Well, Derrick is out for the rest of the post-season, and I don't need to explain why that alters the Bull's chance of attaining their goal of a championship. Unlike Thibs I don't believe we have enough to win. Yesterday I was ready to check-out, and I was joking with my friends how I suddenly got my May and June back, but today I'm thinking I'll still stay tuned to the Bulls. The problem is I'm not sure what a realistic goal for the playoffs is.

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The 2011-2012 basketball season is nearing the All-star break, and the playoffs are vaguely taking shape. Chicago and Miami appear to be the best in the east and awaiting another June show-down to determine who plays in the NBA finals. A lot can change with regards to injuries, trades, and quality of play, but based on what you have seen thusfar in the NBA season, which play-off match-ups do you believe are the best and worst for the Bulls through the first and second round?

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Hey its almost Thanksgiving, which means it is almost time for Christmas.  Although I have certain Grinch tendencies, which lead to my preference of Thanksgiving as a holiday over cute little baby Jesus's b-day, I am nonetheless making Christmas preparations.  Namely, the development of a Christmas list, which has been a tradition in my family for as long as I can remember.  These lists have become invaluable as my nuclear family has grown older, financially independent, and spread throughout the state, thus leading me to have no idea what my brothers and parents need.  The lists enable me to purchase gifts my family actually want and/or need.  The problem is, I need to create a Christmas list for myself, and I habitually struggle with them.  For the most part, I hate shopping, don't get excited over new gadgets (I have never owned an ipod), trinkets, clothes, or other general indulgences (I prefer spending money on weekend trips).  Thus, my list is limited to things I need, and very few things I want (I also don't trust my family to get me what I want, as the things I want are usually very specific).  I generally strive for around ten items, and want to get the list out this weekend (to give the fam adequate planning time for any potential black Friday shopping).  Thus, the question:

WHAT IS ON YOUR CHRISTMAS LIST?

My list consists of:

1) Black pair of dress slacks, no pleats

2) New black and chrome/silver belt (for work)

3) New running shoes

4) Pair of brown rainbows

5) Tire chains

6) Fingerless gloves to keep my hands warm while computering in my freezing office

Muy Aburrido!

It is October!!!  My favorite month of the year.  Of the many reasons is Halloween and the slew of horror movies that correspond to it.  Not coincidentally, we have our own horror shown as we play the University of Southern California Trojans on Thursday the 13th, at the Last Stadium on the Left!  Continuing with the horrific theme of playing Oregon and USC back-to-back, I compare old Pac-10 teams to horror villains.  

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Can you name the 7 different movies these quotes are from

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According to The Business Journal 22 different cities in the US and Canada have the accumulated wealth to support an NBA franchise:

On Numbers focused on 57 metropolitan areas that do not have NBA franchises, analyzing their total personal income (TPI), the amount of money earned by all residents in 2010. Click here for the complete methodology.

An NBA team, according to the study, requires an income base of $34.2 billion for adequate support. Twenty-two open markets are above that threshold, earning perfect scores on a 100-point rating scale.

Seattle, for example, has TPI of $176.1 billion. Its baseball, football and soccer teams need a combined base of $137.5 billion, leaving $38.6 billion in available personal income, more than enough for the NBA. 

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Its August and fall camp is just around the corner!

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Why is forcing food down your guest's throat acceptable?  For some reason, it is considered polite amongst society, while I view this as nothing more than a giant hassle.

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What movies are these quotes from (Lebowski free):

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Yesterday, I was researching Thomas A Edison Lake and the Vermillion Valley for an upcoming camping trip I'm taking.  I was looking at this website for basic information about the area and to see what basic supplies the Vermillion Resort would provide in case of emergency.  I was looking at the activities available when I came across this.

Thomas A. Edison Lake via i55.tinypic.com

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Go Bears!

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[From the FanPosts. I'm apparently on a vacation (not intentionally, maybe just a little burnt-out still post-playoffs) and this was one of several quality posts from the holiday weekend -ed.]

In spite of the gut-wrenching way this season ended, it was still a pretty darn good season.  Rose firmly entrenched himself as one of the best players in the league, the Bulls developed a dominating defense, the Bulls achieved the league's best overall record and played five hard fought games in the Eastern conference finals.  These achievements all eclipsed most people's preseason projections.

Nonetheless, the Bulls are a young team, and as such have room to improve and push farther into the playoffs.  To realize this potential it is important for each Bull's player to improve upon their game during the off-season.  As such, I have assigned off-season homework assignments to each player.  I realize most players have multiple flaws or areas where they can improve, but I believe it is only reasonable for a player to address one or two weaknesses in the off-season.  Therefore, I have given every player a primary focus and a secondary focus.

