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Baidu, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search provider. As a technology-based media company, Baidu aims to provide the best way for people to find information. In addition to serving individual Internet search users, Baidu provides an effective platform for businesses to reach... More
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- Monday, May 20, 10:15 AM Chinese Internet stocks jump in response to Qihoo's Q1 beat and very strong Q2 guidance, highlighted by ramping search ad sales and soaring online game revenue. YY +6.5%. RENN +6.8%. NTES +5.5%. BIDU +2.4%. PWRD +3.2%. SOHU +3%. SINA +2.3%. Comment! [Tech, On the Move]
- Friday, May 17, 11:14 AM Take this one with a grain of salt: an "industry source" claims Baidu (BIDU +1.6%) has reached a deal to buy Sohu's (SOHU +2.5%) Sogou search unit for $2B-$2.5B in cash and shares of Baidu's iQiyi online video unit. Though Sohu is rallying, the entire company still only has a market cap of $2.4B, indicating investors are as skeptical of this report as they were of Qihoo deal reports. Acquiring Sogou would pose integration challenges for Baidu, and (given Baidu's dominant Chinese search share) could also draw a regulatory response. (previous) Comment! [Tech, M&A, On the Move]
- Friday, May 10, 9:48 AM An upgrade to Buy from Goldman's Piyush Mubayi helps Sina (SINA +2.6%) open higher. Mubayi expects the Alibaba deal to "enable Alibaba to direct [e-commerce] demand to Weibo," thereby improving monetization. Talking more broadly about the Chinese Web services space, he declares Alibaba, Baidu (BIDU), and Tencent (TCEHY.PK) to be in a 3-way leadership battle that "will likely shape the industry landscape over the next 5-10 years." Other recent deals (I, II) also seem to bear that out. Will Baidu make a deal or two to strengthen its social networking hand in this battle? (Jefferies Sina upgrade) Comment! [Tech, On the Move]
- Wednesday, May 8, 1:10 PM A recent Chinese government proposal to allow local investors to buy stocks traded elsewhere could give a lift to "companies familiar to them," argues Stifel. The firm mentions Baidu (BIDU +3.3%), Qihoo (QIHU +2.1%), Youku (YOKU +1.2%), and Tencent (TCEHY.PK - trades in HK) as beneficiaries. All 3 U.S.-traded names are rallying, as are YY (YY +8.9%), Sohu (SOHU +5.1%), Perfect World (PWRD +1.6%), and Changyou (CYOU +3.1%). Youku fell yesterday after Baidu confirmed it's buying video site PPS, and will integrate it with its iQiyi site. Baidu claims PPS/iQiyi will create China's largest Web video platform in terms of mobile users and viewing time. 1 Comment [Tech, On the Move, Quick Ideas]
- Tuesday, May 7, 6:40 AM Baidu (BIDU) says it will pay $370M to buy the online video business of PPStream. The company plans to fold the business into its iQiyi unit. Comment! [Tech, M&A]
- Monday, May 6, 2:30 PM Chinese Internet stocks are surging after equities rallied in Shanghai and Hong Kong in spite of a major drop in China's services PMI. In addition to Qihoo (previous), winners include Renren (RENN +12.2%), YY (YY +13.3%), Baidu (BIDU +3.8%), Sina (SINA +2.8%), Sohu (SOHU +3.4%), Changyou (CYOU +4.3%), and Perfect World (PWRD +5%). YY is now up 20% since posting a strong Q1 report on Thursday afternoon; revenue rose 130.5% Y/Y to RMB315M ($50.7M), and EPS of $0.23 beat consensus by $0.06. Revenue is expected to hit RMB330M-340M in Q2. Comment! [Tech, On the Move]
Monday, May 6, 11:23 AM
The TD Ameritrade Investor Sentiment Index rose 0.23 points in March to 5.37, the 4th highest point in its 3-year history, and the best level since June 2011. Customers rotated out of outperforming names like DELL, PG, and HPQ, and into laggards like BIDU and FB.
