Wasn't he on the Thibs staff? (Cue Brian Hanley.)

Big oops Charlie Henry

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Walt, growing up were you a John Mengelt or Bobby Weiss guy?

Bobby Weiss stealing the in bounds pass and working the back door with Boerwinkle

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

No they weren't. They've been a lot closer to competing for a championship ever since the Beaker era began than they were at any point in Paxson's solo tenure. And it's hard to say they drafted well when the most well known draft decision Pax made was trading Aldridge for Thomas.

Paxson's entire reputation is based on simply not being Jerry Krause (or now, Gar Forman) and luckboxing into Rose. Other than that there's nothing to suggest he's anything other than a completely mediocre executive.

He has his flaws but he has been a better GM than that. He drafted Butler. He picked Rose when people were split 50/50 Rose/Beasley. Noah was considered a reach that worked and so was Deng. He bombed with Aldridge and Wallace. Ben Gordon was a good pick too and so was Hinrich.


He needs to go because I think his time has passed. I don't know if he is interested in the job at this point.

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Why is drafting Butler considered a Pax move rather than a Gar move? This is the thing that bugs me. Everything bad from the GarPax era gets blamed on Gar and anything good is attributed to Paxson.

If Paxson really had such a different vision for this team than what Gar and the Reinsdorfs want, then why exactly was he the guy doing most of the talking at the end of last season and why was he the one doing the all-star break press conference solo this season? Wasn't one of the main reasons cited for Gar taking over the GM role in the first was that Paxson didn't want to deal with the media? Why exactly then, if he has such a superior vision for the Bulls, has he been the one addressing the media far more for moves he supposedly disagrees with?

I think Paxson is making the calls on all of the moves. I think he should go right along with Gar. You don't give Paxson credit for anything. His draft record is more than Rose. Boozer was also a good move. He was the architect behind rebuilding the Bulls. He also hired Thibs which has to be considered a good move.

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Everyone says the Butler pick was Paxson's. All of Gar's picks have followed a particular pattern. They're all connected to someone he has a relationship with. That was also the case with Hoiberg.

Paxson didn't miss on many picks. The only time he really missed was when he reached.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

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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

2013 CSFMB ROY

It's a mixed bag at best. He did right the ship when he first took over. Fostered a culture change by hiring the right coach, hit on his picks, and as a result they went to the playoffs for the first time since Jordan. Totally whiffed on his next coach, another unproven guy like Hoiberg, but corrected that by hiring Thibs. Whatever Thibs built up was of course destroyed by Hoiberg. Here's what I wrote in a different thread:

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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

2013 CSFMB ROY

Bob Weiss looked like an out of work stockbroker playing pickup ball at the Y.

"the ironman"

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