the other day and he got from a player the exit interview was filled with stuff slamming Thibs. I will agree GarPax/ Thibs probably wasn't going to work anymore, but unless Pau can find another fountain of youth, and all these guys who get hurt every season stop getting hurt, the Mayor is going to bow out of the playoffs in the first or second round. I also think the Mayor to the Bulls is a done deal. I think they are leaking it is not to try to make it appear like this just came up, and everything everyone has heard the last 4 or 5 months is just a coincidence that it came true. Supposedly Pau had planted a different seed during the season and I think players started to march to a slightly different tune. Not saying Pau didn't like Tom, just that he has been their and won and has a different mindset and is a real leader and I think his opinion was more of a, you need to make it to the playoffs in a position where you are healthy enough to play your best basketball and that wasn't going to happen under Tom's watch. Too much blood had been released by the time the regular season ended. If Pau doesn't come, my presumption is Tom is still the head coach of the Bulls because it was going to take a real veteran (from the outside) who would be able to change some of the internal culture that will also come with getting older. My presumption is if there was one player who wouldn't comment negatively on Tom, it would be Butler and possibly Rose. However, I could have seen similar situations with Noah too, but that might not be the case. Dunleavy is a pro but it isn't like he'd grown up and been developed by Tom so while I can't see him bashing Tom, I also don't see him doing extensive lobbying for a coach either.

QUOTE (shipps @ May 29, 2015 -> 10:26 AM) I will laugh out the loudest if Hoiberg declines the job. That would be bad. I don't want Gentry. I like him as an assistant but don't like getting rid of Tom for Gentry. I can live with Hoiberg as I think he has the "it" charisma. No idea if he can coach or not. Difference between college and pro's is huge, but as long as he doesn't let his ego get in the way and he brings in some good assistants, I am on board with it. To be frank, I don't like very many alternatives outside of Hoiberg.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 29, 2015 -> 10:05 AM) If Tate is available I would all aboard that train. I think I'd take Fulmer over him, but that'd be it. Tate would be my #1. He has good size, velocity, two plus pitches and athleticism without some of the concerns over Jay / Fullmer. Basically Tate has proven he can become a starter (after pitching out of pen past two seasons) and still maintained his velocity, etc, until past few weeks where he has tired out (which is to be expected and something I hope Sox are all over and are prepared to give him rest). Fullmer has more concerns over his mechanics, etc and Jay is nice but again, we don't know how his velocity will maintain as a starter, etc. Tate would be such a good value get at the 8 spot. Jay might have higher upside then Tate though (more polish around his secondary stuff).

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 29, 2015 -> 10:14 AM) Coaches should coach. GMs should GM. That's how I see it. The Bulls PR department is doing a good job making Thibs the bad guy here, but if he was so horrible and played guys too much, why did he last 5 seasons? Why did he get a very lucrative contract extension which still has 2 years to go? You yourself are using a quote from a writer that stated he never got any info from Thibs as proof Thibs gave him info. Isn't it at least slightly possible the Van Gundy comments weren't coming from Thibs? He was speaking from common knowledge. We all knew the stories. The fact is GarPax hasn't yet shown they are any better at their jobs than the guys they fired. I hope someone with the Bulls realizes that. I think the problem is the Bulls had one of the best front offices in the league at collecting talent and one of the best coaching staffs in the league as well. Blowing both of those up would be the bigger mistake as it would leave you starting 100% from scratch. Clearly this got bad enough that JR, who was one of Tom's staunches advocates, even got off the bandwagon and decided it was time. It seems like the reality was JR would have allowed the issues to continue to go together if things were kept internally better and probably more importantly if the players didn't start to grow weary of Tom.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 29, 2015 -> 10:08 AM) Don't the GM and president meddle by nature...? They build the roster. We've seen the opposite. When coaches get to meddle in GM affairs like Ozzie getting Kotsay over Thome. Supposedly Thibs was the biggest supporter of drafting McDermott as well. I think the key from Reinsdor's message was in his eye, the coach and GM each have say in their world but they have to be able to work together as well. Any good organization has strong cross functional relationships built and the Bulls were lacking that. I presume Hoiberg has enough clout that he isn't taking a job to be a "yes" man, rather he is taking a job with a great roster with the chance to take this team to the next level and has a comfort that he can work well with the front office and communicate, etc.

Tate would be a great get. Easily the guy I would be most excited about falling to the sox pick.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 29, 2015 -> 08:53 AM) Skiles does have a track record of making bad teams decent, but eventually you will fire him with at least a couple of million on his contract. He is a poor man version of Thibs and a very good guy to help change the culture of the organization. He will also be reunited with Ben Gordon, haha.

