Bulls 98, Spurs 93: Believing that they believe

breaks down Rose’s PER into monthly splits?

to play with leads, too. Which is almost unbelievable considering that they just had the worst home collapse in NBA history just about 5 weeks ago.

When the Bulls get punched in the mouth, punch them right back.

You are asking the key question that appears to need an answer that I wish we didn’t have to answer. If I had to choose I’d say Salmons. It would kill me if he left and then opted out in July.

Though he did play with THRUST!

But since you asked Kirk or Salmons, I’d rather have Kirk around.
Regardless, if you can move either one, do it. Don’t get sucked in by a fun 3 game winning streak.

Devin Brown can push Salmons minutes to the 3 and JJ back to the bench.

I don’t know if Kirk knows he is being shopped, but his last few games have show a very different offensive player. He’s actually shooting when he’s wide open and they’re going in.

The Bulls have Rose and a backup point guard (combo…whatever) making starter money over the next few seasons. Sure, it would hurt this season, but if they have a chance to shed Kirk’s contract they need to do it.

For expirings?

Sell him on a high, get some decent value for him and half of his salary in an expiring….work with Salmons on a 2-3 year extention for $4.5M/per, and save the additional room.

Keep Kirk’s thrust and wait until maybe after 2010 FA to trade Kirk for something resembling value and move forward.

Luol’s good, but games like yesterday (where he wallows in the shadows and seems to forget he’s supposed to play) are reasons enough to get rid of him if we can, we aren’t investing him in as our future already and well he’s good and might be able to do more elsewhere, he won’t do materially more, is at a great age to be traded and might be the ticket we need to fix the mess…

but let’s keep kurt around and include salmons in any potential Amare deals or just dump him. if they want deng, give them deng.

if they want kurt, give them kurt.

depending on who we trade, that should be the summer FA target (lebron if we trade deng, wade if we trade kurt).

bottom line, i wouldn’t dump either deng or kurt right now. i would def include them though in a deal for equivalent or superior talent.

They were struggling as well, and this is a huge homestand for them before their long road trip. The Spurs made several runs, and the Bulls were still able to come out on top. For a team that had looked so depressing a month ago and a coach on his way out the door, I’m very impressed with what’s happening.

by jeff van gundy and Carol Slezak. That article was 3 weeks ago…. yikes.
In that article Van Gundy and Slezak didnt say they will only win 30ish because Rose is gonna go down in with injury… they had them at 30wins, healthy…3 weeks ago.

scouting, notify the Bulls the D-League does exist

CP3 is not a miracle worker.

not ‘cause they added jefferson (do not like!), but for blair, hill, mason jr. and bonner. plus their main guys aren’t that ancient yet (i think it was ozzie wrote duncan has a 27 PER?), just rather un-athletic.

this was just three games, but one thing i do know is suns fans were marveling at our athleticism as much as bemoaning the loss of theirs. it’s why i don’t get worked up about the mythical low post scorer, the one that could mean a loss of team speed and quickness. or like dumping tyrus for a bag of beans.

the spurs also have always had a bit of a weakness in defending midrange shooting, the very thing the bulls did well. they usually pick it up around this time of year and are currently only as “bad” as #6 in the west. they went all in for this year, so they won’t be breaking anything up. we shall see if they have enough, because they’re built for the playoffs and they have time until then to turn around their defense.

SA’s defense has taken a really shocking fall. It’s pretty odd to see young teams killing the Spurs on the pick and roll, but teams can’t stay elite forever. I think the main problem is that Manu just can’t be relied on to pick up the slack all the time, and Richard Jefferson is really, really bad.

THing is sure the Spurs don’t look like we’re used to but it’s Richard Jefferson that really looks old.

Duncan had an off night.

Manu’s been old for what 3 years now, having never really fully recovered from that ankle injury that he worsened in the Olympics—funny cuz Noc never fully recovered from that knee injury he suffered in the same Olympics….

But if RJ can figure out his game with Duncan and Parker they could do something….it’s odd how bad RJ has been. He was always a shade over rated, but he’s gone from a decent player who was thought to be much much more to a TERRIBLE player who is regarded now as such seemingly overnight….

Duncan’s been solid all year (I know he’s on my fantasy and perhaps had his worst game of the year yesterday), Parker’s been down this year but is still dangerous and ain’t young (I think his games been hurt because RJ has been so terrible a fit for them) and well Manu’s a guy who still can be deadly every few games…and at least has to be covered….

They aren’t what I thought they were going to be to start the year, but they are a pretty good team (probably Atlanta Hawksish if they were in the East—or KG less Celtics), either way that was a nice win against a team that is even at this stage better than us.

at 45 will be hell better than TT or TAJ at there peak

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fanshot plzzzz

Every time Miller makes a 3-pointer, I get off. It looks soooo good.