If Danny doesn't make a move by the Trade Deadline. How disappointed will you be

[crimson_stallion]

In other news,  I'm now going to support the Pelicans as my second team now,  because they're going to be hands down one of the most exciting teams in the nba.

And because I need a backup team,  because I can't handle much more of Danny "lets stare at my assets forever yo" Ainge.

This feels like a new way to be disappointed.

The best center in the nba, and the best Pf in the nba, playing on the same team?

Not only that,  but they compliment each other to perfection.   Davis is the quick, athletic, polite, defensively oriented finesse guy.  Cousins is the big,  strong,  tough,  angry offensive oriented banger. 

There's no better combination.  Not even Duncan and Robinson,  since Duncan was still developing at the time and Robinson was on the decline.

Plus even in their prime,  it's debatable if Duncan and Robinson were ever,  individually,  better then Davis and Cousins. On the same level  sure. Better though...I wouldn't say so.

New Orleans is going to miss the playoffs.  You can take it to the bank.

Im sure they probably will,  whats you're point?

I just watched some 3-4 years of watching Boston missing the playoffs or going through 1st round knockouts. Now Danny Ainge has just put us in the position to have to watch more of that for probably the next 3-4 years.

So if im going to watch 1St round knockouts anyway,  I may as well watch a team with two of the best centers in NBA history not make the playoffs for a year or two...because you wait and see how good they'll be after that.

[crimson_stallion]

Ainge is such a ****ing ****.  I can't wait to laugh when this pick comes up at number 4.

There's a 35.7% of that happening. Actually less but figured it'd give you more hope. Not bashing you or anything. I'm disappointed in not participating in this thing called trade deadline.

And what are the odds of it being #1?

25%

Take that all the "dont hate,  we're getting Fultz!" Danny lovers!

If we finish with Brooklyn in last spot, we dstill have a significantly  higher probability of landing 4th then we do of landing 1st.

Yay.

Way I see it Fultz is the only guy in this draft with a high probability of becoming a transcendent player.   Thats means after the trades Danny just axed, anything less then the  #1 pick would be utter dissapointment.

And we have a 75 % chance of NOT getting the number 1 pick.

Thats fantastic.  Absolutely fantastic.

And if we don't get the #1 pick then it brightest hope is signing Gordon Hayward, who is a fringe star who would make a minimum impact. 

Great. I'm overwhelmed with excitement. Really.....

[saltlover]

Guess we will be content to get the 4 or 5 seed since we can't win it anyway. Let's continue the mediocrity. Whatever.

I really wish people would stop using the word "mediocrity."  That describes the Chicago Bulls.  We've won 3/4 of our games over the last two months, despite a never ending cycle of injuries.  Pick your basketball analytics site, and we've got somewhere between the 4th and 6th best chance of winning the title.

A bunch of people on this site are spoiled and entitled.  Seriously, barely four years ago we had an aging team that was needing its young, star point guard to lead it to the future.  Instead, he wilted under the pressure, we were mediocre, and then tore his ACL.  It was over.

We bottomed out.  We hired a college coach out of a small school. Made at trade that, at the time, we hoped might produce a top 10 pick in 5 years.  Maybe four years if we were really lucky.  We continued to tear down the roster.  We mourned when the lottery balls didn't go our way the following year, and had to settle for someone who played the same position as our now healthy star PG.

We continued to struggle, and then traded our star for what looked like 10 cents on the dollar.  A single first, a second, some expirings, and a throw-in scrub.  We then traded our only other decent veteran for another 1st.

And then we started to win.  But we messed up again when, instead of playing for lottery balls, we traded for some sixth man, two years ago this week, for our team with a losing record.  We'd gotten too good, too quickly, and it was going to kill our season.  We'd be stuck in mediocrity.  There's that word again.

And we lost in the playoffs.  It was disappointing.  Certainly we'd had a a fluky three months to end the season.  We couldn't be that good again.  And when all of the draft prizes went to other teams, for certain we were stuck.  And then when we missed out on top free agents, it was written in stone: MEDIOCRITY.

And then the next year happened.  And we won even more.  That sixth man deadline acquisition turned into an All-Star (although we questioned if he'd earned it).  We stood tight at the trade deadline, preserving our cash for any major free agent who obviously would never come, because we were mediocre.

And then we suffered multiple injuries and lost a competitive series in six games.  48 wins, but still mediocre.  Then the draft lottery -- the third-best odds, and it was another mediocre showing with only the third pick.

Onto free agency, armed with enough cash to sign TWO All-Star free agents.  Alas, we only signed one.  Decidedly mediocre.  Then into the season, which started began with a (really) mediocre 13-12 record, due to worse than mediocre health.  Since then, we've upgraded to actual mediocre health, and have gone 24-8, but we're still mediocre?  That sixth man who we moaned about trading for two years ago is going to get a lot of MVP votes, and it's mediocre?  On top of that, we have an even better chance in the lottery in a better draft, and it's still mediocre?  Next year we could have the same odds again, and it's mediocre? And we will have the room to sign another All-Star in free agency, but it's still mediocre?

