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Loved Spiderman. Don't care what anyone thinks, I think they got it right. Can't wait to see who the mystery man is. And I love that the campy element has been muted.

Sitting in AMC about to see Spiderman, pretty excited. AMC is selling tickets where you can see the Batman (nolan) trilogy for 25 bucks, 40 bucks for IMAX. That is pretty badass.

QUOTE (That funky motion @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 12:09 PM) Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA The Knicks have emerged as frontrunners to land Steve Nash in a sign-and-trade deal, league sources tell Y! Sports. Retweeted by Dan Bernstein Expand Reply Retweet Favorite Finally someone that can run D'Antoni's offense! Oh, wait......

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 01:37 AM) How can you not stand him? Have you seen his interviews? The man is likeable and I wish him well. I want the Sox to win every game, but I hold no ill will toward Ozzie. Why do you? I think of him and think of WS. Sure. The one that Big Sqwert just posted he called his pitchers a bunch of crap. I am sure they find that very likeable. It is funny how everyone is saying Ozzie is taking the heat to relieve the pressure on his team, but what happened here is the exact opposite. Ozzie used to say stuff like "Its my fault they werent prepared, maybe i should quit blah blah blah". That is not what he said here, he hung his team out to dry. Well, everyone but Heath Bell, which makes no damn sense at all. That guy gets paid to save games and he hasnt done that at all, and for some reason Ozzie protects him.

Softball bats are pretty pricy, it really sucks when one is lost or stolen. One guy on my team spends at least 350 a year on a bat or two, I wish i had that kind of cheddar to throw around.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 05:32 PM) Different characters. Dunst was Mary Jane Watson, Stone is Gwen Stacy. That is kind of the funny point though. They got a natural blonde (Dunst) to play a redhead, and they got a natural redhead(Stone) to play a blonde. Different times and movies, i know, but it is kind of goofy

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 05:41 PM) Why should we listen to you at all in regards to when Rose should be back and when he should not be back? Let the professionals handle it, dude. He'll be back on the court when the doctors and medical trainers think its appropriate. No no no the professionals should listen to me

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 05:38 PM) I saw a D.Rose that did not play well at all in that series. He was crappy when Mike Bibby was on him. It was hardly just Lebron that made him play bad. It was the heat defense collapsing on Rose and doubling him when he had the ball. They focused their entire defense on shutting Rose down. And it worked, because the Heat D is pretty damn good. And it didnt help that Korver couldnt hit a shot to save his life

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 05:34 PM) I think the doctors know when its best for him to come back. Sitting out a full year just because is not good for his recovery. His muscles will begin to deteriorate, he'll become weaker, he might never regain his bounce that way. Did I say sit him in a wheelchair and dont let him rehabilitate and watch him atrophy? No, i didnt. He will be in an aggressive rehab program as soon as he can be, but he needs to be on the court when he is able to be, not when people say he "could" come back

