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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 05:48 PM) The Bulls need to get creative here and get some ballers who can put the ball in the basket. http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=pa2wc5k Give them enough picks here to make the move worthwhile on their end. Should leave us within the cap assuming you dump Dunleavy. Probably unrealistic. Probably cap stupid and wrong. But whatever. I'm too busy at work today to do match. Hell, the trade machine might even be wrong for all I know. /useless post You aren't going to get Presti to bite unless you include draft picks galore. At this point Boozer is overpaid by about 11 million, people know he's about to be amnestied, and as we saw last year, the 76ers don't really care that much about coming under the floor. It's not that harsh of a penalty.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 04:32 PM) I still don't know exactly what we are getting but he has a lot of raw tools. I'm extremely excited for this season. That hoopshype article is way terrible, but the draftexpress link I posted a while back is great (all video though).

I really, really like what I continue to read on Mirotic's defense, which I did not know was an asset: http://hoopshype.com/columns/david-nurse/w...-nikola-mirotic

You were talking about Aaron Brooks, right? I haven't heard MarShon brooks discussed, don't really remember seeing him play at Brooklyn.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 03:44 PM) so - rose sits out, and kirk has one of his 11 injuries a season - who plays guard? Mike James come on dowwwwwnnnn

And he's white, so they are the same player. These Adam Morrison comparisons have to stop. If McDermott fails, the fact that Adam Morrison failed too has nothing to do with his career.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 04:13 PM) It is believed the Bulls still have their BAE to use on their back-up PG. Where are you reading this? Not from KC Johnson, who pretty explicitly stated BAE went to Hinrich. Unless we traded MDJ, which I hope we haven't because we have no 3, I don't see where that money is coming from.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 04:09 PM) No, but it should put the next Adam Morrison thing to sleep. But it won't. I understand that. I actually think some people would rather the team they supposedly root for suck. If Gary Harris or someone else someone on this board wanted instead of trading up for McDermott, tossed in 31 yesterday, I'm pretty sure it would have been pointed out how the Bulls totally blew it. We all know that. Gary Harris scored 32 points his first game and nobody said this.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 04:01 PM) Summer league should be downplayed. Playing well in summer league doesn't indicate anything as to how a player will perform during the NBA season. If a guy does play poorly its cause for concern though so it is nice to see McDermott perform well. Rose played kind of poorly. But you could tell Erik Murphy was DOA in summer league. Teague's improvement in year 2 was okay, but not great. McDermott is nice to see because he is draining 3s from 25-6 feet consistently with a hand in his face. We can get him open at that depth, or if they have to guard him there that opens up the floor. That is good news regardless of whether he can get you 18 ppg and be our offensive savior, if he can drain 3s like that it helps.

But it's the same in that there is only 1 ballhandler. If anything it's like the Bulls are trying to recreate the washington offense, though missing Beal. But we don't know, perhaps contract year Jimmy is the best contract year player since Ariza.

Also who downplayed McDermott in the Summer League? I don't want anyone to think I'm not excited about watching the bulls. Our spacing with certain lineups will be much improved. I'm going to watch regardless, I'm going to convince myself we can beat the top teams regardless, but this was the last FA period (next years FA sucks) with our core in their primes. It's hard to even anticipate what Rose will be. If he truly is 2011 Rose, then the game has changed. But I worry, even if the heavy post offense will destroy in the reg. season, better teams can deny that ball going to the post and it will be up to exclusively rose to make that team offense work. I'm looking at our team, I don't see how there are more defensive holes than last year. Any subtractions would at least be lateral, and Rose/Kirk defensively is much better than Augustin/Kirk. In fact I think defensively we've upgraded.

Game over. McDermott- 31 pts 50% from 3 pt Snell - 24 points 5 3-pointers Really like Billy Baron. Would like to convince him to stay over Israel league.

McDermott, sensing height advantage over Gary Harris, posts him up, grabs a foul and makes both free throws.

McDermott 26 pts on 12 shots. Gary Harris pretty quiet. This was your summer league update.

I remember Butlers big step began in SL year two. Hoping for same from Snell.

For those who care: Snell continues to DOMINATE summer league. Draining threes and creative off dribble. Doug looks much more comfortable and showing some creativity. Bairstow is great at defending. No doubt will be on roster...Will never play likely. Posthummus is the best. Well worth the 5 to watch him attempt to play basketball. Excited for Billy baron.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 11:33 PM) Maybe. It's not like Spain is a third world country or anything though. He played on one of the best teams in Europe. I'm sure they have strength programs. Haha not saying that, just not sure they put the priority on strength training the way US bball does.

http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Nikola-Mirotic-5134/ This was a nice silver lining to the day. Love that he hustles so hard and tries on D. I feel like his strength will improve with US weight room...? Does that sound reasonable?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 11:14 PM) Hypothetically, you can play Mirotic at the 3. Not sure if he has the lateral quickness to guard smaller wings though. But his length would be great at the position. Against certain match ups, sure, but I don't see him as a consistent starter at the 3

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 12:11 AM) They as in the Bulls or they as in the Suns? Not sure why the Suns would do that. The suns. I don't know either. I'm just grasping for something to dream about. 3 way trade for rondo to suns, Dragic to bulls, and Ainge just does us a solid and sacrifices Kirk to the Celtic gods.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 10:52 PM) 3 years, $17 million Basically what would have been full MLE

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 10:28 PM) I think Nikola is going to sign dirt cheap. Still, thef***'s starting at the 3? Dunleavy...or Jimmy if we are allowed to simulate summer league snell for real games, like a handicap. I don't know how you could fault DJ, this could be his best shot s&t big payday. Maybe would like Brooks as Pg at min. Or trade Jimmy for Dragic, two pg backcourt But they would never.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 09:59 PM) first the stupidity of this post is too much, no one, I mean no one is introducing race into the conversation except you...... I am a minority and never once did I mention race. you are then mixing apples with oranges Rodon is a college drafted player and there fore limited with slot allotted money and is in no way a free agent where is the sox org wanted to can walk away. where does the idea of " If Rodon was a Cuban what do you think the bidding would reach?" came from. RE TEX.... also with your comment, again apples and oranges...... jesssss can anyone stick to the what is said without taking liberties. I'm pretty sure he means if he was not subject to the draft slot protocols (like Cuban free agents) and was openly bid on how much would he get, and the answer would be...a ton more.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 08:09 PM) even after the bulls do the amnesty on boozer? That puts them under the cap, which will be used for Gasol/mirotic.

These jerseys are terrible.