The search for a Shooting Guard: if not an upgrade, then what?

hes a capable ballhandler.
i think hes passable as a facilitator (certainly cannot be worse than cj)
and he can be a legit scorer on some nights i think if hes really healthy you mention

and a great ‘closer’ at the sg spot. He isnt completely useless on defense, and in the last 5 min of the game i think he would work well.

is this a new requirement to becoming a Bull? did I miss the memo?

i am really the only one that misses all the great moments he gave us. winning games in the 4th like it was backyard bball

Teams are just going to guard him with their SF.

A lot of times means you aren’t creating your own offense. If you can create offense for yourself and others while always having proper shot selection, you’re more akin to Chris Paul or Steve Nash than you are to anyone else who you might think of as a “creator”.

Though I wonder if the struggles he went through with the Magic were just a SVG not using him correctly kind of thing or was Nash really making him look all that much better than he really was. And if he really is willing to take a pay cut to play with a contender. Its looks like he’s been on a decline for the last few years. I just don’t know what to expect with him honestly.

pisstons suck. final answer

on the court he was one of the more consistent players for the wizards, but that includes consistently bad defense as well. Offensively though he his everything we are looking for, aside from mannerisms, he is very much a taller ben gordon.

but he still is willing to take those jumpers when he is open….started to knock em down too, which helps his case

that he wants to sign w/ a contender so i assume he’s willing to take a pay cut. i think he said something like “i’ve been blessed to make so much money, now i want to win a championship”, along those lines at least.

That no one would so that the Bulls can have a chance at signing him. There will be a number of under the cap teams that will get shut out on the top FAs so there is a chance he’d get more than the MLE.

The Heat (obviously), the Thunder (even though Westbrook is trying to sabotage them), and whatever team Dwight Howard ends up playing for. I guess you could throw the Knicks in there too, but even at their best (if they got CP3 or something), they still won’t be championship worthy imo. Defense and rebounding is still money in the playoffs, and I don’t see a whole lot of that on the Knicks. (The Celtics are pretty much done)

in order to keep up with those other three, i think we’ll need to make some more big moves. Or of course we could just be the team that trades for Howard. In which case the Bulls own the league for the next 5-10 years :)

so basically they can deal CP3 almost to a team of their choosing (obviously one of the marquee franchises, the NBA’s bread&butter) and maybe not even be too concerned with compensation in return. it’s a salary dump basically, especially if it’s for Ronda.

It’s just not as easy, or obvious. I’m not even saying that I necessarily know who that player is, or that he’s even available right now. Just that, imo, eventually this team needs a talent upgrade, and it doesn’t have to come from the 2.

(and I know that might sound kinda vague or stupid, but I guess it’s just my roundabout way of saying: all avenues need to be explored, because this team hasn’t done shit yet)

cuz i swear, that was a Fusion Name

quick someone do a photoshop of brewer and korver doing the fusion dance

/nerdiness

Most of the trades you usually hear about, usually don’t happen.

When Hinrich was traded, it blind sided us. Same about Tyrus to Charlotte. Wallace to Cleveland and the list goes on. There was never any smoke spotted when those trades happened. It’s just how the Bulls work You didn’t hear about how the Bulls almost got Mayo till after the deadline.

That’s huge praise to GarPax for never leaking much. It’s a difficult thing to do in this new world we live in.

Though there are 3 things they’ve very open about

1) Having flexibility. Precisely for times like these.
2) Paying for a winner
3) Upgrading the SG position

That’s all we need to know. They’re swinging for the fences

plus theyd still have melo/amare/fields as a core.

the heat are set and just need role players.

we meanwhile have our money dedicated to rose boozer noah and deng (who as we saw last year are not enough – i just dont buy that we’re going to get 1 full healthy season out of both noah AND boozer)

Wouldn’t that mean they were willing to go deep into the tax considering their starting 5 would have been making an obscene amount just by themselves

Same theory about them wanting Boozer and Joe Johnson.

When all the SG’s signed with their teams, Bulls had to move on to the next plan. Put a band-aid on it & allow themselves to use that money again in the near future.

Isn’t that why we kept hearing about the ‘home run’?

not so strong in the back court — unless you count Brewer and Korver because they were better than Bogans. But Bogans never got starter minutes. I don’t think C.J. is a strong back up at guard, and it didn’t seem like anyone was backing up Deng. They need a starter at shooting guard, I agree, but they could also use stronger back ups at point and small forward, and the back ups may be more feasible.

Maybe there’s a combo guard out there who can back up both positions better than C.J. Watson.

and so i dont get the point of bringing in another pg, unless its like a combo point. I dont get the point of having a tj ford when cj can do the job just fine and knows the system. Maybe if the idea was to trade cj for a oj, monta, or even kirk, then yea it makes sense, but not for a tj ford…

and if they keep their exception they can use it then

granted, Smith is better than Rasual Butler…

once he’s not surrounded by 3 hall of famers.

It’s much funnier that way.

just on the fact that since he’s been playing for one of the sorriest clubs in awhile and all his best players left, leaving him utterly depressed.

Dumars gave Hamilton a really nice deal at a great time for Hamilton. It didn’t look that great for the Pistons though. Then they signed BG and Villanueva.

I think Rip would be better contending for a title rather than supporting a younger roster in the doldrums of the EC.