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 05:31 PM) thats another thing, the whole "put lebron on Rose to shut him down" thing is a myth imo. In the ECF Lebron guarded Rose for all of 3 minutes total. Ok sure, the Bulls would have won. You are right.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 05:30 PM) mind-boggling. Who the hell agreed to that...? How are we supposed to put good players around him with a prohibitive contract like that? hence the need for the FO to start trying to get creative and clear some space to rebuild around Rose. This season is a complete wash, I dont want Rose coming back in January just because that is a date that people say he possibly could come back. I want him back when he can be himself, and when he comes back I want the team to be better.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 05:25 PM) oh, my mistake. Anyway, I agree that the Heat have a really good defense. But so do we. Ours is arguably better than theirs. It is impossible for you to admit that the Heat are better, I understand this. But it is all moot when the Heat can put Lebron James on Rose and shut him and the rest of the Bulls offense down immediately. It is what it is. The Heat are top heavy, the Big 3 are far greater than the sum of the Bulls current parts.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 05:20 PM) You know what making moves just to make moves reminds me of? It's what Orlando's spent the last 5 years doing or what Cleveland was doing trying to make James happy. They had a roster that was a step below championship caliber, and if they stayed pat they had an outside shot at things. But that wasnt' enough to keep their star happy or really push themselves into a championship team. So what did they start doing? They started gambling...taking the assets they had and trying to turn them into something that could help. That's why Cleveland wound up with Shaq. That's why Orlando wound up trading for Turkoglu again. Thats' why Orlando wound up trading for Arenas. That's why Orlando traded for Vince Carter. They had to make a move somehow, but they didn't have assets to trade...so they did the big contract for big contract swap. That's right where the Bulls are now. They simply don't have the assets to make a major deal. They won't have a top 10 pick until 2015+, the would have difficulty coming up with an expiring deal (although they could hypothetically do so if they packaged Hamilton, Korver, and Watson), and if they tried to turn the expiring they have into something, it'd involve taking on something like Joe Johnson's awful contract. Whoa whoa, wherever did I say anything about making moves just to make moves. I said the FO needs to put a STAR next to Rose and quit f***ing around. Im not talking about adding Hedo Turkoglu and Vinsanity and calling it a day. The team needs to make a team, not piecemeal together around Dwight like Orlando did. They need to get creative and stop letting everyone else pass them by waiting for a handout. Every one of those other GMs did so and benefited from it, they didnt wait for it, they LOOKED for it.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 05:19 PM) offenses dismantle defenses, and defenses stop offenses. You said the Heat offense dismantled the Thunder offense, which didn't make sense to me. The Thunder could not guard the Heat well enough, and the Heat did a very good job guarding OKC. Simplistically speaking, that was the difference in that series. This is my point though: people bemoan the fact that we don't have 3 stars like OKC does and they bemoan the fact that our offense isnt as good as theirs. But for all the "Grass is greener" talk, OKC couldn't do any better against the Heat than we did! really? I said the Heat Offense? Read it again, I said the HEAT

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 05:13 PM) When someone offers them the kind of silly deal that the other teams got? Sure Balta. whatever you say

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 05:09 PM) The Heat did not dismantle the best offense in the NBA, they dismantled their defense. Big difference. OKC had 3 stars but they could hardly do any better against the Heat than we did! Think about that. Maybe this team isn't as bad as people think. I'm sure of it, infact. I'm just trying to convince you guys of that fact. Are you kidding me? Harden completely disappeared! Perkins and Ibaka couldnt stay in the game long enough to make an impact, in almost every game, Kevin Durant was constantly bothered and even though he was scoring, he was taking tons of shots to get points. Westbrook was good, but even he was doing some stupid things and making mind boggling turnovers The Thunder offensive rhythm and fastbreak offense was completely thrown off by the Heat

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 05:02 PM) These are great comparisons. In almost every one of those cases, someone helped a team out. The Lakers got Gasol for Scraps. The Heat put themselves together so that titles wouldn't be so hard. Prokhorov only gets a championship team if Orlando helps him out...he can't possibly do so otherwise. The only one that didn't...was the assembly of the Celtics...where both Minny and Seattle got pretty fair deals, with AL Jefferson and Jeff Green as the centerpieces along with a lot of cap space. The Bulls really can't offer either significant cap space, young cheap talent, or a top 10 draft pick in the next draft. I think that makes the case pretty well that the Bulls need some other team to help them out if they're going to be able to take another step. If you arent looking, then nobody will be there to help you out. When will the Bulls actually pull off a deal? Please, let me know when it happens.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 04:59 PM) I think Bulls fans right now have a very fatalistic mindset, that just because it didn't work last year, that it can never work as constructed. I do not believe that. I belive in my team. I think we were damn good. No we don't have 3 superstars, but we had a great team, a tough team, the best defensive team. Everybody is so high on OKC and their 3 stars and how great their offense was. Well, what happened to them? Tell me about it. What happened? Yet you sit here and say the Bulls would beat the Heat, when you just watched the Heat completely dismantle the best offense in the NBA. The fans dont have a fatalistic mindset, they see that everything right 2 years ago and it wasnt enough. Last year everything went horribly wrong and they got bounced in the 1st round. It is reality, RZZZA, the Bulls have to restructure this team, and Derrick needs some real help, not a 36 year old corpse of a former championship team.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 04:52 PM) I agree with GarPax then. You act like there's no such thing as chemistry in the NBA. This team, as constructed, was good enough to beat the Heat had it stayed healthy. I firmly believe that. A punchers chance, nothing more. the Bulls would have had to be absolutely perfect to take out the Heat this season

