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QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Jan 26, 2015 -> 04:16 PM) I personally wouldn't have a problem if it ended up with Reigns eliminating Bryan at the end. If Bryan and Reigns puts on hard fought battle for 10 minutes, that would have put the fans at the edge of their seats, because the match could have went either way. If Reigns beats Bryan convincingly at the end, Bryan comes back in the ring to shake Reigns' hand to endorse him, everyone goes home happy. The issue at hand is there was nothing convincing about the way Bryan was eliminated. Come on, you have one of the most over superstars of all time eliminated by a tackle from Bray Wyatt midway through the match after being out of action for half a year? I think the fans wanted to see more than that. This was what I said after the Rumble on how they should have handle things differently with Bryan's elimination and Reign's winning. It seems like WWE went down that path to patch things up, albeit a month later. Reigns vs Lesner for Mania isn't looking that bad after all, especially with Lesner possibly retaining. I think that night in Philly, fans wanted nothing short of DB winning the Rumble, but outside of Philly, Reigns for mania isn't really poorly received.

QUOTE (LDF @ Feb 23, 2015 -> 07:03 AM) i am going with the info that another poster posted about the tv deal via his post with a link. there were 2 incomes from the tv deal, 1 was in the 130 mil and the 2 is in the 60 mil. i didn't understand it, but it was in the link. i believe it was caulfield12 who found the link. I really want to see the source behind this. $190 million annual TV deal would put the per game revenue at ~$1.2 mil per game. Last I check, we are getting $650K per game from CSN televised game this year.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 23, 2015 -> 09:25 AM) That was actually a question I had here. He has an MLB deal, does this only have implications in terms of dollar amount, or do you also have to keep them on the 40-man for the year? Has to be on the 40 man, I presume

QUOTE (LDF @ Feb 22, 2015 -> 09:19 PM) and this offseason, the fans finally found out how much money JR and owners have to bank. the tv money imcome alone is 190 + mil a yr. the salary of the sox is 120+ mil a net profit of 60+ mil and the income from the fans, concessions, commercial leasing etc.... adds to that profit margin. the sox have several areas of concerns, 2 of Garcia and Eaton who are a health concern backup ---- Bonifacio Jose A, has to be healthy ---- backup LaRoche chris sale ---- backup ??? rodon and in a playoff race, how bout those innings oh i forgot how important another backup for that infield is so they went out and got beckham. how bout a backup for the catcher---- ??? the bench.. thompson, jb shuck those players really strike fear in the opposing pitchers. this team can really build something special and can keep it going. You should really fact check this. Only 3 teams top that figure with their TV deals. We are far from that figure.

Russell Westbrook is ridiculous. 21-8-17 in just 27 minutes. The Kanter trade might be the move that puts them over the top.

I am not surprised by this. We also just let a dude name Dinwiddie out play our franchise player

A convincing win and resting their starters for tomorrow would be nice. Let's hope they don't play down to their competition.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 19, 2015 -> 05:01 PM) Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 1h1 hour ago The Chicago Bulls are a VERY significant contender for Kendrick Perkins too, league sources tell Yahoo Sports. Contenders? Meaning there are teams bidding for his service? LMAO. If you put Perkins PER of 7 together with Kirk's PER of 7, you will get a slightly below league average player.

