Let's Look At What Really Happened Here.

We got our starting power forward, and gave up nothing of any consequence.

Gordon’s gone because he stupidly turned down two very good offers from the Bulls. Hinrich was overpaid, and is gone because the Org went all in on free agency – something that no one would have admonished if it had landed us Bron and Bosh. Tyrus needed a change of scenery, and frankly hasn’t played much better since heading to Charlotte. Salmons was a bad fit for a number of reasons.

Our new team fits together ten times better, and – maybe with the exception of Deng – players are earning salaries requisite with their talent level, potential, age, and position. True, we’re still a bit weak in terms of guards, but I’d take this team any day over the teams the Bulls have fielded during the past three seasons.

Let’s see how long Boozer and Deng hold up.

And that cap space can really help in overtime…

It’s all about profits.

One lucky ping pong ball away from a total waste of 12 years.

We gave them up for a legit chance at the best free agent class ever. Unfortunately we got 2nd place in that race.

The concession is 3ish players who can contribute to a Chip team: Rose, Boozer, Noah.

If JJ(ohnson) had signed as 2 guard, we’d be right there. If Deng was a couple notches better, we’d also be right there. If there was 1 other top-notch FA SG available, we’d again be right there. But no such luck.

So we didn’t quite hit a home run. We’re still in position for something to happen over the next couple years for something good to happen (trade, draft pick, somebody gets way better, chaos from lockout) that could put us over the top.

All in all, I’ll enjoy watching the Bulls a lot more than in recent years. Sure the Celtics series was fun, but the expectations and long-term potential of that team was pretty low. We can actually throw around scenarios to get to a championship without completely insane rationalizations.

Might turn out to be Coach Thib. It’s obvious the player’s respect him and are anxious to play for him. He will probably be worth 10 wins compared to VDN. This team will win 50+ games.

Our team is much better now. We can win 47-52 games with this team. I love Ben but he’s not here so let it go. Salmons was terrible during the 1st half but turned it around later. Hinrich should have been off the team years ago. Tyrus stayed at the same 10pt/6 reb level and I doubt that will improve that much..

We now have a shooter and a low post scorer and a strong perimeter defender. Also our bench is bolstered with Taj now on the bench.

the other 2, i don’t see it

If he would not take a shot further than 6 feet from the basket and be a defensive/rebounding demon for 20 minutes a game. If he’s smart (doubtful) he’ll do that or be out of the league in 2 years.

What the hell is wrong with you? You’re upset we got boozer because he can get injured?? What all-star level PF was out there that we could have gotten outside of boozer and bosh?? (We got one of them). You claim all we needed with that team two years ago was a starting power forward but if we still had all that garbage on our team we would have already been at the cap and couldn’t sign anyone. Secondly, if somehow miraculously you can have rose, gordon, salmons, deng, hinrich, tyrus,taj,boozer,noah, all under the cap, how is that team better than where we are right now.

Let me explain something to you. The following players will never get meaningful minutes on a championship team, not because they can’t SCORE, but because their style of play is not conducive to WINNING in the playoffs : Ben Gordon, Tyrus Thomas.

Don’t bash the FO because it’s normally the cool thing to do cuz for once they did everything right with Plan A, B, and C.

This post is funny given that he was true in that the bulls just needed a scoring power forward, as they had defense, depth, a backup point guard, athleticism and shooting. However, now the bulls have inside scoring but lost their backup point guard/defender in hinrich (who was overpaid) and shooter in Ben Gordon (who is now overpaid) and athleticism/rebounder/defender in Thomas (who is also now overpaid). Yet a lineup of rose, and gordon, deng, thomas, and noah, i feel is just as capable if not more capable of competing with the Heat in the east. While boozer is a great scorer, he is also much older, injury prone and costs the bulls 80million. He is also a defensive liability. I like brewer on defense but he cannot shoot, which is what the bulls need. I have no complaints about korver as a backup sf. But think hinrich is great against wade, gordon spreads the floor for rose more so than any player currently on the bulls, and thomas has played great defense on both bosh and james. Given that these three players are all relatively young the bulls would have the possibility of competing for yrs. to come. Also the bulls had the potential to trade thomas for boozer at the beginning of last yr. which would have been a great trade. they also were in talks with ray allen for hinrich, which also would have been better than the current situation.