SB Nation User Blog: Jamaicanpi

Von Waver released...Asik injures collar bone

Jamaicanpi — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:32:22 -0000

Von Waver released...Asik injures collar bone

Von Wafer was released from his contract with Olympiakos. I think he's a chucker and had a fluke year, but our current team sucks.

Omer Asik out for two months with an injured collar bone.

Derrick rose looks good in NBA 2k10. Slow news day. It would be nice if the Bulls did something...

Jamaicanpi — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:25:38 -0000

Derrick rose looks good in NBA 2k10. Slow news day. It would be nice if the Bulls did something this offseason besides letting their best scorer go.

Deng to miss Great Britain's autumn games

Jamaicanpi — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:16:57 -0000

Deng to miss Great Britain's autumn games

[From the FanShots. Not good news that Deng still isn't ready to play. Though it's better than an unnecessary risk of re-injury -ed.]

The Bulls insist Deng is not fit enough to play for GB. If we weren't overpaying Deng, I would say let him do what he wants, but he's making WAY too much money, to get injured playing for another team.

A closer look at contract incentives

Jamaicanpi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:03:37 -0000

A closer look at contract incentives

It's a funny article on NBA contract incentives. For those who don't know how contract incentives count against the cap, it mostly depends on how likely they are to be achieved.

Quoted:
"Most of these provisions -- incentives, they call them -- pertain to team goals (victories, playoff achievement, etc.), which is fine, especially if a player has a history of injury. Baron Davis, for example, gets $1 million just for playing 70 games and leading his team to victory in at least 30 of them.
Really, what's better than going 30-50 [sic], and then watching Donald Sterling's head explode by forcing him to hand over an extra million as a reward for this grand achievement?"

Rumor: Mullens to Detroit

Jamaicanpi — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:51:46 -0000

Rumor: Mullens to Detroit

Two different sources have indicated to NBADraft.net on Friday that the Pistons have a promise in place to take BJ Mullens if he's available to the them at 15

Gordon to Olympiakos??? UPDATE: Nope

Jamaicanpi — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:15:00 -0000

Gordon to Olympiakos??? UPDATE: Nope

[Update 6/9: shot down by Gordon's agent. (via BG's publicist) -ed.]

I tend to doubt it, but if this rumor is being floated by his agent, then I am guessing BG is not getting the offers he wants.

Draft Watch 2009 (6/4)

Jamaicanpi — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:35:25 -0000

Draft picks for 2009: 2-1st round, 0-2nd round*.
The picks will be 16 and 26**.

*We lost our 2nd round pick to acquire the rights to Omer Asik last year.

**DraftExpress thinks we acquired Denver's pick, SI says we received San Antonio's pick (the difference is pick 26 vs 25).

Pick 16: 30% chance the player is above average.

Pick 26: 85% chance they suck.

who's available:

2009 draft candidates

Who's in, who's out according to Chad Ford

links to mock draft sites and who the Bulls draft:

DraftExpress (last update: June, 4): T. Williams / O. Casspi

nbadraft.net (last update: June, 3): B. Mullens / T. Smith

RealGM (last update: June, 2): T. Williams / C. Budinger

Yahoo (last update: May, 20): T. Williams / D. Collison

ESPN (last update: May, 20): D. Blair / T. Douglas

InsideHoops (last update: May, 24): J. Holiday / P. Mills

ignore height (more or less):

Better measurements than height

talks about how to value standing reach, wingspan, height

NBA draft measurements 2009

shows large residuals when correlating standing reach or wingspan to height

Interpreting the 2009 draft measurements

quality of player vs pick:

How does each pick stack up to the 1st overall

NBA draft success and lessons --- part 2

Big men bust. Late picks are good for guards and wings

Expected performance

thinking about college stats:

College stats (per 40 pace adjusted default)

How do NCAA statistics translate to the NBA ---

Good: block, assist, rebound, 3 P%, and FT%; Bad: FTA, PPG, FG%, and FGA

draft related podcasts

Discusses Clark, Blair, Johnson, and Mullens.

Discusses Henderson, Williams Budinger, Thornton, Ellington

Doug Thonus and Jonathon Givony

Discuss moving up in the draft and various bigs and wings

Bulls workouts (potential 1st round picks)

B.J. Mullens (3/22), D. Collison (3/24), M. Thornton (3/25), D. Blair (6/10), J. Flynn (5/24), P. Mills (5/24), P. Beverley (5/24), C. Budinger (5/24),

T. Hansbrough, T. Williams, D. Summer, T. Smith, D. Green (unknown)

Doug Thonus' new blog

Jamaicanpi — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:22:15 -0000

Doug Thonus' new blog

Evidently the Chicago Tribune is starting up a website dedicated to sports called "Chicago Now." Doug's going to be one of the (the only?) bloggers for the Bulls.
The website requires a log-in to read because it is still in its infant stages (ie. don't contact them if something doesn't work and it might be too early to create login profiles). I contacted Doug and he said he did not mind if the login information was shared with the broader Blog A Bull community.
login: cn
password: cn

Chat with Anthony Macri of IMG academy

Jamaicanpi — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:24:00 -0000

Chat with Anthony Macri of IMG academy

Noah will be at IMG in June for 3 weeks or so, Luol as well
Blair "is 6'7.5 in shoes with a 7'2 wingspan (measured myself),"

Ask Sam 5/22/09

Jamaicanpi — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:14:40 -0000

Ask Sam 5/22/09

Little news...Deng plans to play for GB if healthy...Someone mentions trading Rose for Griffin...When's the draft?