Look at the scoreboard / game logs. I forgot to mention the really important stats: He's making $9.5M this year, and has two years remaining on his contract. It gets really fun when you consider our alternatives. The guy we brought in to replace Ben Gordon (after all, Reinsdorf said there weren't any minutes for Gordon): .364 FG%, .302 3pt%, .9 APG, 5.6 PPG, 8.4 PER Or the handsomely paid Lindsey Hunter: .154 FG%, .083 3pt%, 0.8 APG, 0.9 PPG, and an amazing PER of -2.0 (yes, it's negative 2) Of course there's John Salmons coming off a career (and outlier) year: .385 FG%, .327 3pt%, 2.5 APG, 13.8 PPG, and a PER of 11.8
An Evan Turner would look good on this team, don't get down yet because in the East you aren't mathematically out of it. Look at the Knicks, won 5 of 6 and all of a sudden they're in striking distances of the 6th seed
Nah... Kirk is a handsome guy. Seriously though... I caught the end of the Pacers game the other night. And they've got to have the weirdest looking set of home-brewed white guys in the league. Seriously. Give this man a hoodie and a shotgun and those "I'll kill you while I'm tweaking on meth" eyes will make a lot more sense. 'nough said. I'm worried my life is going to leave me for this man. Or not.
Yeah, I was looking at Kirk's statline for the season and was taken back by how bad it was. It's Adam Morrison territory. Kirk's mid-career nosedive has been very peculiar. After his first three years in the league he looked like he was on pace to become a Jeff Hornacek level role player, and then he just fell off a cliff, without any injuries and in his physical prime. His playing time got cut during the same time, but I'm pretty sure that's because he just started playing worse and not the other way around. I'm trying to think of comparable examples for this type of change of fortune, but I can't.
Looking at his stats, the consistent trends over the last three years are that his turnover rate is up a fair amount and his usage rates has gone down. That's a pretty odd mix of statistical change. The only thing I sort of notice is that even under Boylan, he was losing his PG job. And while we've considered him kind of a combo guard, Kirk has looked like a different player off the ball in the last three years than he looked bringing it up. Maybe he's more confident running the offense?
A couple of things to point out. What do the Bulls really have to show for fleecing Isaiah Thomas and the Knicks? Here we are, .5 games ahead of the Knicks, and I sense they're about to pass us in the standings.
