Was listening to the podcast today. They said the Bulls shouldn't have tried to win the Heat game because the Spurs kicked their ass last night and apparently they were tired from trying too hard or something. They basically don't think the Bulls should try to win every game. It's like they are personally offended every time this team beats a team better than them. I need to go on another extended not listening break I think.

I'm sure this was covered in the show thread but I think they deserve a nomination here. The dumbest, most annoying opinion I've heard them espouse in awhile.

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So beating the World Champs means nothing but losing the next game has some type of meaning. Yeah,that's about par for the course with those two.

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This begs the question... which is it bernstine? Does the regular season matter or not? Did the Heat try or not? Do the Heat care or not, and if they don't care, is that bad, and if so are the Bulls wrong for caring?

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The only opinion he seems to be consistent on is its bad when the Bulls win and it's good when they lose. Seriously.

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FOTS lives in a theoretical world. It sounds good to say you "shouldn't try", but it simply doesn't work. Coaches and players are playing for stats and contracts, and many of them aren't wired to not try. I don't think Noah could take the floor and not try. Beyond that, it's a business. People pay money to see these games, and sponsors pay for air time.

If GM's want to sell players and not field a competitive team, that's one thing. But the players and coaches aren't just gonna say "Fuck it. Let's play Scalabrine and if that white bastard even tries to box out, we'll cut his ass."

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The questions kept coming up again and again, like bubbles in a case of soda. Who was this character in the hospital? Why was he trying to kill Nordberg...and for whom? Did Ludwig lie to me? l didn't have any proof, but somehow, l didn't entirely trust him. Why was the ''l Luv You'' not listed in Ludwig's records? lf it was, did he know about it? lf he didn't, who did? And where the hell was l?

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

So should the Bulls save their energy for the playoffs? Aren't the Heat clearly the eventual champions?

NO, Frank... Heroin! Heroin!

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That's a pretty tall order, Nordberg. You're going to have to give me a few days on that one.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
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you guys are listening to Theater of the Mind again.

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My post was completely accurate. The podcasts are there to listen to. Bernstein said specifically that the Bulls should not have tried as hard as they did against Miami because when you do that there be another team there to beat you in the next game. You're wrong.

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I'm gonna have to secant this nomination. I'm sick to hell of his bullshit on the Bulls. This show is funny and all but goddamn is this topic getting tiresome.

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I will smack you through the screen.

And change your damn avatar!

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You two are just the shits ...

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i hope the sacramento kings beat them on saturday so bernstein will be happy.

Rooting for "tank wins" is so December. Thibs ruined it. The Bulls are living to play and playing to win. Embrace the failure to tank.

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That avatar is priceless. Fuck.

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You need to get your head checked.

I bet you routinely jack off whilst staring through windows into BernSTINEs house.

Bernsie did not get what the caller was trying to say. So if all that matters in championship then what does the season mean? Well was pointed out above that stats, contracts, jobs and money sure matter. The other thing is pride. You have to have pride in what you do.

I mean realistically take Bernsie literally. Who has a chance to win it all? Miami only in his mind. OKC and San Antonio maybe and Terry gives them props. So wtf does everyone else play for besides cash, coffee and mail. It is fucking pride dickhead.

If I was talented enough to be on a shit team in this league I would love to shove it up the "King's" ass every time I had the ball. Every fucking possession for a chance to posterize his ass just once. Are all these other teams supposed to just dance the narrative dance?

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Are you referring to this?

Berns: What is more important, the season or the playoffs?
Caller: Well if you mean seeding...
Berns: What is more important, the season or the playoffs?
Caller: Well, seeding matters, so the season...
Berns: What is more important, the season or the playoffs?

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Sort of.

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Bernsie wasn't even advocating that. His tone suggested it was like the Bulls were offending his basketball sensibilities by winning games. I'm pretty sure Frank Costanza has a higher opinion of the Cubs than he does of the Bulls.

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The problem with voting B and B as DB of the week is that douchery is the show's very (unintended) essence, such that the only question I had after reading the post was "well, what about all the other weeks?"

Denied for me.

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the point was that good teams don't treat a game in March against the Heat like it's game seven of the Finals. They expended so much they were completely gassed mentally/physically for the next game. Good teams don't do that. They said several times that neither of those games mattered for anything and I concur.

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So rename it "B&B of the week"

Without the season there are no playoffs and definitely no championships. The season matters most.

Just as James and/or the Heat not being interested. Can't be GOAT and not be interested when you lose. Jordan lived for playing against a team like the Bulls, all scrappy and screamy. He'd rip out their hearts, knaw on it, spit it out, and then stomp all over it. Again and again.

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Great teams get blown out all the time in the NBA. It's lazy to just say they were gassed, and it's also not true, evidenced by their comeback. If they were gassed physically and mentally they would have lost by 40.

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Right. I see the point if you are not going for 72 like Jordan then you coast from time to time as a good team. But I also do not blame the Bulls for balls out against Heat. They got their ass kicked against SA due to hot shooting not because they were tired from the Heat game. Bad teams have pride.

I understand Bernsie but the way he presents it in a way to make yelling at callers and so on is distasteful to me. I swear I could sense Terry trying to save some of these callers but just couldn't do it.

Another thing there had to have been a memo as I hear a whole lot of how are you and hello how you doing without as much disdain.

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You're totally out to lunch.

Talk about carrying the water for a couple idiots...

which is why any one game during the regular season doesn't mean a hill of beans.

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All it means is enjoyment for those who are actually fans. Nobody ever said it has any long term grand meaning. I don't even know what you're trying to argue here. Just like being the CSFMB's Maddux Boy?

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