Portland is one of your wife's girlfriends back in college, Utah and Boozer are your future wife, and you are the Chicago Bulls.  Your future wife's girlfriend has some very nice looking assets.  She talks a big game, but in essence she really doesn't bring too much to the table except a lot of trouble, and she is too selfish for anything substantial to come out of the relationship.  You know she is just into everything for herself.  One day your future wife, her girlfriend, and you are sitting around drinking way too much in your apartment. Her girlfriend is pretty bold and from her history you have seen that she is not afraid to make a deal.  After a while, she suggest a threesome.

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Apparently, nobody told the Bulls that they are allowed to start signing free agents.  (footnote:  Jrome)  I know they are sitting back and waiting and trying to do the smart thing, but isn’t that what put the Bulls in there current state?  The wait and see and weigh out every possible scenario is a recipe for meritocracy not excellence.  I would rather take the Bull by the horn and make things happen.  Deng & BG are complimentary players not All-star.  Why don’t the Bulls get a budding All-star in Josh Smith? 

The Bulls should overpay for Josh Smith and hope Atlanta’s management is too scared to match the offer.  They already have Al Horford at the power forward position and Marvin is not the answer at SF.  Let the Hawk settle for Deng while the Bulls steal an All-star. 

The next step is to solidify the small forward position.  The Bulls could keep Noce playing SF and be okay, but I would rather shoot for the moon.  The Pistons want a shake up.  Trade away Noce & Tyrus for Tayshaun Prince.  The money works and Tyrus has to have some value for Joey D because he has played absolutely nuts vs the Pistons. 

Finally, sign BG to 7 – 9 million a year.  Without Noce’s reserve contract, the Bulls could afford to pay Ben his money.  Kirk could stay around to ease in Rose to the point guard role.  By the time Rose, is ready to take over Kirk will still be an affordable serviceable vet. 

(I hate when people show the depth chart, but here is the gist of it)

Rose, Kirk

BG, Thabo

Tayshaun

Josh Smith

Noah

I have found the perfect trade partner for the Bulls- the Denver Nuggets.  This team is the ying to the Bulls yang.  Their coach understands what Paxson already knows about his own team; they need to make major changes if they are going to compete with the top team’s in their conference.  Denver has too much scoring and not enough defense.  Here me out before you start bashing.  The Bulls need to finally part ways with a couple of their favorite players to bring in a superstar.  I am not a huge Carmelo Anthony fan, but he is available, and he is a superstar.  He might not play too much D or have too much heart on the defensive end, but if you surround him with Tyrus, Thabo, & Noce, they can help cover Melo’s defensive deficiencies, and take the pressure off them on the offensive end. 

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Watching Lebron and Kobe lift their teams to victory on Sunday is about as frustrating as the whole 2008 Chicago Bulls season.  I know it is cliché, but the Bulls need a star to lift them to the next level and deliver in the clutch.  Without a star, this Bull's team will continue to be a perennial first round speed bump of contender on their way to the finals.  

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After the Lakers-Memphis trade, I have come to the realization that the Bulls are not going to make a trade or get rid of Ben Wallace this year.  I think Paxson had Memphis & LA as his two top teams to trade with.  I can only imagine what is going throw Paxson's head after taht trade it had to blindside him.  Gasol would have been nice, and Wallace's offense could have been easily hidden by the triangle and Kobe, but now both options are gone.  What about the Kobe in the East?  

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The next 18 days are horrible for the LA Lakers.  They figure out that they have too many players that require the ball in the hands to win (Kobe, Lamar, Pau, & Bynum-when he returns.)  Pau & Kobe do not get along.  They are a worse match since Shaq and Kobe off the court, and they not clicking on either end of the floor.  Pau and Kobe get into fights about Spainish & French foreign realtions and Pau buming cigarettes to kids.  It is definately not going to work out.

The Lakers lose there next 8 games going into the trade deadline.  They are giving up average around 115 points a game.  They are getting destroyed.  They need defensive.  Phil has never won with a true LOW post player.  What can they do to fix this mistake???

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I have heard a lot of complaining about why the Bulls could not have either LaMarcus Aldridge or Brandon Roy.  I was lobbying hard for Brandon Roy because he would complement Kirk and could play the point with BG.  The fact of the matter is:  I do not think Paxson ever wanted Tyrus Thomas.  Paxson had a plan to catch a big fish, and TT was just trade bait to entice Kevin McHale to move Garnett to Chicago, but everything blew up in Paxson's face when McHale decided only deal with his old friend in Boston.  

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Recently, I have been a little worn out with all the draft speculation, so I spent some time gauging interest of Bull's players from other team's blogs that might have a scoring big for sale.    I don't know if Portland is still high on fumes from getting lucky in the lottery, but both blog-nations seem very far apart, and a deal is unlikely.  I decided to turn my attention to plan B, or for me plan AAZ.  

The consensus among mock drafts is the Bulls are drafting Noah as an instant contributor and future Big Ben replacement, so a inside scoring big is still missing.  

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Personally, I love reading all the draft speculation.  The more teams and players the more I get intrigued, but the truth of the matter is most rumors are just rumors and many of them are made up in blogs like these.  I wanted to propose a trade that will fill a need and keep it simple one player for one player.  I keep seeing the same need repeated in most of the recent diarys.

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