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Originally Posted by GBBob
Well..the edit was interesting at least
I'm not sure what you posted when the Bulls signed Wallace, but at the time I don't think there were many doing much else other than calling Paxson a genius. Considering where they were as a team at that point, where they were drafting and what they needed...it seemed like an inspired and agressive move. In hindsight, I think it was more that the rest of the team didn't end up where they should have been vs Wallace not getting them there. Either way, I don't know how you could have watched the Bulls in the last 12 months and said that getting rid of WAllace was a detriment.
I really think that at worse, the trade was a wash for the Bulls, but not the travesty that you make it out to be.
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Well coming from a noted NBA follower such as yourself I would find it interesting that you and the other Bulls fans choose to ignore the fact that no one was bidding for Wallace especially for 4 years at that price. Detroit was offering much less and simply let him walk which essentially killed their chances to win the title. The Bulls issues run far greater than Ben Wallace and that contract that all Bulls fans seem to resent. The fact that Deng is sleepwalking or hurt or both due to his contract or trade rumors. That Gordon resents not being signed. That Heinrich looks like he aged 20 years during the off season. That they have no inside scoring to speak of because they draft athletic guys that lack basketball knowledge or skills like thomas and Noah. That Nocionni is the only consistent guy they have and he is a zero on defense?
Since you dont watch much NBA let me give you a quickover view of what you got. For 14 mill a year a sullen, no dimensional guard that shoots poorly, is average at all other phases of the game and was so valuble to Cleveland that they accomplished most of their improbable playoff run without him. Gooden rebounds pretty good and can hit an open 10 foot baseline shot but give you little else. he is really not much different than Thomas or Noah, just has a funny looking beard.
Since you seem to feel that I am somehow picking on the Bulls let me post what Bill Simmons wrote about it on ESPN.com
On the flip side, the John Paxson era is starting to resemble the Britney Spears era -- tons of promise, tons of hype, a startling turn and now he's one more bad move away from chain-smoking in a hospital gown while speaking with a British accent. If you had told a Bulls fans two years ago that everything (and by "everything," I'm referring to a five-year odyssey spent stockpiling lottery picks and creating cap space) was leading toward a 2008 deadline deal that netted them Larry Hughes and Drew Gooden, they would have punched you in the face and then they would have punched you in the face again. But that's where we are. All things considered, the Wallace contract was the single most damaging front-office decision of this decade that didn't involve Chris Wallace.