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This article was inspired by Doug Thonus's recent article . It's certainly an interesting read, and it has an optimistic look at the future. As anyone that has read my comments or articles in the past can attest to, I am more optimistic than some, but I still don't really believe the Bulls have a great chance at a championship this year. I'd like to address a few issues I have with Doug's article, and then suggest an alternative way of looking at these championship rosters. First, I have a problem with Doug's argument for the not having a star. If you pro-rated out the way they played this year to a whole career and removed past accomplishments, they'd have zero hall of fame players. The fact Duncan used to be a superstar and Ginobili used to be an all-star caliber player is irrelevant. I have a problem with this because the reason they would not be high caliber players is mostly due to lack of playing time in <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Tory-Burch-Rabbit-Fur-Boots>Tory Burch Rabbit Fur Boots</a> the regular season. is one year removed from averaging 21.3 pts, 11.3 reb, and 3.2 blks per 36 minutes. While he didn't quite get there this year, unless you think his ability level dropped drastically in one offseason, Duncan still has a ton of inherent talent. He simply needs to be rested more in the regular season. Furthermore, Duncan put up a 21.1 PER on 56.8 TS% while playing 32+MPG in the playoffs this season. If he did that throughout the regular season, he would have been one of only to do so. The bottom line is that Duncan still had the ability to play like a top 20 player, and he did it when it counted. This overlooks as well. He put up 20pts, 7ast, on 55.5% TS% per 36 minutes. Those are great numbers for a PG and would easily make him an all star (which he was by the way). Manu's PER 36 numbers were great too. 19.5pts and 6.8 ast per 36 minutes. That means the Spurs had two guys that were capable of putting up 20 pt 7 ast games when given the minutes. Just because the Spurs were underused, doesn't mean they shouldn't be valued. I liked how Doug looked at how many superstar, star, and fringe all star type players each team had. However, when you start comparing the Bulls to the <a href=http://www.radiorcs.com/page.php?sale=Kate-Spade-Designs>Kate Spade Bag</a> 2011 Mavs or the current Spurs team, I think it's important to know what kind of depth/role players/borderline stars each team has. The league average in the 2013 season (couldn't find current) for percentage of field goals assisted was 60.6% and the average TS% was 53.6%. What I want to find is how many players among each teams top 8 rotation players that were able to effectively get their own shot. I looked to find players who were assisted on less than 55% of their FGs while maintaining a league average (I went with 54%) TS%. I could have been more advanced with this, but this seemed simple enough. Here is what I found:

13/14 Spurs Ginobli - 54% assisted, 59.0 TS% Parker - 36% assisted, 55.5 TS% Leonard - 59% assisted, 60.2 TS% Diaw - 65% asisted, 57.8 TS% Duncan - 67% assisted, 53.5 TS% Green - 83% assisted, 58.0 TS% Mills - 57% assisted, 58.8 TS% Marco - 80% assisted,60.5 TS% Splitter - 67% assisted, 57.2 TS% I used 9 here because the personnel varied a bit in the regular season as opposed to the playoffs. As you can see, Ginobli and Parker seem adept at creating for themselves <a href=http://www.alportico.net/page.php?sale=Gucci-Online-Sale>Gucci Online Sale</a> and while Leonard doesn't quite make the cutoff, my suspicion is that if he were a bit more aggressive offensively, his TS% would drop a bit, but he would be assisted a bit less. Mills barely misses the cutoff as well. From my perspective, it seems the Spurs have two players that can get their own shot, two in Leonard and Mills that are borderline, and Duncan and Splitter have decent numbers for post players whose assisted % is usually a bit higher. 10-11 Mavs