I want to thank Thibs for making basketball in Chicago fun for the last 5 years and wish him the best in the future. Whoever gets him is going to get a really good coach and I hope he's learned a bit from his experience here. At the same time, I hope Hoiberg is the guy that can take the Bulls to the next level and that Doug Collins will be seated next to him. Reading Woj's article and who Forman wanted to hire instead of Thibs has me worried. I'd have been fine if they went with Pax's guy (Doug Collins) but if they hired Lawrence Frank or Mike Brown, oh my.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 28, 2015 -> 01:26 PM) Dan Bernstein @dan_bernstein · 1h 1 hour ago #Bulls sources: at least three starters ripped Thibs in exit interview, said they'd avoid team facility this summer if he were still there. Very interesting. Wonder how much truth their is to this. I presume Gasol would have been one of them.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 28, 2015 -> 11:25 AM) There have been very few changes from successful coach that ended up in elite coach. Collins to Phil, Jackson (if you could call him that) to Kerr. I don't trust Gar to do anything except look up names in an iowa phone book. Lakers did that when they moved to Phil as well. Del Harris had been a very successful coach (massing a .659 winning %)

Nike is going to be in deep trouble.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ May 27, 2015 -> 10:42 AM) Has anybody watched The Last Ship? I caught about 10 minutes of a random episode, it intrigued me. Watched last season and enjoyed it quite a bit. Looking forward to this season (whenever it starts).

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 26, 2015 -> 10:23 AM) My wife and I used to have a DVD player we strapped to the back of our car headrests for our kids to watch movies while we are on long drives. It died about a year ago and we never replaced it. I'd like to get something a little more "modern" than a DVD player. Ideally, I'd like either a monitor I can plug a SD card into with 20+ movies already stored on it. Or, dumb monitors I can plug an iPod touch or Android tablet into. I do not want the monitors built into the headrests. Any suggestions? I havent found anything that I like yet. Do you have an ipad or something along those lines or even just a cheap tablet? Why not just use that and then just have a contraption that works with the seats (I presume they probably exist).

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 26, 2015 -> 12:32 PM) If Rose gets hurt again this team as constructed should still make the playoffs and probably be a first round exit in the East. If the front office doesn't get the Bulls a solid back-up, ball distributing point guard who could start in a pinch, then this off-season would be a failure. In fact, I would expect a healthy Rose to get plenty of minutes next to someone who can ease his load and be a primary point guard at times. It is a huge need. There is a time and a place for guys like Aaron Brooks but their is also a time and a place for a real point guard and with Rose's health issues we need that. If we had a decent, league average distributing PG (or even slightly below league average), then I still think this team is a 2nd round playoff team without Rose.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 26, 2015 -> 11:18 AM) The Ray Rice video changed everything for wife beaters. I just saw a neighbor of mine taken away in handcuffs after choking his girlfriend a couple of weeks ago. I would hope that pre ray rice that same neighbor would have still been taken away in handcuffs and presume he would have been. I just think now the tolerance given to NFL players has grown smaller, to the point where people probably looked the other way more when it came to NFL players then normal humans but now the line has shifted to where these issues get more focus then would be from a regular "Joe or Jane".

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 26, 2015 -> 11:13 AM) Because they got burned. If you really think George McCaskey will approve a similar case in the future, I totally disagree, and good for him. I think teams can still win wife beater-free. Depends...does he look at what happened w/Bmarsh and consider that a success or not. Marshall seemed to by and large be a good community citizen with the Bears. Sure he had his issues in the clubhouse but his laundry list of problems went away or seemed to.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 26, 2015 -> 11:11 AM) Predicting it is also a part of it. There is a reason the 49ers cut him. If they didn't think he would be any more trouble, he probably still is with them. I think their is a thing to be said about moving to a new organization. Niners were in a position where they had to act, just like the Bears are in this situation now. The chargers could all turn out to be nothing but poor allegations (again I have no idea) but just as the Niners had to at some point move on, the Bears had to now and no organization is going to touch him now unless he's proven innocent in all situations and even then it is a stretch.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 26, 2015 -> 11:09 AM) I agree the PR is a huge part of this. And everyone seems to be ignoring that yes there are bad guys in every locker room, and some day, when the Bears actually have a shot of winning something, one of these guys will be available to help them, and the answer from George McCaskey will be undoubtedly be no. Happens with big organizations too, everyone remembers things that blow up or don't go well, especially when you make an exception. Whether it is a company that made an exception for someone to work at home and an employee took advantage of it or anything else. People remember mistakes more than successes.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 26, 2015 -> 10:52 AM) It's kinda someone's job to make sure you can predict those things. I'm sorry man, but no one predicts successes 100% of the time. Should every GM be fired for a bad draft choice? If you play with guys who had character issues, you are going to get burned...no doubt about it. If you want to beat up the Bears, beat them up for taking the chance and instead of a stance that they shouldn't take a chance. Don't beat them up because you want them to take a chance but they need to be right 100% of the time they do take that chance. It is an impossible bogie. From an internal perspective, you should do your diligence up to that extent if you are going to take a chance, but you should also know that no matter what, if they had past issues, future problems are a possibility and probably a probability.