Back to the topic of the Bulls VP of Basketball Operations quitting and being a quitter

He’s spending to within a hare’s breath of the LT for a shitty team. All of the stuff about him playing favorites is, at the end of the day, unsubstantiated. It might be true but it’s just as likely Paxson.

What is pretty substantiated at this point is Pax has basically checked out. And rather than replacing him, Reinsdorf has let him continue to helm the ship while having everyone else do the heavy lifting. And it’s pretty evident that Pax isn’t even doing his job as the helmsman.

Bump him up to Executive Vice President of Golf Outings and get it the fuck over with. At least that way we might have someone exerting some leadership.

There are other things Morey has noticed too, but declines to discuss as there is right now in pro basketball real value to new information, and the Rockets feel they have some. What he will say, however, is that the big challenge on any basketball court is to measure the right things. The five players on any basketball team are far more than the sum of their parts; the Rockets devote a lot of energy to untangling subtle interactions among the team’s elements. To get at this they need something that basketball hasn’t historically supplied: meaningful statistics. For most of its history basketball has measured not so much what is important as what is easy to measure — points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocked shots — and these measurements have warped perceptions of the game. ("Someone created the box score," Morey says, "and he should be shot.") How many points a player scores, for example, is no true indication of how much he has helped his team. Another example: if you want to know a player’s value as a ­rebounder, you need to know not whether he got a rebound but the likelihood of the team getting the rebound when a missed shot enters that player’s zone.

Houston was bad, when Alexander bought them. They were probably losing money which is just awful when you’re in a top 5 growth city in the United States. I think Houston may be the fastest growing city of the major cities. They have job growth right now. That was then. this is now.

I think Houston is a great study. Aaron Brooks, Carl Landry, and Luis Scola are not names I would have drafted to pair with Yao and McGrady. But it’s working. They hired a real coach with a real track record of success.

I do wonder how much money played a role in Houston. Right now the Bulls are terrible at the game of basketball, but terrific in the game of business.

If Reinsdorf equally gave both similiar “limited” freedom, then Paxson doesn’t really have much of an excuse!

Jerry had lots of freedmon to bring in personnel, and he was a dreamer. He loved Power Fowards and loaded the team with them, if Tracy McGrady wanted to play in Chicago, then Krause who desired him would have got him?

Krause made some bad decisions, but no one really questioned his “MOJO”. the dude carried himself like he had the biggest baddest balls in the organization.

Pax had lots of freedom, I believe he himself hamstring the salary cap signing non starters to big contracts, signed Wallace and started losing with his overpaid questionable starters as core players. In essense, Reinsdorf steps in, because this team is on decline.

So maybe Reinsdorf is really behind structuring the team, and Paxson has always been the “YES” front man… If so, then still that’s a problem if he (Paxson) never stands up to his boss and tell him a signing is not in our best interest!

Paxson is really at fault, and moreso than idiot Jerry Reinsdorf… He’s an owner, not the true basketball mind behind the organization?

Bulls don’t have one, and this three headed decision monster presently at the helm can’t make a real decision because its a democracy rule, which takes lots of time to come to a consensus. Certainly more time that the trade deadline.

(Democratic Ruling Bulls: D’Antoni deal, Trades for Garnett, Bryant, Gasol and now Amare)

Just get a real GM.

bc he was fortunate enough to have MJ drop in his lap back in 1984.

He’d make more money. The Bulls have only won a playoff series in 10 years, that definitely hurts the pocketbook.

it’s that he apparently doesn’t want the job.

especially because I’m a ND-basher.

The Ray Allen trade was questionable decision when it was made. Getting KG is still widely considered a gift from McHale.

This organization looked stupid for alienating its 2 best players and coach in favor of Crumbs.

Really good players win championships but rarely cover up for inept organizations.

Kevin Garnett singlehandedly saved a lot of jobs in Boston last year. And Ainge still drafted Rondo, Powe, Big Baby, and signed PJ Brown and Posey.

Look how smart they looked when they traded for Pip, drafted Horace, traded for Cartwright, drafted Kukoc, drafted BJ Armstrong, traded for Rodman, hired Phil Jackson……………

The franchise looked smart because they were damn good at their job. You don’t remain the most dominant and most popular team for a decade just by luck.

not players and coaches.

Most of them were going to do so last yr but the Bulls were saved by the lottery ball. All of them changed their mind at the prospect of drafting Rose and called the Bulls the next morning after the draft lottery- even though it was one day past the deadline they all were able to renew. Obviously the economy is bad enough for the Bulls to blame it on that, but I really think there’s going to be a huge drop-off. I’m sure JR will just use this as an excuse to NOT spend any more money though…

http://www.blogabull.com/2009/2/16/761179/roman-modrowski-bosh-to-bu

Now leave us all alone.

Using proper nouns instead of “the guy” and “he” would really help readers understand your comments.

Don’t think so buddy! The Dude quit already, just make it official, and let him and the fans move forward!

If he is miserable at a job he doesn’t enjoy anymore, why the fuck does he work? There’s some stupid misplaced sense of loyalty here. Paxson owes it to the team to step down if he cannot perform to his fullest abilities, and if his health is suffering because of the job, then he owes it to himself to step down.

so quitting is just a formality to let the casual fans know.

to ask forgiveness afterwards than to wait and be jerked around again and allow the frustration to continue to mount!

this is presented like it should be common knowledge.

It’s not like Paxson’s performance is beyond criticism, so questioning why it’s good to have him there if he doesn’t want to be there is valid.

Nonsense on stilts.