1 Comment - Monday, April 29, 11:28 AM Chinese Internet stocks rally following news Alibaba is buying an 18% stake in Sina as it tries to head off competition from Tencent. Youku (YOKU +7%) is the biggest winner, but Baidu (BIDU +2.2%), NetQin (NQ +3.8%), NetEase (NTES +2%), and YY (YY +3.7% - a rival to Tencent's QQ platform) are also having good days. Youku filed its 2012 20-F on Friday. Comment! [Tech, On the Move]
- Friday, April 26, 5:51 PM "Mobile monetization is distant, macro conditions do not warrant aggressive pricing inflation, and online video is competitive," writes Goldman on Baidu (BIDU -7.9%), following its Q1 miss. The firm thinks surging SG&A and traffic acquisition costs will lead op. margin to fall to 39% in 2013 from 50.5% in 2012. Brean (downgrading to Hold) and Barclays also aren't confident about near-term mobile monetization. On the earnings call, CEO Robin Li admitted mobile ad prices, though "growing nicely," remain below PC prices. Rival Qihoo (QIHU -0.3%), which may have contributed to Baidu's 6.5% Q/Q drop in revenue per ad customer, was nearly unchanged. 3 Comments [Tech, Earnings, On the Move]
Friday, April 26, 9:11 AM
Premarket gainers: LOGM +19%. AVNR +16%. SYNA +17%. QLIK +12%. CRIS +9%. DHI +7%. THRX +7%. MUX +7%. JCP +7%. CSTR +6%.
Losers: PKI -14%. SIMO -11%. BIDU -9%. KEG -8%. SDT -5%. Comment! [On the Move] - Thursday, April 25, 5:12 PM More on Baidu: Revenue/ad customer -6.5% Q/Q and +9% Y/Y to $2,335; that's on top of a 3.1% Q/Q drop in Q4, and (along with the rev. miss) likely to raise concerns about mobile and competition. Online customers totaled 410K, +28% Y/Y but only +1% Q/Q. Traffic acquisition costs up to 10.2% of revenue from 9.6% in Q4 and 7.8% in Q1 '12, blamed on higher ad network mix and hao123 toolbar promotions. SG&A spend +77%, R&D +83%; both well above rev. growth of 40%. Bandwidth costs 6.8% of revenue, up from 5.3% in Q4 and 5.2% in Q1 '12. Mobile search daily users above 100M, up 25%+ Q/Q. BIDU -6.7% AH. CC at 8PM ET (webcast). (PR) Comment! [Tech, Earnings]
- Thursday, April 25, 4:38 PM Baidu (BIDU): Q1 EPS of $1.00 misses by $0.03. Revenue of $961M misses by $0.08. Expects Q2 revenue of $1.19B-$1.22B vs. consensus of $1.2B. Shares -6.4% AH. (PR) Comment! [Tech, Earnings, On the Move, Breaking News]
- Thursday, April 25, 6:59 AM Baidu's (BIDU) online video unit purchased streaming platform PPStream, according to Chinese media reports. The deal price is thought to be in the $350M to $400M range. By buying PPStream, the company could cut into the online video market share of Youku-Tudou. 1 Comment [Tech, M&A]
- Thursday, April 25, 12:10 AM Notable earnings after Thursday's close: AEM, ALTR, AMCC, AMKR, AMZN, BIDU, BJRI, BLDR, BMRN, CALX, CAMP, CB, CBG, CENX, CERN, CINF, CLWR, CRUS, CSTR, CTCT, DECK, DLB, ELY, EMN, EXPE, FII, FR, FSL, GERN, IGT, IM, INAP, INFA, KBR, KEG, KLAC, LEG, MCRS, MXIM, N, NR, NTGR, OLN, PFG, PKI, PMCS, QLIK, RMD, RRC, RSG, SBUX, SIMO, SPN, SWKS, SYNA, TCO, THRX, TLAB, UHS, VPRT, VRSN, WRE, WYNN Comment! [Earnings]
- Wednesday, April 24, 5:35 PM Notable earnings after Thursday's close: AEM, ALTR, AMCC, AMKR, AMZN, BIDU, BJRI, BLDR, BMRN, CALX, CAMP, CB, CBG, CENX, CERN, CINF, CLWR, CRUS, CSTR, CTCT, DECK, DLB, ELY, EMN, EXPE, FII, FR, FSL, GERN, IGT, IM, INAP, INFA, KBR, KEG, KLAC, LEG, MCRS, MXIM, N, NR, NTGR, OLN, PFG, PKI, PMCS, QLIK, RMD, RRC, RSG, SBUX, SIMO, SPN, SWKS, SYNA, TCO, THRX, TLAB, UHS, VPRT, VRSN, WRE, WYNN Comment! [Earnings]
- Friday, April 19, 5:49 PM 8 months after Qihoo (QIHU) encroached on Baidu's (BIDU) turf by launching a search engine, Baidu is returning the favor by launching PC antivirus software meant to compete with Qihoo's 360 Safeguard and Anti-Virus apps, which are deployed on hundreds of millions of Chinese PCs. Just as Qihoo has attacked the authenticity of Baidu's search results, look for Baidu to exploit criticism of Qihoo's practices. A government agency recently denounced Qihoo for making uninstalls difficult and tricking users into thinking they're installing a Microsoft patch, among other things. 2 Comments [Tech]
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Great chapter. I enjoyed the quiz.
