Recent content by collisrost

Rofl! Sad, but funny! This is the first time I actually laughed about these two big lockout messes.

I was thinking about the lockout and how the heck I'll get my basketball fix if it's not resolved by the end of November. Thank God the Bulls drafted Mirotic. He's a key player (some argue possibly the best player) on Real Madrid. He's not going to be affected by the lockout. So I'm thinking of...

Great great highlights, well cut video. Could have used music which was a little more dramatic and less repetitive. Something that varied in tone and pace more so the more dramatic shots could be accentuated with a crescendo in the music.

This has got to be the best free agent pitch ever! it deals with the one thing that could be making him hold back from signing with Chicago -- Jordan's shadow -- and turns it into a positive. And at the same time it shows absolute confidence in how good the Bulls could be with LeBron... they...

I've been thinking about ways to get the "Miami superteam" of Lebron, Bosh and Wade in Chicago. And I think there might be a way. The trick is to use the salary cap as your friend. As it stands, the Bulls have the cap room to offer two of those players just slightly less than max deals. Well...

Once they have gone under the cap they don't get their exceptions that year. In any given year, you can either use your exceptions or you can use caproom, but never both. So once they officially sign someone using caproom they no longer have their exceptions for the year. They will have to wait...

OK, let's say that James Johnson's craptastic play evens out Beasley's lousy play. So we'll consider both of them not really positive assets in LeBron's mind. Granted. But I have to differ on Deng. Deng can either be a backup player or, better yet, be traded for some other slightly overpaid but...

No I mean teams under the cap are limited to whoever they can sign with the money they have under the cap. Once they reach the cap amount they can only sign minimum salary free agents. Going under the cap means you lose all your exceptions for that year.

Simple answer: After a team goes under the cap they lose their MLE and LLE exceptions. In other words, Miami, Chicago, the Knicks and all others are limited to whoever they can sign under the cap plus just minimum level free agents. That's why the Bulls look better than Miami on paper, the...

At least he'd call Kirk "Kirkie Wirkie" instead of "Kurt."

Doug's been preaching this for years, now someone's actually trying to do something about it. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124503597 Doug, I'd like your take. Might be worth a Chicago Now post at some point too, or maybe a quick mention in a podcast. Me, I think there...

Our offense this quarter seems to consist of Deng long two point jumpers. He's hitting them, but this is NOT the way to run as offense.

In Panchgani. A small tourist town on a hill about 6 hours from Mumbai. Peaceful, but isolated. I like it here. I travel around a lot though, do educational consulting.

??? ?????? wrote: The standing reach thing is almost certainly meaningless. Doug reported this in one of his bullsbeat podcasts and it was also in some of the scouting that went on. Noah had I believe a shoulder injury during the testing which didn't allow him to stretch his arms upwards...

I happen not to be in the USA, and as such have a very hard time watching Bulls games live. (They come on at like 5:00 a.m. here in India.) There must be lots of other people who for whagtever reason can neither catch the broadcasts on TV nor watch streaming live on the internet. Help! We need...