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Apr 20, 2008 Dec 01, 2011 47 9270

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I'd put [Westbrook] between Williams and Rose [all three behind CP3] ... he's harder on the eyes than Rose but at the moment he's the more effective player.

about 1 year ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 112 comments

Impressive, especially considering the amount of games Noah has missed. It's easy to bash Thibs for the Bogans thing, but he's got these guys playing some serious defense.

They're also #1 in rebound rate.

about 1 year ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 17 comments 2 recs

Love told SI.com that during last summer's World Championship in Turkey he had conversations with USA Basketball teammates Russell Westbrook (who played with Love at UCLA) and Derrick Rose about the possibility of someday teaming up in the NBA. Oklahoma City's Westbrook and Chicago's Rose are also permitted to sign extensions this summer.

From Chris Mannix's article on Kevin Love.

Rose/Westbrook/Deng/Love/Noah? That'd be decent I guess...

But yeah, there's no real chance of this ever happening. Fun to think about though.

about 1 year ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 24 comments

Blog a Bull Around the NBA 12/25/10 - Christmas Edition

Merry Christmas to BaB...let's try to forget about that horrendous game we just witnessed vs. the Knicks. Pretty sweet lineup today. C's/Magic now, and later the gem of Heats/Lakers. Go Kobe? Some other thoughts on today: What does everyone think of the Magic trade? Kind of weird seeing Agent Zero relegated to backup PG duties. Shaq is massive. Dwight Howard just got a T for taking more than 10 seconds to shoot a free throw. Never seen that in my life.

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''I'm trying to change it now where instead of avoiding the contact and hitting crazy shots, I'm trying to get fouled and go to the free-throw line,'' he said. ''It's kind of weird for me right now getting used to it, but it's coming along.''

over 1 year ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 15 comments 2 recs

[From the FanShots. Yay! Credit to the Bulls for getting this done. If the timing was to take some sting out of the Boozer news, it worked. -ed.]

5 years, ~$60 million, per Sam. Some much needed good news after the Boozer ordeal. Seems like a fair price to me.

over 1 year ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 113 comments 8 recs

[From the fanshots. I'm lucky I didn't break my own hand out of frustration after reading that. -ed.]

Yikes. Can you say buzzkill?

over 1 year ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 442 comments 4 recs

@sportsguy33: Sorry about that (on bberry). Use this instead. RT @BullsBlogger: Bad (and spammy) link on that Sam Smith piece. here: http://bit.ly/c0Tbjn

Matt re-tweeted by Bill Simmons! Blogabull is going global!

over 1 year ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 9 comments

Breaking: Hornets, Rockets, Pacers & Nets working on 4 team deal. Ariza to NO. C. Lee to HOU. Collison & Posey to IND. Murphy to NJ.

over 1 year ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 176 comments

Blog a Bull USA Blue/White Scrimmage Open Thread

[From the FanPosts -ed.]

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@JTMamba24 Durant is the man on the USA team, W/no Amare who's 2nd best? (Not sure KD is no. 1. DRose has been best player so far.)

Ric Bucher on Twitter

I know Bucher has always been a major Rose fan, but still, you can't help but get excited at that.

over 1 year ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 31 comments 5 recs

Here's to seeing this happen many times in the playoffs next season. Noah rules.

over 1 year ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 4 comments 1 recs

Blog a Bull Some subjective thoughts on Boozer's fit with the Bulls and what he brings to the team

In this fanshot, fundamentallysound posted a link to the Boozer/Thibs press conference (I left out Gar because I'm only including guys who actually were speaking on their own accord). Anyways, I had watched this a while back and it got me really looking forward to the season and what we can look forward to. I don't have the background and stats knowledge that many here do, so I'll leave that to the experts. But I did have some more subjective thoughts as I look forward to the post summer-2010 era and what I think Boozer can bring to the Bulls, after the jump:


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Brewer apparently wasn't willing to commit to the Grizzlies' latest offer because of pending negotiations with Chicago and Utah.

over 1 year ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 67 comments 4 recs

The Blazers rejected the Wolves' offer of the No. 4 pick for Batum a couple of week ago

This is according to Chad Ford. Hahahahaha, gotta love the Blazers. When will they ever learn? And David Kahn is equally hilarious. I guess this puts a damper on the possibility of getting Rudy and the #22 for our #17, though, but we should have known that already.

