Magilla_Gorilla wrote:The Sun Times is reporting that they met Friday, and that after the meeting Reinsdorf was not prepared to offer Dan Tony a contract.
Way to be prepared JR
SI: D'Antoni accepts offer to coach Knicks
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Hopefully this story will make the national media. The Bulls are probably the most profitable team in professional sports yet continue to refuse to use their financial advantage to improve the product. The team is a joke but not everyone is in on it yet.
I hate being right all the time about this, I keep hoping Ownership will make me look bad.
I'm not losing too much sleep over that one though.
I hate being right all the time about this, I keep hoping Ownership will make me look bad.
I'm not losing too much sleep over that one though.
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TB#1 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
Well, this is what I'm trying to understand. There is a lot of profanity laden anger being expressed over not "landing" The Chip, but before all the media hullabaloo about the Bulls interviewing him, the discussion about Porn Stache Mike as a potential Bulls coach was lukewarm, at best.
I'm not sure if its wise take what the Bulls are warm on as a great endorsement. These are still the Bulls yes?
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For me, it's not really even about getting him to be the coach. It's just being reminded once again, that management is not wiling to pay for ANYTHING.
At this point, everyone better just start praying we luck out in the draft one of these years like we did with Jordan, because that's the only way this team is going to get better is through pure luck.
At this point, everyone better just start praying we luck out in the draft one of these years like we did with Jordan, because that's the only way this team is going to get better is through pure luck.
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Once again the management of this team has low-balled their fans. The best coach available went to our rival. Dumb move. Now, we can look forward to a not ready for prime time player, or a "never has-been never will be" type. Which was the exact problem with Boylan being promoted.
Once again the fans of this team get shafted because management is too cheap. We might as well change the name of this team to the Minnesota Bulls. Because they run a large market team like a small market one. This is evident when they make dumb mistakes on critical decisions(as they did today).
Once again the fans of this team get shafted because management is too cheap. We might as well change the name of this team to the Minnesota Bulls. Because they run a large market team like a small market one. This is evident when they make dumb mistakes on critical decisions(as they did today).
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HeavyC wrote:At this point, everyone better just start praying we luck out in the draft one of these years like we did with Jordan, because that's the only way this team is going to get better is through pure luck.
I always wondered what everybody's obsession with draft picks here was about. This current Bulls team is full of lottery picks already and we're aren't very close to contending. I always thought it was a bit naive to suddenly believe that getting another one would all of a sudden turn us into this huge contender right away. But after all this Reinsdorf stuff, I finally understand the obsession with draft picks & the lottery...
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All this BS about not being willing to pay for anything is quite lame.
This team signed a free agent to a max deal to be able to pry him away from a rival 2 years ago. The same summer they resigned two of their players to lucrative contracts (Kirk and Noc).
Thsi team still paid a player more per year than any player in the history of the league, obviously for good reason.
Skiles was well paid from what I know (I might be mistaken). We sign Tyson Chandler to a lucrative contract.
We signed Joe Smith when we clearly didn't need to from a PR standpoint (we already had enough players at his spot).
This team is certainly not the biggest spenders, but if you think they are cheap, you all should talk to fans of about 25 teams in this league that have done far worse to their fans in terms of being cheap.
We spend enough to be competitive. That's all you can expect, IMO. We're liek the Cubs. You can make an argument that we shoudl spend more than anyone, but we spend more than most all, and that's all you can ask for.
This team signed a free agent to a max deal to be able to pry him away from a rival 2 years ago. The same summer they resigned two of their players to lucrative contracts (Kirk and Noc).
Thsi team still paid a player more per year than any player in the history of the league, obviously for good reason.
Skiles was well paid from what I know (I might be mistaken). We sign Tyson Chandler to a lucrative contract.
We signed Joe Smith when we clearly didn't need to from a PR standpoint (we already had enough players at his spot).
This team is certainly not the biggest spenders, but if you think they are cheap, you all should talk to fans of about 25 teams in this league that have done far worse to their fans in terms of being cheap.
We spend enough to be competitive. That's all you can expect, IMO. We're liek the Cubs. You can make an argument that we shoudl spend more than anyone, but we spend more than most all, and that's all you can ask for.
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TheHumanTripod wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
I always wondered what everybody's obsession with draft picks here was about. This current Bulls team is full of lottery picks already and we're aren't very close to contending. I always thought it was a bit naive to suddenly believe that getting another one would all of a sudden turn us into this huge contender right away. But after all this Reinsdorf stuff, I finally understand the obsession with draft picks & the lottery...
*Plans on watching more college basketball next year*
Yeah, don't even get me started on how badly we've either screwed up previous drafts or just been plain unlucky. This team has consistently been one or two picks back from getting the top tier players almost every year it seems. Unless the skies open up and just drop a good player in Paxson's lap, I don't see how they are getting out of this mess. The Bulls do not have the players to make any kind of serious run at a title.
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girlygirl wrote:Chad Ford has a column up on espn.com saying that the Knicks won over D'Antoni in large part because they showed they wanted him...the Bulls hemmed and hawed and didn't seem convinced he was the coach they really wanted.
Exactly what I've been suspecting.
People can disagree strongly with the decision, but it seems like a basketball decision (or lack thereof) to me.
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JeremyB0001 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
Exactly what I've been suspecting.
People can disagree strongly with the decision, but it seems like a basketball decision (or lack thereof) to me.
to take it a step further...
hiring D'Antoni would be tantamount to Pax admitting his experiment in team building hard nosed approach mostly on one side of the ball first was a complete failure before he was likely ready to.