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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 08:08 AM) Wiggins and the 5th pick and the deal is done. If you don't get Wiggins, I'm not making this deal. By the way, there is no way the Wolves are going to give up the #5 & Wiggins without intense pressure from another team (i.e,. Boston offering the #3, Brooklyn's unprotected pick in next years draft, and like Crowder or Olynk (or however the hell you spell it). I don't think Bulls would turn down either of those deals and to be frank, those are the only type of deals I'm going to make if I were in the Bulls shoes (and I put odds on either team offering up that as relatively low). My preference would be on the Wiggins and the 5th (but I still don't see a lot of reasons why Twolves would do it). Basically unless a huge bidding war breaks out over Butler, I think he stays with the Bulls. The real question is what happens with DRose, imo. I still think he goes somewhere for a late 1st. I don't expect Durant to leave OKC which is what could actually put the Bulls in an interesting spot (regarding Butler) as he'd be the best, potentially on the block asset in the league. My big problem is I don't want Hoiberg around and I don't like Gar. If we had a better coach, I'd be more comfortable moving Butler, but than again, if we had a better coach, I honestly don't think we are talking about moving Butler and instead are talking about moving Rose and finding a good point guard and other young talent to surround around Buckets. So kind of a who knows. I do think Rose needs to leave Chicago and he'll probably get better being another year removed from injuries, etc, but he clearly is too soft of a player and since he isn't a great passer and isn't a great outside shooter, his style isn't going to work that well in this current NBA regime unless he really wants to play aggressive and attack. The Timberwolves wouldn't trade Wiggins straight up for Butler.

Anderson Varejao is the biggest flopper in the league

Avi Garcia is just a remarkably bad baseball player in all facets.

Garcia is an unbelievably awful baseball player.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 11, 2016 -> 11:26 AM) 2-10 with a 4.65 ERA as a starter this year. 1.46 WHIP, 6.4 k/9. He was really good out of the bullpen his first two years at Washington St. and was apparently good out of the bullpen in the Cape Cod league as well. Stuff probably just doesn't hold as a starter.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jun 11, 2016 -> 09:29 AM) Wonder if we'll finally take some HS talent I doubt we will take very many I don't think we are getting a discount on any of our first 3 picks (well at least not much of one) and Curbelo will almost certainly be an above slot guy. I'd anticipate one above slot high school guy in the first 4 or 5 rounds today then it will be almost all college players until they take a few flyers on high school players late. I could be completely wrong but that is about what I would expect and would be consistent with recent Sox drafts.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 11, 2016 -> 12:37 AM) It just baffles me how we've gone from the Jordan era to the Kobe/T-mac/Iverson/etc era where iso ball was all the rage to the current era where iso ball is now the least efficient and most frowned upon type of offense there is. Those Bulls teams actually moved the ball a lot. Post Jordan that did become a huge issue for a while though.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jun 10, 2016 -> 11:48 PM) I'm going to take this back a bit after seeing some other angles and side with you more, 99. Yeah, that was an insane flop. They really need to give refs the ability to go to replay and give a technical foul for flops. I'd love to see that bulls*** legislated out of the game. He also appears to have thrown a punch at Lebron's groin after Lebron stepped over but I'm sure the NBA will let that go without repercussion to since they've allowed Green to intentionally kick and trip people and generally just play incredibly dirty basketball throughout the postseason without being punished.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 10, 2016 -> 10:42 PM) Cavs are just not good enough. They have the same issues as the Thunder had with lack of depth and a tendency to become to isolation driven but they don't have the overall length and athleticism that the Thunder had on D.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jun 10, 2016 -> 10:38 PM) Might of flopped, but I thought LeBron threw him down a little bit, then tried to step over him. What is Kyrie doing..... Lebron definitely tried to step over him. Didn't throw him down in the slightest, that was as blatant of a flop as you'll see. He also kicked out his leg before Lebron stepped over him to try to trip him.

Draymon Green continues to be a dirty flopping b****. When you make flop more than Lebron you're a complete b****.

Cavs' offense has gone completely stagnant in the 4th quarter. It has basically just been Lebron and Irving pounding the ball into the floor.

Sale's command just hasn't been good enough the last few games. Way too many pitches finding the heart of the plate.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 10, 2016 -> 08:24 PM) I feel like I've read this posts before from you. Deja Vu Probably. He hacks a lot.

Draymond Green gets away with an absurd amount of fouls. It is stunning how often he hammers someone without being called for a foul.

I bet Adam Eaton would have gotten to that foul ball.

I really don't get why Sale isn't using his changeup lately.

Kyle Funkhouser's decision to turn down the Dodgers last year is looking worse and worse.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 6, 2016 -> 02:55 PM) Appel was a senior with no leverage and signed for underslot, plus he was highly ranked. I think money had a lot to do with it. Take the best player. Don't worry about the other stuff. It's hard enough projecting in baseball anyways, although it is getting better. Based on what? Most evaluators had Appel ranked higher than Bryant going into that draft. Just because it didn't turn out that way doesn't mean that isn't how it was seen at the time. You are evaluating this entirely based on hindsight.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 6, 2016 -> 01:53 PM) I just hope they take the guy who will turn into the best player at 10. The Astros cost themselves Rodon and Bryant playing the underslot/overslot game. The Astros didn't take Appel over Bryant because of money. That ended up being an awful pick but lots of people had Appel as the #1 player in that class and most people actually thought Appel and Jon Gray would go 1-2 before Bryant.

I swear every single replay in this game shows the Warriors committing an obvious foul that the refs missed.

And I swear it was like Hahn was trying to put together as horrible of a bottom of the roster as he possibly could. Way too many completely useless players.

Sands and Shuck are just absolutely awful. Still just completely inexcusable that Sands was ever part of this team.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 4, 2016 -> 05:35 PM) His career ERA is 2.86 overall and the numbers there put it at around 3.55 ish for the AL Central? That's not top 5 in baseball but its not what I'd call "coming up short" against the Central, that's still above average. And if you look season by season against the Twins and Indians where he has the worst numbers it isn't like there is a trend. He sucked against the Twins last year but he has been good against them aside from that. He sucked against the Indians in 2013 but dominated them in 2012, 2014 and 2015.

Stupid to even bring Sale out for the 7th when he looked bad in the 6th.