OKC managed to get get Kanter, Augstin, and Kyler for Reggie Jackson and Kendrick good-for-nothing Perkins? Sam Presti strikes once again.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 18, 2015 -> 05:06 PM) The main issue I have is that the Bulls spacing was horrendous. You had a player who was dominant at driving in congested spaces being forced to do that the whole game, and he did. Deng was decent from 3, and Korver was great but mostly 2nd unit then. You had a bunch of players who all required being close to the hoop. Give him the Dunleavy Bulls and 2010-2011 would have at least 5% better FG shooting. That would put him at 50% shooting for that year. That is a bold statement that really couldn't be backed up, and with Rose's style of play, I highly doubt he will ever shoot 50% from the field, injured or not. For the Thunder, Roberson couldn't shoot for his life and Perry Jones who started with Durant out was also a bad shooter. As a team, They are shooting 32.5% from 3's this year. They definitely aren't the Warriors, Hawks or Spurs. On the other hand Bulls in 2011 shot 36% from 3's, and Thunder shot exactly same percentage last year.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 18, 2015 -> 04:44 PM) But if he had to do it on a nightly basis, his efficiency wouldn't be nearly as good. Contrast that and give the MVP Rose a guy the calibur of Kevin Durant, and watch what his numbers would do. Efficiency will go down but raw number will certainly go up. He was something like 30-6-8 with 3 steals without Durant. Plus, if he he had to do it for a prolonged period of time, it's not hard to imagine he would make adjustments. Either way, I don't think it's fair to say Player B couldn't be better than Player A because Player B isn't the best player on his team. By that logic, 2011 Rose is better than Kobe from '98-04 and Pippen in all those years when he played with Jordan. Playing with another superstar certainly factors in the argument, but I don't think it invalidates the argument.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 18, 2015 -> 03:12 PM) Why? Because it is true? It is much easier to be good when you have an even better superstar attracting attention. I would swear to this day that Scottie Pippen wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer if he hadn't of played with Michael Jordan. No. Because the post you quoted specifically compares Westbrook this season to Rose in 2011. Thunder without both Westbrook and Durant this year are just 5-11, but with Westbrook and no Durant they are a respectable 7-4. Let's not forget he plays in the Western conference as well. Westbrook has certainly proven that he's capable of leading the team when opportunity presents itself.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Feb 18, 2015 -> 01:13 PM) twolves reportedly considering buying out Kevin Martin I wanted KMart at the beginning of the season, but imagining KMart and Brooks's defense coming off the bench made me puke a little.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 18, 2015 -> 11:16 AM) Westbrook also has Kevin Durant. Who was the second best player on that Bulls team during Rose's MVP year? The Durant thing is really getting old. Durant missed a ton of games and IIRC Westbrook has the highest PER of all time in games without Durant this season so I say he's doing just fine on his own.

It's really hard to rank him relative to other other leadoff hitters as there aren't many pure leadoff hitters today. Trout, McCutchen, Gomez, and Ellsbury are definitely your best leadoff hitters when they are leading off full time. If you are only looking at the full time lead off hitters, there's only a handful of them; Revere, Hamilton, Gordon, Span, Jose Reyes, are guys on top of my head that I would put over Eaton at the moment. It's also hard to rank him based on half a season of sample size, not to mention rank him as the best in the league. FWIW, he fared extremely poor in Fangraph's BsR (baserunning rating), which combines uBR (baserunning excluding stealing bases) and wSB (value from stolen base). Let's see how he does in his second full season.

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QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Feb 17, 2015 -> 05:37 PM) Yup, Rose totally coasted and barely gave any effort his MVP year............... Yup, MVP Rose was the best player in the league and did absolutely no wrong......

