SB Nation User Blog: paxson43

SI not impressed with Bulls this summer

paxson43 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:38:06 -0000

SI not impressed with Bulls this summer

Nothing new here, but SI expresses frustration with PaxDorf's lame summer.

McGraw on Tyrus

paxson43 — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:35:26 -0000

McGraw on Tyrus

McGraw talks about how the Bulls might utilize Tyrus in the future.

Burns ranks the East: Bulls will be terrible

paxson43 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:38:02 -0000

Burns ranks the East: Bulls will be terrible

Bulls predicted to finish 13th on account of new coach, backcourt logjam and lack of low post scoring presence.

This seems overly dire to me and I wanted to get everyone else's thoughts.

Slam catches up with Joakim

paxson43 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:36:01 -0000

Slam catches up with Joakim

Joakim talks about being arrested this summer in Gainesville, his offseason workout plans, his childhood and his family. He also manages to say "at the same time" a lot.

OT: ESPN City High All-Chicago Basketball Team

paxson43 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:36:14 -0000

OT: ESPN City High All-Chicago Basketball Team

Don't know what this is all about but ESPN has assembled a list of the best prep players from several cities from the last ten years. The Chicago squad of Wade, Rose, Maggette, Wright and Curry with Richardson off the bench looks to be a winner.

Stein: Reinsdorf handling Deng negotiations personally

paxson43 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:02:13 -0000

Stein reports from Vegas summer league:

Not totally sure yet how to interpret this one, but sources say that Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf is personally handling contract negotiations with Deng and his new agent (Jason Levien) after Reinsdorf informed Bulls GM John Paxson that he wanted to directly negotiate with the Deng camp along with Bulls director of player personnel Gar Forman.

Bulls tidbits are otherwise scarce so far beyond what we covered recently about Deng's fellow restricted free agent Ben Gordon and Kirk Hinrich. While it is widely presumed that Chicago will soon trade Hinrich after drafting Derrick Rose with the No. 1 overall pick, sources maintain that there is some sentiment in the Bulls organization to keep Hinrich -- a Reinsdorf favorite -- and play him at shooting guard alongside Rose while banking on getting something good for Gordon in a sign-and-trade.

Don't know how I should feel about this -- my initial reaction is that I would expect the Bulls front office to behave in a more coordinated fashion, particularly after what happened with D'Antoni earlier this summer -- but wanted to get it posted to get everyone's thoughts.

The other tidbit to note in this report is that it sounds like the Clips are interested in a number of "restricteds," including Luol.

Knicks: still crazy

paxson43 — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:44:21 -0000

Knicks: still crazy

Reportedly, the Knicks are rejecting a trade offer from the Clips for Zach Randolph because they want more than cap relief for Randolph. Seriously?!

Demetris Nichols > Wilt Chamberlain

paxson43 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:15:15 -0000

Demetris Nichols > Wilt Chamberlain

Don't know if you caught this, but from the summer league recap reveals that the super-duper star that everyone has been pining for is already on the Bulls roster: "JamesOn Curry and Joakim Noah added 10 a piece, and Demetris Nichols scored 111."

Pietrus to Magic

paxson43 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:22:55 -0000

Pietrus to Magic

Reportedly agrees to the MLE. The exodus from Golden State is in full effect. Matt Barnes, anyone?

Getting to know Ociepka

paxson43 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:15:37 -0000

Getting to know Ociepka

The Daily Herald has an article up about one of the team's new assistants: Bob Ociepka. He's a Chicago guy and I for one am happy that he is with the team.

Also, in the Bulls.com audio section, Swirsky does an interview with Ociepka that touches on similar topics.