houheffna wrote:
Hmmmm. Last year when that "any one player" was on the team, the Bulls were respectable. After the Salmons Miller trade. Down the stretch last season the Bulls were playing some damn good basketball. That "any one player" is now gone, and the team can barely score 100 points and can't hold of the Kings at home.
You can say all you want that Gordon wasn't going to win us a title. That's not really the point. The point is he could have been a valuable piece. But Just chalk up another bad move under the Reinsdorf administration.
What happened last year has turned out to be a bad thing...it raised expectations where there shouldn't have been any on that level. The move of hiring VDN is much, much larger a problem than letting ANY player go from this squad...including St. Ben of UCONN. I don't think his holiness could hide the fact that the coaching on this team is atrocious. Sorry but as much as you may want to make it about somebody else....this is not about BG...this is about a team who has lost confidence in the coaching staff...and now themselves. That is the big problem.
I see Orlando and Cleveland with much better personnel but have problems with their coaching...they won't win that way...win the players don't believe in the coach...it will eventually fail...period.
St. Ben of UCONN. I like that :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Well played!
The team has lost confidence and are bad. Right. Why? Maybe if they kept their best/2nd best player (comparing what Rose and BG bring to the table is comparing apples and oranges), they would be better. Then they wouldn't have lost confidence because they would be a better team.
I understand the point you make about "he doesn't make us a title contender." You haven't said that in this thread but you've said it before on this board. But you still have to have a respectable team on the floor.
I like Joe Johnson, you like Joe Johnson. But guess what. If the Bulls sign him in the offseason he won't get us any closer to a title either. So should we only sign LBJ or Wade next year? Does Bosh even make us a title contender? If we go by that logic then there's only 2 guys we should try to sign next year.
Bottom line, if BG was on this team they would be better than they are right now. Some people still don't want to admit that they guy who was your leading scorer for 4 straight years, your best clutch player and your best shooter, won't be missed. Well he is.
And you can put the blame on Vinny, I won't disagree with you there. But one could argue that you let his best player walk - what did you expect? Excluding tonight's disaster. That's inexcusable.
