Going to post some highlights from the Bulls RealGM board for you guys:
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"The spirit of this team looks dead right now, and did for most of the year. I don't know if a coach fixes that, when so many players stop playing as hard as they can and just lack the fight."
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"Our bigs are a mess. Pau is old and slow, Jo is done, Taj is fading rapidly. Only Niko is of interest, but even there he's no prototypical banging big. We have nothing but tissue paper inside."
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"This season feels like a complete waste. McDermott and Snell played 1743 minutes during the season; Hinrich got 1610. Mirotic played most of his time (outside of injury replacement) at the 3. Noah and Gibson have both clearly lost a step that they can't afford to lose. Gasol is going to be 35 and almost incapable of finishing around the rim at a consistent level. Derrick played inconsistently because his reliance on inconsistent driving/jump shooting will lead to that."
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"That being said, it's fair to say this will probably be the worst Cavs team we'll ever play again in the LeBron era. So in that sense, yes, maybe we will have to wait out his career till we can do anything."
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"Saddest thing is that they are only dragging on the inevitable. This team is this team. Another coach is not going to magically get more than Thibs got out of them or get certain players to stop committing bad habits. They need to retool the team completely and make some big moves."
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"Yup. That all goes with the fact that Thibs got nothing out of our role-players while Blatt got the most out of his.
Still, Mirotic killed us in this series. Nothing will change that."
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"Sure, we lost to the best player in basketball again but he had his worst supporting cast in a long, long time. No Love, Kyrie totally ineffective for 4 out of the 6 games. If this team was even a conference championship contender then we would've mopped the floor with them. Instead, we looked lackadaisical and un-inspired for much of the series just like we did in the regular season."
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"The Bulls supporting cast was vastly over rated. Or maybe Thibs didn't prepare them well enough but in this series...
Thompson >>>>>> Taj
Dellavedova >>>>>>> Brooks
JR Smith >>>>>>>> Kirk
Shumpert >>>>>>> Niko
The only role player who played well was Dunleavy. All of their role players played well from the 4 listed above and including James Jones and Mozgof.
JAMES JONES HIT 10 THREE POINTERS THIS SERIES IN 72 MINUTES
NIKOLA, KIRK, AND BROOKS HIT 9 THREE POINTERS THIS SERIES IN 238 MINUTES
That is insane."
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"What the heck were they saving themselves for? Not everybody but certainly too many quitters last night; it simply doesn’t bother them to lose. Embarrassing. Players/team needs an attitude adjustment."
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"J.Hood was going off on the radio last night about the way this team went out, the PATHETIC way it went out. I couldn't agree more. It was simply embarrassing and all these guys should be embarrassed, because they definitely embarrassed the city and the franchise."
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"I wasn't even mad after the game. Bulls kind of get used to disappoint me this season. Sad time. Our bench was horrible, we were beaten by Delladova and TT...come on...
Very interested about post season but don't think anything significant will happen, except Thibs leaving."
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"Their role players stepped up and ours wilted in the spotlight. Every game, a different scrub like Shumpert or Dellavedova was getting hot. Call it the Lebron effect. We just have to hope some of our guys can take a big leap like Mirotic. They definitely should shake some things up though and get rid of a guy like Noah and/or Gibson."
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"That twat Colin Cowherd said that this year was the year for the Bulls to beat LeBron & that the window is now officially closed.
He's a scumbag piece of crap and oh God he's right isn't he"
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"We've definitely made things harder. The whole point of this year was championship or bust. We should have taken advantage of Cleveland's youth of not being an experienced playoff team like Miami was. Not only that, the basketball gods gave it to us on a silver platter. No Love, injured ineffective Kyrie and a severely downgraded Lebron James.
And still couldn't get the job done. I don't think Cavs will be this vulnerable again."
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"lmao
if that was the Cavs at their most vulnerable, i'd hate to see them at their best"
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"Yep. If they return healthy next year, as much as it pains me to say it- Kyrie, Shump, James, Love, Mozgov with TT, Smith, and Delly on the bench are head and shoulders better than the rest of the league."
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View: https://twitter.com/NickFriedell/status/599275538205802496
(Thibs about to be fired is my take on this.)
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