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PGMalcolm Delaney
SGKent Bazemore
SFTaurean Prince
PFMike Muscala
CDewayne Dedmon

PG Jerian Grant
SG Denzel Valentine
SF Justin Holiday
PF Lauri Markkanen *
C Robin Lopez

Injuries
I. TaylorINACTIVE
N. BrussinoINACTIVE
Dennis SchroderOUT
DeAndre' BembryOUT
Ersan IlyasovaGTD
Marco BelinelliGTD
Miles PlumleeGTD

Nikola Mirotic OUT
Zach LaVine OUT
Bobby Portis OUT
Cameron Payne OUT
Kris Dunn OUT
Paul Zipser GTD **

* Laurie may be a girl's name but this dude is a tough, un-effected player with skill and guts.

** Zippy had a very solid 1st half last game, nailing 3's and driving the hoop and was decent in the 2nd half. Hope he can play tonight.

I'm not sure what more John collins needs to show before they give him the starting job, but I'll be interested in comparing him and Markkanen tonight.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Not familiar with Collins...who is he?

Rookie PF for the Hawks, was the 19th pick in this past draft. Has flashed a lot of talent and production in limited minutes off the bench so far. Considering how injured they are currently, I'm surprised the Hawks aren't starting him yet. I imagine that'll change before mid season.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Lookin' forward to 0-4 tonight. One step closer to Forman's master plan of rebuilding the Bulls: draft shooters, trade shooters for future Cameron Paynes, bench the Paynes, draft shooter again. Rinse and repeat.

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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

Thanks

McDermott can't even make an impact on the bad Knicks. Traded garbage for garbage.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

If they lose this they might not win until December Every tall white mother fucker is Dirk

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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 argument from me I just can't let go of the cost it took to get him. Two picks, he doesn't deliver, then you trade him for trash. Might as well have kept him just to keep seeing if he turned into anything worthwhile. Payne isn't good for anything.

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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

McDermott and Payne are equally useless players. Trading up to draft McDermott was a horrible move that most of us called at the time. The trade for Payne wasn't bad or good, it wasn't anything and had no effect on the team moving forward.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Agreed. Except they lost the trade since they gave up Gibson. They were going to suck regardless but it just further demonstrated forman's incompetence. At least he's heading to Ames next week on a scouting trip.

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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

Giving up Gibson didn't lose them the trade. He also had no place on the future of this team and wasn't worth much considering he was a rental.

There's like a million reasons to criticize GarPax and you're harping on one of the few moves they didn't egregiously fuck up in the last few years.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Well Markkanen sucks tonight.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

God Lopez is awful when asked to do anymore than he should.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Game's not over.

I know Lopez works hard down low, but goddam will we EVER have a good center???

The genius that is Hoiberg...have Robin Lopez shoot a bunch of threes.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Paxson has someone feeding Fred terrible ideas under the guise that they're trying to help.

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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

OMG I don't know this team...not as much fun watch. Gonna be a strange season. This ain't BULLS basketball...I don't know WHAT it is!

You always try to extract value. I have to look at the trade but I remember it was roundly criticized, even by national writers. There's even speculation that it was the thunder who submitted a vote for forman as GM of the year mainly due to that trade. When that happens, you lost the trade. Anyway again we all know forman sucks but that's just one example.

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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 better to watch than last year. Rhondo was great but otherwise frustrating team.

Or last few years really have sucked bad. This year we have no dead legs on the team. For years we always had some dipshit that stopped the offense when he got the ball. Not this year. We're young, make dumbass plays... But man, they are moving and it's nice to see fresh energy.

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

The trade had almost no impact on either team last season, or this season/future. Anyone criticizing it is wrong in hindsight. It was fine.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

It helped the thunder last year plus they got a pick. Who the fuck loses a pick when have the most valuable chip in a deal with a contender? A GM who lost the trade does.

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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

How did it help the Thunder? They were making the playoffs and losing in the first round with or without the trade.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Not getting cheated on launching 3s this game.

Playing pretty well tonight. He's a better rebounder than I thought he would be, which still surprises me.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I don't like meatballs with my spaghetti?

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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

This Mwoba kid intrigues me