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The stories from the press conference, whether we can believe them or not
My initial reaction to today's interesting and a bit weird Bulls presser (words that describe much of what the Bulls do, it seems) focused on the big-picture significance of a franchise still not clear in it's hierarchy. At least not made clear to outside observers, which matters less relative to...
Marc Stein and Bill Simmons on the Bulls 'dysfunction'
This is from this week's Bill Simmons podcast with Marc Stein. They got into some free agent talk, and Stein really hammers the Bulls front office as if it's common knowledge, and the once bullish Simmons agrees. Here's my best transcription: [getting off a discussion of Cavs failing to blow...
Locker room loss-reaction weirdness: and their worst players shall lead them
Kudos to blog-brother PeachTreeHoops for finding this paradox from the Bulls locker room after giving up 129 points to the Hawks on Sunday: In truly dysfunctional team news, Andres Nocioni: "It's personal, you know? Everybody needs to take the challenge. If we don't play 'D,' we will be out...
Digging in
Paxson has said that he will not make any moves without knowing the team's status with Ben Gordon. The Bulls have also used the Luxury Tax threshold as a cap for Gordon's contract offer: that of 6 years and around $59m. Considering that this is an offer that is less (annually) than what was...
Paxson's the one without leverage
This 'negotiation' is really starting to get to me. Especially this permeating (if perhaps still a minority) opinion that it's of such paramount importance that the Bulls don't overpay for Deng and Gordon. This is usually accompanied wit the odd tough-guy talk that the Bulls can just let them go...
Vinny's verbal seduction
It was only a press conference, but in the scope of what a coach can say about this team, Vinny Del Negro nailed it. He said the Bulls would play at a quick pace yet emphasize defense, specifically mentioned Thabo, Noah, and Tyrus as players he was interested in while with the Suns front...
Oh jeeeeeeez
Latest update of the never-ending coaching search: WSCR-AM (670) reported first and the Sun-Times confirmed that Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf wants to take as much time as he felt necessary to make sure he would be hiring Collins for the right reasons and not allow his close relationship...
No timetable, indeed.
In the aftermath of Mike D'Antoni signing with the Knicks over the Bulls, I was a bit disappointed but not completely. I felt that D'Antoni would've been a good fit, but not a perfect one, and whatever reservations the Bulls braintrust had regarding him were justifiable. Especially when...
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