Great chapter. I enjoyed the quiz.
I am a Christian and proud of it! Copy and paste this if you are too.*Co-Owner of the Dawn/Hikari Fanclub v4*Come and read my newest fanfic that I'm currently writing!
I really liked how the reader could also take the same quiz Max did. Unfortunately, I only got one question right....:'( But I really liked it!
Can you add me to the PM list please? I am really enjoying it! I know this is the Hoenn region and all, but I think it would be cool if Max got an egg that hatched into a Sinnoh or Unova Pokemon considering it would be a good learning experience for him, training a Pokemon he doesn't know much about.
1)Sure!)I am really happy that you like it, my dear new follower
2)about egg, I have this idea in mind, but sadly he won't get my fav unova Pokemon(oshawott-Dewott), cause he would get Mudkip, who is one of my Hoenn favourites
By the way, have you read all chapters?)
Yes, I have read all the chapters! Since you bring Mudkipz into the mix, I hope he gets a Swampert
Yeah, I liked the Pokemon Quiz chapter.
Thanks for the link to your fanfic, I love to read them and this is one of the most creative fanfic I've read. I love the references to the AG saga and sorry for the late reply, I thought it would be better to read your whole story so far rather than just that one chapter, in my free time.
Ash: Now I chose you!
Electro Ball!
-Pikachu: PikaPika-Chu-Pi!-
Wow! Had a chance to write a new chapter, and I did!)Also, want to note, I thought whether to divide gym battle in two chapters or not, but I'll divide into two, because it has enough size(the 1st part) for the chapter and it will be more interesting for you
So, here it is!
advice: while Max and Roxanne are battling, you can use this music)
The 7th Chapter: Unprepared Experience!
(Max and Forrest are somewhere near Pokemon Center. The place is a little bit rocky, so Max is training with his Pokemon as he prepares for the upcoming gym battle. Forrest is sitting and watching all of this)
Max(yelling): "Treecko, use Bullet Seed! Tailow, Use Steel Wing!"
Treecko: "Treecko!"(jumps) "Cko-ko-ko-ko…"(and Treecko shoots out lightgreen seeds out of his mouth and they are fired into the rock)
Taillow(flies and its wings glow grey as he heads into the another boulder)
(As they continue, Taillow smashes the rock and Treecko's Bullet Seed smashes the rock as well)
Max(yells one more time): "Treecko, do a Pound attack with a spin! Like you did before!"
Treecko(jumps and spins): "Tree-eee…"(smashes the boulder and crashes it. Then it looks at Max and smiles) "Treecko!"
Max: "That's great!" (to Taillow) "Let's do Steel Wing again, and even harder this time!"
Taillow(nods and flies again): "Taillow!" (flies at the rock) "loooow…"
Max: "Now spin!"
(Tailow spins and becomes a spinning threat that crashes the rock)
Taillow(flies to Max); "Taillow!"
Max: "That's awesome job too, Taillow!" (to both of them) "Now, take it please" (gives them Pokemon food with grated Oran berries, which Max had earlier)
(Pokemon start eating and they really like it)
Taillow(like "yummy!"): ""Loww!
Treecko(eats and enjoys it): "Cko!"
Forrest: "They really like it!"
Max: "Yeah! Thank you for making it!"
Forrest: "No problem, Max! Hope you'll win this battle!...as for the battle what strategy do you plan to use?"
Max: "I'll start with Treecko, try to do my best and later I'll use Taillow if Treecko would be in danger. And as you've seen, our spinning moves are really powerful!"
Forrest(agrees): "Yes, they really are!"
(As Pokemon finish eating, Max takes Heart Scale out of his bag and shows them)
Max: "See this Heart Scale?"
His Pokemon(nod): "Cko-Low"
Max: "Look, guys, as soon as we win our battles, we'll go and meet our old friend…I really want you to win, and I hope we'll work like one heart together!"