Pretty soon I'm ready for the revisionist history of the Big 3 era to be called mediocre because we only won one championship -- yeah, we were title contenders, but mediocre ones.  And after that the 80s -- sure, it was a bit of a dynasty, but a mediocre one.

Whatever.

[cltc5]

Guess we will be content to get the 4 or 5 seed since we can't win it anyway. Let's continue the mediocrity. Whatever.

I really wish people would stop using the word "mediocrity."  That describes the Chicago Bulls.  We've won 3/4 of our games over the last two months, despite a never ending cycle of injuries.  Pick your basketball analytics site, and we've got somewhere between the 4th and 6th best chance of winning the title.

A bunch of people on this site are spoiled and entitled.  Seriously, barely four years ago we had an aging team that was needing its young, star point guard to lead it to the future.  Instead, he wilted under the pressure, we were mediocre, and then tore his ACL.  It was over.

We bottomed out.  We hired a college coach out of a small school. Made at trade that, at the time, we hoped might produce a top 10 pick in 5 years.  Maybe four years if we were really lucky.  We continued to tear down the roster.  We mourned when the lottery balls didn't go our way the following year, and had to settle for someone who played the same position as our now healthy star PG.

We continued to struggle, and then traded our star for what looked like 10 cents on the dollar.  A single first, a second, some expirings, and a throw-in scrub.  We then traded our only other decent veteran for another 1st.

And then we started to win.  But we messed up again when, instead of playing for lottery balls, we traded for some sixth man, two years ago this week, for our team with a losing record.  We'd gotten too good, too quickly, and it was going to kill our season.  We'd be stuck in mediocrity.  There's that word again.

And we lost in the playoffs.  It was disappointing.  Certainly we'd had a a fluky three months to end the season.  We couldn't be that good again.  And when all of the draft prizes went to other teams, for certain we were stuck.  And then when we missed out on top free agents, it was written in stone: MEDIOCRITY.

And then the next year happened.  And we won even more.  That sixth man deadline acquisition turned into an All-Star (although we questioned if he'd earned it).  We stood tight at the trade deadline, preserving our cash for any major free agent who obviously would never come, because we were mediocre.

And then we suffered multiple injuries and lost a competitive series in six games.  48 wins, but still mediocre.  Then the draft lottery -- the third-best odds, and it was another mediocre showing with only the third pick.

Onto free agency, armed with enough cash to sign TWO All-Star free agents.  Alas, we only signed one.  Decidedly mediocre.  Then into the season, which started began with a (really) mediocre 13-12 record, due to worse than mediocre health.  Since then, we've upgraded to actual mediocre health, and have gone 24-8, but we're still mediocre?  That sixth man who we moaned about trading for two years ago is going to get a lot of MVP votes, and it's mediocre?  On top of that, we have an even better chance in the lottery in a better draft, and it's still mediocre?  Next year we could have the same odds again, and it's mediocre? And we will have the room to sign another All-Star in free agency, but it's still mediocre?

Pretty soon I'm ready for the revisionist history of the Big 3 era to be called mediocre because we only won one championship -- yeah, we were title contenders, but mediocre ones.  And after that the 80s -- sure, it was a bit of a dynasty, but a mediocre one.

Whatever.

Sooo we've rebuilt to the point we're second in the conference, have a chance to superstar talent to take us to the next level and we shove our thumbs up our ass.  That's settling.  That's mediocrity.

[CoachBo]

Guess we will be content to get the 4 or 5 seed since we can't win it anyway. Let's continue the mediocrity. Whatever.

I really wish people would stop using the word "mediocrity."  That describes the Chicago Bulls.  We've won 3/4 of our games over the last two months, despite a never ending cycle of injuries.  Pick your basketball analytics site, and we've got somewhere between the 4th and 6th best chance of winning the title.

A bunch of people on this site are spoiled and entitled.  Seriously, barely four years ago we had an aging team that was needing its young, star point guard to lead it to the future.  Instead, he wilted under the pressure, we were mediocre, and then tore his ACL.  It was over.

We bottomed out.  We hired a college coach out of a small school. Made at trade that, at the time, we hoped might produce a top 10 pick in 5 years.  Maybe four years if we were really lucky.  We continued to tear down the roster.  We mourned when the lottery balls didn't go our way the following year, and had to settle for someone who played the same position as our now healthy star PG.

We continued to struggle, and then traded our star for what looked like 10 cents on the dollar.  A single first, a second, some expirings, and a throw-in scrub.  We then traded our only other decent veteran for another 1st.

And then we started to win.  But we messed up again when, instead of playing for lottery balls, we traded for some sixth man, two years ago this week, for our team with a losing record.  We'd gotten too good, too quickly, and it was going to kill our season.  We'd be stuck in mediocrity.  There's that word again.

And we lost in the playoffs.  It was disappointing.  Certainly we'd had a a fluky three months to end the season.  We couldn't be that good again.  And when all of the draft prizes went to other teams, for certain we were stuck.  And then when we missed out on top free agents, it was written in stone: MEDIOCRITY.

