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QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 06:26 AM) everything ok? i just got a tablet and was typing on it while taking care of the baby. Apparently what I thought I was typing wasn't what actually made it in. Haha.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 05:04 AM) It looks like they quit listening to Thibs. They don't play defense, and they are soft. They have just let MIL push them around. I don't think they haven't played defense. I think the defense has been fine (outside of Rose stinking it all over the place yesterday). The turnovers have been the absolute achilles heel. Look at how many points the Bucks are getting off of those turnovers and they still are shooting a relatively lousy percentage. Defense has not been an issue one bit. Ball security, ball security, ball security and with that, just overall stagnant offense. Rose plays too passive for too long of stretches, and guys still aren't used to each other. However, this is part of the process and I think if they can get past the Bucks, it will make them stronger.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 07:50 PM) A positive take away is we barely lost the past 2 games despite some bad breaks and Rose playing like s***. If we get the good Derrick in either of the next 2 games and get those makeable shots to fall, we should have no problem moving on to the next round. Way inseenit...this team has consistently played down to its opposition. However ifnthey cant win on road things will be awfully tight at uc in game 7. I actually thinh road game will be gooD for them. This bucks team gets credit f8r the d but bulls have to clean up the stupid passing and hopefully they finish at the hoop and get off to good start and bury bucks from beginning.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 04:50 PM) Mozgov LeBron Jones? Shumpert? Irving Other than Thompson, they have like no depth. Technically Smith is just out for their games where they have home court advantage. And depth becomes far less critical in the playoffs where players get extra rest between games and play more minutes in general (rotations shorten, etc). Also, just cause Love is ruled out now, doesn't mean at some point he comes back sooner. Most teams don't handle things as piss poor as the Bulls when it comes to handling the media and injuries. Just watch Marion or Miller show up with their vet leadership and gritt.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 04:20 PM) Just a good chance? If the Bulls blow this Thibs should be canned (probably will be anyway) immediately and everybody on the roster not named Butler and Mirotic is trade bait (yes, i know Rose is going nowhere). Jordan...stop making hyperbolic comments like this around the Bulls. You are a walking jinx and I don't want that jinx effecting my Bulls!!! And the Cavs have two players better than any Bull, even without Love (Irving and James). Bulls have better depth but Cavs have played fantastic basketball over the last 30 games. I would bet even without Love, the Cavs will open as the favorite (if the bulls win tonight).

If you wanted to get rid of Danks, we should have traded him to the Angels for Josh Hamilton and gobs of money.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 03:31 PM) Agreed, Rose took blame for last game, I expect him to come out firing on all cylinders today! Hopefully he's playing lock down defense and aggressive offense and not just firing long shots like crazy.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 03:15 PM) Kevin Love ruled out for the 2nd round, not sure if that helps Bulls any.. First, lets get to the 2nd round tonight!!!

1st we need to put away the Bucks.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 10:38 AM) My guess is that Hamilton didn't really want to go anywhere other than Texas. If the Angels picked up a little more of his contract, I could have hired Josh to be my kids nanny. I'd have to put nanny cam on him to ensure he wasn't doing drugs, but with any luck my kid would become a sober version of Josh Hamilton at the plate, haha.

When Reek was staring at the bodies at the beginning of this episode, were those symbolic of his dad and sister or was it just him remember when he killed the fake Stark boys?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 10:21 AM) Arya is the coolest Stark by far anyway, her story is about to get awesome. I like all the starks, even Sansa who I couldn't stand is starting to get interesting. Ayra is my favorite character on the entire show (along with Jon and Tyrion).

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 04:25 PM) According to reports, the Angels are paying $65 mil of the $80 mil he is owed. Not a bad move for Texas, if he still sucks, it's cheap to get rid of him. $15 million, 3 year lottery ticket. I wish the Sox would have made this deal. Angels have handled this whole thing horrifically.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 07:10 AM) Scherzer complained yesterday about getting hurt while hitting also. It won't be enough to change the NL over IMO, but it's interesting to see more talk about it. Too much money going to pitchers to not have them DH. I'd hate if I were a team and I lost my best pitcher because he was hitting (something that he contributes minimally too in almost all cases). All that said, I am not a fan of the DH but with offense down, it probably would be in the best interest of baseball to add the DH. I do think the DH makes baseball more boring though as it negates a lot of the strategy that comes from double switches, etc.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 09:25 AM) Nope, Brann is confirmed to be absent this entire season Damn you and your spoilers. Spoiler tag. Sheehs. Just kidding, doesn't really ruin anything just says that more of his story is still to come. Don't respond and tell me he just dies and there is no more of his story cause if that is the case, I don't want to know. I keep wondering when the youngest Stark will show up.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 09:54 AM) Unless they trade the pick... They won't be trading out of the 1st round. It is why I didn't say with the 7th pick, they will draft a player.

