Call In the Butler

Any Bulls fan who is really jacked that the Bulls just picked up Rasual Butler off of waivers must have about the same basketball IQ as Leighton Meester. Seriously, that's like being thrilled to see a discounted movie with your boys at the local plex knowing all too well that you're signed on to sit through 2 hours of Kevin James comedy. Should you be happy the Bulls picked up a piece to aid in their 3-point shooting struggles for the playoffs? I guess so, but Rasual Butler wasn't exactly what I had in mind.

Currently, the former LaSalle Explorer from uptown Philly is averaging 5 points and 1lonely rebound per game for the LA Clips. Oh wait, I forgot to mention, he also garners a little more than 1/2 of an assist per game as well--I can't forget to pay homage to his unselfishness. After he was acquired by the Bulls, Rasual provided us with the following tremendous insight into what exactly we got ourselves into, "I'm a good individual defender. A good team defender. Shooting the ball is my skill. That's the one thing that I am known for is shooting the ball. A catch-and-shoot guy; a one or two dribble pull-up guy. Just a smart, cerebral player. Not going to make many mistakes. A team player." Wow! Apparently aside from being a 32.3% field goal shooter this season and an absolutely unmemorable contributor on one of the NBA's worst teams, Rasual happens to be the most literal player in the league. But my question is, if Rasual is "good" at such a wide-variety of basketball skills, how in the hell was he waived by the Clippers?

Upon further research, this unfortunate situation could have happened to Rasual for a multitude of reasons. Perhaps Clippers owner Donald Sterling wasn't overly impressed by Butler's recent cameo performance in Trina's "Here We Go" music video. As an under-financed rap video aficionado myself, Butler should have instead opted for a cameo role as a member of the Slip N' Slide All-Stars in the much applauded Trina/Trick Daddy duet, "Take it to the House". Oh well, we all make mistakes.

During the wee hours before the trade deadline, the Bulls let a series of enticing opportunities to upgrade at the 2 spot slip through their grasp. When peppered with criticism for remaining idle while the rest of the East upgraded, Bulls players and management alike reassured the Bulls faithful that they like what they already have in place in Chicago and didn't want to jeopardize team chemistry. Understandable. But signing a 3 point shooting power-forward in the midst of the worst statistical season of his career doesn't make much sense to me either.

Butler's duties as a member of the Bulls roster will coincidentally be quite similar to the daily tasks performed by an actual butler (think Geoffrey from Fresh Prince). He won't get much tick and certainly won't be able to put his self-proclaimed "good shooting ability" to work on the floor at the UC. What he will do is engage in mindless banter on the far end of the bench with Scalabrine and waive the occasional towel when the Bulls enjoy a 2nd half run. More importantly, during the final minutes of blowouts we will now have to endure the "Call in the Butler!" promo on the scoreboard to accompany the teenage girls hopelessly screaming for Scalabrine. Could be worse.

As for Pick of the Day, Big 10 POY canidate Jordan Taylor scored 39 points on 55 Wisco posessions and shattered the Pulse Man's chance at covering the UNDER. For the weekend, the Pulse Man likes the Heat to bounce the league-leading Spurs in San Antonio tonight. Ballsy pick. I dig it.

Pick of the Day: Heat @ Spurs- HEAT (moneyline) +110

Record:(60-44-0)

Now I'm done. Rack me

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