(Pokemon nod and become pumped)
Max(smiles): "Great! So, good luck to us!"(returns Pokemon and tells Forrest to go to the gym. As they approach the large, rock-like building, Max breathes deeply and says)
Max(with anticipation): "My first gym battle is on the way! I can't believe it…I am ready to go!"(goes to the gym)
Forrest: "Wait for me, not so quick…Oh, whatever…"
(As they enter the gym, they see a large battlefield with a lot of rocks(boulders) on it. They see that some people clean up the field, as one of them comes to Max and Forrest and tells Max. He is happens to be the Rustboro city judge, or assistant)
Judge: "We've waited for you. I wish you luck, Max!"
Max: "Thanks!"
Judge(calls Roxanne): "Teacher, your challenger is here for the battle!"
(Roxanne goes down the stairs and as she sees Max, tells him)
Roxanne: "Hi Max! I am happy that your Hoenn experience starts in my own Rustboro gym. That's honor for me! So, are you ready to go? "
Max: "I sure do!"
Judge(stands where the judges stand with a red and a green flags): "Teacher, the battlefield is set and ready."
Roxanne: "That's great! Let's go then…"
(Roxanne and Max stand on the different sides of the battlefield and they both look very prepared to start their battle)
Roxanne(takes the Pokeball and throws it): "Geodude, I choose you!"
Geodude(comes out and has a very confident, strong-looking face): "Geodude! Geo!"
Max: "A Geodude…" (You know what comes next, don't you?)
Pokedex: "Geodude, the Rock Pokémon. Geodude has incredibly high defensive power, making it virtually resistant to any physical attacks."
Max(with a confident look): "Very well, go, Treecko!"
Treecko(goes out of the Pokeball and lands on the little boulder and has a very determined look and confident eyes): "Treecko!"
Max: "Let's show them, Treecko!"
Treecko(nods): "Treecko."
Max: "Okay, let's use Quick Attack!"
Roxanne(is surprised, but waits as Treecko approaches and yells): "Block it!" (Geodude uses his arms to block the attack)
Max(smiles as he did that on purpose): "Not going o happen…Jump, Treecko!"
(Treecko jumps over Geodude)
Max: "Use Bullet Seed!"
(Treecko uses it, Geodude tries to block it, but despite its high defenses, it rolls back)
Roxanne: "It was good, Geodude use, Rollout!"
(Geodude jumps and starts to roll and is going into Treecko at high speed)
Max: "Use Pound while you spin!"
(Treecko starts to spin and two attacks collide and two Pokemon land into the ground. Treecko is standing firm, but Geodude starts getting tired)
Roxanne: "Use Rollout once more!"
Geodude: "Geo!" (and starts Rollout again)
Max: "Treecko, use Bullet Seed to stop it!"
Treecko: "Treecko!-cko-cko-cko…"
(The attacks collide again, but Geodude overpowers the seed-attack and strikes Treecko. Treecko is hit hardly and lies in the ground)
Max(surprised): "But how??"
Roxanne: "I trained my Geodude a lot and it has very good defenses while rolling. Geodude, use Rollout once more!"
(Geodude starts rolling and as it headed into Treecko, Treecko just stands up)
Max(worried): "Not good!" (takes a Pokeball) "Return, Treecko!"
(He returns Treecko as Geodude stops rolling)
Roxanne: "Nice move, Max!"
Max(takes another Pokeball): "Go, Taillow!"
Taillow: "Taillow!"
Roxanne(surprised): "Quite unexpected choice. Do you really want to use a flying Pokemon in a rock gym?"
Max: "I sure do. Wait and you'll see…"
Roxanne: "Very well. I like this type of confidence!"
Max: "Taillow use Steel Wing!"(Taillow uses Steel wing)
Roxanne: "Use Rollout, Geodude!"
(The two attacks collide in the air as Geodude is tired and Taillow is okay)
Max: "Use Steel Wing, Taillow!"
Roxanne: "Use Rock Throw!"(Geodude uses its arm and smashes the field and many rocks are headed into Taillow)
Max: "Use Quick Attack and dodge them!" (Taillow starts gaining speed, dodges them and is headed into Geodude)
Max: "Now, spin!"
(Tailow starts spinning)
Roxanne: "Block it!"
