I get there because I think the Bulls cut Korver and Watson and Brewer to get under the LT. To deal one of Deng, Noah, or Boozer, they stay under the LT. Maybe enough under the LT they can keep CJ.
This may seem like semantics, but it really bothers me when I see people say that the only thing that is possible or the only thing that makes sense are moves that keep the team under the luxury tax. The Bulls would have beaten the Heat this year if they were healthy. I think they're a contender. Reinsdorf said he is willing to pay the tax for a contender. I'm not ready to let him off easy.
He said he'd pay for a championship team, likely meaning to keep it together after it won. That was a long time ago, and a different CBA ago. I don't know how we "let him off easy" when we have decades of history to show the team doesn't pay the LT. We'll know by July 10. That's the day Korver and Brewer have to be extended. My prediction is they're gone, and that would fit in with staying under the LT.
The exact phrasing was as follows: I think Nash gives the team a reasonable chance at winning a championship -- indeed, I think it makes the Bulls favorites next season, even taking into account the fact that he may not have full explosiveness. And I think Nash would be an asset for the remaining two years on his contract. I don't see any issue with playing Rose or Nash together. So, at least in my opinion, not demanding a move, if there is a move available that would would incur some tax, is letting the franchise off easy.
I think that would be a possibility if Rose were healthy. In other interviews, he's said he was so risk averse because he feels a mistake of this magnitude could be serious. We've historically seen top players like Garnett, Allen, Gasol, and others change teams where the Bulls were a 50 win team and going into the LT for one or two of them would have made us contenders. It would hardly surprise me that he'd say what fans want to hear, while he has a different plan in mind altogether. Consider management felt at the trade deadline that this team wasn't a true contender, and made moves that assured we stayed a hair below the LT.
I think you have an argument but your support isn't factually accurate. Paxson said they made a hard push for Garnett but that Minnesota wanted Al Jefferson, which made sense at the time and actually looked like a better acquisition for a couple of years. I don't understand the Gasol deal to LA but it was strange (Jerry West) and part of broader trend of Memphis being unwilling to deal with the Bulls, presumably because Reinsdorf nixed the possibility of an expansion team at Allstate Arena. I don't remember any talk about Allen coming to Chicago. I have been disappointed by Reinsdorf's unwillingness to spend money one time, when the Bulls signed Ben Wallace and let Tyson Chandler walk instead of retaining them both. But I think that team was no where near as close as this team to winning a championship.
Huh, I thought Nash to the Bulls was dead...Maybe it is? But, economics aside, Nash for me is the only one worth considering, except Andre Miller at the Vet Min. But Nash would be a game changer.
