What the "F" are the Bulls doing?

I'm a Bulls fan.

Always have been since 1991 even through the dark days of the post championship era. It's really frustrating that the Bulls is taking too long to decide on deals that could make the team instant contenders after they swing a trade.

And the deals that matter were so little (although the Eddy Curry deal was the best to date in the Paxson-Forman era), Bulls got Tyson Chandler, Tyrus Thomas (for LaMarcus Aldridge a head scratcher), deal with Ben Wallace. The Bulls also let the Kobe Bryant trade rumor linger on in 2007-08 that it affected the players mentally thus missing the play-offs again at that time. It's frustrating generally. No bold moves. It's always piece by piece, little by little.

I really can't blame Coach Tom for fielding Rose,Noah and company a bit longer, with so little talent to choose from who can blame the man? I mean Miami have constructed their team that any number they call can produce for their team. A lot of these teams have that luxury, why not the Bulls? My Bulls?

Just this draft for instance Brooklyn let go of the trigger and got themselves a win now championship caliber team, No it's not a big 3 anymore, it's a big 5. While I still believe the Bulls are still competitive I wonder how long, the talent everywhere is growing while the Bulls have stayed foot.

Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce instantly brings championship pedigree to the upstart Brooklyn Nets their presence solidifies the Nets line-up even more, gone is Gerald Wallace on and off plays replaced by a steady Paul Pierce not to mention a huge upgrade with Garnett for Evans and Humphries. Bulls now find themselves battling these teams: Heat, Pacers, Nets and Knicks for East supremacy.

It's frustrating really knowing the Bulls have been dormant while these teams are adding talent by the day. Worst, we Bulls fans might someday wake up to see the team once more struggle just to make it to the second round.

Bulls had a huge opportunity before, some 2 years ago before Derrick injured his ACL and if the Bulls don't do anything even with the brilliance of their coach and their players the window might be closing and it's getting fast.

Wake Up Bulls!

Some Random NBA Thought (Part 2)

Doc Rivers finally gets traded to the Clippers. Hey what can I say the Clips finally get it done, Rivers brings in the championship pedigree of a coach and will demand respect from his players. All I'm saying is it's a win-win situation for both Doc and the Clippers. (I thought the premise was unprecedented but my research yielded Stan Van Gundy as the first coach to get traded, from Miami for a 2nd round pick and cash consideration).

Boston suffers in the trade though.

Now that they failed to package Garnett (or is it still brewing we'll see) Boston is stuck with it's 2 massive pay-check stars. Unless they could unload both  (Which doesn't make sense. Although rumors are swirling that Paul Pierce is being targeted by the Cavs for two 2nd round picks) the Celtics will be rebuilding at a much slower pace knowing that Garnett and Pierce value decreases by the minute (as they are not getting any younger).

This is the horror some predicted when the team decided to get in a "win now" mode. The pains of trying to unload your aging stars, and trying to build a winning team in a faster pace. I do hope Boston gets to resolve their problems soon. For a franchise as storied as the Celtics I always wish them well.

Some team finally hires Brian Shaw as head coach. For 2 seasons Brian Shaw was in a kind of limbo, for some who thought he would succeed Phil Jackson as coach, Brian tumbled upon the league in search of a new home. Last seen at the Pacers bench, Shaw was always at the top of teams searching for Head Coaches (After this play-offs coaches got fired and right now were still in the middle of a head coaching spree as there are still many teams in need of HC).

Polled who is the Top Assistant Coach in the league GMs voted Shaw by a wide margin so it was just a matter of time until somebody inks him to a deal.

Denver still licking its wound after letting current Coach of the Year George Karl, decided to take his name off the potential head coaching list. And in my opinion it's a nice fit. Nuggets known for it's depth and lack of superstar in the team can benefit greatly from the unpredictability of the triangle, having no superstar makes it even a more better fit for the team. Congrats on the hire!

Kobe Bryant says he'll play 3-4 years. Well he can if his body holds up, Don't take Kobe seriously on this one, he knows his body and if it starts to deteriorate he'll retire, In my opinion he is gauging the ceiling of how long he can still play. Let him feel himself coming off a torn Achilles. Don't judge this off the cover.