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 17, 2015 -> 05:05 PM) People forget that during his MVP year and the following year, Derrick Rose was god damn near elite defensively. His problem was playing down to competition, but when he wanted to he was a nightmare for opposing PGs. This years Westbrook is close to MVP Rose, but people are really forgetting how damn good he was, even when he couldn't buy a call to save his life. I disagree. He was bad his first 2 years. Under Thibs he was better, especially in fundamentals and 1 on 1 situations. He still got caught by screens too many times and often times his man loses him when playing off the ball, definitely don't think he was "near god damn elite". If you only numbers this year, Westbrook is better than MVP Rose by a good margin. His per 40 minutes number is a ridiculous 32/8/9. If he didn't miss a good chunk of time, he'd be a strong candidate for MVP.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Feb 17, 2015 -> 02:09 PM) Don't get into the rebounding debate with thxfrthmmrs. He's been adamant on that for some reason for a while because Rose isn't Westbrook or Rondo with his athleticism when he has had Noah/Boozer/Gasol etc. big men for years. I remember Zoom arguing with that not mattering for a PG. I have my own opinions, but I generally lean heavily towards Zoom on that debate. I personally still feel VDN stunted his development a bit as a rookie, but that's another discussion. Rebounding is just one of the areas WB does better Rose. I am not going to split hair on how much better or whether rebounding is important for a guard or not. I think in the end it all ties back to hustle and effort plays, and Westbrook definitely puts more effort in all areas of the game, that's why I said back then "Rose could learn a thing or two from Westbrook". And the moment you were referring to I think came after Rose got out rebounded by Kidd 11-0 in a loss to the Mavs. Noah was out that game and that was pre-Boozer I believe. Coming out of college, Rose was often compared to Kidd and thought to be a nightly triple double threat. Needless to say I was disappointed that his rebounding left something to be desired, but I have accepted the fact that he's not going to be an all around guy like Kidd, Rondo or Westbrook but instead makes his mark on scoring the ball and playing within himself. To flip this back on you guys, I think I was one of the first to hop on the Westbrook train and thought he could be better than Rose, but no one took it seriously at the time. I think even had Rose not been injured, Rose vs. Westbrook would certainly be a fun and legitimate debate today.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 17, 2015 -> 12:05 PM) I'd be willing to bet that Rose would have improved his passing and defense a ton had he actually been on the court working with Thibs for the past 3 seasons. Rebounds maybe not, but that'd be in part because the Bulls have had Noah and Gibson as their main rebounding guys so Rose would actually be out of position a lot of times to clean things up. I won't argue against that. But what made Westbrook the well rounded superstar he is today is he is an effort player and almost never takes a play off and plays hard on both ends of the floor. He has always been that way and now his skills finally caught up to his talent and demeanor. Rose on the other hand has a tendency to coast for parts of the game, for whatever reason. I still remember in early parts of his career he was invisible for prolonged stretches of the game and was benched by Vinny in a game against the Pacers for not playing defense. Again, that's another part of the Westbrook's game I admired over Rose's at the time.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 17, 2015 -> 09:47 AM) Because obviously you knew that Rose was going to miss around 3 years of basketball with two catastrophic injuries. No, because I believed that the 2010 Westbrook had potential to become something close to the 2014 Westbrook that 2010 Rose couldn't, even had he stayed healthy. In 2010, I saw Westbrook as a guy who would contribute to every aspect of the game and could do everything well if he plays with the right attitude. At that time, he was superior to Rose in terms of rebounding, drawing fouls, defense, and passing. Rose was better as a scorer, shooter, and floor general. Not saying WB was better at the time, but there were aspects of his game that I admired and would have liked Rose to adopt.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Feb 16, 2015 -> 06:09 PM) This. You could replace LeBron with '91 MJ or '00 Shaq and the Heat still get dusted by the Spurs. They were that good. The same Jordan that averaged like 30-7-12 against the Lakers that year? The Spurs that lost to Heat in 2013 was largely the same team in 2014. Give me the '91 Jordan who's also better defensively than the 2014 Lebron and I will pick the Heat. Also, I don't see how a 37 year old Duncan, Splitter, Diaw or Donner could contain a prime Shaq. A Shaq and Bosh front line would be the ultimate pick your poison if I've ever seen one. I don't blame Lebron for that Finals loss, but that Heat team could definitely beat the Spurs with a God mode Jordan or Shaq.

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Feb 15, 2015 -> 08:39 PM) It still wouldn't make sense Yea right.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Feb 15, 2015 -> 08:21 PM) Remember when Rose/Westbrook was a debate? Westbrook is the Shaq of pgs. I remembered back in 2009-10 I said Rose could learn a thing or two from Westbrook and I was toast by pretty much everyone on this board. But that was back in the days when Rose could do no wrong in the eyes of everyone in Chicago.