I’m hurting right now. I feel worse now than I did after we lost game 7. There DeJuan was, at 26, and we pick Taj Gibson. And somehow you knew these guys were going to screw it up.

ow, ow ow.

saying in April that If he could get a serious look in the SECOND ROUND, look for him to stay in the draft. His last update said his age works against him right now. He’s having a good season at USC, but not good enough to get him into the first round.

Does this mean Hollinger doesn’t have the insight of Gar Paxdorf or is Gar going to have to share the dunce cap with Vinny and company for making and/or being bad choices? (ie VDN) The Bulls draft picks bring about as much excitement as watching the bottom feeders of the WNBA battle it out under the rim in a meaningless game.
 

Taj Gibson is going to step right in and be able to help our post guys right away. If Tyrus ever feels like he needs a big brother, a shoulder to cry on, there is Taj Gibson. Noah need someone to help him load the bong, there is Taj Gibson. Derrick Rose need help passing a driving test, there is Taj Gibson. The beauty of Taj Gibson is that he can do it all. Pick up your dry cleaning, do your taxes, mow your lawn, drive you home when you get drunk – he really has all the tools.

Taj Gibson is like Bobby Hill. Taj GIbson is the stick. Nothing is a bigger motivator than embarrassment. “You lost minutes to Taj GIbson! hahaha” Finally, something to motivate Tyrus and Noah.

that is a good smart pick.

so I can feel even worse about this fuckin team

If the Bulls resign BG they will have

Rose/Hinrich
BG/Salmons
Deng/Salmons/Johnson
Tyrus/Johnson/#26
Noah/Miller

Johnson sees himself as more of a 3 than a 4, and I agree. I think he is in the big SF mold of guys like Carmelo and Artest. He is big enough to post 3s and and skilled enough to play on the perimeter.

I want to resign BG. Perhaps this opens the door for the Bulls to trade Deng/Kirk and keep BG and Tyrus. Wishful thinking maybe, but I think that with what we have, if we resign BG we can afford to send away a couple of perimeter guys.

I mean Matt was expecting us to trade for Amare tonight and if we didn’t he would be mad..Imagine if he found out we drafted Gibson and passed on Blair with the 26th pick

Nearly every team in the league passed on him, some multiple times. I can only imagine that his knees are even worse than what was previously reported. I’m not a big fan of the Gibson pick, I would have preferred someone like Calethes who could be stashed overseas for a year or two. Johnson was kind of a blah pick, but this was kind of a blah draft anyways. Who the hell knows with any of these guys after the top 5?

Maybe I should volunteer my services to the Bulls for a price far less than that of Gar Paxdorf’s.
These picks are abysmal and most likely won’t work out to anything. Great drafting, Chicago.
I don’t believe Denver got Lawson. And the Spurs got Blair. God.
THERE IS A REASON THESE TEAMS WIN MORE OFTEN.

It seems that Gar was a secret fan and admiring soulmate of former pop star and current wife of Heismann trophy winner, Eddie George, Tamara whose nickname is “Taj” and was known as “Taj Johnson” while a member of the group known as SWV (Sisters With Voices) back in the 90’s. She now goes under the name of Taj Johnson-George.

Seeing her appear as a contestant in the Survivor series this year must have rekindled some memories in our current GM, who from that point on, couldn’t seem to get the name Taj Johnson out of his head having triggered formerly cannibis induced fantasies from his days as a male groupie when he used to follow SWV from city to city in between scouting assignments.

After reviewing hundreds of potential draftees and getting more confused with each workout, by the time it was the Bulls turn on the clock, the only name he could come up with was…..Taj Johnson…….Taj Johnson………..Taj Johnson. Scouring the scouting lists in the war room, his assistants assumed he was telling them to draft the dude named Johnson and although they couldn’t figure out who Taj was, someone noticed way down the list was Taj Gibson whom the Bulls originally had listed as their 117th pick, but apparently they figured the brain trust saw something in him no one else had so he jumped up to number 26, while the rest of the GM’s guffawed having decided this guy maxed out 2 years ago with a low threshold and had nowhere to go potential wise but sideways or straight down.

Well, at least if the draft picks don’t pan out, Gar should be able to pick up some old SWV albums for practically nothing on Ebay.

here’s an interesting tidbit from yahoo’s draft analysis of James Johnson

Here’s what to like about Johnson. He’s a big athlete from Cheyenne, Wyoming, of all places. He says if the NBA doesn’t work out, he’ll give give mixed martial arts a try (he was a junior champion back home). And he supposedly talked so much trash to Chris Paul during summer pickup games at Wake Forest, that CP3 didn’t want New Orleans to draft him. At least he’s interesting

That’s actually a little concerning that he is already thinking of stuff to do if the draft doesn’t work out