I’m not even sure why we keep them.

-Dore

The working is killing me (slowly) ;)

There will be no insurance payment on James.

but some weren’t keen on including Tyrus either.

But they’re more likely not to.

And I’m not even gonna criticize the Bulls for this. Boozer for one year is > Tyrus + dead money for one year.

The only criticism to me made is that
1 Rose, Hinrich
2 Gordon, Salmons
3 Deng, Johnson
4 Boozer, TiT
5 Noah, Miller

would have been equally in reach and actually have a chance of getting somewhere. Gee, to think we might actually put two guys on the floor who routinely command double teams, along with the appropriate mix of inside presence, dribble drive penetration and superior shooting. That’s crazy talk.

They immediately followed up the signing of Wallace with a salary dump of Chandler, followed by a refusal to pay for another high quality player (Gasol) because he was too expensive.

Again, the idea isn’t that they won’t spend at all. They are willing to spend within certain parameters, but they damn sure aren’t going to spend prospectively to build the team up to a truly title contending level.

Wallace was a perfect example of this. They paid for an expensive player who was pretty likely to be a box office draw, and likely to get help get them in the playoffs, but refused to go an inch beyond that. And in fact, took proactive steps to dump salary.

You’ve spent quite a bit of time here talking about Boozer as a defensive liability, then you suddenly plug him into our team and it becomes a 50 win defensive juggernaut?

Laughable.

Nor do I think there are any statistical measures that consistently and accurately tell me a lot about the individual defense a player plays. APM is marginally useful, but significantly flawed, but APM doesn’t recommend Boozer defensively.

But most germaine to this conversation, YOU don’t recommend Boozer defensively.

In the past, you’ve written
this

Most undersized PFs that are great defenders will be great 1-on-1 defenders

You name Boozer, Millsap, Maxiell, Brand – four guys who aren’t known as great defenders. In my link I named undersized PFs that are: Hayes, Najera, Landry, Evans, Shelden Williams. None of those guys block shots, they excel defensively because they’re great 1-on-1.

and this

Bosh is a level above Brand, Boozer, and Jermaine

Bosh plays good defense, Boozer and Brand don’t. And Bosh is a top 30 offensive player, Jermaine O’Neal has always been terrible offensively.

Maybe Bosh isn’t Wade on offense or Garnett on defense, but there aren’t many players in the league who are above +2 on offense AND defense. Bosh is one of them, and he’s worth $18 mil per year.

and this

Another option I’m starting to like

is somehow dumping Hughes’ contract this season, then offering a big contract to Paul Millsap this offseason. Everyone’s talking about Boozer as a free agent possibility, but Millsap is four years younger, a better defender (Boozer can’t play D), and his recent string of 16 straight double doubles and 20.3 PER makes me think he’ll soon be a bonafide star.

If we throw a six year contract at Millsap for say, $11 mil per, I doubt the Jazz match, and we’ll still have enough to extend Gordon and stay under the luxury tax.

Rose – Gordon – Deng – Millsap – Noah doesn’t seem like a championship team on paper, but I think Rose’s supporting cast would be better than Chris Paul’s supporting cast, and the Hornets were a #2 seed last year.

So, basically, I have to conclude that you either didn’t know what you were talking about then, or you don’t know what you’re talking about now.

(and I don’t even know what he rates)

In the past you’ve called Tyrus a “defensive force” or some other such nonsense, so I guess Rose/Gordon/Deng/Tyrus/Noah would also be a 50 win defensive winner as it features 3 good defenders and two mediocre ones.

It’s all rather convoluted seeming to me.

Is your undying support for hinrich

If you bring in Boozer the 10% chance you had to sign LBJ becomes 0.

that think Tyrus can be a 16-18ppg, 10rpb, 1stl, 3bpg, 48%FG player if he just gets the minutes and gets rid of the front office leash.

i would love to see how tyrus would play coming into this season….that being said i guess in the end it doesnt matter cuz i dont see how we could have kept him and still have thrown enough money into 2010 to land an allstar pf and a decent sg (unless thomas showed so much improvement that he suddenly jumped to allstar status, which im doubting he will)

At career ends i can believe tyrus to be a far better player than boozer, however, if we talking about the now, and just the 1 season now, then id take boozer injuries and all..

If anything if a bosh or an amare sees what we do with boozer while we have him, they might think “damn, they were a pretty good team with that solid post player, if i were on that team they would be even better…they got pottential (enter cheezy teeth sparkling smile here)” in other words they might want to play for the bulls if the bulls can just look dominant whenever boozer is on this team healthy (even if its not for the entire season)

now I understand your logic….hmmm…okay no point in continuing to ask…you win…Booz is a looz….fuck him and his all star talent, his actual real life post game, his 10 boards per game, yeah fuck him we don’t need any of that. Let keep our project and pray he turns out to have a post game, or get 10 boards a game.

will be so bad they will make Danny Ferry’s negotiations with Anderson Varejao look like Jack Welch material.