Bulls need to dump Salmons ASAP

[Gooner]

Dude is garbage and has a player option for next year. If he continues sucking and doesn't opt out in the summer you can say goodbye to potentially signing a big time free agent.

[Dr. Feelgood]

I think Salmons is a great player, especially for the Bulls.

[Erick Blasco]

Dude is garbage and has a player option for next year. If he continues sucking and doesn't opt out in the summer you can say goodbye to potentially signing a big time free agent.

 

Or, you can just sign a shooting guard, move Salmons to the three and solve that problem.

[Gooner]

Or, you can just sign a shooting guard, move Salmons to the three and solve that problem.

Like who?

 

I mean we had a shooting guard and chose not to sign him.

[Newman]

They will have to either dump Deng and Salmons to solve the problem or at least, make one of them a sixth man. Derrick Rose needs someone athletic or a 3-point shooter at the 2-guard spot to play with him in my opinion. Not only are Deng/Salmons not the player, they are the same type of player who lacks a perimeter game and the main weapon being their mid-range game, which means the Bulls will lack a bit of creativity with those two on the floor at the same time (given those two's similiarity).

[Guest California Dreamin']

Or, you can just sign a shooting guard, move Salmons to the three and solve that problem.

No, Salmons is garbage. Keep Deng at the 3 and sign a good SG.

 

1. Buy him out or trade him for an expiring contract.

 

2. Bring Wade back home.

 

1. Rose

2. Wade

SF. Deng

PF.

C. Noah

[Erick Blasco]

They will have to either dump Deng and Salmons to solve the problem or at least, make one of them a sixth man. Derrick Rose needs someone athletic or a 3-point shooter at the 2-guard spot to play with him in my opinion. Not only are Deng/Salmons not the player, they are the same type of player who lacks a perimeter game and the main weapon being their mid-range game, which means the Bulls will lack a bit of creativity with those two on the floor at the same time (given those two's similiarity).

 

Exactly. Salmons has struggled with the speed of the two-guard position. He's had trouble isolating against smaller guards , and isn't a prototypical three-point shooter. Last season, when Salmons played the three in Sacramento and in Chicago with Gordon, he thrived.

 

Chicago could bump Deng to the four, Salmons to the three, insert Hinrich or Pargo at the two, and hope to play super small. They'd get killed defensively with that lineup but they need a shakeup. They can try to trade Tyrus Thomas for a two-guard who can shoot. But whatever happens, Chicago has no offensive spacing and no outside shooting. Plus Del Negro lacks imagination on the offensive end.

 

Blaming everything on Salmons is blind-sighted. He was the player who put the Bulls over the edge in last season's run to the playoffs. Don't scapegoat him because of a poorly constructed roster.

[Pooh25]

I'm liking the current move by Vinny Del Negro to insert Kirk Hinrich into the starting line-up, it's paid off. John Salmons looks like the old season with the second group. I'm all for shipping Salmons to Houston, though. I would accept that deal in a heart-beat.

Edited January 2, 2010 by 23Bullsaj