The Ring of Honor just feels like another excuse to remind fans of the success the Bulls had in the '90s and to distract them from the state of the franchise since then. It's been almost 4 years since The Last Dance so it's about time.
oh man the Ring of Honor ceremony sure turned out hilarious. It's sad to think long-time loser dipshits can't hastily conceive a contrived money-grabbing event anymore without it turning embarrassing
and then you have the people working for the Bulls out there scolding. some of 'Bulls Twitter' also out there scolding, I don't get their motivation though
I think the people who draw a paycheck from the org or its affiliates are scolding because they know the 'dorfs want them to do so. The 'dorfs can't be made to look ridiculous, and running Krause's widow out there in front of a bunch of Bulls fans and expecting them to cheer that particular guy's memory was a truly ridiculous decision.
It's okay for Phil and Michael et. al. to trash the shit out of the guy but the people who pay for the product are supposed to consume it silently and without opinion.
hey, and give the widow a heads-up, maybe she has a thick skin and would have smiled and waved at the boos, then would've gotten cheers
obviously they did half-ass this. If they put in more effort but still knew Jordan and Pippen weren't coming, then could adjust, because THEY ALREADY HAVE BANNERS. Krause has a fucking banner, as an executive? Why do we have to all respect and honor him again? Just induct them in absentia and show the banners on the jumbotron. Krause's gets booed, you move on to where it's not Stacey King saying "OH THE HUMANITY"
I was at the game and you have it exactly right. Although people were seated on the court, nobody knew who Krause's widow was. They put his pic on the screen and people started booing. I can't believe they cut to her as she was crying, but once they did people mostly stopped booing and many cheered. I was also at the Krause banner raising and that was another boo-fest. This was 100% predictable.
I'm not even sure that people were booing Krause because of their memory of him as much as he was the villain in The Last Dance. If anything, blame MJ and Phil for relentlessly trashing Krause-- including in the biggest sports documentary of all time. If MJ publicly said that he's moved on from his beef with Krause, most fans would move on, too.
I hate the Krause hate. The man had good moments as GM (absolutely nailed the '87 draft, brought in Kukoc, brought in Rodman when he was radioactive) and bad ones (using a high pick on Stacey King, all of the other Jordan cannon fodder, dismantling the dynasty). And, if we are going to be perfectly honest, dismantling the dynasty and rebuilding was not the worst idea. That team was never going to win again. The entire point of that documentary was that they had nothing left.
The reality is exactly what you said. Two of the biggest trash talkers in NBA history labeled him a persona non grata and that was that (and I really hate Jackson's holier than thou Zen thing). The reality was that he was a slightly above average GM as far as these things go who was a bit heavy and maybe easy to hate. Get over it people.
Yeah, don't get me wrong. By all indications, he was a weird dude with a bit of an inferiority complex. But in hindsight, he built two championship teams around MJ and Scottie and in the balance should probably be viewed with ambivalence at worst. Admired for his scouting, pitied for whatever his issues were and disliked for letting a bit of power get to his head. But to actively detest him now tells me people like to pile on and are buying everything that MJ and Phil have to say.
right, I get why Stacey King and KC Johnson were so upset
but why the chuggo guys, including MK from Australia with some totally pretentiously moronic takes? this popped up in the dreaded algorithm, some of the dumbest shit I've seen https://twitter.com/mkhoops/status/1746279421131227630
Draymond's out for "conditioning." I thought one of his favorite workouts was Natural Movements against European centers.
Natural Movements is the name of my new probiotic line.
I nominate Sean Kilpatrick.
The Ring of Honor just feels like another excuse to remind fans of the success the Bulls had in the '90s and to distract them from the state of the franchise since then. It's been almost 4 years since The Last Dance so it's about time.
They gotta remind people that Bulls were relevant in the last century
I also nominate the '85 Bears
while concocting my john-salmons-for-the-ring-of-honor bit i was reminded that joe alexander was also on that team. so i’m going with him instead.
