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QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Jan 22, 2016 -> 10:21 PM) Yeah, the NBA doesn't work that way. It's not like baseball, where you have an excess of pieces you can move across multiple levels. NBA teams have 12 guys. The Bulls have very little in terms of desirable pieces. In fact, I would argue the only tradeable piece the Bulls have is Gasol. The Bulls would arguably have to draft Hoiberg system players in concert with trading what they can. Right now they have nothing tradable. So what players does Hoiberg need to succeed?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 22, 2016 -> 09:55 PM) Another shooting exhibition by Avi Mirotic. He and McDermott have both been disappointments this year and Snell just sucks. I'm not really sure what the Bulls do going forward right now.

So the Bulls have only outscored their opponents by 16 pts on the season. So basically through 42 games they have played like a .500 team. The offense is still bad and they are basically all high ball screens and iso play right now with no ball movement at all and no one besides Butler, Rose and Gasol is involved in the offense. Rose has made jumpers the last two games which is nice but he isn't creating any offense for anyone else on the floor at all and him and Butler don't work together well at all on offense.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Jan 22, 2016 -> 09:23 PM) His system is wasted on a team like this. What's his system?

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jan 22, 2016 -> 08:37 PM) Bulls continue to be bad. They just aren't good and have played like a .500 team all year. Horrid defense tonight.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 22, 2016 -> 04:58 PM) Honestly it has been remarkable how similar the two teams have been so far. I mean this group scores more than last year, but we saw so many games last year where the Bulls played down to bad teams, and up to good teams, along with funky locker room crap. I have no idea what Hoiberg is supposed to be so far. This team is worse offensively than last year's team.

QUOTE (blackmooncreeping @ Jan 22, 2016 -> 11:18 AM) Should the Sox take a run at Gallardo? Has had pretty good stats considering he's been pitching in hitter friendly ballparks the past few seasons. Gives the rotation a solid presence in probably the 3 slot. Other ideas, either FA's or trade? Any way to bring in James Shields on a bad contract swap (Laroche/Danks)? Just spitballing here... I'd really rather not give up a draft pick to sign Gallardo especially since it looks like he is a candidate to decline. His strikeout numbers have dropped a ton over the last 4 years and while he has still been a very solid pitcher that is a huge concern.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 10:43 PM) Though, Avatar 2 does premier 12/25. No it won't. They haven't started production and that will come out in 2018 at the earliest.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 10:32 PM) They're both Disney so they wanted to keep,them apart as well. Eh, Pirates was scheduled for July and even as big as Star Wars is it wouldn't be going that strong at that point. It really is a combo of Episode VII's success in December, giving Johnson more time to get things right and probably moving Star Wars away from Guardians of the Galaxy II which was also scheduled for May of that year.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 08:17 PM) I hate that the best player on my favorite hockey team is portrayed to be such a f***ing tool. I also wish that one of 2 things would happen: 1. these stories would stop (if they're lying) or 2. more people would come out (assuming they're not lying) so this jack*** could just go to prison. Well he is a f***ing tool. That isn't really even debatable and I don't think anyone would even dispute that. That doesn't mean he is a sexual predator though and to this point there is no real proof of that.

Patrick Kane is a complete piece of s*** and I have never heard a single positive thing about that guy as a person. Now whether or not the guy is a sexual predator, I have no idea and won't even speculate on that based on a post on the internet.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 11:26 PM) For the love of God, there was no box office draw like Michael Jordan. He sold out every arena he played. Miami retired his freaking number.He makes more money selling shoes almost 20 years later a year than he made playing basketball. But they are a lot of fun to watch. If they win the West, there really is no need to play the Finals. They should save the East champ the embarrassment, The Spurs or Warriors win the title if they stay healthy this year. No one else has a chance.

Did the Bulls have a possession the entire night that wasn't an isolation or high ball screen?

I think it is also pretty clear that Groce knows he is in really hot water. His last couple of press conferences have been very Weberesque in throwing players under the bus which is something Groce had never done previously.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jan 19, 2016 -> 10:53 PM) Groce has lost the team and that is the most telling piece of the story. Just pathetic right now, the new AD has to fire him. Maybe someone like Bryce Drew would be interested. Unless Bryce Drew doesn't have ambition of moving beyond Valpo we are truly f***ed if he isn't interested in taking the Illinois job.

QUOTE (gatnom @ Jan 19, 2016 -> 07:58 PM) I think I'm finally on the fire Groce bandwagon. I still think we'd be a tournament team if we were fully healthy, but there's just no excuse for our complete lack of offense. These players should be able to do more than dribble out the shot clock and chuck long contested 2's. The offensive movement, passing, and shot selection looked good in the Purdue game for maybe the first time under Groce, but it appears that it was just a fluke. He has to be fired. And I was on the Groce bandwagon until black Friday because he did a good job his first year and I thought he would recruit at a really high level. His recruiting hasn't been terrible but it hasn't been very good either and 4 years in we still are really undisciplined on offense and he pretty clearly isn't good at coaching defense. We were really good defensively in his second year but that was pretty clearly almost entirely because Rice, Abrams and Egwu were all great individual defenders and then you had a couple of other guys who were solid (of course that team was absolutely horrendous on offense because until Hill and Nunn started playing more Rice was really the only scorer). We have to get an AD in place soon so they can be in a position to get rid of him at season's end.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jan 19, 2016 -> 10:10 AM) That Love trade was stupid and I said so at the time. Cleveland would be nasty with Lebron/Kyrie/Wiggins. In the long term they may regret that trade but Wiggins would not make them a better team right now. He is a bad 3 pt shooter and despite his athleticism he isn't a great defender yet.

Two terrible timeouts used by the Broncos in this half.

So Carolina has already blown a 28 pt lead this year (but they did win that game), almost blew a 23 pt lead to the Packers, and blew a 17 pt lead against the Colts (they did win that game in OT though). Surprising for a team with a good D but they have blown a lot of huge leads this year.

That was pathetic by Norman. Never ceases to amaze how bad DBs are at playing the ball in the air.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 17, 2016 -> 03:16 PM) How can a team be so dominant in one half and awful in the second? I think a lot of times it is focus from the team with the big lead. As much as you are taught not to it is hard to maintain the same intensity with a huge lead. This is unbelievably pathetic football by Carolina right now though.

Great throw by Wilson there and horrendous play call by the Panthers. Blitzing Josh Norman on third and 11? Just stupid.

Bad start to the second half for the Panthers. If Wilson didn't miss a ridiculously easy throw this game is 31-14 with a ton of time left.

This is an ass kicking.

More clutch play from Russell Wilson.