(Max chuckles quietly as Taillow strikes Geodude, the attack make explosion. Taillow hits like a spinning Fighter aircraft and flies and yells, while Geodude rolls closer to Roxanne and is Knocked out)
Judge: "Geodude is unable to battle…" (points red flag at it, then raises green flag and points at Taillow) "…Taillow is the winner!"
Max(shouts happily): "We did it! Great work, Taillow!"
Taillow(smiles and says with a joy): "Taillow!"
Roxanne: "That's very impressive!" (recalls Geodude) "You trained your attacks well! But let's continue!" (takes Pokeball) "Go!"
(As the Pokeball is thrown, a Pokemon with small round eyes, and Bushy Mustache that is under his huge nose, and a big Hat-like magnet appears)
Max(stunned): "No way…a Probopass!"
Probopass: "Pro-bo…"
(The scene ends while Roxanne is standing firm and Max is very surprised to see this Pokemon. Would he come victorious? We'll see in next chapter)
The end of the 7th Chapter.
Last edited by RealRaymon; 8th August 2012 at 1:46 AM.
Awesome! She evolved it! But, where in Hoenn did she evolve it? Since the only known places that send out the right electromagnetic frequency are Mt. Coronet, and ChargeStone Cave, or are you making your own cave thingy?
Great chapter, I'm enjoying the gym battle, it's very well written and detailed. Also great cliffhanger. I hope Max gets to beat Roxanne's Probopass.
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Great Chapter loved how it ended in a cliffhanger, kepp up the good work
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Great chapter. Gym battle has been so far great.
Welcome back Charizard! I've missed you so much! <3
You're getting much better with descriptions, which is great! I can't really think of any improvements needed, except for maybe the personality thing, though I do understand why this might be hard at this point in the story. Even so, this fanfic is very good.
So Roxanne has a Probopass? That's gonna be tricky - it's a Steel type as well as Rock, so I don't think Bullet Seed and Steel Wing are gonna help...
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ESPN - Bulls fire coach Skiles; no replacement named yet - NBA Bulls fans will probably be happy about this.
Flipper is pretty amazing Cola did not survive Big Ben Pound for Pound did survive Big Ben Skiles did not survive Big Ben Flipper survived Big Ben and evidently patched things up with Uncle Sheed. I just hope we win the title this year mostly because it would make Pistons fans very happy, but also because I got a feeling that we are stuck with Flipper at least until his current contract runs out regardless of whether we win a title with him as coach or not. Would KG had left (been traded) MN earlier if Flipper had left earlier? He was out pretty quickly after Flipper left and we all know that KG thinks a lot of Flipper. It is going to be quite a while before the T-Wolves get back to the playoffs.
I'm sitting here giggling a bit thinking about Larry Brown's head blowing off trying to coach Ben Gordon.
Little surprising since this year is starting off the same as the others. For whatever reason most Bulls fans feel differently about this 9-16 start and Paxson must be under a lot more heat. Firing the coach is a popular 1st line of defense for a GM. Pistons meanwhile are off to the leagues 2nd best record so far. The leagues not just the East.
Actually they recovered far better last year from their slow start than they did this year. Their low point last season was losing the first 6 games of their circus road trip to fall to 3-9, but they immediately won 12 of their next 13 and never fell below 3 games over .500 the rest of the way, eventually finishing 49-33. Their record after 25 games was 15-10. But now that they're 7 below .500 after 25 games, it's pretty clear that they've taken a step back.
Just to stir the pot a little. Except against us Big Ben's performance this year for the most part has been off quite a bit. Of course he has been injured, but he hasn't missed that many games. I was just thinking. Big Ben has got an awfully large contract, which it appears at this point the Bulls are probably stuck with. There is no way, in my opinion, given Ben's huge salary that they could trade him, unless they agreed to eat a big chunk of his salary but would that do them any good? One of the salary cap experts on this forum could probably explain if the Bulls traded Big Ben but ate some of his contract how that would affect their cap. In any case, he will not be too easy to trade because his performance has been way off this year against everyone but us. Right now the Bulls are really hurting financially because of the deal that they gave Big Ben. So maybe Paxon thought it would be better and cheaper to get rid of Skiles, depending on how much of his contract that they have to eat and hope that Big Ben's performance improves enough to warrant most if not all of his salary. My guess is that Big Ben's performance is going to improve starting now. Did I just say that he has been dogging it in order to force Paxon's hand to fire Skiles?
Ben has obviously been struggling a lot in recent weeks, but I think he has way too much professional pride to dog it for any conceivable reason, no matter how bad his relationship might be with whomever the coach is.