The NBA is still full of surprises, we haven't gotten into the draft yet there maybe a lot of movements in this draft (or another lame draft like last year) and Free Agency is just around the corner. Watch-out for that!

Winners rise, Losers fall (NBA Finals Game 7)

Heat are champions!

But not without a gallant stand from the Spurs who traded leads with the eventual champion Heat.

"They pushed us to the limit"

James would eventually admit after the game. He knew, and it made this championship even sweeter, coming off with a monster performance from him (a masterful punctuation mark to the transformation he had to do in order to win the series) where he scored 37 giant points, coming off baskets when they needed him to produce. It took all this effort from him to score their first back to back titles. The Spurs wouldn't give it to him that easily he had to earn everything and last night was a validation of a star. A kind of passing of torch, Them Spurs beating James and company 6 years ago and here right now on the same stage James has taken what he rightfully earned.
 

In defeat, Tim Duncan and the Spurs command respect. Nobody can ever question their desire to win it, only they fell short. The Spurs battled the whole game even cutting the lead to just two on a Kawhi Leonard 3-pointer.

The Spurs fell short, as Tim Duncan missed 2 shots that was his staple shots and Manu Ginobili making errors in the end game.

''For me, Game 7 is always going to haunt me,'' Duncan said.

 The Spurs have nothing to be shamed about, but as they lose comes a summer of reflections, what could have been, what could have been done, to come that close only to fall short. Nothing breaks a players heart much more a competitor's heart more than that. As the Heat savor their victory cigars, Tim Duncan walks down the tunnel head low, for the first time he lost a NBA Finals and it could be his last. The memory will haunt him he says, never has been those words so true.

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• Next week the NBA brings hope as the draft approaches, For Cleveland it'll be huge, another piece to build on and hopefully one that can get them back to play-off contention, one that will surely take LeBron's notice when the free agency of 2014 nears.
• The Clippers and the Celtics have yet to reach an agreement, the first of what could be a promising off-season we better watch this one as it unfolds or fold itself out of discussion.
• Jerry Sloan is back as Jazz Consultant! That's great news for me having been a fan of Coach Sloan's work, he's finally home.
• There are still plenty more coaching vacancies to fill this should keep NBA addicts occupied as we enter the off season, the free agency could also be a good one to watch out for.

There are plenty more of good reads to come, keep on reading 'til next time.

DeAndre Jordan to The Celtics should have been a no brainer!

I don't think it was worth it if the Celtics still asked for Bledsoe.

But when they dropped their asking price for 2 draft picks? Give me a break! It's a no brainer even if DeAndre Jordan has some upside (as he always have, reportedly, when they resigned him and kept him from Golden State's grasp way back 2011, although no development has shown 2 years after) and Kevin is slowly declining a one-is-to-one trade is already a win for LA's other team. Not to mention the right for a champion coach. I mean 2 draft picks isn't that pricy especially when you think that they would probably pick 20th overall or maybe later for that 2 drafts.

Garnett's value is not only when he's physically playing, but he will be a big presence in the locker room. He can pick up the slack when the guys are dozing off and relaxing. He will prepare the team mentally maybe even physically. Something he's done in Boston. And what about Doc Rivers? Doc is Doc and he's well regarded as a great coach.

Clippers still have a chance to do this right. One advice to them? Don't be stupid.

Extra: Scene from the NBA Finals

• As Dan Devine of Yahoo! Sports reports Heat fans dashed out of the exits even before the final score was settled. It's a very ill sight, but then again I guessed it's apt knowing these fans probably were nowhere to be found before 2010. The very example of fair weather fans. I'm glad they weren't allowed back after Ray Allen hit the game tying shot and the Heat eventually won.
• LeBron got another triple double but it would have been for naught because he had 2 late TO's. Thank heavens for Ray Allen.
• Bosh finally had 2 game changing plays in one game!
• There'll be another game 7 the first one we're having since 2010, David Stern must be all smiles.

