The Goat Pen

Casey quoted as saying he's going to start Bargnani over Valanciunas to get him going.... So much for accountability... Valanciunas can't even get minutes down the stretch even when he's busting his ass and playing well and Bargnani just gets minutes handed to him even when he's playing like dogshit...

To add, I think PG controversy he inevitably creates is also one of the most frustrating aspect. As a backup, he's excellent because he's probably one of the best and his weaknesses aren't as glaring playing against the other team's bench. He's good enough to start for you if your starter gets injur...

Lowry has been passive even before Gay got here. He did play more like himself in the NY game, which was nice to see. At this point, I wouldn't mind amnestying Bargnani rather than falsely hoping to get some value for him, if he keeps producing bunch of 0's across the board, just cut him loose. Ther...

Somebody needs to ask the question WTF is wrong with Lowry? Is he still playing hurt? Or was he so mind-fucked by Casey's "coaching" that he's become completely average? Remembering how he played early in the season to what he is now, he's not the same player. If Lowry is actually healthy,...

There's still time. Look at Grant Hill.

This team's dumb as hell. Only thing that saved it is Lucas's timely hot shooting. And yeah, Rudy Gay's winning shot.

Yes, Boozer is superior to Bargnani but doesn't mean he's not overpaid. And he doesn't perform in big games and has been riddled with nagging injuries that caused him to miss so many games.

Why do you think Bulls are seriously considering amnestying him?

I'd only maybe consider if they took Fields.

Although I don't think it should've ever come to that point if they did things right last year, Rudy Gay I could still understand under the circmstances but not Boozer. No way. As for Valanciunas, big men do take more time to develop but Gray? Come on. And Ross ain't getting any younger. 22 already....

Does playing Gray over Valanciunas and playing Anderson over Ross really make that big of a difference between us winning and losing? Casey has received his share of criticism from fans this season and I'm starting to think a lot of them are deserved.

Is Valanciunas still hurt or is Casey getting so desperate to win now that he's lost sight of long term development? Sure looks like it from the way he's overplaying Anderson and sitting Ross.

Ed Davis has had a breakout season but a very promising prospect? A tad bit exaggerating, no? And not sure how Raptors would be losing more games now as opposed to before, yes, our front court is extremely short-handed now but they also got people coming back very shortly and our SF spot has been pi...

I'm not 100% satisfied with the trade but I would say positives outweigh the negatives. Don't even care about who wins the trade, the question is did we improve and the answer is yes. I don't think getting Rudy Gay is the problem here. He fills the position where we've been the weakest for a long ti...

We get Rudy Gay and another stiff for Calderon, Ed Davis and a 2nd round pick. Detroit also involved. I like this trade for finally getting rid of Calderon but hate it for giving up Ed Davis because he was finally starting to get it together and more because this may mean we could be stuck with Barg...

Get Calderon the fuck outta this team already. People are now saying Lowry might be traded first with Doug Smith being the shameless mouthpiece for the management. We traded a guaranteed lottery pick for this guy and didn't even give him a fair chance before labeling him a failure. Seriously, watchi...

Calderon and Bargnani would be ideal situation for Raptors but we all know Grizzlies would never go for it.

Agreed with TDot on Gay. Gay gives us something that we haven't had in a long time, a true SF with talent. He does have a heavy price tag but with this team, I think you take the gamble. But if we were to go after Gay, DeRozan's gotta go, use him to fill some other hole. I like DeRozan better than R...

I'm okay with Casey but not as impressed as I was last year. Needs two things IMO. Be more consistent with accountability with regards to Bargnani. If he's not gonna give a fair chance to a guy who's new and has had to deal with a lot of adversities over a guy who hasn't gotten shit done for years a...

I don't know if he would've been a much better player if he had stayed at Carolina one more year, but I damn sure would've liked him better if he had. We had an elite 8 team the year after he left, add him to that squad and we would've been the favorites to win it all... don't be surprised if Ed ke...

http://www.nba.com/bulls/news/smith_121224.html "Though he’s out now injured, the Raptors supposedly would like to put Kyle Lowry in a trade package and keep Jose Calderon. The Raptors give up 11 more points per game when Lowry is on the court compared with Calderon" Gonna puke if this act...

Couldn't believe what I was seeing myself.

Lucas didn't even say anything and got a tech immediately.

I wonder what league office has to say about that, if anything.