And then the next year happened.  And we won even more.  That sixth man deadline acquisition turned into an All-Star (although we questioned if he'd earned it).  We stood tight at the trade deadline, preserving our cash for any major free agent who obviously would never come, because we were mediocre.

And then we suffered multiple injuries and lost a competitive series in six games.  48 wins, but still mediocre.  Then the draft lottery -- the third-best odds, and it was another mediocre showing with only the third pick.

Onto free agency, armed with enough cash to sign TWO All-Star free agents.  Alas, we only signed one.  Decidedly mediocre.  Then into the season, which started began with a (really) mediocre 13-12 record, due to worse than mediocre health.  Since then, we've upgraded to actual mediocre health, and have gone 24-8, but we're still mediocre?  That sixth man who we moaned about trading for two years ago is going to get a lot of MVP votes, and it's mediocre?  On top of that, we have an even better chance in the lottery in a better draft, and it's still mediocre?  Next year we could have the same odds again, and it's mediocre? And we will have the room to sign another All-Star in free agency, but it's still mediocre?

Pretty soon I'm ready for the revisionist history of the Big 3 era to be called mediocre because we only won one championship -- yeah, we were title contenders, but mediocre ones.  And after that the 80s -- sure, it was a bit of a dynasty, but a mediocre one.

Whatever.

Remind me again. What banners do we get for winning three-fourths of our games?

Nice try. Ainge failed his locker room big time today. He owed them support for the stretch run, and he let them down. He didn't have to get a superstar. But to come away with nothing, no rebounder no defender, is inexcusable.

There's another thread on this blog fussing about the rising cost of playoff tickets. Those folks won't have to worry, because this team is not making a serious playoff run.

[HomerSapien]

Guess we will be content to get the 4 or 5 seed since we can't win it anyway. Let's continue the mediocrity. Whatever.

I really wish people would stop using the word "mediocrity."  That describes the Chicago Bulls.  We've won 3/4 of our games over the last two months, despite a never ending cycle of injuries.  Pick your basketball analytics site, and we've got somewhere between the 4th and 6th best chance of winning the title.

A bunch of people on this site are spoiled and entitled.  Seriously, barely four years ago we had an aging team that was needing its young, star point guard to lead it to the future.  Instead, he wilted under the pressure, we were mediocre, and then tore his ACL.  It was over.

We bottomed out.  We hired a college coach out of a small school. Made at trade that, at the time, we hoped might produce a top 10 pick in 5 years.  Maybe four years if we were really lucky.  We continued to tear down the roster.  We mourned when the lottery balls didn't go our way the following year, and had to settle for someone who played the same position as our now healthy star PG.

We continued to struggle, and then traded our star for what looked like 10 cents on the dollar.  A single first, a second, some expirings, and a throw-in scrub.  We then traded our only other decent veteran for another 1st.

And then we started to win.  But we messed up again when, instead of playing for lottery balls, we traded for some sixth man, two years ago this week, for our team with a losing record.  We'd gotten too good, too quickly, and it was going to kill our season.  We'd be stuck in mediocrity.  There's that word again.

And we lost in the playoffs.  It was disappointing.  Certainly we'd had a a fluky three months to end the season.  We couldn't be that good again.  And when all of the draft prizes went to other teams, for certain we were stuck.  And then when we missed out on top free agents, it was written in stone: MEDIOCRITY.

And then the next year happened.  And we won even more.  That sixth man deadline acquisition turned into an All-Star (although we questioned if he'd earned it).  We stood tight at the trade deadline, preserving our cash for any major free agent who obviously would never come, because we were mediocre.

And then we suffered multiple injuries and lost a competitive series in six games.  48 wins, but still mediocre.  Then the draft lottery -- the third-best odds, and it was another mediocre showing with only the third pick.

Onto free agency, armed with enough cash to sign TWO All-Star free agents.  Alas, we only signed one.  Decidedly mediocre.  Then into the season, which started began with a (really) mediocre 13-12 record, due to worse than mediocre health.  Since then, we've upgraded to actual mediocre health, and have gone 24-8, but we're still mediocre?  That sixth man who we moaned about trading for two years ago is going to get a lot of MVP votes, and it's mediocre?  On top of that, we have an even better chance in the lottery in a better draft, and it's still mediocre?  Next year we could have the same odds again, and it's mediocre? And we will have the room to sign another All-Star in free agency, but it's still mediocre?

Pretty soon I'm ready for the revisionist history of the Big 3 era to be called mediocre because we only won one championship -- yeah, we were title contenders, but mediocre ones.  And after that the 80s -- sure, it was a bit of a dynasty, but a mediocre one.

Whatever.

10,000 TP's for this.  This team has done nothing but exceed expectations for the past 2 1/2 years and people still take issue with it, and are acting like this roster has maxed out what it can accomplish.  We are on pace for 50+ wins with the 4th youngest roster in the league!

There are still a lot higher heights for this team to see.  No need to panic and make an impatient move when we still have so many levers to pull.

[Tr1boy]

You guys think so?

http://www.csnne.com/video/danny-ainge-no-trades-2-years-wasnt-lack-trying