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Yeah, there are so many "historic" rivalries that take precedent, think Tennessee vs Alabama. On its face it doesn't seem like it would get prime billing but it draws huge.

I'm pretty sure 2 7-footers on the floor at the same time (if Noah puts his tall shoes on) was Jerry Krause's wet dream in 01-02.

Dang, so for as bad as Gasol is defensively, he averaged 1.5 blocks/gm last year in limited minutes, Boozer had .3. That's the benefit of the added height even if defensively he's lost a step.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 09:03 PM) But Cleveland fans are firmly saying that Wiggins is not in the offer and instead its Thompson and Waiters. And who wouldn't want such important pieces from Cleveland's amazing 26-56 team!

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 08:57 PM) If you are going to trade guys, you have to trade Gibson and Mirotic and just one wing. You can't gut your wings because if you trade all of them, you have no wings and improved an area on your roster that was a strength to begin with. You'd have to hope a front-runner like Allen and Shawn Marion sign for vet mins to fill out team. edit: I'm going to stop entertaining this as even real. Woj just posted a story 30 minutes ago that didn't even mention Bulls, but the Nuggets. Wolves are just trying to extort more from Cavs and good for them.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 08:51 PM) No deal yet with Time Warner, but with Time Warner covering a really big chunk of Kentucky I imagine it will happen. Not that it matters, since CBS gets first pick of SEC games and ESPN gets 2nd-4th. SEC Network gets the leftovers. Yeah but I'm a mizzou fan, I am the leftovers

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 08:43 PM) If you had to Choose...Taj and Butler for Wiggins or Taj and Butler for Love (ignore that the cap doesn't work in 1 case) which would you do from the Bulls perspective? With current roster construction I'd probably take Wiggins. But lets not completely laugh at butler/taj as a package. [edit: it's fine to laugh at the idea of taking it over Wiggins/Bennett, but yes, I do think with good coaching and a few players hitting their potential, wolves could improve their wins] Taj would actually be a great complement to Pekovic. The Wolves actually had a decent defense last year with two really bad forwards defensively. The two of them would move wolves to a top ten defense. Taj is also a legit 18-10 pf, but the problem is his age undercuts his value. If he was 20 when he came into the league rather than 24 we would have a hell of a trade chip. The continuing madness of the wolves however is how many damn players they have on that team. They look like they are hoarding assets but they don't use them.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 08:27 PM) Chicago has 'loose' gun laws? Obviously he brought in a bunch of examples of comparable nations because he was talking about a city.

Yikes, I feel like Conor would just call for fastballs high and inside to get back at the cruel cruel world.

Konerko as backup catcher.

Woj- http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources—cavs-...-185536749.html no mention of bulls.

I don't trust that Stein actually has any bulls sources so I feel like this is coming from Twolves for Cavs. Although maybe Wiggins has never actually been offered and this is the cavs just seeing what national response would be to trading wiggins since they seem like the type of org that is scared of their own shadow.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 04:59 PM) If it helps satisfy the craving, Jeff Tuel and Thad Lewis are going to battle for the Bills #2 QB job. As Chris Sale would say, "crave satiated"

SEC network makes deal with comcast, yayyyy

Ughhghg can't wait for camp fodder news.

Also this is why Bairstow I think will make it on the team as a reserve, he's good defensively, but I don't see much more than a 3-4 year career for him. He can't dunk it standing under the rim, he was getting rejected left and right in summer league. Maybe he'll be a defensive stalwart but that is worrisome.

At the very least, a taller Carlos Boozer would have been a much more acceptable Carlos Boozer. His inability to finish under the hoop in his time got worse as his athleticism declined.

Milt Plumlee sounds pretty good? http://www.usab.com/news-events/news/2014/...eam-roster.aspx

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 03:30 PM) I'd have to guess a big selling point would be to play in his home town. Ooooh, right right right right.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 03:08 PM) So are you saying individual O-rating and d-rating? I mean, I think it's useful, but I still don't think it's great. To give an example though, Adrian Dantley led the league in PER, O-rating, and win shares (which takes o-rating and d-rating into account) and he didn't make all nba 1st team or finish top 5 in MVP voting. It reminds me of the Kevin Love argument that people were making to say he was a top 5 player in the league (I don't think he is, but he could prove me wrong). No, like what is the points/100 possessions for a lineup of Kirk-Butler-MDJ-Boozer-Noah. What's the Points/100 possessions for a lineup of Kirk-Butler-MDJ-Gibson-Noah. What is points per 100 possessions for dj-snell-butler-gibson-nazr. These help show how good Gibson is at defense, but they are also dramatic in his case. I think they help to show how dominant/terrible some players are, but when you get to average players they don't really tell you much.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 03:52 PM) I would take most "advanced" statistics in basketball with a grain of salt. It's so much of a team sport that it's hard to measure in black and white individual statistics. Lots of people at realgm like advanced statistics (like RAPM), but it's led people to argue that Kevin Garnett is a top 5 basketball player ever. The really meaningful stats to me are isolating specific lineups a player is in and measuring their offensive and defensive efficiency (points per 100 possesions allowed/scored). Also Marion played in west vs better talent at wing than the east offers.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 02:34 PM) Here's a good time to ask this....Anyone know how "real plus minus" is all calculated? On paper it would appear that Marion is a solid offensive player, yet RPM has him ranked as the 50th SF with a -1.72. Whereas Dunleavy is ranked 13th with a 1.18 And then also defensively Dunleavy ranks 9th while Marion ranks 21st. I don't know, but while I do believe Dunleavy is better than Marion offensively, defensively I'm guessing that had to do with Marion having Dalembert and Nowitski behind him and Dunleavy having Taj and Noah.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 02:35 PM) At some point aren't the Bulls out of roster spots? Rose, Butler, McDermott, Gasol, Noah, Taj, Mirotic, Hinrich, Dunleavy, Snell, the other 2nd rounder, Brooks...Marion? Or is the choice between Marion and Brooks? It is "required" to have 13 roster spots (not really though, you can just pay that $500k instead of signing a player), and on most game nights, it is likely that Bairstow would sit. The bulls currently have 12.

"Bulls Rumors" was retweeted by 87.7 the game (I followed to get sox tickets once)...anyway they tweeted that Bulls players have been reaching out to Marion to come to the Bulls. I think if he was going to take min he'd just go back to Dallas, but if we could get him here for that I would be ecstatic. I'm pretty nervous about Dunleavy/McDermott pulling the defensive weight at SF. Rose-Butler-Marion-Taj-Noah...oof that would be as stingy as Deng was and I love Marion's offensive versatility.

Are they like anti-glare glasses? Like Motorcyclists wear at night?