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It has been an unreal week for a bulls fan.

Puhleeeaaaassse pretty please!

Do they need to make a “big” difference?

Illinois new cases have definitely plateaued but not yet fallen. Fairly low death announcement today at 40.

Valentine was pretty good off the bench. anyway... In support of AK I bought a 1992 Lithuania official bball shirt.

New cases declined in Illinois today, but still only at 5k tests per day. The good news is a positive rate closer to 24% which is also down from yesterday, though last week that was more like 17-20%. The plateau of testing just makes this all very cloudy.

This is probably wrong but I’m of the opinion that playing in a tough division raises the competitiveness of your team if they are on edge and crushes them when they are far off. Sometimes just expecting to cruise in a bad division makes you worse.

It makes me happy to seriously discuss baseball division implications.

I missed all this are they official?

Good, I’m excited. Coaching is a lot about team fit, but the job that Toronto did this year under nurse was incredible.

Oh...boy

It seems Illinois' plateau was pretty similar nationwide. Can't seem to get past the 5-6k a day hump. A lot of the new tech that was supposed to help ended up not working well, so they are basically where they were, and all of the abbott tests they hoped for were taken by feds to be distributed.

My comment was a response to Atkinson "losing the team" in year 4.

Eh, the ripped the soul out of the nets and replaced it with Kyrie Irving which normally still is a positive trade except he had no shoulder and missed half the year.

I would really be into getting Adrian Griffin back and the michael finley stuff. That's a mix of great orgs (I know some will debate dallas) but also one I think really has a good background for three orgs that have built a global talent scouting system.

You are way too focused on the editorial sections which are quite often boring and only seem important when you follow twitter and the occasional one gains traction. And while the trib has quite a few liberal columnists, it's editorial board as a whole is quite conservative.

And to second nss, while the Wall Street Journal's editorial sections are not even worth wiping your behind with...it's an incredible paper. The feature on what happened to GE the last 30 years that ran last year was some of the best stuff I've ever read.

Right, I get uncomfortable when defending journalism and people lump in CNN/msnbc/etc. We are 4 years away from their hyperventilating coverage of that one plane disappearing. Watching 24 hour news networks for 4 hours a day will not make you smarter. You will get looped each hour and listen to people with provocative, baseless arguments. However, I'll admit when there is actually breaking global news they suddenly find their journalism pants and you see correspondents you didn't know existed with excellent stuff. But reading a full newspaper, especially with rich local sections, will absolutely make you smarter. And you don't have to read the editorials! There isn't a single editorialist at the chicago trib I like, and their editorial board has an almost comical ability to be on the wrong side of everything even while trying to avoid the appearance of opinion, but the paper does great job all in all, with some terrible articles here and there. It's coverage of covid in illinois is incredible, including repurposing the dept. of health daily stats with a data viz center.

https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/2020/04/10/its-not-about-debt-or-stock-buybacks-or-whatever-its-about-the-virus/ Let's not fight over who gets what as if we are in a position of scarcity. Just push for faster and more. More and faster.

jeeze the gender spread is getting huge. 72% male. edit: nevermind, when i moved to the visualization it opened it up to all deaths.

1344 new cases, 66 deaths. I'm a bit relieved. I think we are really starting to plateau.

Unfortunately we don't get that data often from illinois. I just bake in a 30% to total cases for hospitalization rate. IL has had decent mortality rates, it would be nice if they were pushed lower rather than just ride the higher # of cases from the last week.

New data out in 20 minutes for illinois. I'm a bit scared for today. Almost hoping any death toll under 100 as a positive.

One thing that's probably attractive is you are essentially building a modern nba org from scratch. The bulls had smallest scouting staff in league, smallest analytics staff. While that sounds bad, I am sure there are a bunch of people in those departments that would love that challenge.

I'm optimistic about Karsinovas. 1) Unlike what we thought just last month, he was not hired to be a GM, he was given VP of basketball operations and is hiring his own GM 2) He really does have a great track record, and the denver f.o. has done excellent for really the 21st century and just never got that truly exceptional player to lead them over the hump in the west, but that is luck. They did everything outside of luck to succeed. 3) He is not coming in as the old school, we know how to do basketball type hire that paxson was and bulls have acted like they are. His background is houston and denver, that's great. I'm still unimpressed with michael reinsdorf, but he did pull the trigger here. 1) It's embarrassing for all involved that paxson and gar have not been fired. Like, guys have some damn integrity and resign! But regardless, if Karsinovas is good, I'd expect forman gone right away, and paxson quietly exit out the backdoor next year. If you leave people in this org to backstab you they will. 2) I dislike their process. No reason to announce you will not go after agents. And while I liked many names, I still did not see that shift that shows the bulls aspire and believe they are the marquee franchise they give lipservice too. No going after actual presidents of successful teams. Specifically seeming to target GMs that succeeded without stars or money, because the bulls still think that the michael jordan era was actually about being scrappy underdogs. 3) Of their initial four targets, 3 just backed out. And then their other interviews are embarrassing. Danny Ferry got fired for talking racist shit about a revered bull in luol deng, a player the bulls nearly killed. Bryan Colangelo resigned out of embarrassment for "his wife" having a burner account talking shit about players. What players want to then join up with that front office in a stars driven league? That's being nice to bryan who absolutely sucked after his dad stopped whispering to him what to do. But, I think Karsinovas is a good hire. I think he can gain power and push the pathetic tendencies of this org to the side. There will be brighter days ahead, I'm sure of.