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I think the Adams stuff is the most interesting. Obviously Rose is not happy about him being let go.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

He got much STRONGER somehow.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

We

Will Derrick ever have the balls to put this guy in his place?

It must be infuriating to be in administration in the NBA and have team fortunes placed in the hands of uneducated, inexperienced toadies.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Unfortunately I don't think Derrick sees anything wrong with this.

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Kid Cairo's Boers & Bernstein YouTube Channel

Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

He doesn't have a problem with a guy who, but for Derrick, would still be in Englewood spouting off about how "we got out"?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Yeah, Derrick doesn't strike me as the sharpest bulb in the drawer, as it were.

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Kid Cairo's Boers & Bernstein YouTube Channel

Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

I just hope he grew 4 inches taller. otherwise there is already a derrick rose out there that plays for the heat at 1.5x the size.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

I find that very very interesting. Is Adams not only gone to put a shot across Tibs bow but also to get at Reggie? This is very interesting.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

I don't like how Team Rose orchestrated everything once Rose was cleared to play, but I do think they had a point about the team not doing enough to win. Given the recent reports about Ron Adams disagreeing with Gar on personnel issues, and Team Rose's friendship with Adams, I wonder if they all (including Thibs) see it the same way.

After engaging a lot of posters in debate about this team's chances, I'm less sure about my original position that they cannot win as currently constructed, but I still think there are 1-2 teams our there that, when running on all cylinders, will be too much for a team whose success is predicated on defense to beat.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

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i wonder if thibs ran that team as hard as he did to weed out the weak, in preparation for what to do in the offseason.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

When is Derrick gonna stand up and quit letting his brother run his life. He's a grown man.

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I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. - Bill Hicks

Let's do it for Johnny!

Those kind of family relationships are tough to re-align on different terms than the terms that currently exist, especially since Rose ostensibly looks up to his brothers for taking care of him. This is not to say I think it's okay for Rose to continually defer to his family, just that it may be extremely difficult for him to express disagreement on major issues.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

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Chess Match .... 2 out of 3 .... Derrick Rose vs Paul Edinger

special booby prize - first one to say 'king me' gets punched in the yambag by Jim Belushi

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Don't talk about little Pooh like that. He is just a sweet little boy who is naive to the ways of the big cruel world out there. He thinks he can help fix the ghetto! He needs to be looked after at all times by Reggie Rose, personal chefs, Jerry Reinsdorf, and Dan Bernstein.

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by the way, how exaggerated are the statements about Reggie clearing the path for his brother in the neighborhood

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Sounds like a fucked up family to me. A real "father figure" puts a kid on the path to success and then lets him go to thrive on his own. This dude keeps Derrick brain-washed.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Yea, Reggie needs to shut the fuck up, but we already knew he was the one keeping him out. I never had a problem with him missing the entire season. In fact, I wanted him to sit out the whole year, but I just wish they would have come out and said it, rather than the cloak and dagger shit we got.

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Second City Saint

Fuck Reggie Rose squarely in the ear, and to be consistent with previous commentary, until he actually does something useful again fuck that simpleton Derrick Rose as well.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Is this anything we didn't already know? Better yet, does it matter that Reggie kept him out?

No, kind of.

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Second City Saint

People assumed all along that Rose say out because his brother wanted him to. Surprise, that's exactly what happened.

I get that. I said that. It does matter though. At some point he has to take control of his own career.

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Second City Saint

The majority of sports stars make decisions by committee. That will never change.

I think Reggie Rose is being very realistic in this situation. While I might not like his use of the pronoun "we" when referring to Derrick, Reggie isn't doing anything different from what we've seen from other athletes' managers.

Well, despite what The Oracle Berstein will blather on and on about as though it's a sure thing, I'd feel better had we had the opportunity to make sure we weren't in fact better in seven games against a not too terribly sharp looking Heat team. So, for me, yes, it matters a lot in that instance ... and overall as well. No Bulls fan should have any respect or interest in what Reggie does other than place himself under a street sweeper.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I'm beginning to like Don Tiny.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

For reasons I'm not entirely clear on, I try like hell to be able to say the same for you .... help me out here once in a while, will ya?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

except those managers have education, have endured apprenticeship and have a wealth of experience to call upon when arriving at decisions while Reggie didn't even bother to try to get himself any backround in the business while knowing full well this was where his professional life would lead. The two may arrive at the same decision but one person got there entirely through luck.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Not trying to defend R. Rose, but prior to bungling the post-knee surgery controversy, Rose's team seemed to be doing just fine. Along with KD, Duncan, and Chris Paul, I don't think there are other NBA stars who have had in image as nicely crafted for them as Rose has. And even when we account for the recent controversy, it's still not as damaging as what LBJ, Melo, and Howard have endured in recent years. To me, Rose's recent image problems will be completely forgotten by casual and young NBA fans once he's back on the court for 40 minutes each game. His hole is not as deep as the holes Howard and LBJ, for example, have dug themselves into.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

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Reggie is right. Derrick shouldnt have played and risked his whole career on one season. Thats why I say Reggie has Derrick sit out every year until Reggie scouts the league and decides which year is best for lil brother to win a title. Reggie can wait til the perfect season in which Lebron blows out a knee. Reggie should also demand to have a say in who the Bulls put around Derrick. Reggie can then make an accurate decision on what year would be the perfect year for Derrick to come back and be guaranteed a title.


I know two things-

1-Kobe plays last year if he's in the same situation as Derrick. Even if the team is bad.

2-Kobe will play in games the second he's cleared.

Its a good thing Kobe doesnt have a big brother.