I WANT TO SEE A BASKETBALL GAME THIS WEEKEND. PLEASE. WHY IS THAT SO HARD?.

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Who's on the radio with Sexy Swirsky?

He's flying solo. Stacey king's mom died, so Wennington is on TV tonight.

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I have no sympathy for that asshole. He thinks he can make fun of guys like Oleksiy Pecherov and Goran Dragic getting dunked on? Well, the shoe's on the other foot now! Maybe going forward he'll have a different reaction when Derrick Rose dunks on a white guy!

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

Just listen to the Spanish broadcast, problem solved!

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Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
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No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

The Original Kid Oogie.

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This game shouldn't even be this close, McGrady...Really??

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

Wow.....coach Tibbs yelling at The Bulls like they are are college or HS team after they let the Pistons get 3 offensive boards.....

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That was fucking ridiculous, no excuse for all those 2nd attempts by Detroit!!

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

Seriously. Thibbs tearing em a new asshole. Fire and Passion!

But he best be careful. Yelling at Scally can be hazardous to your health.

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Looked like a Bull (maybe Rose) redirected the final shot that tied it up.

Well, a win is a win. Never should have gone to OT though.

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The more I watch this team, the more I'm starting to realize that while okay, they just aren't "there" yet. I know there were some Bulls fans drinking the Kool-Aid earlier this year saying that the Bulls could be the 3rd best team in the East. As constructed, I don't even think the Bulls are better than the Knicks, let alone Orlando, Boston, or Miami. They'll get better, but they still have too many defensive lapses and offensive possessions where it doesn't seem like anyone knows what they're doing.

There was a play early in the 4th where Deng was trying to go 1-on-1 with McGrady and Deng got bailed out with a foul with 4 seconds on the shot clock. Deng shouldn't be in the position to go 1-on-1 with anybody seeing as how he has no handles. And indeed before McGrady fouled him, Deng was about to lose the ball anyway. But what concerned me was that there were no Bulls there to help. You NEVER run isolation with Deng on the weak side. He's just not that kind of player. And to top it off, Deng missed both free throws.

Like I said, they'll get better but I can't consider them good right now. Get a real two-guard in there and we'll talk.

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

With a healthy Noah they are better than the Knicks and possibly by the end of the year the 3rd best team in the East but no doubt they still have some issues to work through.

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I'm done sleeping on the Knicks. They're a good team, at least until Stoudamire gets hurt.

But the Bulls when healthy are as good or better than everyone in the East but Boston and maybe Miami. Orlando as they are now are very guard heavy. After Howard they have no inside presence.

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What the fuck is up with the free throws.

They missed them?

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If the Hawks end up with Billups in the eventual fall-out from whatever Melo trade happens, they'll be a tough draw in the playoffs.

They better use that cap room to get a 2 guard by the trade deadline. If they can do that, they can be a legit 3 in the East and they match up well against Boston. Miami is going to be tough with their talent however.

Howard's inside presence is enough to shut down the Bulls offense. The Magic looked like they weren't even trying when they recently stomped the Bulls by 30, that was before all those trades tho.

If they don't get some inside help I think they'll be in trouble. Howard can't play every minute of every game and still be as great.

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When the Bulls were playing Philly recently it was mentioned that Tony Battle might be headed back to Orlando for second go 'round with the Magic, with Chris Duhon going the other way.

That'd make sense. They desperately need another big.

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wtf are the pistons doing? they threw all of that money at ben gordon and charlie villanueva, but neither of those moves make sense unless they truly thought they were a couple'a role players away from contending... and even if that's the case, you paid how much for who? maybe i wasn't watching close enough, but i didn't notice BIG BEN GORDON AND HIS TORCH around during the 4th quarter or overtime... a perfuctory examination of his stat-line comes up with...

Ben Gordon 7 PT 3-6 FG 0-0 FT 1-2 3P 3/1 RB 1 AS 0 BL 0 ST 0 TO 4 PF 18 MN (Final, Bulls)

i'm pretty sure i also checked that early in the 4th quarter and it's the same. i know ben has had some injury problems plaguing his time in detroit, and look at his season statline...

Ben Gordon 11.7 PT .451 of 9.5 FG .868 of 2.3 FT .394 of 3.1 3P 2.7/0.4 RB 2.27 AS 0.17 BL 0.70 ST 2.00 TO 2.57 PF 27.1 MN 30/6 GS

Ben Gordon Salary - Pistons: $10.8M 2011 | $11.6M 2012 | $12.4M 2013 | $13.2M 2014 (P)

and look at that! he's even got a 13.2 million player option for 2014, whcih at this rate he's going to take and run with it. remember when the bulls offered him and LOL DENG matching contracts and both turned it down at first, with LOL taking the offer the second time around... tell me if those #s look familiar...

Luol Deng Salary - Bulls: $11.4M 2011 | $12.3M 2012 | $13.3M 2013 | $14.3M 2014

so LOL ends up with a little more, but in the end it looks like that ben gordon money is going to be beyond-LOLDENG horrible... especially when the pistons saw him drop 25 in a spot start for rip hamilton and said "ok you're our guy"... now he can't even sniff the floor in a game against his own team, which not only speaks of his tanked value to the team, but also puts him beyond LOLDENG territory in nuking his trade value. i always thought that BIG BEN GORDON WITH... A TORCH! would have value for a team in an eddie house / nate robinson role, in fact, with eddie house being older and an afterthought since his 2008 celtics glory days, look at nate robinson's stats....

Nate Robinson 8.3 PT .433 of 7.2 FG .833 of 0.9 FT .380 of 3.6 3P 1.7/0.3 RB 2.50 AS 0.11 BL 0.32 ST 1.25 TO 2.21 PF 19.7 MN 28/8 GS

they are completely and utterly similar to ben gordon's stats, although ben plays 10 more minutes a game. the big difference?

Nate Robinson Salary - Celtics: $4.20M 2011 | $4.50M 2012

so basically, ben gordon is paid like an upper-tier (i won't necessarily say elite) shooting guard who should be a perennial 6th man of the year, when in reality he's just, statwise, a slightly better version of nate robinson. his contract is already an albatross, and when you combine that with charlie villanueva...

Charlie Villanueva 13.6 PT .429 of 11.4 FG .763 of 2.6 FT .352 of 5.0 3P 5.1/0.9 RB 0.59 AS 0.90 BL 0.66 ST 1.10 TO 2.90 PF 26.2 MN 29/3 GS

Charlie Villanueva Salary - Pistons: $7.02M 2011 | $7.54M 2012 | $8.06M 2013 | $8.58M 2014 (P)

you've got 18-22 million per year tied up on two players who aren't going to help you create a foundation to rebuild around, nor are they going to chip in as pricey luxury roleplayers on a team that's contending for a championship, so i have no idea what's going on here. i'm pretty sure that mike ilitch wants to buy the pistons, so maybe the overall ineptitude since they lucked into that championship in 04 (no true beast in the east around then, such as iverson's sixers making a final... lebron's cavs making a final, etc--- oh and the lakers were such a miserable lot they couldn't win the damn title) will finally come to an end... cuz i have no idea what the hell the pistons are doing right now, so hey, keep on trucking guys.... i can't say that i especially miss you atop the division.

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that's a lot of words to say that Villanueva and Gordon suck and are overpaid

It's better to be wordy when insulting a cancer patient.

So I saw pieces of this game last night and was wondering, how did it even get to overtime? They were up by 7 with 1 minute to go in the 4th quarter, and I went to eat with the family. I come back and the overtime was just ending. I'm guessing Deng stepped to the FT line, right?

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