Originally posted by <b>Jim Ian</b>!
Therein lies the rub.
There is not a person on Earth, not Mick Catholic, Jesus, or God himself, that knows which of the 5 young studs will be the "young core." You can guess and pretend to know all ya like... but fact is ya don't know, I don't know, Jordan doesn't know, Jerry West doesn't know, Phil Jackson doesn't know. Name somebody? They don't know.
That's not the point. Fact is you got to make a commitment and commitments have not been made to everybody .
It's clear that a commitment has been made to Jay - that's what Jamdrop has had himself in a twist about all season
Its clear that a commitment has been made to Tyson - that's why we dealt Elton and why Prince Tyse was lunching with Papa Reisndorf at the Club last week.
That's where the two clear commitments lie in our young core .
One may speculate that there is a commitment made to Eddy Curry as well just by virtue of his size and ultimate capacity to dominate his position
What have the Bulls done in their actions over the last season or so to show a warm fuzzy commitment to Fizz and Jamdrop ?
Marcus is changing the equation somewhat by compelling people to view him differently through an admirable attitude combined with high performance. For the guy that never was supposed to be a Bull , the irony could be that he is a career Bull and a key part of our front court rotation
Anyhow, you don't trade for Eddie Jones unless you thin the backcourt/wings which sends Jamdrop and Efelon + change to Miami for EJ - who has a better capacity as working as a circuit breaker for Jay and Jalen
See : Jalen and Jamal's thinly veiled swipes at Jay in the last 24 hours - Jamal's being more blatant and clumsy . Does he really think he endears himself to the org by openly pizzing on their Golden Boy ? Dumb as dogcrap
Jerry's not willing to trade 2 guys (let's say Fizer & Crawdaddy) who, like it or not, could very well end up being the best 2 of the group. That's the kind of crap that gets you fired.
So can not proceeding in an orderly development and stunting the proper/orderly growth of your young crew that have been clearly preferenced but yet where inappropriate structuring has been allowed to remain - the net result of which gets everyone jacked off and on the first plane out of here when they get the chance.
Thank God JK has more sense then to shoot his kids a year early only to see them on other teams later, standing between him and winning the title. While the guy he traded them for (Let's say Eddie Jones) is 139 and rotting on IR. In other words, no help when you really need him....
Yeah I'm sure if we lose Jamal and ERob to Miami they will be standing between us and a title. Sure thing . Yeah Jamal and ERob have greater probability for success than Jay, Tyson, Eddy and Marcus.
And you say that EJ would be no help when we need him ? Gee I would have thought that in 4 years if we consolidate our young talent that we would not be relying on EJ alone - that those that we appear to have committed to have come through and are more the engine as to whether we win or lose in the playoffs - that it does not hang on EJ . I would also have thought by then that our drafting outcomes would have netted us a pretty decent Desmond Masoneque mid 1st round pick where types like this can always be had - and a guy like this ultimately supplants EJ in the progression plan
Oh but that's right .. Jamdrop can get us there quicker than EJ can now and Jamdrop will be the difference between us winning and losing once we are there.
Uh huh . Got it.
