Nocioni's a solid player and one of the few who constantly tries to do something on this lackluster team.  That says enough for me.  Save Chapu!

If the rest of this team wasn't so inept, we would likely value Noc more....

I would be pissed if we got rid of Nocioni for another hack player who doesn't know how to play under pressure.....Noc is the only Bull who has any fire to him at all, the rest of the guys (Even Gordon) go through moments of complete ineptness.

Noc has his bad shooting nights, and the occasional dumb turnover or bad defensive set, but he more than makes up for it.

The Noc hate here is ridiculous.  He's not a star, but then again he's hardly paid as a star.  He's a solid 6th man and paid as such (maybe marginally too high, but not materially too high).  He's still a starter on plenty of ball clubs too, but is effect in bursts off the bench.

I mean the guy avg's almost 22 pts in 40 minutes.  He's been in a bit of a shooting slump, but he'll get over it, and has played better than avg more than he's had bad games.

I think Joe is a better player than Jason--because all Jason can do is shoot, but he's a lights out shooter).

I would make this trade though just because it would be interesting for the Bulls to actually have 2 real shooters on the team, 2 offensive minded wings for once in Kapono and Gordon.

Jason would come off the bench, and free up time for Tyrus.

I agree with everyone's post that that OT was hard to watch yesterday.  The refs didn't help matters with their one sided ticky-tackness, but at the same time the Bulls looked worse than even their record would indicate.....

Keyon Dooling also can be a flashy, Pargo-esque player without the jacking up all the shots.

I think we'd have to remove the Magic 1st rounder, we easily could have gotten that and more before this season, but we're already fetching a lot for Big Ben considering his production this year....

I don't know if I pull the trigger if I'm the Magic though.....they might want Duhon, who while I bashed above, Duhon might fit their team better as he's more consistent than Arroyo, and that's something they need with their 3 bigs (Howard, Lewis, and Turkaglu).

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Ryan, Chicago: Please tell me Ben Wallace is on the move

Chad Ford: (1:24 PM ET ) Maybe ... call was about Ben Wallace in a possible deal with the Cavs. I've got to stress that it was from what I'd call a third party source ... not someone directly involved in the negotiations. So ... take it with a grain of salt ... but interesting ...

How quickly can Pax say yes?

Wallace is too pricey, Gordon's value is too low with his talk of big bucks in the $15M/season range, teams don't want to trade a few solid youngs to get a guy they won't resign.

Hinrich's a BYC and had a horrid start.

Noc is a BYC and thus his cost this year is too high (but he might be nice trade bait in the future, although I'm a noc fan).

Deng's value peaked last summer, he's dropped to reality and might even be a little on the low side due to his injuries.

Duhon is Duhon, an expiring contract and decent enough player but we aren't going to get anything valuable enough to replace him, so why trade him, plus it's not like teams are lining the phones asking about Duh.

Paxson would be stupid to trade Noah, Sef, T2 unless we could get a Marion, etc, which ain't happening.

I like the Cleveland trades for Wallace, but I'd be surprised if Larry Hughes's albatross contract and injury pronness wouldn't be involved.

Joe Smith makes the most sense to trade because of how well he's done in his minutes, but really he's a solid value, and hardly our problem (I know all the blah blah he steals minutes for T2 and JN) but no bother, without Joltin Joe, we'd really really be tough to watch this year.....

SO yeah I expect we'll do nothing, but it might be interesting to see what everyone else does.