Over the past five years I have butchered Carlos Boozer. Called him a traitor, a wimpy jump shooter, and a wuss who doesn't play through a bad hangnail, much less an actual minor injury. But when the Bulls signed him this offseason I bought into the hype. I said he was the perfect fit for the Bulls, a pick and roll specialist that would jump Rose's assist total to near double digits. Just last week I argued with a friend of mine about how Boozer will have a better season than Chris Bosh. I even argued Boozer's deal was better for the Bulls because it was cheaper and one less year, saying that both players will have issues in four years with injuries but then Boozer will be coming off the books while Bosh will have one more season. I was so convinced that Boozer was the answer the Bulls were looking for after missing out on the big three that I forgot one HUGE thing! CARLOS SCREWED OVER A BLIND GUY!
Karma is an unforgiving bitch and she has her sights set on Boozer. If Carlos was on any other team I would have called his contract 'INSANE,' I would have ripped the team that signed him and when he got injured laughed at them. Sadly, I was suckered in by the Bulls hype machine and now I am paying the price.
I'm not saying the season is over, not by any means. I still think if the Bulls have a healthy team come playoff time they will be very tough and should make a deep run possibly to the Eastern Conference Finals. When the season starts Taj Gibson will be the starter at PF and he has proven to be very capable of holding down the fort. The sad part is the hardest part of the Bulls schedule is the first month of the season, which Carlos WILL definitely miss. The good news, if this happened after the season started he'd miss 30 games or so instead of just 15. It's not much of a silver lining, but it's what I'm clinging to.
Lastly, this does change my prediction for the upcoming season. I had the Bulls winning 52 games and finishing with the third seed, now I'm saying 48 and earning the fourth seed. The reason the drop off isn't greater? I expected the Bulls to lose quite a few of these early games anyway so that's something. I'm so unhappy right now.
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Boozer can allow a specific basketball reference to carry over into the mainstream. Now, instead of referring to a woman's private parts you can just say, "Don't be such a Boozer". Like many cuss words it could take on multiple meanings - obviously if someone trips or does something goofy then they are a Boozer. But also, maybe we could work it in if someone screws over someone like he did the Cavs owner back in the day. "Man, I can't believe you Boozered John over that way by stealing his girlfriend" And so forth.
ReplyDeleteOut of ALL the free agents, the big 3, Gay, Johnson, Amare, hell David Lee even, Booz was my least favorite player (Amare was actually second least fav.). Well, at least Rose and Noah are locked up and if Deng plays solid then they are a dangerous playoff team. Boozer will just be a very very expensive wild card to the team's success. I expect nothing so if he does anything then I'm happily suprised.