Famine...STARVATION...Delusion...RACIST: A Chicago Bulls Story (2014 Offseason Thread)

[red222]

Offseasons like this don’t come around very often. The last one like this was in 2010, when the Bulls lost out on James and Dwyane Wade and landed a consolation prize in Carlos Boozer.

Now James and Anthony are free agents, and the Minnesota Timberwolves are shopping Love. The Bulls can use their picks to acquire Love or trade them to make sure the salary-cap deck has more space for a big-name free agent.

The NBA is a pass/fail business, and it’s time for general manager Gar Forman and vice president of basketball operations John Paxson to go all in. This is the type of offseason that builds a résumé for front-office suits — or gets them fired.

And lost in all the pressure on Bulls management is the free pass Derrick Rose has been riding each offseason. He doesn’t recruit players to the Bulls, something fans ignorantly embraced a few years ago, beating their chests alongside Rose with that mentality.

James has turned the league into his own personal pickup game. If Rose thinks he can show up to the playground with the same core that has been bowing out of the playoffs in recent years, then it’s time to question how much winning means to him.

If Joakim Noah came to the realization that he had to recruit — the same Noah who once called the Heat ‘‘Hollywood as hell’’ for their collection of star power — why is Rose above it? That’s small-minded thinking if it continues.
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/bask...n-carmelo-or-other-big-name.html#.U6uSLLGKgVE

 

[THE MACHINE]

We need to make something big happen now. This could be the beginning of the end for us for a while. The next time these dudes are free agents, they will be .

 

[cornercommission2k12]

Im still very much looking forward to tomorrow though, at least our front office has shown they can draft fairly well

having the 16th & 19th picks in this draft is a HUGE opportunity to improve both long and short term

Ill be paying attention closely to the picks

If it's hood/lavine/ Payton combo it tells me we choosing guys for ourselves and we not really heavy in the run for melo we looking for future pieces

But if we stashing a euro and/or picking some guy that don't fill any needs it tells me we still in hot pursuit of melo or gearing up for love

 

[Brozay]

I just want them to draft good selections for the 2015 Bulls - they absolutely cannot draft to appease a Melo signing without any assurances

If we fail the draff & free agency, it would just be a monumental failure

 

[red222]

@incarceratedbob: **UPDATED NBA NEWS**Source: Bulls have secondary fallback plan if Melo doesn't come.. Zach Randolph is on radar if he hits FA (Lakers also)

 

[god shamgod]

Who wrote that?

 

[Brozay]

Zach Randolph?

Are the seriously trying to recreate the failures of summer 2010 all over?

 

[HNIC973]

get ready brehs Ben Gordon Andre Miller signing are imminent these will be the moves made to get us to the championship

 

[Good Guy Guevara]

this FO

We're going to fukk around and get Lance Stephenson and resign Mike James

 

[3Rivers]

Incarcerated bob

 

[THE MACHINE]

Low key....I'd be looking at Swaggy P. He is a FA and only made like 1.2 last year

 

[J-MIL]

Get ready for Afflalo as our big move brehs

 

[5StarElite]

Lin was my biggest issue we'll see

Probably already got a deal in place with Philly. Hinke is his homeboy.

nikkas outchea making power moves while we're trying to trade up for the next Troy Murphy

 

[cornercommission2k12]

Incarcerated bob tho redd

 

[red222]

Zach Randolph?

Are the seriously trying to recreate the failures of summer 2010 all over?