Vinny on the Bulls

Vdn covers a few questions about the upcoming season...beware...theres some Hinrich pre-season hype in here, but if you are anti-hinrich consider it more trade fodder (or your hopes of hinrich being traded vanishing before your eyes heh)

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I could see the part about Kirk being "our leader and captain" maybe getting under some skin

but overall I thought he was being honest and optimistic. now if only he knew how to draw up some offense.

by darksmokepuncher on Aug 30, 2009 9:41 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Now I know where Derrick gets his common response of "it was HUGE."

Remember when Phil used to hand out novels to players during road trips? Can we get everyone on the team a thesaurus for this year’s circus trip? (Or just trade for Emeka Okafor?)

by smash! on Aug 30, 2009 10:48 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Interesting that he considers Tyrus a part of the "young core".

You wouldn’t know it from the way he was buried on the bench in the playoffs. I like that he realizes the things that he needs to get better at as a coach at least.

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."- Michael Jordan

by bigballa10 on Aug 30, 2009 4:22 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Except that VDN never defines "young core"

(I may have inadvertantly flagged you which I didn’t mean to do.)

by hlac on Aug 30, 2009 4:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe

Gar and Pax are forcing that. There’s a reason Tyrus hasn’t been traded adn I doubt it’s because nobody wants him…..

Thurston Moore is a rock god

by majoyenrac on Aug 31, 2009 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh no

Our rotations got a little short last year. Adding James Johnson, Taj Gibson and Janerro Pargo will make us bigger and give us extra depth.

Yeah, and they played their best ball of the year once the rotation was shortened up. I really hope he’s not going to try to play 11-12 guys the entire first half of the season again.

by Big D on Aug 30, 2009 5:08 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah that was not a good thing

The shorter rotation made things a lot better actually so Vinny didn’t have to make too many decisions.

by bigballa10 on Aug 30, 2009 5:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I would like to see B-52 limited to 24-26 minutes a game,

so he is effective during his playing time. I see no reason at this point why Noah should not get 34+ minutes a game.

"Whoever was responsible for pulling that offer [to Ben Gordon] off the table...bring him before me and I'll punch him right in the face " - Frederick Pfeiffer

by Granny Waiters on Aug 30, 2009 10:19 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You can play 10-11 guys early in the year

If you have a solid depth, but last year we had after Kirk’s injury really 1 PG (Rose) and 1 ancient man….

3 SG’s in Hughes, Gordon, Sefalosha

2 SF’s in Noc and Deng (and Deng got hurt and I believe Noc was hurt)

Gooden and his injuries, Tyrus and his inconsistency early and Noah and his eye trouble.

We started Aaron Gray for 22% of the year for chrissakes.

Much of that was contrary to BaB popular belief NOT VINNY’s fault. The roster was horribly inbalanced, add to that the injuries on the low depth spots (Gooden, Noah, Deng)…it was a mess.

The trade helped in that we added a real C who can play 25 MPG at a very good level, and another 2/3 who can fill in nicely for the hurt Deng, and parted with the locker room issue that was Hughes, while getting Tyrus to calm down a bit and getting Noah healthy again.

Thurston Moore is a rock god

by majoyenrac on Aug 31, 2009 12:20 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs