Vinny may be out of here...Rose is upset and some players blaming the "scheme" as a problem.

Here’s the play:

Nix VDN

Summer 2010 if we still suck, try to pick up a decent draft pick (Kentucky’s John Wall looks pretty good — what would Wall and Rose look like in a back court tandem?)

and/or 2010 an sign restricted FA like CDR (NJN) or Anthony Morrow (GSW) to an offer sheet. We need a perimeter scorer, the Fish ain’t gettin it done.

Summer 2011 make a play for Durant, preferably a sign and trade.

2011-2012 Bulls:

Coach= Avery Johnson

PG Rose/Wall/ Hinrich?
SG Wall/ CDR or Anthony Morrow ( I like Morrow better in this role)
SF Durant/Johnson
PF Thomas?/Gibson
C Noah/Asik?/Miller?

This current debacle really started when Jerry Reinsdorf messed up the Mike D’Antoni hiring. Paxson had interviewed him and a deal was all set until JR heard the price tag that was associated with Mike D. He decided then that HE wanted to interview D’Antoni — what kind of owner meddles in his GM’s affairs like that? After D’Antoni had been run out of Phoenix because of “defensive philosophy isses” the last thing he wanted to hear harped on was “defensive philosophy” in an interview (and JR knew that, which is why it’s all he talked about during his meeting with Mike) and subsequently Mike D’Antoni stormed out of the room in the middle of the interview.

JR got what he wanted (a cheaper coach in VDN) and the Bulls were screwed. Imagine how many points per game BG would’ve averaged last season in the seven seconds or less offense. BG easily would’ve put up about 25 ppg! That would have increased his trade value, and made our team more competitive. We could have signed him to an extension and then used him in a sign-and-trade with Deng for a player like Bosh. Then we’d still have Miller, Gray, Pargo, Hunter, Tyrus, Jerome James and Salmons coming off the books in the summer of 2010 to go sign Wade. Imagine a team with Rose, Wade, James Johnson, Bosh and Noah in the starting line up with Hinrich coming in as the 6th man and Gibson being the second man off the bench. We would’ve been instant contenders. Instead, we’re going to stumble through a 30 win season and end up messing up the draft like usual (Tyrus over LaMarcus Aldridge AND Brandon Roy!? Are you kidding me?!), Salmons won’t opt out because of his bad play and we’re going to end up with only about 11 million of cap space (which is enough to maybe sign David Lee). I hope Bulls fans are ready for another decade of mediocrity or worse…

And remember, while we feel pain — JR is rolling in money. I’ll even give you proof:

http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/09/nba-basketball-valuations-business-sports-basketball-values-09-intro.html

If you look at that, the Bulls are second in the NBA in operating income at 51 million — only the Lakers are ahead of them (and the Lakers are only at 51.1 mil, so it’s really, really close) but the Lakers payroll is consistently 10-15 million higher than ours (even in their bad years — you have to pay to be a contender before you can actually BE a contender — saying that he’ll only pay the tax when the Bulls are ready to contend is just another one of JR’s lies). Why does our owner consistently give us the middle finger?

Check this out:

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/32/321267.html

The last sentence under the heading “The Skinny” states, “low payrolls have allowed the Bulls to be the NBA’s most profitable franchise over the past five years.” This article was printed in 2004, does anyone remember what the years 1999-2004 were like? TERRIBLE. We were easily the laughingstock of the league — Dickey Simpkins was our leading scorer one year! Ugh. All the while JR was lining his pockets with incredibly low payrolls while we sat with our hands in our pockets crying as we watched our team get murdered night after night.

STOP SUPPORTING THIS TEAM. DO NOT BUY TICKETS, DO NOT BUY MERCHANDISE. We are like battered wives, and we need to stand up for ourselves.

they wont happen, know why? the team sucks, from the ground up, from the guy that mops up the sweat, to the owner, the team sucks. No trades will happen, no real coach will be hired. What makes this org any more special than the clips, or memph, or NJ where they are constanlty the bottom feeders? Nothing, we as fans just have to grasp the notion that we are going to be a shitty team for a long long time.

VDN definetly has to go. This team needs healthy guys as well as a coach that can actually coach. I know a lot of guys aren’t big fans of him here, but anyone check the boxscores for Skiles and the Bucks lately. Last night they kept the Raptors under 100, and had balanced scoring from almost everyone that played. Jennings is probably the only one above average on that team, maybe Bogut too. But we have Derrick and Noah for those two. But he’s got guys like Delfino, Mbah a Moute, Illyasova, Ukic playing at high levels. Or even the Kings with the return of Westphal look so much better than they did last year with whoever their coach was then. It sucks that our management don’t see any faults in the countless mistakes that they have made.

There might not be any fixing this ship.