Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said on Saturday that he won't allow Derrick Rose to return to action "until the doctors say he's 100 percent and they put their reputations on the line."Reinsdorf was forthright when explaining Rose's timetable. "The doctors told us that it would be eight to 12 months from the time of the surgery," he said. "Surgery was the middle of May. That means the earliest possible time he'll be back would be the middle of January. If it's 12 months, then he'll miss the whole season. We just don't know. The reports are very good. They say he's ahead of schedule."
Andrew wrote:I think they can make the Playoffs and have a decent shot of doing so as a low seed. It'll probably basically just be a token appearance and first round exit unless Rose is able to return this season and pulls an MJ in '86...though even that ended in a sweep. Expectations certainly have to be lowered this year, though hopefully Rose makes a full recovery and they can make some more significant moves next year to re-tool around him and Noah, to get back on track for the 2014 season.
I don't know that any team has ever truly tanked a whole season; in my view, it's always been a case of them being pretty awful and then just waving the white flag a few weeks out from the end of the season. I certainly don't want the Bulls to be the first team to tank from the outset and I doubt Thibbs wants any part of that. If they do happen to be woeful all season then the lottery pick is obviously a silver lining, but I'd like to see them go out and compete and I believe they do have a shot at the postseason.
This would have been last years Cats...
As much as I like the Bulls I don't see them higher than 8th in the east and even that is hard to imagine.
Badshotter wrote:This would have been last years Cats...
As much as I like the Bulls I don't see them higher than 8th in the east and even that is hard to imagine.
Oh c'mon they have Boozer
And they are a solid team without Rose. I can see them finish not above than the 5th seed, unless Rose returns early.
SteveHTOWN wrote:This would have been last years Cats...
Andrew wrote:SteveHTOWN wrote:This would have been last years Cats...
I don't know about that. It's probably fair to say they well and truly gave up over the last few weeks of the season but I'd suggest they were terrible and unable to make much noise from day one.
Andrew wrote:I think they can make the Playoffs and have a decent shot of doing so as a low seed. It'll probably basically just be a token appearance and first round exit unless Rose is able to return this season and pulls an MJ in '86...though even that ended in a sweep. Expectations certainly have to be lowered this year, though hopefully Rose makes a full recovery and they can make some more significant moves next year to re-tool around him and Noah, to get back on track for the 2014 season.
I don't know that any team has ever truly tanked a whole season; in my view, it's always been a case of them being pretty awful and then just waving the white flag a few weeks out from the end of the season. I certainly don't want the Bulls to be the first team to tank from the outset and I doubt Thibbs wants any part of that. If they do happen to be woeful all season then the lottery pick is obviously a silver lining, but I'd like to see them go out and compete and I believe they do have a shot at the postseason.
Next to Derrick Rose, there's no Bull valued more by the organization than Gibson. Which is why many rival teams expect the Bulls to have Gibson signed to a new deal by month's end, even though Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf is seemingly never in a rush to do extensions.
The high dollars and luxury-tax implications are such in James Harden's case that it wouldn't totally shock the world if the parties reach November without a deal ... but no deal in Gibson's case would expose the Bulls to the same conditions that made it possible for Houston to pilfer Omer Asik in restricted free agency this past July. Which is something Chicago really can't afford. Extending Gibson now and cutting ties with Carlos Boozer later via the amnesty clause, sources say, is still the most likely outcome here.
Andrew wrote:I haven't caught any of their pre-season games, have you? If so, any impressions so far?
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