Why, it's only three year NBA veteran Anthony Tolliver!
Per Chris Tomasson of AOL Fanhouse:
Sources say Dallas could look at Anthony Tolliver if loses out on Al Harrington Also in mix for Tolliver: Bulls, Lakers Warriors Jazz Hawks.
In college, playing for Creighton in the Missouri Valley Conference, Tolliver averaged 3.4ppg, 6.7rpg, 1.9apg and 1.7bpg. But he was a centre. And like all decent 6'8 centres, Tolliver was going to have to develop a perimeter game to make it at the next level.
He did. In his professional career, Tolliver has developed a three point jumpshot, one that is now the staple of his offense. (If anything, he uses it a bit too much.) Tolliver can't and doesn't dribble, but he has genuine three point range, as evidenced by what he averaged for Golden State last season. In 44 games with 29 starts, Tolliver averaged 12.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game, rocking a PER of 13.7.
That's not bad.
You can dismiss the statistics as being the product of a shot-friendly high-tempo system on a team decimated by injuries. A team who gave playing time to any man who could stand, who at one time were down to only 6 healthy players and who at one point had to re-insert a player who had fouled out because they had no healthy replacements. And it's true. Those things happened.
But regardless of why it came to pass, Tolliver got to play. And he played fairly well. He is not just Steve Novak out there; Tolliver rebounds acceptably enough for a perimeter 6'9 forward, and is a decent defensive player. His PER of 13.7 is not above average, yet he's auditioning for the role of a backup. It's always going to be below average.
Based on the level of interest in him, it is unlikely that Tolliver is available for the minimum. Given that the Bulls are all right for forwards right now, it is perhaps surprising that they have interest in him. But they do, and Tolliver merits it.
(As a deep backup, of course.)
Filed under: Free Agency
Tags: Anthony Tolliver, chicago bulls, free agency, Golden State Warriors, Rumours
OMG it just gets worse. I'll pass on this guy. Not a fan at all.
This guy is a decent player. He would add depth to our team at PF behind Taj.
How do I put this H E L L no. Brad Miller and Shaq are available and we're still waiting on Ronnie Brewer
Ronnie Brewer's agent, Henry Thomas says Brewer is interested in playing for the Bulls. I see J.J going back to Orlando and Brewer signing here by tomorrow. I also heard the Magic have until Saturday night to match, so it may be later than tomorrow until Brewer is here.
http://espn.go.com/blog/chicagobulls/post/_/id/1333/agent-bulls-interest-brewer
If the Magic sign Redick, then let me introduce you to the new firm of Brewer, Miller, and.. Mason(?) a division of Chicago Bulls Inc.
Finally Mason gets some love on the board.
In the link at the top of this page, "the arc" was cut out, so it reads "Rose ready to dominate from behind.". Classic. Maybe he will be the next Kobe, after all.
Also, Portland is looking to trade Rudy Fernandez. Portland is a very hard team to deal with because they always ask for too much, so I don't see anything with them happening.
Yeah this whole 1 week + for the Magic to hold our balls is complete BS! Why put ourselves in this compromising position!
I hope we work out that Deng for Gortat & Petrus trade, would be nice to get Barnes too! I see Reddick and Korver as 2 unathletic shooters that do nothing else for us so why bring in 2 of them with our unprecedented cap space situation? We need a strong wing defender so I'd be trying to land Barnes now that Bell is off the table. Don't mean to make this a racist comment, cause I'm anything but that...but what's this facination with these unathletic white dudes(Korver, Reddick, Morrison)? I think we miss Kirk already since the Big 3 flashed us the Bird.
Ya but Reddick is more of a 2 than Korver if we had Brewer start there would be no one to space the floor for Drose and Boozer