Hey see you again on Thursday! Hit feedback for comments. :D

Manu is the true MVP of the Spurs!

There I said it so sue me.

It seems to me to have been true since 2005, Everytime Ginobili have a break out game the Spurs follows. It seems that their energy and passion flow through him. In this series (in fact the whole play-offs) Ginobili seem to have lost himself on the play. Averaging just 7.5 points on the series, questions lingered "Are you done?"

Even Ginobili himself seem to doubt himself when he declares he's open to retiring once the Finals is finished.

 ''Everything is a day-by-day basis, Once the season finishes and I see how I feel, I can't imagine me not playing at least one more year here, but time will tell. We'll see. Sometimes I do think about retirement, But then I say, 'No, no. I love what I do. I'm very lucky to be in a franchise like this. So I really can't picture myself being retired already."

''There's a small chance. It's not that I'm really considering, but I can never say 'no' for sure, because I sometimes consider it.''

In Game 5, Manu recaptured his game of old. Shooting 8-14 and finishing with 24 points and 10 assists Manu was Manu again. On the game's opening possession, he stepped back for a foot-on-the-line 23-foot jump shot. You knew he was on attack mode, maybe because of a sense of urgency that made him play this way, or maybe to quiet some doubters or maybe something to prove for himself that no I'm not yet done, maybe the move to the staring line-up helped. Whatever it is one thing is for certain The Spurs go where Manu leads them.

Extra: So much about LeBron James declaring "enough is enough". James did produce the numbers, but again the actual play doesn't speak for itself. Shooting 8-22 in the field, I don't think that is enough to win a basketball game. I don't like when players go declaring something and not backing it up (James already has his shares of boo boo declarations like the not one, not two crap). With their backs behind the wall, James needs to show his character as he said he wants to leave the game known as the greatest. This is the stage where you'll be judged LeBron and so far you are not getting any leverage.

Blame the Fuckin Aliens! (A Man of Steel Review)

Spoiler Alert: Some of the things that I will write here contains commentaries about the film, so if don't want to spoil your fun when you attempt to watch the movie do not and I repeat DO NOT proceed reading.

Having said that let's begin.

I like how the movie started, the retelling of how Superman came to be. I have to say I'm not really a big fan of the franchise but what the heck, any movie that have Nolan in it, well I might just enjoy watching it, So I don't have a big background on the superguy.

It's good when a movie starts with backgrounds with him so that new fans don't have to scratch their heads and say who's who and what's what. As in any Nolan movie (though here he's not director) there are flashbacks in the whole movie. A distraction (and I meant it a good way) from a chronological standpoint in which case you get bored without these interruptions.

The anti-hero is better this time compared to just Luthor (as it was in the previous film). He's more badass with powers too. So it's not puny as it was in the last movie.

I have to commend Russell Crowe's performance, making a believable guardian/father throughout his incarnations in the movie. Henry Cavill has rooms to grow for his part as Clark Kent, but my initial apprehensions with him playing Superman's human side was pushed away as the movie progresses. I saw that well he could make a believable case for himself as there are semblance between him and Tom Welling ( Smallville's teenage superman if you were never  fan of that series). I thought Amy Adams was so gorgeous in the movie, that she couldn't be just a reporter. Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent bravo!

I think the film kind of failed to emphasize Lawrence Fishburne's role more. Well he could be the publisher but he didn't have the kind of feel to emphasize that. He was empathetic in the film, something you'll surely not feel with a lot of bosses.

One of the refreshing thing in the movie is they established early on that Lois Lane know the true identity of Superman. It's kind of hard to reconcile that in the comic book you know that a simple reading glass can hide a person's identity specially when he's as widely follow as Superman. Which is still the thing in the movie, I mean except for the Kent's, Ms. Lane and maybe those who he has saved (the fat kid on the bus) why can't humans identify Superman from Clark Kent with the eye glass? (Big Question Mark)

Another issue for me is the tentacles, I feel that ever since the Kraken has  been relased we have multiple sightings of those kind of tentacles. (Pirates of the Caribbean has it, Clash of the Titans even, Michael Bay also inserted it in Transformers).

