Things to feel good about..

We avoided Detroit’s angst by not signing Ben Gordon. The following article from NBA Fanhouse highlights what we avoided.

You can’t say this team is rebuilding. It used gobs of salary-cap room last summer on ill-fated signees Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva when the Pistons could have waited until the big free-agency summer of 2010 to try to lure a real big-time player (Chris Bosh?).

The money cleared by the Billups trade resulted in Gordon, a guard last with Chicago, getting a five-year, $58 million deal and Villanueva, a forward last with Milwaukee, a five-year, $35 million payday. But Gordon’s scoring average has dropped from 20.7 last season to 13.7 and Villanueva’s has fallen from 16.2 to 12.3.

Not only that, neither is a typical Piston. It’s no wonder Billups and Darvin Ham, a forward on the 2004 and 2005 Finals teams who is now retired, both see a Detroit team that has lost its gritty edge.

the bottom line is Gordon and Villanueva are soft. When asked if the two aren’t typical gritty Detroit players, Nuggets coach George Karl said, "I would see that. I can say that.‘’ Ham, now an assistant for the D-League’s Albuquerque Thunder, agreed the shoot-first mentality of the two doesn’t fit in the traditional Pistons’ style, saying, "I totally think so.’’

As for the reinforcements, Gordon and Villanueva, have not come close to delivering and having center Kwame Brown doesn’t help anybody’s blue-collar image.

I don’t get being happy that he’s doing poorly when his new team is winning, has passed the Bulls in the standings, he’s playing the vast majority of fourth quarters (one in which they came from behind), AND HIS TEAM IS WINNING AND IS A PLAYOFF RIVAL.

But hey for next year who knows, the Wizards might not be too bad.

They have enough to spend on a max player (presuming they release Josh Howard—which is likely) and they can make a QO on Foye as a reserve PG.

They have Gilbert coming back and I’m sure he’ll be humbled by being a dumbass.

And they have a nice looking inside core with the very good Andray Blatche and the improving McGee…..

This year, I’m not sure it’s really any better right now to be a Wizards fan than it is a Bulls fan at the present state….

Hell I almost want us to just force some Joe Alexander time tonight to see what we got.

I mean we’re gonna lose anyway without Deng, Noah, and likely Gibson….

I’d play a very small athletic crop and make it a see what we have if anything since we’re too small and will lose:

Rose-Hinrich-Alexander-JJ-Miller as the starting 5, with Warrick getting 25 minutes and Flip and I guess gulp Pargo filling the rest of the time….

I mean we’ll lose 135-95, but hey if we see something in Alexander that’s fine.

Rec’d for trying to look on the bright side. Some of the points actually made me laugh especially 5, 7, and 9.

I kinda want to watch a Lebron VS Wade playoff series. “Amazing” would certainly happen in this series…

As for things to be happy about… the season ain’t over yet. Personally I believe one should never give up even if there’s no chance… why? Because in the game of “life” we really have nothing to lose…

I guess another thing to be grateful for is that Derrick Rose is not out for a significant amount of time. He could of seriously injured his wrist and back… but it didn’t happen. Luck was on the side of all Bulls fans on this occasion. Imagine if Derrick had been out for the rest of the season. All hope would be lost.

But as long as Derrick Rose is around to help our team win… there is hope. And when theres hope, there is a chance. Even if the chances are small, the very fact that there is a “chance” means that there is a probability of the Bulls making it into the playoffs. When something is “probable” that usually means that it isn’t impossible.