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Deeg

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« Reply #435 on: April 23, 2014, 01:42:58 am »
The Bulls were 5th in the league in payroll this year and they were over the tax threshold last season and would have been again without trading Deng.
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Chris27

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« Reply #436 on: April 23, 2014, 03:55:40 pm »
They don't want to be over the threshold which is why they dumped Deng for next to nothing.
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Deeg

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« Reply #437 on: April 23, 2014, 07:22:27 pm »
Quote from: Chris27 on April 23, 2014, 03:55:40 pm
They don't want to be over the threshold which is why they dumped Deng for next to nothing.

Being over the threshold two years in a row magnifies the penalties exponentially, so it's not hard to understand why they'd trade Deng rather than lose him as a FA and get nothing back at all.
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Robb

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« Reply #438 on: April 23, 2014, 10:26:48 pm »
Trading Deng was a brilliant move.  Their offense and defense improved when he left.  He did nothing for Cleveland.  He was a system player, nothing more.  He was certainly not worth keeping for the repeater tax.  If the Bulls wanted to have any shot at an impact player in free agency, they had to get rid of Deng's salary. 
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Chris27

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« Reply #439 on: April 23, 2014, 10:40:57 pm »
Trading Deng for next to nothing isn't brilliant. And it probably should be remembered that the Bulls had the best defense in the league two of the years Deng was there.
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Deeg

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« Reply #440 on: April 23, 2014, 10:42:18 pm »
Or you could have kept him and let him leave for no return whatsoever, gone into the repeater tax and torpedoed any chance of making an impact move in FA this offseason.
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Robb

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« Reply #441 on: April 23, 2014, 10:43:27 pm »
Blackhawks blew a 2 goal lead in about 2 minutes.  Geesh, it's a Chicago epidemic.  I think I need a break from sports for a while.  Either that or I need to become a Heat fan.  They got guys like Norris Coles and Birdman Anderson playing out of their minds for them and if anything goes wrong they can just drive the ball into an opponent and flop for free throws.  Ugh what a week.
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Robb

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« Reply #442 on: April 23, 2014, 10:44:59 pm »
Once Rose went down any chance of sniffing a title went with him.  At that point paying the repeater tax would have been as dumb as giving Soriano an 8 year contract.
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Playtwo

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« Reply #443 on: April 24, 2014, 06:47:42 am »
I guess I was wrong about the Hawks getting swept.  Still it's going to be tough to win in St. Louis.
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« Reply #444 on: April 24, 2014, 01:05:44 pm »
hawks in 7
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Deeg

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« Reply #445 on: April 25, 2014, 09:38:09 pm »
8 threes for Dunleavy, breaking Jordan's playoff franchise record.
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shasson

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« Reply #446 on: April 26, 2014, 08:56:46 am »
So for the Bulls to win, they need Dunleavy to hit 8 threes and for Nene to get tossed. That doesn't seem like a sound strategy going forward.
Thibs will probably figure out something else.

And TSN had this to say about the Blackhawks:
Including last year's playoffs, in games 1,2 & 3 of each series the Hawks have a 7 - 8 record.

In games 4,5,6 & 7 the Hawks have a record of 12 - 1.

Once the Hawks figure you out, its over.
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Playtwo

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« Reply #447 on: April 26, 2014, 10:22:44 am »
I'm not so confident that past performance is highly predictive.
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JR

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« Reply #448 on: April 26, 2014, 10:43:38 am »
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I'm not so confident that past performance is highly predictive.

Now just how long have you been a Cubs fan? :)
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Playtwo

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« Reply #449 on: April 26, 2014, 10:44:48 am »
Well, recently the Cubs have been historically bad.
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