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Hard to imagine last Thursday after we clinched anything could ruin the season but damn if this isn’t getting close

Yeah, especially with Paul George laying huge eggs in the playoffs. Yeah, some of those teams maybe make it out of first round but none even make the conference finals in the west.

Again, it wasn’t a puzzle. Cespedes and Colas were the very first players mentioned.

Probably difficult to follow CWS post if you don't follow baseball, but he mentioned the sox signing Cespedes or Colas...so his post answered your question pretty well. WAs the entire point of saying stop gap.

Yes if he's worth it. But yeah, I do like White but I just cannot imagine a White/Lavine backcourt. To be honest if we are allowed a dream scenario to me is Ball-Lavine-Giannis-AD-Lauri/Wendell. That is a lineup with length, defense, and enough shooting to give Giannis room to work. That would be devastating.

https://www.theringer.com/2020/9/25/21455724/the-mismatch-the-lakers-squeak-out-a-win This was good to hear. Heard a lot on Donovan's offense. I think it was a good reminder that when he was in college he ran the type of offenses AK said he favored. But when you have Russel Westbrook and PG you have to run an offense to those strengths which is just iso/pick and roll. When he gets Chris Paul, he let CP be CP3 and completely changed the defense over an offseason. I think it shows that if a player becomes a star or they acquire a star he'll make the offense flow in the way the star wants or needs. I'm sure the difference between that and a truly elite coach is being able to challenge the player to change when the team needs it (spo, phil jackson, etc). But I don't think we can look at the chris paul or russ OKC offenses and say that's what we'll see with Donovan. I think it's a great hire. Especially with our young roster. A lot of them are coming from the best college coaches in the game or were heavily recruited by them. They revere Coach K, Wright, Williams, etc. And then they are playing for Jim Boylen, a joke in the NBA and College. Now when those players text or chat with their college coaches the coaches are going to tell them about a peer that they revere in Donovan. I think it is going to be a huge difference. Very excited.

Even beyond Rodon, if ever there was a night to trial your true shut down end of game lineup last night was it. If Foster gives it up, Foster gives it up. He's earned it. But it should have been Foster->Bummer->Colome, with Heuer and Foster being interchangeable based on usage. Cordero was thrown out there because Cordero started warming up before the previous inning ended. That's not good enough.

Yes that might happen. COVID is in Illinois and all over US. Maybe they should focus their time and energy yelling at the universities who re-opened with zero mitigation efforts, not the one who built a scaled up rapid testing program and making flip comments about a working group trying to make incredibly hard decisions. Or better yet, rather than using U of I as the stand-in for the failures of the US response to COVID, they could focus on the Federal and State governments. Bars are still open in champaign-urbana, everything is open around it.

No superstar managers.

He was trying to teach them what they’ll need to win in the postseason by reminding him them they’ll be at a managerial disadvantage

Endorse.

The night is young.

I like not only bringing in Rodon, but him thinking his shitty fastball is what will do it not his 3 different sliders no one can hit. If his slider wasn’t working in bullpen he shouldn’t have been in.

Eh, in the bullpen he can throw more than mostly sliders. Hitters still can’t hit it. Main concern with him is strikes

Even participation trophies look at that hat and cringe

noice. Can't wait for my "who is Ally Eng?" questions.

Can someone make a Rally Engel please.

Go Sox.

He wouldn't be terrible but the issue is a lot of the FA point guards will likely be expensive relative to value. 36 Y.O. chris paul would be taking a huge personal paycut. Jrue Holiday or Dennis Schroder...Mike Connelly, etc. PGs come up enough that you probably don't want to force that position. It would be interesting putting a strong wing with Giannis.

Not giving up on him but not penciling him in for him as a piece of the future either. Not really high on any bulls player now but we’ll see what a real coach does

The best news is being very confident that Karnisovas can get the info needed to judge a draft where you need good info from Australia, France and Israel.

AK should not get credit for this but man what a run of drafting in denver holy crap. https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DEN/draft.html 2018 (14) - Michael Porter Jr. 2017 (13) - Donovan Mitchell (all star) 2016 (7) - Jamal Murray (all star) 2016 (12) - Juan Hernangomez 2016 (14) - Malik Beasley (traded both this year for a 1st round pick, napier, gerald green, bates-diop and salary) 2015 (7) Emanuel Mudiay (traded to new york, draft bol bol with it) - Worst pick by far 2014 (11) - trade pick (Doug McDermott) to Chicago for 16, 18 2014 (16) - Gary Harris (starter) 2014 (18) - Jusuf Nurkic (traded to Portland for plumlee, got useless with Nokic) 2014 (41) - Nikola Jokic (all star) 2013 (27) - Rudy Gobert Holy. Crap. Here is the bulls drafting since 2013 2019 (7) - Coby White 2018 (7) - Wendell Carter Jr 2018 (22) - Chandler Hutchinson 2017 (7) - Lauri Markannen (trade jordan bell in 2nd round) 2016 (14) - Denzel Valentine 2016 (48) - Paul Zipser 2015 (22) - Bobby Portis 2014 (11) - Doug McDermott 2014 (48) - Cameron Bairstow 2013 (20) - Tony Snell 2013 (49) - Erik Murphy Bolded was Bulls drafting ahead of Nuggets. That org can draft. Let's hope we got a guy that was key to that success.

This is nice to get tid bits on building out an international operation. It's been a while, but AK probably has a lot of connections in those NBA scouting gigs internationally (I believe he ran that), so he could put together quite a staff there.

Love the Donovan hire btw.

I think so? Removing all team options and keeping all rookie deals and team options (arcidiacano, white, hutchinson, carter, markannen, gafford, puts them at 49.5 mill according to this: http://www.basketballinsiders.com/chicago-bulls-team-salary/ That's about 60 mill compared to 2020 cap space and who knows if it grows considering revenues next year. But they could easily get rid of hutchinson. That wouldn't be enough for all max guys but would get them close enough where if its a package deal they could probably make it work. But yeah...interesting year. Do we think AD leaves LA? I doubt it. Is Kawhi opting out? Giannis + Oladipo could be interesting. Team desperately needs a good point guard. Giannis + PG with Lavine at the 2. Would be fun if Ball fell to 4 then. With a coach players like and an exec team that's not a joke, suddenly these posts don't seem that crazy.