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Hinrich +/- = -26 Taj = -21

Yeah, I'm not worried about Dunleavy. He's a known entity, he will be really good for us but had a bad half. Snell was god awful but let's hope that those minutes pay off as he gets more comfortable. Everything he was doing were things that I'd expect a guy that's extremely pumped up to do. Hopefully he chills out, but he probably won't get minutes for a while unless Deng and Butler both get back into foul trouble. Our offense was absolute s***. I don't think I endorse this run and gun stuff at all. To me, it just negates our advantages over Miami. The problem we've always had with Derrick is him being such a good playmaker causes us to run no actual offense. Against a good defense like Miami, we have to have a plan that is more sophisticated than passing it around until Derrick drives

Conger might be the right piece to get back alongside Bourjos. He wouldn't raise the price too much but could offer a good deal of value to us, as he will be a huge marginal gain whether he pans out or not

We'll get a little closer so long as Butler and Deng don't get more ticky tack calls against them in the third quarter. The first quarter started very physical and suddenly it was back to the normal Heat protection program

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 08:12 PM) He has 19 of our 33 points? I guess that doesn't disprove what you're saying, but still. My point was that he'd have more if we were more intentional about getting him the ball, especially when Rose is on the floor. He and Jo are great passers and we need to make the defense collapse down there. Our wings can't do s*** because they aren't worried about what we're doing down low In other news, Derrick does not get those superstar calls

I'm surprised Thibs hasn't given Snell the quick hook. He doesn't like to give the rookies minutes, but he doesn't mind having them in for really important minutes when the situation dictates it.

I don't know if Derrick and Booz have beef or what, but it's been long enough that they have zero rapport on offense. Boozer is the worst-utilized player I've ever seen us have. We have the best PG in the world and Boozer, our second best offensive player, is never involved in the offense. For f***'s sake

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 08:09 PM) Chalmers seriously gets that call? Jesus. He plays for Miami

I think Allen will continue playing a bigger role than last year for the Heat. Spoelstra magically discovered at the end of the last year that he needs to have deep threats on the court to spread thing out for LeBron

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 08:01 PM) Don't include me. The Bulls are more of a hot mess than Miley Cyrus. LOL

Sure wish Butler and Deng weren't instantly taken out of the game by questionable foul calls

Not having Boozer in for all this time has killed our offense

Snell looked like poop guarding LeBron in a not-especially-difficult situation

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 06:21 PM) I just want them to integrate Google Voice into Hangouts. I guess SMS is step 1, hopefully step 2 will come soon enough. I believe revamping the messaging API is one of the major changes expected in 4.4

What a horses*** call there on the Wade layup

Everything out of sync. It's early. Butler and Deng both being out of the game really hurts.

Wow, just looked at Trumbo's stats. He really hasn't take that step forward at all. He's like a boring Adam Dunn. Might actually be a good buy low candidate.

I'm thinking Bourjos + Kendrick. My feeling is Q or Santiago is too much for just Bourjos. Not enough for Bourjos and just about anyone else.

So, would Howie Kendrick sweeten the pot enough for you? I then become sketpical that Santiago or Q is enough, though. Depends how much they care about losing Kendrick's salary.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 28, 2013 -> 12:22 PM) Goales are like relievers in baseball. Paying them big money is silly unless they are complete monsters and prove it over the course of multiple seasons. This is why I b****ed and moaned about signing Crawford to big money (for NHL salary cap reasons). He's just not elite. I feel like they are like starters in baseball. It is difficult to fathom a player that can be more singularly game-changing and worth the money, but they often regress for no obvious reason and it is difficult to see coming in advance. And while the best are very hard to come by, there is always some guy waiting around that can have a pretty damn good season out of nowhere and at a big discount; so when the regression hits, you have a very cost inefficient goalie situation.

That was the White Sox's fault

The department that houses my specialty at UT-A just got a $50 million gift, so I'll be looking there in a couple years when I'm deciding whether I want to finish my PhD elsewhere. Also, I wonder if Wendy Davis can make the state go blue a little sooner than it probably ought to. There are a lot of women in Texas, particularly in suburban areas, that usually vote R but whose political views match Wendy's more closely than that Republican loon that will be running.

Google Hangouts to start rolling out with SMS integration and other new features today QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 08:58 AM) This. Hell, I'm an Apple guy who uses gmail with cardav and caldav on my iPhone/Macs. I mean, why wouldn't you take the two seconds to set this up, import them and never have to worry about contacts again? No, I don't use iCloud...I have everything in iCloud disabled except for find my iphone. I read somewhere that Mavericks was going to make it more difficult to use non-iCloud services. Is that right?

Just remember that Jimmy Butler's playoff stats happened with Nate Robinson getting the vast majority of minutes and Luol Deng missing games down the stretch. That team was not in a position to win and they still did a little of it. It is far from implausible to think that Jimmy will become a more efficient scorer when you replace Nate Robinson with Derrick Rose and make the rest of the team healthy. With that said, with Hinrich and Dunleavy on the bench, I think Jimmy and Luol will see fewer minutes this year. If Snell is more advanced than other recent draft picks, that's even more minutes to go around. I don't really think Hinrich deserves a ton of minutes, but he'll get Derrick's backup minutes and I think he'll come in for Jimmy at times. I think Dunleavy will also take minutes at 2 and 3. The only way for all those guys to get the minutes I expect them to is if we habitually play small lineups with Deng at the 4. Also, something interesting pointed out to me today is how much of the Bulls team was drafted by the Bulls: PG - Rose (drafted) SG - Butler (drafted) SF - Deng (drafted) PF - Boozer (Cavs) C - Noah (drafted) Hinrich (drafted*) Teague (drafted) Snell (drafted) Gibson (drafted) Dunleavy (I don't remember who drafted him other than it being not-Bulls) Nazr (same as Dunleavy**) Erik Murphy (drafted) Mike James (not drafted) *brought back as FA **from Chicago! You're looking at pretty much all of your rotation players being draft picks, with the exceptions of Boozer and Dunleavy, who are arguably the least important parts of your rotation. That is pretty god damn impressive. Paxson put together a great team with limited use of FA that would be looking like a perennial champ if it weren't for three max contract players fitting onto one team via collusion, douchebaggery, etc. Even with those circumstances, many feel they have a legitimate shot to be NBA champs. Michael Jordan would sell the farm to get Paxson to run his team.

The Bulls have had Derrick Rose in the playoffs one time in the "big three era"