I would rather keep him for now. I know we have Rose, but who else is going to play PG. I guess Hughes could play some PG relief, as could BG if we kept him. Both of those guys are more scorers then PGs. I like dumping BG alot better. Outlaw would steal minutes from Deng but would free up the possibility of dumping Nocioni. Wouldn’t be bad, but it doesn’t seem like a trade that would make us all that much better. Our problem is not a lack of talent, but a lack of top tier talent.

but it’s a decent enough trade for Hinrich. Gah, I really don’t like the idea of two scrap-tastic forwards eating Thomas’ minutes, and it’s even worse if it costs Gordon.

Prz makes $6.3M and Outlaw makes $4M, while Kirk only makes $10M.

So this deal would actually make it harder to sign Gordon, which is about the only potential upside I see to trading Hinrich. Especially trading him for an injury-prone clod an another tweener forward.

The fact that TechN9ne, who always comes across as a Bulls mouthpiece to me, suggests the Bulls didn’t laugh and hang up on Kevin Pritchard scares the fuck out of me.

And yeah, trading Gordon for those guys is similarly stupid. I also don’t see why the Blazers would think Gordon is sensible for them when they’re starting out a similar sort of player (Jerryd Bayless) on a rookie contract, they’ve got Roy, and they’ve got Rudy Fernandez. I thought Gordon made some sense for them several months ago when they just had Roy, but if I were the Blazers I’d go with the two very cheap high potential guys over the one expensive guy.

I can see why Hinrich would be a better fit for them since he’s a better facilitator than Gordon, but I don’t see any reason for us to take back Joe Palooka making $7M+ in 2010 and still not solve the Gordon issue either.

Yuck!

In the last few weeks I’ve been quiet, trying to understand how far this story about BG goes. But I’m starting to be sick of this… It’s time to Pax to do something. Trading with Portland might be, effectively, the best solution. We know the Bulls wont get in return a star. So, why not trade BG for someone like LaFrentz instead of Outlaw and Joe P?

LaFrentz is not going to make the Bulls better. But he’s contract is similar with what BG wants. And he only have one more year left… So, by the end of this year, we would have saved 24 million with LaFrentz and Hughes…

There was a article or a chat where it was mentioned the best scenario for the Bulls was to come up with a three way trade. I can see this growing into a three teamer trade. Portland approached the Bulls for Hinrich and I don’t see them taking Gordon because as mentioned above they have Bayless.

Outlaw duplicates Deng/Noc so you see Noc being moved and that can happen in a three way. Hopefully the Bulls and Portland put there heads together and get someone like Memphis on the phone. I can see these three teams switching some players around and being competitive in the league.

Keeping as much assets around until the Bulls can make a trade for a superstar is the best scenario imo.

Um, do it. DO IT NOW!

You still have to move Nocioni. Good thing he injured his knee at the Olympics.

I guess Portland is a little more comfortable with Rudy Fernandez after watching that Gold Medal match. Throw in that Oden looks pretty good and that makes Prz expendable.

Blazers want to win NOW. Hinrich gets them there. Outlaw and Prz do not.

I’m totally cool with it.

This is from an actual, real post (seriously):

If…they were to offer us Deng or Rose, we’re all ears. Otherwise, poo-poo platter. I think Chitown is still mad about the Ty Thomas for Aldridge deal. They want to compensate for that pritch-slap by fantasizing about doing the same back to us.

Must be all those drugs out on the west coast.

The Celtics inking Miles makes things quite difficult for the Blazers if he plays more than 10 games this next season.

But I don’t know how much this deal helps the Bulls. I’m expecting Hinrich to bounce back this year after such a lousy year last year. This clears out the backcourt glut but doesn’t help much salary wise and we have too many guys at the 3 adding Outlaw. Chances are Pax will sit on his hands as usual so it’s probably much adieu about nothing.

your scrubs.

My fellow BlogaBulls, this is a good trade for both sides. Portland finally gets a descent play maker and scoring at the 1 while Roy can score in efficiency. This only make them more deadly in the playoffs. Far as us, the Bulls, we can get a shooting guard that we have wanted all alone. Outlaw is like Tyrus Thomas with guard/perimeter ability, and I’m dead serious. This guy was coming off his best season last year and his story is crazy too. He didn’t even know how to dribble coming out of high school, now look at him. Przybilla is a guy that’s a necessity. He has what we are lacking in the front court right now: size, defense presence, and skilled scoring.

I’m sorry but if Jerry don’t approve of this trade – he’s sipping boo boo sherbet. Hinrich for a skilled big and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Z4nxdjpnE

That dude is like MJ how he moves.

I tried to eliminate most of the ‘trash-talky’ Bulls-Blazers elements of this thread, they served their real-time purpose but I figure since the lack of news will make this a somewhat interesting topic for this week, might as well preserve some of the actual discussion.