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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 23, 2017 -> 03:03 PM) No...but at least you have them under control in future years (vs. Taj walking). I really don't mind Payne and Lauverigne can be a rotational guy, right? Morrow is just an older Doug. The pick I don't get...but I do think we needed to move Taj. I think we could have done better though. Morrow is complete trash, much worse player than McDermott. Lauvergne is a restricted free agent so he will have to be resigned.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 23, 2017 -> 02:18 PM) I don't know much about Robertson..but how does a guy who shoots below 25% from 3 point range take over 2.6 threes per game. That is atrocious. That said, it is Doug, and Payne at least has some athleticism. I can't really fault the deal, but I have zero faith in the Bulls player development team maximizing the value of these guys. Teams basically don't guard him so those 3s are all incredibly wide open shots and he has to shoot sometimes or else you really can't even play him.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 23, 2017 -> 01:44 PM) No he wouldn't. Butler would be their best player. The Pacers are going to take a return we should be taking for Jimmy. All around maybe but Thomas is a better offensive player and I want the ball in his hands.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 23, 2017 -> 01:46 PM) Are the Bulls really getting Andre Roberson for Doug McDermott? If so - that would be delightful. A terrible offensive player who can't shoot sounds like a great fit.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 23, 2017 -> 12:58 PM) When the 76ers don't get the mavs 1st rounder this year, it turns into a 2017 and 2018 second round pick. What a bad deal. That is just horrendous. I don't buy for a second that the best they could do was 2 2nd round picks and Justin Anderson.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 23, 2017 -> 11:55 AM) Sounds like Dallas pick is protected 1-18. WTF is Philly doing? That is just horrendous if that is the case (unless the protections drop dramatically down the line and they are guaranteed a first rounder at some point).

QUOTE (smalls2598 @ Feb 23, 2017 -> 11:46 AM) First trade of the day!! Adrian WojnarowskiVerified account‏@WojVerticalNBA 4s5 seconds ago More Philadelphia is sending Nerlens Noel to Dallas for Justin Anderson and a first-round draft pick, league sources tell @TheVertical. Adrian WojnarowskiVerified account‏@WojVerticalNBA 29s29 seconds ago More Dallas center Andrew Bogut will go to the 76ers in the Noel trade too, league source tells @TheVertical. Interesting. I wonder if there is protection on that pick, Noel has been pretty damn good this year.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 21, 2017 -> 05:13 PM) If the Lakers don't get a top 3 pick this year, they will be in a pretty sorry position as it would mean that they lose their pick this year and next year (both of which would likely be very high picks). I don't think that is right. I think if they are outside the top 3 this year they lose their pick this year to the 76ers and then their 2019 first round pick could end up going to Orlando (there is some protection on that though). If they are in the top 3 this year then Philly gets their pick next year unprotected.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 21, 2017 -> 10:14 AM) It was their choice. They wanted nothing to do with IT2 and they released Whiteside. LOL. Can't really blame them on Whiteside. He was incredibly lazy and useless at that time and no other NBA team picked him up when he was released. He had to go overseas to play before the Heat gave him a shot a couple years later. The Kings deciding not to match a $7 mil per year deal for Thomas was completely asinine though. Just a terrible franchise.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Feb 20, 2017 -> 08:47 AM) Contract the Kings. That's abysmal. Probably 20 teams can top that easily, so I can't blame any single one for underestimating the stupidity of the Kings. One other thing I haven't really seen mentioned: Philly can swap picks with the Kings this year. Without Boogie, they're basically a D-League team. Even if they don't end up worse than Philly, it's like the Sixers get two solid shots at the top-3. The Kings should just hire Hinkie since they already did step 1. Absolutely stunning that is the deal they took for Cousins. The 76ers also own the Kings 2019 unprotected first round pick which it is hard to not see being a really high pick. If the Kings do end up winning the lottery and the 76ers get to swap the Kings will have given up that pick and the 2019 pick (plus Stauskas) to clear cap space to sign Rajon Rondo.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Feb 19, 2017 -> 08:55 PM) Yeah, i'm done with the all-star game. What a terrible weekend all around. It isn't entertaining anymore. It used to be that the defensive effort was lax but that the teams would play harder as the game went on if it was close. And the defensive effort while bad was never as bad as this joke of a game. The last two years have been unwatchable.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Feb 16, 2017 -> 10:24 PM) Bulls just got gifted a win. That's as bad a call as you will ever see. Inexcusable officiating and Butler did zero to deserve that call on that play.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 03:07 PM) FAKE NEWS CNN!!!! I think the scariest part of what is going on in this country right now is the complete disregard for actual facts. You have a guy who did nothing but make s*** up his entire campaign win the presidency and now you have a lot of his dumbass supporters believing everything he says even if it is directly contradicted by evidence. We are now a country that ignores facts and evidence and believes everything that the news says is "FAKE NEWS" (I know your post was in jest) when the actual fake news is coming from the president and his administration. Terrifying world.

