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I suppose it's possible they get one back for Young if they trade him. And I still think there could be a straight up Markkanen for Ball swap. Markkanen makes sense there.

woof. So no first rounder this year.

Yeah, I'd give me a break today, the bulls haven't made a trade like this since like...jalen rose? Does ole John pivot-foot Salmons count? I guess he was actually making team better. I'm ignoring Porter. Team building in NBA is interesting and just getting good guys definitely seems warranted over whatever this all was. But man I wanted a first rounder for this draft...bad.

not...not quite the same

Vucevic is definitely worth stuff like this, it's all about choices for the bulls, though. But we have certainly been doing the "just wait and see if it gets better" for a long time, though, I get that.

I don't know, I guess I may just be behind a bit in how NBA is starting to use bigs again, and bulls have obviously been destroyed over and over there. Give me a day of takes, I'm sorting through my feelings. Bulls don't really make trades I'm not sure what this feeling is.

that said I'm obviously going to watch this shit.

I don't really like this at all. I don't like paying premiums for B level players, there better be some really good protections for the 1st round picks especially this year. Now, I am not a basketball expert, and a lot of people dislike the way orlando has used players. But Vucevic is a good player, but now we don't have 2 1st round picks should there ever be a great player. We don't have a 1st to potentially draft a great player this year. We have Zach LAvine and Vucevic...so we may be the orlando magic. If they were able to keep this as a top 15 pick, that is easier to take. But also , f***g tank this year to not get top 8.

This is definitely my thing. I just don't believe the difference between foles or dalton and "worst case scenario" justifies the bears actions. Had they not traded for Foles, or not signed Dalton, what would be available in a month or two seems very comparable to those situations. I don't think Mariota takes the paycut if he knows the bears are out there waiting for a QB. It was horribly obvious that Dalton and Newton would get cut if there was no trade partner. And now, all signs pointing to Jets taking Wilson. I can't believe they'd keep Darnold. Is Darnold worse than Dalton - definitely/maybe. But he's not so much better he changes bears trajectory in any way. Other QBs possible to be dislodged post draft/june 1st: - Bridgewater (though I could see him being a bridge no pun intended) - Tua (unlikely) - Gardner Minshew - Nick Mullens/Jimmy G - Alex Smith All probably worse than Dalton to degrees that don't matter because Dalton isn't very good. But all could be much cheaper through various means, and that $5.5-$6 million could have been super handy to, say, re-sign Allen robinson or Kyle fuller.

Especially is he’s stashed in DR

Sweet

We were kinda worried about his stuff in 2018. His HS curve that people drooled over was gone, and his FB was now mid-90s. He also wasn't getting anyone to swing-and-miss. @fathom had a whole thing, where he would count how many he'd get a game and it was easy for him to do because there were only 1-2. But kudos to the people that believed in him with his height and makeup. All the sudden he completely revamps his windup, and now he has one of the highest swinging strike percentages among starters. It is incredibly rare what he accomplished. But hopefully lightning strikes twice.

Remember when you predicted they wouldn't be able to allow in crowds until august

I feel like the nba trade deadline has been tomorrow for a few weeks.

So IL released 16k appointments at noon today and I was part of that group. This is just an annoying situation but obviously I'd be first to tell you that I've been happy overall so many more people have gotten the vaccine by this point than I expected in Jan. But it was like one of those dream sequences where you need to do something but are physically unable or dumb stuff keeps happening to prevent you. An hour of pages not loading, keeping track of the network requests to see when they timed out and starting again, random times appearing visible when they aren't, and finished up by me finally getting to form to secure the time and my wireless suddenly dropping, causing the page to error out, and could not be refreshed. Will try again another day.

Alright I'm pro-Trask now.

Mond's highlights are just full of him sitting behind a perfect pocket throwing to an open receiver, but that said, he has a lot of tools that makes you think he could do more, and I like that he got better every year in the SEC. I 'd just rather they get a guy with some higher ceiling with athleticism or arm talent, but then again, the later round guys that have made hay out of it like Dak or Cousins were probably more like a Trask than someone like Mills who I can't think of someone like that really doing much. But it only takes one for there to be a comp that everyone tries to replicate.

I like all the top 5 qbs despite I'm sure 3 of them probably being terrible, but after that I like Davis Mills and Mond. Trask does nothing for me, personally.

oh joy

So they were late to move to signing deals with vaccine makers, late to approve, and then have invested next to nothing to help the supply chain and have been entirely dependent on AZ to do all of that, and also haven't even approved many of their suppliers. There is a reason UK wasn't in the same place. There's a reason the US wasn't in the same place. There's no excuse for a bloc with their resources.

They screwed themselves, and in typical fashion are trying to regulate their way out of it.

Garbage

Well, kudos for really committing to some darkhorses.

I like

I can't like, imagine how good it will feel to sit in a seat at the park and hear crowd noise and the crack of the bat again. That is such a distinct, big atmosphere and there is nothing remotely like that feeling for the last year or so.