Rasaul Butler sneaks into the blogabull ring of honor. I ironically nominate Jannero Pargo.
Can never have too many Pargos.
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"Honor"? I hardly knew her!
oh man the Ring of Honor ceremony sure turned out hilarious. It's sad to think long-time loser dipshits can't hastily conceive a contrived money-grabbing event anymore without it turning embarrassing
and then you have the people working for the Bulls out there scolding. some of 'Bulls Twitter' also out there scolding, I don't get their motivation though
why Mikey Reinsdorf didn't sell the team to the widow Krause right then and there out of dishonor I'll never understand
I think the people who draw a paycheck from the org or its affiliates are scolding because they know the 'dorfs want them to do so. The 'dorfs can't be made to look ridiculous, and running Krause's widow out there in front of a bunch of Bulls fans and expecting them to cheer that particular guy's memory was a truly ridiculous decision.
It's okay for Phil and Michael et. al. to trash the shit out of the guy but the people who pay for the product are supposed to consume it silently and without opinion.
hey, and give the widow a heads-up, maybe she has a thick skin and would have smiled and waved at the boos, then would've gotten cheers
obviously they did half-ass this. If they put in more effort but still knew Jordan and Pippen weren't coming, then could adjust, because THEY ALREADY HAVE BANNERS. Krause has a fucking banner, as an executive? Why do we have to all respect and honor him again? Just induct them in absentia and show the banners on the jumbotron. Krause's gets booed, you move on to where it's not Stacey King saying "OH THE HUMANITY"
I was at the game and you have it exactly right. Although people were seated on the court, nobody knew who Krause's widow was. They put his pic on the screen and people started booing. I can't believe they cut to her as she was crying, but once they did people mostly stopped booing and many cheered. I was also at the Krause banner raising and that was another boo-fest. This was 100% predictable.
I'm not even sure that people were booing Krause because of their memory of him as much as he was the villain in The Last Dance. If anything, blame MJ and Phil for relentlessly trashing Krause-- including in the biggest sports documentary of all time. If MJ publicly said that he's moved on from his beef with Krause, most fans would move on, too.
I hate the Krause hate. The man had good moments as GM (absolutely nailed the '87 draft, brought in Kukoc, brought in Rodman when he was radioactive) and bad ones (using a high pick on Stacey King, all of the other Jordan cannon fodder, dismantling the dynasty). And, if we are going to be perfectly honest, dismantling the dynasty and rebuilding was not the worst idea. That team was never going to win again. The entire point of that documentary was that they had nothing left.
The reality is exactly what you said. Two of the biggest trash talkers in NBA history labeled him a persona non grata and that was that (and I really hate Jackson's holier than thou Zen thing). The reality was that he was a slightly above average GM as far as these things go who was a bit heavy and maybe easy to hate. Get over it people.
Yeah, don't get me wrong. By all indications, he was a weird dude with a bit of an inferiority complex. But in hindsight, he built two championship teams around MJ and Scottie and in the balance should probably be viewed with ambivalence at worst. Admired for his scouting, pitied for whatever his issues were and disliked for letting a bit of power get to his head. But to actively detest him now tells me people like to pile on and are buying everything that MJ and Phil have to say.
right, I get why Stacey King and KC Johnson were so upset
but why the chuggo guys, including MK from Australia with some totally pretentiously moronic takes? this popped up in the dreaded algorithm, some of the dumbest shit I've seen https://twitter.com/mkhoops/status/1746279421131227630
i hope he doesn't start writing about statues of confederate generals
the upcoming BlogABull ring of honor ceremony will do it right.
Ronnie Brewer, Marco Belinelli, Tyrus Thomas all committed to attend. Chris Duhon will be booed, but IN PERSON
#neverforget
Chris Douglas-Roberts will be talked about as a possible attendee, but not actually attend.
Marshon Brooks is there for some reason.
Open thread is LIVE for Bulls-Cavs https://substack.com/chat/1508779/post/4234ec8a-e8fd-4abc-b978-ee8ea6fc8753?utm_source=post-permalink