Having prostituted myself for a corporate sky box to the Bulls game yesterday I was witness to just the third win of the season. This team is playing lifelessly. Kirk is horrible. The whole team has trouble scoring. Noah has almost no talent. As a twenty year Bulls fan this is absolutely unacceptable. Unfortunately, with Reinsdorf, there will never be any accountability with upper management. Paxson could keep his job indefinitely, even though an honest evaluation of his rein would only leads to an immediate termination.
So much has been made of Paxson's drafting philosophy. Only drafting players from established winning programs. So burned was the franchise by the Eddie Curry & Tyson Chandler fiasco that they wanted to go with players that had a strong practice ethic and had come from a culture of winning. The result of this persistent philosophy? Nothing. How about worse than nothing. The worst record in the Eastern Conference.
Ultimately, in the NBA, pedigree doesn't matter nearly as much as talent. The only real talented player on this team is Tyrus
Thomas. The rest of the scrub club might as well be playing in the WNBA.
These are the players that Paxson was afraid of trading for Kobe? Really? Is he this bad at talent evaluation? How much worse could they possibly be if they had traded everyone for Kobe? Kobe would be able to account for several wins just by himself.
The crowd heavily booed Captain Kangaroo when he passed on an easy layup and deposited the ball to no where. Deng showed some life in the third quarter but even he has plateaued. How many superstars take three years to develop? Not many. He is what he is. Not one player on the Bulls would start on a contending team. Oftentimes, they don't have the second or third best player on the court during a whole game.
The East being what it is and the NBA's everyone makes the playoffs mentality will mean that the Skiles led Bulls will probably make the playoffs. That should not be enough. That is far too low a measuring stick. If this team does not make a major trade or turn things around considerably, Paxson for sure and maybe Skiles should be serving peanuts in the United Center.
I know I had the Bulls making the Eastern Conference Championship, but after what we've seen so far, I'd say 43 wins and a first round exit seems more likely. Too bad. Bulls fans have been suffering for a decade now. It might not seem long in a town who has a team that hasn't won in a 100 years, but for a once proud franchise, it is too long. Da Bulls are going to be da disappointment this year.
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The bottom line with Paxon is how he got this job in the first place. He had zero front office experience, wasn't a player/coach on the floor thanks to Jordan and never was an assistant anywhere. He learned his craft in the broadcast booth?
How is it that Pax and his twin Kerr are G.M.'s for major teams without any experience. Ald. Beavers may know something here.
Reisdorf will never let Pax go. Reinsdorf's bottom line has always been financial. If they will along the way, great.
The Bulls may not be great, but this is the nba-everyone makes the playofffs.
I had the bulls winniing the conference as well. They have consistently had bad starts the last four years and came to-gether in feb-mar-april, and I must admidt that I'm sure they'll get it to-gether somehow. 3-9 is so bad, but the season is long.
However, I expected them to be all over that shit. They had a very good year last year and a decent playoffs. The losing @ the beginning of the year gets old, and they are playing so bad rite now I can only hope that they get it turned around.
I have not surrendered yet. But I am dissapointed.
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