You are most likely correct. Most likely he was not dogging it, but the bad relationship with Skiles along with the poor performance of the Bulls this year along with Big Ben's injuries could have negatively affected his mental approach to the games and therefore his performance. Also, we continue to win, and he could be bummed out about taking the Bulls deal and not staying with us for less money, even though he publicly denies it.
Yeah, I personally think it is bull. Chicago is has been a slow starting team and Skiles has them peeking in the playoffs. The only thing different this year is that the management messed up the psyche of the team the first 10 games by allowing all those Kobe rumors to fly. The guys were bombarded by trade rumors. Plus you add a few new good players to the mix, it takes a little time to get in a groove. Chicago was starting to get it turned around. They were 500 over the last 10 games. They had the worst part of the season and were only two games out of the last playoff spot. I'd trade Flipper for Skiles right now. They can throw Ben in the trade too.
Actually some commentary has said that the Gasol-to-Chicago rumors last year were basically stronger than the Kobe rumors this season--obviously not as much on the national media radar, but more realistic because the chances of the Bulls actually trading Kobe were never very good. The failure to reach contract extensions with Deng and Gordon might have more to do with their production dropping than the Kobe rumors. Though I'm not sure what the deal is with Hinrich, who's been particularly bad. Bulls fans at the blog I've been checking a bit (blogabull.com) seem to have a similar complaint vis-a-vis Skiles not playing their young big men that we have with Flip Sr. and Amir, only it's more pronounced with the Bulls fans because it's about more than one young player for them. And in general, there seems to be a lot of anger with how he managed their rotations, but even worse than our criticisms of Flip Sr. because (unlike our situation here) Skiles kept messing around with their starting lineups.
Why did they fire Skiles if the team started the same as last year and yet they still almost made it to the ECF last season. Skiles didn't control personnel changes. The trade rumors? Paxon is going to fire Skiles because of trade rumors that he helped create a lot more than Skiles. So why did Paxon really fire Skiles? Maybe Paxon just woke up on the other side of the bed. Would you trade Kufous for Love? LOL
Check out Arena's latest blog. It gives a pretty good account of the Deng/Gordon thing. Gordon actually sat down to talk to Arena's about it, maybe knowing he would put it out there. They fire Skiles around Christmas. That's cold. As long as the Bulls fon't hire LB, i'm good.
Skiles came on board in 2003-04. The players that they say he failed to develop are probably from the group that were traded like Chandler, Crawford, Curry etc. But Hinrich's first year was also 2003-04, Gordon's, Duhon's, Nocioni's and Deng's first year were all 2004-05, Those five guys all developed under Skiles were the Bulls five leading scores last year and got them within 2 wins of the ECF. So I really don't understand how people can say that he didn't develop young guys. Chandler had been with the Bulls for two years before Skiles arrived so what did Cartwright a former center and Chandlers initial coach with the Bulls do during those two years to develop Chandler? No way you can lay that on Skiles, though he did have Chandler for three years before they sent him to NOK. The fact is also that during Chandler's last two years in Chicago he averaged about 14 rebounds per 40 minutes so it wasn't like he was doing a Darko. As far as Curry and Crawford go. Look what they are doing now with the Knicks. Did Skiles ruin their careers? I doubt it, because he certainly doesn't have appeared to have ruined the careers of Chandler, Gordon Hinrich, Deng, Duhon and Nocioni. As far as using a lot of different lineups. They had injuries and were playing poorly so he was trying to improve their performance.
Doesn't that have to do with the contract extensions offered by Paxon that they turned down. This sounds like a Paxon thing, not Skiles. If you do a search for "Skiles" on the Arenas blog you come up empty. So according to the Captain Quirk blog the problem with Deng/Gordon and the Bulls had to do with Paxon and not Skiles. Gordon, Deng Respond to Gilbert - Wizards Insider NBA.com Blog Squad: Gilbert Arenas Fan Voice
Obviously Paxton believed the ESPN and SI hype about the Bulls winning the east and with the horrific start he was forced to make a move...Send in Ron Jeremy's brother or even the Zar to take over. LB like Hubie and Daddy Rich, may be a tad to old to coach in todays environment....
Did Paxon fire Skiles because he knows that Zeke is getting the ax in N.Y.? and is planning on bringing Zeke back home? I don't know how the Bulls fans would take to having a Bad Boy as a coach, even one from Chicago.


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