The film is visually sound the action is great also, but there are scenes in the movie that maybe devoid of human emotions. Which made me think yes THIS IS A VERY HARD MOVIE TO DIRECT. Because the hero and the antagonist are super there are hardly emotions released.

You know when somebody gets punched you know they can take it because they're super. You know that they'll hardly bulge even if they get hit by a truck, practically blew up buildings and practically endangered the whole world! (Thus the title for this entry!)

It's basically WWII in Asia in a nutshell, the Japanese invaded Caucasian controlled territories in Asia because they were Caucasian controlled. In the movie it was because of Kal-El that General Zod invaded the earth in the first place to seek out the son of Jor-El almost tearing out the planet to ashes.

Overall the movie is great, I just think that there could be more emphasis on emotions in the next movie, heightening it can make this movie into the next level. Also Kudos to Zach Snyder for not balking down on this challenge of a movie.

PS. If you keen on watching you might have noticed some promos thrown in on the movie, Nikon (They even show the model!), 7-11 and other big companies. You might have also noticed Luthor Corps on the background and Wayne Enterprises if I am not mistaken (on the satellite). Until next time!

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The Big Three comes up big at last!

Finals Game 4.

Nobody in NBA history has ever came out winning a series after being down 3-1 in a series. That is surely a big void that Miami wanted to avoid, and it showed in their play. LeBron, Dwyane and Bosh were on attack mode all night long.

What surprises me is the Spurs resolve to counter these three early on, especially before the half. Miami by then was already threatening to blow the game wide open San Antonio tied it before half (Bosh failed to beat the clock when he launched to what could have been an impressive dunk that could potentially have given them the lead).

The Heat defense produced 7 blocks and forced 19 Spurs turnovers. That while being bolstered by the renewed energy from their leaders prompting the ever quotable Gregg Popovich to say: "When those guys are playing like that, you better be playing a perfect game". Those 19 turnovers produced 23 transition points.

Wade performance came in as a surprise though, hobbled by knee injury the whole post season Wade was Wade of old. The MVP candidate an that kind of energized LeBron as well after a lethargic 3 games, James explodes for 33 points.

Stopping one is already a pain in the ass, how about a three headed monster?

I think Wade is the X-Factor in this series, if he continues to play this well? They might just pull this off. LeBron can score all he wants but if he gets no other help it will be for nut. The Spurs defense will just collapse on him. I think it's on Wade's shoulders fall to give LeBron the help, because Bosh is Bosh.

Now, it's a 3-game series, Let's now see who's the better of both teams the next game. I don't think anybody has an upperhand right now as both teams have been able to quiet the tide. These 3 games might be the most exciting games of these series, stay tuned.

The Jury is out on LeBron

When LeBron James joined the Miami Heat he declared they'd win multiple titles (the much quoted not one, not two crap). Heat are hell bent on making the finals every year (with all the talent they have) but the question rings, do they have what it takes to be champions?

Entering the Spurs series, James swaggered himself telling the press he is about "50% better" than when he first met the Spurs in 2007. In three games, LeBron has yet to show me that he did indeed improve a lot in six years. His numbers are telling 18, 17 and 15. These numbers are underwhelming, in fact it's shrinking. In Game 3 it is noticeable that James didn't have the confidence to make a shot anymore. Had the Spurs didn't softened it's defense on the third quarter James wouldn't even reach double figure scoring.

For all the talent he has it's disappointing to see James dip this far. Skip Bayless even tweeted: LeBron is great in garbage time. Ouch!

There are calls for James to take over the games, much like what Michael Jordan did in his heyday. James is averaging a disappointing 16.7 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists at 38% shooting. Clearly this is not enough.

He said it himself on an interview he needs to be better than Michael Jordan if he wants to be called great, with this showing, add the lousy showing he had in 2007 and 2011 that vision seems too far out for him. He needs to do something with his play. Michael Jordan's playground is the Finals.

For a guy who claims to be king his claim to throne is already slipping away. The Jury is out LeBron.