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 04:54 PM) How are the Celtics NOT a team that found a core that works? Rondo/Allen/Pierce/Garnett is their core, they've been together for many years, enough time for chemistry to form. Chemistry is a huge part of why they're such a good team. I don't want to be like the Knicks, who destroy and rebuild their team every single year, chasing the next big FA acquisition or big name trade. Stability in an organization is very important Again, this chemistry you are talking about wasnt developed. It was put together. The Celtics won in their first try together, they havent won it since. If this core keeps getting better, why havent they won more titles since then? Because they are getting older. Which is exactly what this bulls team will be when Rose is back to being himself(hopefully), two years older.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 04:49 PM) My biggest problem continues to be...I can't see a mechanism where if the Bulls start tearing this thing down, they have any real path to get back up unless someone helps the team out. And frankly, most of the "save us" trades that people can complain the Bulls didn't pull off (Teams taking on Deng's entire contract and passing back the 7th pick or something like that) fall into the category of "Why is this team helping the Bulls out". Amnestying Boozer and trading Noah and Deng for a fair return doesn't make the Bulls that much better...because both of those guys are between quite well paid and over-paid. If you want to clear their contracts to play free agency...you have to take very little back. If you want to take back contributing players...then you're not going to clear the kind of salary you'd need to play free agency. At some point the Bulls FO is going to have to stop being p*****s and waiting for something to happen. Danny Ainge made it happen. West always made it happen, and so has Kupchak. Riley made it happen. Popovich and Buford made it happen. Right in front of our eyes, Prokhorov is making it happen. The Bulls are a top notch franchise. The fans always come, Reinsdorf never has problems at the gate like he does with the Sox. Sometime he is going to have to say "Do this Paxson, I want a championship." And that time needs to come soon. You cannot wait for another MJ to will the franchise to multiple titles.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 04:48 PM) I don't think it is nonsense at all. This team in 2010 was not as good as it was in 2011. We were ranked 18th in offense in 2010 and 5th in offense in 2011. Things just started to be much crisper and quicker after that chemistry started forming. Noah and Boozer barely even played together with eachother in 2010. In 2011, they were the highest assisting big man duo in the NBA, second only to Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum! There is a lot to be said for chemistry. I want us to be like the Celtics or Spurs. Find a core that works, leave it alone for years, and let it mature. Garpax approves of this message

So I have pretty much resigned to the fact that I wont be seeing Danks anymore this season. If he comes back, fine, but this "strain" seems to be far more than just that.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 02:11 PM) Okay, this may be old news, but it's the first I've seen of it. Tom Cruise has been cast as Lee Child's Jack Reacher? If you've read any of the books you can clearly see that Reacher is 6'5" and over 250 lbs. Tom Cruise is nowhere near that. I read an article about the writer saying casting a guy close to Reacher's size would be difficult, and while that may be true, Tom Cruise is pretty much the last guy I picture when I read about Reacher. Maybe Joe Mangianello, but we both know they are going for the starpower with Cruise

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 04:15 PM) That still leaves me unable to figure out how he kept silent for near a decade, including having Sandusky around PSU events. The godfather told him to shut his mouth, and so he did