Soxbadger

Yeah this is Wisconsin's year to lose, doesnt mean I wont hope for a miracle.

Well the value of singing free agents is inherent in cap space, Im talking about the situation with Detroit where there is no added benefit of keeping $20mil off the books and they cant save face with their fans. In the teams mind the $20mil was going to spent regardless that year, it just was a matter of how to spend it. I think the only way to really drastically reduce the impact is to allow NBA teams to cut players at a fraction of the price, or makes years after 3 voidable, etc. Without that type of loophole NBA teams are going to get in the same mess.

I doubt Parv is coming back, I assume that its going to be cast members that had big impacts but didnt win (like Rob and Russell). Maybe James? Survivor was good, the only thing that annoyed me was how stupid the people on Rob's cast were. Once he got them in control, you had to get rid of him.

I wouldnt say no shot because Ive seen far more unlikely things occur in basketball than a solid program getting lucky at UNC. But its a very small shot, and it involves a lot of things having to go Wisconsin's way, including UNC developing some sort of flu.

My initial idea was that the cap was $10mil to trade or receive, meaning that the most a team could trade away was $10mil. But even if you allowed a team to trade as much cap as they wanted, its far better for the fans to have a cheap young team that traded for a bunch of draft picks and maybe in the future will be good, than a team with some young guys and a bunch of overpaid vets and the ownership losing money. There is no answer, because every solution creates a different problem.

The difference in baseball is there is no cap, which means no floor or ceiling. These basketball teams figure out how much money they have and then they spend it, because outside of saving money, there is no other benefit to being under the cap. Teams worry about perception and its easy for KC/Pitt to say that they cant spend like the Yankees, Red Sox, so why even try as opposed to the Suns/Kings etc where there is a salary cap and therefore fans think "its equal" (you see the same thing in the NFL). The difference is that NFL contracts are basically fake money outside of the bonus, so those teams just dump the guy the next year or 2 if he doesnt work. If there is a hard cap it basically just solidifies what every team will spend. The only way to prevent really bad contracts is to allow teams to dump them at a fraction of the price.

Damn Wisconsin gets UNC, not the most preferable match up with a Wisconsin team that is going to need some time to figure out its rotation.

Bad contracts are always going to happen, its just the nature of being a GM.

The problem is that a salary cap is both a floor and a ceiling. If you have a cap, almost every team spends to the cap each year, which means that mediocre players get paid because the team has nothing else to do with the money and fans will crucify them for leaving cap space on the table. An interesting idea would be to set a cap at $50mil and allow teams to buy/trade up to $10mil of cap from other teams. That would prevent a team from throwing away $5-7 mil on a bad player because they would gain an advantage by saving cap and playing a younger guy who maybe turns out to be good.

My gut feeling is that the new cba is going to give a pretty large incentive for superstars to stay with their team. I just cant imagine the Magic only taking Noah/Taj plus low future picks.

Noah and Taj would be the starting point, you are going to have to give up far more than that, plus you would have limited to no payroll flexibility (depending on new cba). Im sorry but a I really dont see Howard,Boozer, Rose + scrubs as a better team. I like Howard, but unless the Bulls have some tricks up their sleeve, getting him would cost far to much and just isnt going to happen.

You can go back 290 pages and see how little I thought of Noah, but watching the Bulls play and watching the failure of the Magic, Im just not sure if there is a point in having Dwight Howard at the cost of turning into a team with much less depth. With the new CBA, Howard/Rose could potentially have to be surrounded by a cast worse than the Heat. I just see no reason to contemplate this while the Bulls are a serious contender this year.

I dont think Steve was being literal at all, I think he meant that if you have to give up Noah/Taj etc for Howard, is that a cost that makes sense. After watching this team with its interchangeable parts, do you really want to change the entire dynamic? The more I read about the Bulls and Rose, the more I feel that they should just keep this team as is. Improve on the core, instead of trading away pieces of the core for more "superstar". Howard is a monster, but Im not sure if he fits in with the dynamic of this team.

Yeah Juju is also in the draft, but Moore is the guard. Moore is kind of like Dwayne Wade light, not nearly the athleticism but a similar smooth game.

Can get a guard considerably cheaper. But who cares its not even close to the offseason and we have no idea what the CBA will look like next year. I also would be fine with drafting a guy like Etwaun Moore in the 2nd.

Surprised ABC canceled V, I thought it was doing okay.

Im glad we didnt trade Asik for Mayo, I think I made some reasonable arguments back when that scenario was being discussed.

Race to the bottom. I think what Boeing did is fair and reasonable. As a business you must take into account all potential costs, if a company moved from California because of the risk of Earthquake and the costs associated with it, that would be fine. The reason I bring up Earthquake is that strikes are usually part of a force majeure clause (act of god), so if you can contemplate strikes in a legal document, why cant you contemplate strikes in a business plan. Im not sure if they really have a chance to win this argument.

But there are a few guys in the draft I think would be interesting for the Bulls. I could get behind a second round pick of Etwaun Moore or David Lighty, see what they can do at 2 guard. The great news for the Bulls is that have pretty good depth already so can take some risks in the draft, Id love the Bulls to get Leuer (I just think he has an interesting skill set for a big man). The more I look at the draft, the more I like its depth. I think that outside of guys like Williams and Kyrie its a lot of uncertainty. Zoom loves Kanter but ive never even seen him play.

Those were some bad years as a Bulls fan, I can remember that draft and hoping the Bulls could do something with those picks, but looking back there was really just a lot of meh.

Copryright infringement, aka downloading porn.

FYI if you have Comcast and downloaded Teen Anal Nightmare 2, you are probably going to be receiving notice of a subpoena for a lawsuit. Ive already had 2 calls today about it.

So rumor has it that the Bulls- Heat game is the most viewed game in cable history surpassing the 2003 All-Star game. Bulls know television ratings.

Im not sure it was the adjustments as much as the Heat just playing into the Bulls hands. The Heat small line up was what turned the series in Boston, the problem last night was that the Heat small line up was devastated by the Bulls. James Jones at the 4 with Taj out there was a complete mismatch. As soon as Thibs realized that Boozer/Noah couldnt be out there together, the Bulls took over. The Heat were just not ready for the interchangeable defense that Taj/Deng/Brewer and somewhat Bogans were able to play. Those 3 players were able to switch on Wade/Lebron/ etc and made the Heat heavily rely on iso. Even worse for the Heat it often pulled Lebron away from the hoop so that the Bulls front 2 of Noah/Taj were going up against Jones/Bosh etc. That is just a really unfavorable match up for the Heat on the boards. To make matters worse on Defense the small line up further fails the Heat because you have Bosh on Noah, which means Lebron/Jones are responsible for Taj/Deng. Its still a long way to go, but the Heat really had no answers last night. I think they will try and go big game 2 (Z, Haslem), but that will be basically admitting that the Bulls are dictating how the series is going to be played (2 big men on the floor at all times) and I think that really plays into the Bulls hands. Obviously last night the Bulls looked really good and Miami just so-so, but if there is anything to take away from this game, its that the Bulls can beat Miami. Before they stepped on the court yesterday, there was part of me that was not convinced that if both Miami and the Bulls play their best, that the Bulls would win. But after last night, I actually believe that in order for Miami to win, will have to play their best, because the Bulls best and the Miami best is going to be pretty damn close.

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