Donald Trump lies yet again about the country's crime rate. Just about everything that comes out of his mouth or anyone from his team's mouth is false. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/politics/don...ate-fact-check/

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 11:40 AM) I'd eat the whole damn thing if Victor Robles was on the table. He probably isn't but that would be an amazing return even if the Sox paid Robertson's entire contract. He's not on the table. People really need to stop bringing up his name. You aren't getting a top 10 prospect in baseball for David Robertson.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Feb 6, 2017 -> 09:41 AM) It was unbelievable to watch happen. The Packers losing to the Seahawks in the NFC Championship was really awful. I will never be able to rewatch that game, but this was the Super Bowl and you had a huge lead with little time left. I think I would stop watching sports. It is astonishing. They consistently snapped the ball really early in the play clock when all they needed to do is run out the clock and this is when the Patriots were taking their sweet ass time on all their plays and shouldn't have had enough time to even make a comeback. Then when you recover the onside kick up 28-9 you have a good 9 yard run on first down to get in FG range. On 2nd and one Matthews inexcusably holds on a running play backing them up and out of FG range and then on third and long Ryan gets sacked and they have to punt. But no matter, they hold the Patriots to a FG on the Patriots next drive and the Patriots chew up 5 minutes of clock to get only 3 points so now you are still up 16 pts with less than 10 minutes left when you get the ball back. They get to third and one and the next play completely changes the game. If they run it there and get stopped New England has less than 8 minutes to have two TD drives where they need to go the length of the field when at this point they had showed zero big play ability the entire game. And then rather than running the Falcons questionably throw but that is made even worse by the fact that Freeman somehow doesn't see Hightower blitzing from his side and fails to pick it up leading to Ryan fumbling. I honestly have no f***ing clue what Freeman was looking at. Then after the Patriots score and get the 2 point conversion, the Falcons have a good drive and are well within FG range for an awesome kicker. If you run it three times and kick an easy FG the Patriots probably burn 2 timeouts, have less than 4 minutes to go to score 10 points while they can only stop the clock twice. So after getting stopped a run Ryan loses 12 yards on a sack (even if you are going to throw why the f*** are you calling a play where he is dropping back so far). And then on third they throw it and actually have a nice gain to set up a pretty easy FG attempt for Bryant (would have been just over 40 yards) and Matthews again with a terrible hold negating the play and you end up punting. Then of course the Falcons should have intercepted the throw on Edelman's insane catch and they compounded their error by challenging it and losing a timeout (which could have come in handy when they got the ball back at the end of regulation). And then with a minute left which is plenty of time to get in FG range (especially for Matt Bryant) Eric Weems inexplicably doesn't take a knee in the end zone so instead of starting from the 25 you are pushed back to the 11. Just astonishing how bad they were and how many things they did wrong.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Feb 6, 2017 -> 09:16 AM) Gotta be fun to be a Falcons fan today. Yikes. That's the type of loss you never get over as a fan until your team wins a title. The amount of things the Falcons needed to do wrong to allow that comeback is just stunning. You could write a book about how badly the Falcons handled that game from the time they recovered the onside kick up 28-9 late in the third quarter through the end of regulation.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 5, 2017 -> 10:16 PM) After that Julio catch, run the ball 3 times, kick a field goal, and they are popping bottles right now. And why did they keep hiking it with 20 seconds left on the play clock? Yep but Jake Matthews is going to be particularly hated in Atlanta too. Two horrendous holding pentalties taking Falcons out of scoring drives.

So that is the biggest choke job in sport so history right?

That pass interference call was bulls***.

Great comeback but wow has Atlanta just completely s*** the bed.

Unbelievably awful coaching by the Patriots staff. You need to be in the hurry up here.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 3, 2017 -> 12:44 PM) Taj & Lopez are not what is wrong with the Bulls. The backups yes, but Taj / Lopez are not anywhere close to the Bulls biggest problems. That said, I'd be interested in Okafor. Our biggest area of need is point guard. After that, it would be great to upgrade elsewhere, getting another big, especially one you think can develop into something above average, would be huge too. How freaking bad is Okafor defensively? He's pretty smooth offensively so I'm curious just how bad he is at everything else that is causing him to get such little play. Philly is just killing his trade value. Obviously, Embiid, Noel, and Iliasyova are all taking up his minutes. He's really bad defensively and he is a bad rebounder on top of it. He isn't much of a rim protector and he can't defend at all in space or on the pick and roll.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 01:07 PM) If I was the GM, the first things I'd do is tell Wade to GTFO, sign Gordon Hayward, and then have Butler recruit CP3. I'd also bring in some quality bench players and let Valentine/Zipser/McDermott have bigger roles on the team to see what they can do. CP3/Butler/Hayward wouldn't be the Warriors or Cavs, but those 3 plus a decent bench would make the Bulls a contender IMO. So you are going to tell Wade to GTFO and then tell Butler to recruit one of the guys Wade is really close to to come play for a team that has less talent than the one he is currently playing for? Brilliant.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 1, 2017 -> 03:22 PM) True, but even outside of some of the elite recruits Zook got, Illinois just hasnt made the correct targets a priority IMO. There are players in Ohio that are going to Mac schools or even kentucky that I think teams like illinois could land and they would be stars in the big ten. Beckman totally didnt even try. Beckman was garbage. I have no idea what his recruiting strategy was. Zook actually landed a lot of really good under the radar guys from Ohio and elsewhere. Jon Asamoah, Tavon Wilson, Whitney Mercilus, etc. Talent evaluation and recruiting was not a problem for Zook from 2006-2009. After that it became one because the 2009 team was a disaster and then they replaced basically the whole coaching staff and they didn't really have good recruiters on staff. Illinois had at least 8 win talent from 2007-2012 and had one season where they won more than 6 games in the regular season because the coaching was terrible.