The Paxspeak Playbook

If that Memphis trade actually happened, I don’t think I’d ever watch a Bulls game again.

Finally, we won’t have to read between Pax’s lines. The interviews will be Thursday afternoon.

from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel:

“Rose and Beasley were among the 15 leading prospects allowed to bypass the round-robin of scrimmages and move directly to the weekend physicals and measurements. The two will be part of a media availability session Thursday of leading draft candidates”

his responses are always clueless, I don’ even know, let me do my work regardless of how ever long it takes?. Why does he want to projected this image of stupidity and incompetence? Is there some hidden strategy?

I wish he would just defer answering sometimes and tell a joke for humor and distraction.

Here he is given the greatest gift any GM can dream of (save for trading for Kobe or LeBron), yet he still needs to pander on like the same clueless buffoon that watched the team he constructed implode over a whole season and did nothing about it. Dammit Paxson, for some reason fate has REWARDED you for promoting the hack formerly known as Jim Boylan with the chance to draft one of 2 players who could dramatically alter the next few years of this team, why must you tempt it?

that Pax will trade the #1 pick for six pack of Bud and a double cheeseburger. I can’t tell you my sources though, but please spread this around the internet so we can all laugh at Paxson more, threaten never to watch another game, and reference this third hand rumor in future years as evidence Paxson is a bad GM even though it never happened. Paxson is operating as he always has and likely won’t change, grow a sense of humor, or give time tables. This is old news.

There was a lot of stuff going on his his article today…

“I’d like to have a guy in place sooner rather than later, and I’m confident I will,” Paxson said. “But I’m still looking. I’m touching base with a few people I’ve already spoken to. That’s where that is. And I probably will talk to one new person.”

Sources said Jazz assistant Tyrone Corbin and former Minnesota coach Dwane Casey were scheduled to speak to Paxson again about the job while attending the predraft camp.

and

Given the public nature of the D’Antoni talks collapsing, the Bulls and Johnson are keeping their back-and-forth extremely private.

I’m not sure how to read that. Does it mean there has been a ton of contact between the two?

and

Paxson doesn’t feel the need to wait to talk to Celtics assistant Tom Thibodeau or Pistons assistant Michael Curry, with the latter not expected to be granted permission from Detroit to interview anyway.

So it sounds like Thibs is no longer in the race?

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/bulls/cs-080528-chicago-bulls-john-paxson-coaching,1,6067146.story

While you indicate that the blogger “admits accepting such an offer would be lunacy for the Bulls”, you didn’t indicate above that he also wrote that:

No way the Bulls accept that Memphis trade.

This changes the picture from your post which leaves it open-ended that the Bulls are considering such a deal, no?

Dammit! I’ll learn how to use this sometime…the first line was from the blog, the second is from me.

as a GM …..Paxson(with his slow moving processes) or Jerry Krause(with his Turkey neck jigglin…i know yall remember when they won the lottery in 99 his neck wouldnt stop movin YUK!!! lol) I agree Pax has made some mistakes…Ben Wallace…Ty Thomas(he still has a chance to be good)...if Pax finds a way to screw this up then i think we should light the torches and march to the Berto Center…my prediction is he picks Rose and hires Avery( the mouth) Johnson and the Bulls will be back to their winning ways….U DIG!!!