Check out episode 10 and let us know your thoughts on any of the following issues discussed on the show:
1. Which Bulls player do you expect to have a breakout year this season?
2. Who should we expect to have a drop off in productivity/effectiveness?
3. In light of the recent Olympic games, do you see Team USA actually losing?
4. What changes would you make to Team USA, if any?
5. What updates, if any, would you make to NBA 2K13?
6. What was your favorite basketball video game growing up?
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I haven't had a chance to catch your 10th episode, BUT I've listened up to episode 7 (I like to start from the beginning) and I have to say, you guys are doing great. Hope you guys actually post here in the Bulls forum because I think it'd be great to talk Bulls with you guys during the season on here.
I will, however, answer your questions.
1. I hope and pray it's Jimmy Butler. The guy beasted in summer league (like that means a lot...so did James Johnson) and has shown in very very brief glimpses that he could step right in and play defense right away. He has more offensive potential than Brewer imo and could end up a better player. Hopefully Ronnie taught him how to work that baseline.
2. Assuming you just mean from last year, I'd say Luol if he doesn't get surgery before the season starts. If he does get surgery, I'll say it'll be Marco Belinelli, purely because he won't be playing almost 30 minutes a game.
3. No. With a roster containing the talents of guys like Kobe, Durant, a quasi resurgent Lebron (in that he has regained his killer instinct from his Cleveland days), and to a slightly lesser extent, Melo, DWill and Chris Paul, I don't see this team failing in the clutch. There's a lot of scoring on this team, and I think perhaps after Lithuania, they try to get the ball to Lebron and Westbrook to attack the basket more than just throwing up 3s (which honestly, are good shots for a lot of those guys).
4. I'd play Kevin Love more. I think he and Melo are two guys who are tailor made to fit the European style of play. They have legit size and can hit the 3 at a really high clip. Add in their ability to rebound and I think you have a couple guys who can give you a huge boost of the bench. Now Melo has been given the opportunity to show that. Love hasn't. He plays like 12, 14 minutes a game on a team that really doesn't have a lot of frontcourt depth. I think running Love at C 20 minutes a game could give them a huge boost on the glass (and really, they're not that bad anyway) while probably actually gaining offensive production over Chandler.
5. I could go on a rant all day about this...I'll just call it "fix the cpu cheese" and leave it at that. If you play a lot of 2k (and watch 2k commentators on youtube xD) you know exactly what I mean.
6. NBA Live was probably my favorite of all of them. Played that on N64 and GCN until Live 06 (where they stopped making it for GCN). Right now, I think 2k blows Live out of the water, but in my childhood, I didn't have access to 2k (because I owned nothing but Nintendo systems). NBA Jam and NBA Street were probably my next favorites.