QUOTE (daggins @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 08:52 AM) The other two in the bottom 3 are Eaton and Melky. Before long, Hahn has to realize there is a need for a standout defender in the OF, and Shuck isn't that guy. Trayce Thompson is the guy that would be the fit but I think they still see some potential their and want him getting regular at bats.

Umm, I think if you look at any of my posts, you could change this topic to say the White Sox are awful on defense. It is a huge fault, especially with a team being build around defense. All that said, we are talking small sample size and Eaton is not going to stay in the bottom. Big thing is Micah is going to make errors cause he is young and Melky is passable in left (but not good), Avi is awful (could probably be passable in left or maybe less awful) and well Connor is the same at 3B. Bottom line, we have few elite defenders and a lot of very bad defenders. That makes for a lousy defense.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 08:54 AM) I've liked GOT but I did not read the books and am clueless on pretty much most of what is happening. What happened to the Stark kid that was pushed out the window. He has not been in this season I recall. Not yet, but I presume we will get an update on them this season. This was also first we saw of Reek, Bolton and Ramsey this season as well. Like all things GOT, early episodes each season tend to be more about building the next big stories, especially given how much of a bang their tends to be late in each of the seasons.

My son and daughter finally behaved well for a night (each of them) and got to catch up on some GOT (finally all the way up to speed). I haven't read the books so I don't know what happened but I feel that there are a lot of interesting storylines leading up to what should be a great season (figure things are going to really build from here). Curious whether we have Jon Stark or Snow and what will happen with Sansa and Winterfell. As a fan of all things North, I get fired up at the thought of Snow becoming a Stark and kicking Bolton and Ramsie's asses back to the stoneage, taking over Winterfell and rescuing Sansa. However...as a fan of the North...I realize I probably won't get my wish as the North is always getting crushed, haha. The one interesting thing...the show has less people I hate right now...Ramsay / Bolton I loathe and while I don't like Cersei (I think she plays the part fantastic and is good for the show), Reak (well I quietly hope he lashes back on them and rescues Sansa (if Snow doesn't). Outside of that, not a lot of people I loathe...where as I used to dislike the Kingslayer (now I like him) and with Joffrey and Lanister gone, who I despised too...I feel the show needs to find some new people to be "enemies". Maybe they do that with Stannis (who I don't hate or like) and well I actually don't like the Queen much, but if she hitches her wagon to Tyrion (and it means more Tyrion), than count me in. Damn...did I mention how much I love this series. I figure when my son / daughter grow up, I'll read these books and actually read Harry Potter and than show them the series.

I'm scared...I keep thinking to my post when the Cavs acquired JR Smith and how I said he's going to end up beating us because he saw everyone on ST laughing at how the Cavs got him and he's going to tell us all what is up and go on one of his crazy hot streaks for a series (just nailing 3's like crazy)...however, we can hope that it is only on the practice floor while he's dealing with his suspension!

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 26, 2015 -> 05:53 PM) Nothing official yet. But I'm hearing/reading Love could miss at least two weeks. This combined with what will no doubt be at least a 1-game suspension for (what a f***ing idiot) J. R. Smith gives the Bulls absolutely no excuse not to beat Cleveland. I still think the Cavs are the favorites and I hope Love plays. If we are going to win I want to beat every team at its best. That said, I really want to win a title, but first things first, we need to get the Bucks tonight.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 26, 2015 -> 08:37 AM) Coming out of the huddle of the last play of the Bulls game, I asked out loud why Derrick Rose was on the floor for a defensive possession at the end of the game. I am still waiting for my answer. Dude didn't even get screened. He just lost Mayo. Embarrassingly bad. Would you want to have Brooks out there? Rose is a good defensive player. His lapses are when he zones out, which he evidently did right there. Our team defense is absurdly better when he is on the floor vs. off the floor.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 26, 2015 -> 06:34 AM) The Bulls played so terribly and still only lost because of a last second defensive breakdown. I'm annoyed they couldn't close the deal, but oh well The ball security is probably the one thing I have consistently griped about on this forum. It sickens me how poorly we are and how careless a lot of our turnovers are. All this said, It is clear why the Bucks were one of the top rated defensive teams. They are long and play fantastic d. Bulls better have learned that they can't just coast (they kind of did the past two games and got away with it in 1 and almost in the 2nd game). How about a nice victory in game 5 and than lets get some rest before playing the Cavs (and hopefully taking our game to another level...as we are going to have to play better each and every series). If we play like we did against the Bucks, we lose the series, imo.

QUOTE (shipps @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 07:21 AM) The idiots are always annoying in sports. The worst guys are the ones that pretend to know it all with no specific examples to back up their opinions and no real information to back up with what they saying as they deem fact. Also there are the people that do have some information and are unwilling to accept any other view points. But I do enjoy hearing the smart fans or analysts opinion about each guy in the draft. Fact...the Bears will draft a player in the 1st round Thursday. More analysis to come at 9.