The best part about this is the #4 pick Cousins is probably available, so they could fully make up for the Oden debacle and then use him as a trade chip. BUT NO, CAN'T TRADE THEIR GOOD YOUNG PLAYERS!!! AHHH!!!

Link is here: http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft2010/insider/columns/story?columnist=ford_chad&page=MockDraft-100622

over 1 year ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 54 comments

And you take a risk dumping Deng and Hinrich, two guys who play hard, for say, someone like Bosh, who doesn’t particularly play that hard

over 1 year ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 61 comments

Thibodeau is still waiting on inevitable Hornets offer, but sources say he's eager to meet with Nets and Bulls. Chicago's his preferred job.

over 1 year ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 10 comments

David Stern places revised '10-'11 cap figure at $56.1 million, a boon to teams pursuing free agents. #NBA

Via Ken Berger's twitter

Capologists, does this give us room to throw, say, $4 mil/yr at a guy like Morrow in addition to a max free agent?

almost 2 years ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 62 comments 3 recs

I don't know how Gibson's performance would factor in if management felt they had legitimate chances to land Bosh or Johnson. I'd lean towards your thinking. Sign Johnson because Taj is at least viable and Johnson fills a need.

-From KC's latest mailbag. I just threw up in my mouth. If this is what the Org. does, then wow. Just wow. Fire them all.

almost 2 years ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 20 comments

It makes you appreciate those types all the more and roll your eyes at people like Aaron Gray, who acted like they were Michael Jordan when they should've been thankful to be in the league.

KC takes a shot at Aaron Gray in his latest mailbag. I really wish KC wrote his columns like he writes his mailbags: unfiltered and insightful. But I guess this is the way his job is supposed to be.

almost 2 years ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 15 comments 3 recs

Right now, with 20 games left, it's not about individual stats or anything. It's about getting the win.

Captain Luol taking another thinly-veiled shot at anonymous teammates? Why is it that he's always making comments like this?

almost 2 years ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 64 comments 2 recs

Blog a Bull Doug Thonus makes the case for Vinny

The article is found here: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicago-bulls-confidential/2010/02/will-vinny-del-negro-keep-his-job.html

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Flip Murray posterizing Kurt. LOL.

almost 2 years ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 13 comments

Source says Clippers have dealt Marcus Camby for Travis Outlaw and Steve Blake. Details and deeper confirmation to follow on the mothership.

Via Bucher on twitter.

Wow. And to think, we could have dumped Captain Thrust on them for these 2 expirings last summer. This is really depressing.

about 2 years ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 94 comments

Ric Bucher reported on Sportscenter today that the Bulls are one of three teams who have offers on the table for Amare. I don't have a link since it was on TV, but this surprises me given all the Bulls beat guys have basically said we don't have much interest in him. What say you, BaB?

about 2 years ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 30 comments

Blog a Bull Team USA Discussion/Predictions


While I realize the trade deadline is coming up next week and the All-Star game is this weekend (and will be covered by the one and only yfBB), there is also another semi-interesting NBA story making its rounds today. That, of course, was the announcement of the 27-player pool of NBA players who will eventually help to make up the next Olympic roster.  Why should any of us care? Well, because the Bulls' own (new) All-Star PG, Derrick Rose, is among those 27.

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The sad saga of Tyrus Thomas and the Chicago Bulls continues. Ugh.

about 2 years ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 101 comments 3 recs

I'm around Rose enough to know he'd prefer to be the second scoring option. Management is basing its entire philosophy moving forward on acquiring a star. If it succeeds, Rose is in the perfect role. He's only scoring at the clip he is now because he has seen an offensive void and is trying to address it. So I agree that a shoot-first point guard may not be conducive to winning. But I don't think that description fits Rose.

about 2 years ago Marlo2_tiny Illini15 36 comments