for $7.7M expiring contract and a 1st. Opportunity missed. The guy would have plugged a huge hole in the lineup and is cheaper than Lu was. He'd put us over the LT after we resign Jimmy, but we all believe The Chairman would pay for a winner. How about offering Taj for him straight up? Balances the roster and you have to love this team going forward as it will give us 3 starters who are core and a long window. Throw in the 1st even. Throw in Dunleavy, too.
I think now that Mirotic has shown some ability to play SF, I think it's even less likely that the Bulls will make any major move to add another SF to the roster.
I think how the Bulls are likely to be over the LT should Jimmy sign, they're not willing to add extra salary for a good player.
I don't just make stuff up. I've seen it in action. Others have seen it, you can see professional sportswriters and newscasters say it. In fact, the most recent Jimmy isn't going anywhere article finishes with the Bulls likely to rid themselves of Taj due to his contract and them being over the LT. If that's true, why would they add another guy with a Taj sized contract before seeing if they sign Jimmy to a long term deal?
That's hogwash. We all have eyes and ears and see how the team has acted. It's based upon experience, not making stuff up.
There are facts and then there's speculation. When we speculate, and most of what we read here and elsewhere is undeniably speculation, we're talking about made up shit. I didn't mean it pejoratively.
It seems Obama is going to veto the pipeline bill. We've got experience that says he will. Same sort of thing applies to how the Bulls have operated for the past 15+ years.
Guesses are still guesses and as you and I both well know, our respective takeaways from Bulls history could not be more different. Then it comes down to credibility. Some see your speculation as credible. Some don't. I don't and never have.
One could guess the Knicks are going to win the championship, but the mountain of factual evidence says they're not going to. The same sorts of information we all know about the people involved and the strategies deployed to date makes it rather obvious to an awful lot of people that the Bulls are driven by wringing the most money out of the business and not purely by producing the best basketball product.