I also expect management to perform some roster-tweaking in the off-season, but for the purposes of this exercise used the Bulls current roster, choosing not to speculate on what next year's roster will look like.   I also feel it is ridiculous to ask players to address weaknesses they are physically incapable of performing (asking Korver to work on becoming a lock-down defender), so although players may have greater weaknesses than the ones I address, I only included weaknesses I felt can actually be improved upon.

If you are too lazy to read every player’s assignment I provided a summary at the end of the article.

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Note:  I wrote this after the Bull's won game 6 of the Atlanta series, but due to a flood of DBD's never had the chance to post it.  If you want you can read over the match-up stuff and see what I got right and what I got wrong.  Now back to your regularly scheduled program.

As expected last night was a great victory for the faithful.  While under-performing against subpar competition the Bulls looked far from the number the one seed they earned over the course of the regular season.  Nonetheless, three rounds into the playoffs their second season record stands at 8-3, and face their most daunting task to date, the Miami Heat.  Many people hate the Heatles, are apprehensive about Boshstriches, and weary of Miami flavoured refereeing.  I am not one of these people, yet, I hope the Heat are murdered, reanimated, then murdered again, burned, and have their ashes urinated on by the South Park Christmas Critters.  Clearly, I am a Bulls supporter.  I know only a small contingent of basketball fans exist in this virtual space, but I am here to recruit you to the side of good.

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One of the main storylines over the past week and a half of national sporting news has been that of the Miami Heat.  The Heat's repeated late game failures combined with a prolonged losing streak is motivating most pundits to ask questions, and most fans the opportunity to let their hater's heart unleash its unwanted venom.  I have been observing from afar, and I do hope the Heat lose as I want the Bulls to secure the 2 seed in the east, but I haven't enjoyed their current five game losing streak nearly as much as other people out there.  Although, I would not claim the Heat are the favorite to win the eastern conference, I also feel anyone writing off the Heat does so at their own peril.

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Well, it is too early to go to bed, but too late to start anything of substance, thus I'm bored right now.  I have since confronted this boredom by googling "interesting facts".  This link popped up, and here are some of the highlights. 

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I'm in LA right now.  It has been raining for 3 days, with another 3 days of non-stop rain to come.  This relates to you because I have become bored.  To kill my boredom I have created some animated gifs of some great Bulls moments (primarily featuring that kid named Rose).  I was going to do a few Jordan and Rodman ones as well, but its late and I've already killed an hour doing this.

There is, however, a strong possibility I'll be bored tomorrow as well, so if you have any favourite Bulls players or moments you'd like captured in animated gif format leave a comment.  There does have to be a youtube video of it, so the older material may be harder to find.

Enjoy! 

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I actually had a busy day yesterday, and I didn't have free time until about 9:00 last night.  I then rummaged through the DBD to see if any interesting Cal related news stories were posted.  Apparently, there was a lot of boredom yesterday.  But do not fear, I found this website a week or so ago, which is great for killing time.  It is basically a bunch of trivia quizzes.  Below or a few of the quizzes, I have a preference for geography, but they have sports, popular culture, and a bunch of other categories (my scores to the right):

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Some trolliscious statements and points, and no I don't agree with all of them.

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The question of whether or not BYU becomes an independent should be answered sometime today or tomorrow, and all indications point to them remaining it the Mountain West.  But..... that is no fun to think about.

If BYU were to become an independent in football, should the Pac-12 incorporate BYU into their bowl affiliations, similar to how Notre Dame and the Big East are affiliated for bowl games. I would assume the Rose Bowl would be exempt from any potential agreement, thus the Pac-12 will continue to send their conference champion to LA, unless they are selected for the national championship game. BYU would then be eligible for the remaining bowls (Alamo bowl through the Vegas bowl).

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I thought about having this be a stand alone fanpost, but considering I don't actually have any facts to support what I say, I decided to make it a DBD.  That and this isn't necessarily a new idea.

With the talk of football divisions commencing today, I thought I'd look at basketball without divisions, Scott claims will be the case.  In 2011, the Pac-10 will probably switch to the Pac-12, will not feature divisional alignments except in football.  That means basketball will be pooled together in the one division and most likely result in an unbalanced schedule.  I propose the Pac-12 play a complete home and away round robin and cancel the post-season conference tournament, my logic after the jump.

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It has been mentioned several times on this site, that my favourite pro sports franchise are the Chicago Bulls.  Over the past free agency period, the Bulls tried to lure many free agents and failed.  This is the second time in a decade the Bulls scrapped their team with the intent of luring a big name free agent, only to fail.  There are several reasons and theories as to why the Bulls are unable to land this free agent they long for.  One of the lesser theories is that players don't want to play in the shadow of Michael Jordan.  He is the icon for the team, and his legacy still reigns over the Bulls like his statue outside.  Players not wanting to play in Michael Jordan's shadow, this brings me to my subject for today, as expressed after the jump.  
 

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