I've very mixed feelings about how things are gonna work out with the Bulls. First of all Paxson is a complete idiot, I have a feeling with the Bulls theres some sort of consensus that because of the history of the club they are destined to be great again, but as we have seen it doesn't really work that easily.
First of all this team actually does have a core of pretty solid players. Deng, Hinrich and Gordan would be an assett to any team and Larry Hughs, Nocioni and Noah are in my eyes at the very least very good back up players. Tyrus Thomas does have potential and although he will never be an amazing basketball player, you can't teach athleticism like his. This is a problem though as much as anything, Deng and Gordan's contracts are a major question and I'm sure they wont appreciate a 19 year old kid coming in and stealing the spotlight from their hardwork (listen to the post-interview above and you will see what I mean).
Anyway I really don't know how Paxson is gonna work this out and i'm pretty confident he will fuck it up. I could see trading Gordan to New York as a possibility, With Marbury's future in the Knicks gone out the window they need a shooting guard. If (and its a big if) the Bulls could resign Gordan to that one year contract and package him with someone else (Larry Hughs??Drew Gooden??) they could maybe get hold of Zach Randolph and someone else. If nothing else it would give us a serious low post threat. If Derrick Rose is gonna be the player everyone says he will we could have a team that could contend straight away, assuming that Luol, Hinrich and co get their act together and we somehow manage to find a semi-decent centre.
Anyway i'm off to learn my japanese, flying over in a month and I can't speak a word. I'm scared to say the least!!
Peace,
Sean.
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