I agree with the majority of what was said here. I do think trading Kirk while his stock is at it’s highest is the first priority for Pax. But what I’m really starting to worry me is this BG situation. I do think there is a surplus of servicable 2guards in this league that the Bulls can grab in the event of not being able to sign BG. Even moving Salmons to the position is possibe. But in watching the Bulls since they’ve played better, it’s starting to become apparent that what BG offers in terms of scoring is not easily replaceable. The guy is becoming prolific and he plays well with Rose. I’m totally at odds with anyone that believes it is going to be easy to make up those points. It won’t be.

Keeping Deng and letting BG go is a step backwards in my opinion. If there is any way to trade Deng, Pax needs to do it. Another thing, I know there’s an emphasis on a low post scorer here but you know what? The Bulls haven’t had much of a problem scoring this year. The problem is defense in the post. I’d love to see the Bulls get there hands on a player in the mold of Antonio Mcdyess. Or a defensive wing player in the mold of a Bruce Bowen. I think it may be easier to get those types of players here and I think it’s more needed for this team. Leave Salmons at the 3, keep BG if possible, and go from there.

1: Sign BG.
2 and 3: Get rid of Deng and Hinrich: players who are good but not good enough for our plans.
4: Get some good SF in the draft or something.
5. Don’t screw up Joakim, Noah, and Rose.
6. Fly into championship weee!

1. New Coach
I’m definitely not a Vinny fan, but the only available option out there I’d like to see is Avery Johnson. If we change it has to be to someone with head coaching experience, can’t wait for someone to leran the ropes again. So I guess, I’ll be stuck hoping Vinny will come back next year better.

2. New Home for Kirk
I’m actually starting to hope we can find a way to keep Kirk. If it comes down to trading Kirk or losing Ben, then Kirk pretty much has to go. Let’s put it this way, I’d rather pay Kirk’s bad contract than pay Deng’s bad contract. But if we have to trade him, then I think we have to get a more than serviceable backup in the trade and we may consider pciking up a PG in the draft. Johnny Flynn and Eric Maynor would be two guys, I’d keep an eye on.

3. Low Post Scoring Threat
Doesn’t look like this will be addressed unless we pull a trade off. And the chances of pulling off any move for a big man to greally get excited about are slim, at least during the off season. Unless the picks are trade bait, a pick man will be picked up to add to the 3-headed monster of Thomas-Noah-Miller.

4. Wing Depth
I’m kinda hoping someone takes some of that depth, right along with Deng’s contract. I wonder if Portland still wants to make a deal? We’ll still need to add someone, especially if we lose BG. So either through the draft or a MLE free agent, we going to end up with another SG/SF.

5. Backup PG if Kirk is Gone
see first answer lol

6. Cap Space for 2010
I think we’re doing a good job so far. And I think that a lot of these 2010 FA have taken note to the type of team we could have. Guys are going to want to come play with Rose.

I’m with you…. here are some thoughts…

I think we can trade Kirk if we’re willing to take on a longer term contract/s or trade him to a team that has a need at the 1. If we can do that for less dollars. For example, Kirk gets $10 million next season. Try to pull off a deal where we take back about $6-8 million, even if it means we have to assume a bad contract for 3 years on the deal. Assuming Pax can pull that off, then we can use the saved $ to resign Gordon. I believe in other posts we have determined Pax will have about $7-8 million to spend on him. (correct me if I’m wrong here) Add the savings after the Kirk trade to that amount and I think Gordon will resign.

Obviously in this scenario we need a backup point guard, however I think we need someone slightly better than Jack or Hunter. You have to consider whoever this is as your fallback if Rose is hurt for a few games or gets into foul trouble and I don’t think Jack or Hunter are good enough in this regard. In the best case, we could pick up a 1 and a 2 guard to be an extra backup for Gordon. I think we could probably do this in the draft this year, but it all depends on who we can get in return for Kirk.

My Preference would be to trade Kirk to Portland for Webster and Blake. Blake could be a solid backup, but I don’t think he’s a great starter and i don’t think Portland thinks so either. A deal like this would bring in a backup 1 for Rose and a backup 2 for BG. I haven’t really evaluated this deal to see if it is possible or not (the trade machine still uses this year’s numbers but according to this years numbers it will work) but the idea is to get something like this in return. Webster’s contract sucks, but I would be willing to pay the price on that to make sure we resign BG and still have a serviceable backup to Rose.

I think we made a pretty smart pick up at the end of this season, when we signed DeMarcus Nelson off a D-League team. He could definitely be a person that can come in and back up Rose for next year. He’s got good size and quicks. He’s like 6’3/6’4 and has a 6’10 wingspan, so he should be able to D up. The only question on him coming out last year was his shooting. And a glance at his stats from the D-League, says he might have worked thru that. He was averaging 19 a game, was shooting 54% from the field, with 42% from 3.. Good pick up IMO

He was the 2008 ACC Defensive player of the year