I have to say that it really sucks beyond sucking to sit here and watch Ben manhandle rebounds for the stinkin Bulls. Even in light minutes tonight...he's not jokin. I doubt he'll play much more tonight, but it's extremely painful to watch him man the middle for the enemy.

I want my bigbenback, bigbenback, bigbenback, bigbenback, bigbenback, ...

LMAO! You gotta stop, man. Seriously!

Low, how are you watching Ben at all? He's not on NBATV. Your profile says you are from Las Vegas. So...was it on League Pass? It just ended but I couldn't find it on my NBATV. I thought preseason wasn't on League Pass. I definitely would have watched that game. Painful as it might have been.

Just got done watching the recorded Bulls game here in Chicago. Ben looked like he was in mid season form. I think he was making a conscious effort to "set the tone" for the team. He was helping on D, hustling after guards, ripping down rebounds with that signature wrist over the top style, and of course blocking shots (although somehow he was only credited with 1 block). Also, he got a lot of passes cutting to the hoop, the first one resulting in a huge 2-handed tomahawk jam. He called for the ball in the 2nd half and hit a nice weak side fade away.

I just don't understand how Nocioni has been demoted to the bench. They need to start Hinrich, Gordon, Deng, Nocioni, and Ben... not PJ Brown.

It's strange... I'm watching Ben do his thing for another team, and at the same time, I'm glad for him that he's gone. It will be good to see him get appreciation for all the things he does again. He was at the point with the Pistons where the other players were taking his contributions for granted. I feel like he gave us enough and he deserves a change. Also, if he drew that same salary with us, he would eventually get blamed for it in year 3 or so.

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Low we gotta move on and forget about Ben. Yeah he dominated the Pistons middle setting the defensive tone for 6 years, but we got a new man there now and if the Pistons are successful it will be a Ben who???

I know some of you are upset that he left us high and dry, but if we are lucky he may go the route of Joe Johnson and Edgerin James who both jumped their successful team for more mulah and look what it got them.

I see Ben didn't take the extra cash and hire Rick Barry or Mark Price to help him shoot FT's over the summer as he put up a Ben like 1-6 from the FT line tonight.

OBTW, I have not seen anybody upset that Mo Evans stepped in for Kobe yesterday and scored 12 points.....

Mark Price is actually the new head coach for a new 'expansion' basketball team in the Australian National League. The season just started a few weeks ago. Shane Heal came out of retirement to captain the squad.

They're called the South Dragons based in Melbourne

NBL > Dragons

I'm with The Low 100% here. This just makes me sick.

...because supposedly he has Coach Skiles to help him out with that.

It's easy to forget about someone you don't have to see again. It's impossible to forget about someone who leaves a major hole in your lineup, is basically chased out of town for his 6 years of hard work, is murdered by the local media, and will probably be handing your cakes to you 4 times a year and probably in the playoffs....forgetting is not an option.