Who the hell is Joe Smith??

Apparently he's this guy. This is the guy Chicago picked up to replace PF P.J. Brown. Chicago lucked out on opportunities to retrieve such power forwards as Kevin Garnett, now in Boston, Zach Randolph, now in New York, and Jermaine O'Neal, still sadly in Indiana. I guess Joe Smith was the next best thing. I have heard of him though. He was that guy who came to the New World and fell in love with Pocahontas, right? I don't know...so I did some research on Joe Smith.

Drafted out of Maryland in 1995 by the Golden State Warriors as the number one pick, Joe Smith made an instant impact by putting up solid double figures in scoring, along with the occasional double digit rebounding. He averaged 17.1 points in three years while playing for Golden State. I found it interesting that he started all 211 games he played for Golden State. Once he was settled, Smith was shipped to Philadelphia in 1997. This is where he met the injury bug, as well as the bench. Almost every stat in the book went down, especially points, minutes played, and games played. Although there was a solid increase in personal fouls per game.

Smith is an avid traveler and loves touring the country. He has been all over the country in the last ten years. He spent one year in Philly, two years in Minnesota, and one year in Detroit. Smith decided to revisit Minnesota for two more years, and then settled in Milwaukee for three years. This past season, Smith started in Denver, but then ended up back in Philly as part of the Iverson trade. Now he wishes to find a home in Chicago.

<-This picture just screams irony. Thank God we have them both (I'm debating whether I'm being sarcastic or not).

There's no doubt that the Bulls need an offensive big man. After Chicago C Eddy Curry was sent to New York in 2005, the Bulls really never recovered their post game. The Bulls have relied mostly on the streaky shooting of Luol Deng, Ben Gordon, and Kirk Hinrich. These guys have done a great job, but something has to be wrong when your big man leader in scoring is Ben Wallace, who averaged 6.4 points in the 2006-2007 season. When Chicago traded Tyson Chandler to New Orleans for P.J. Brown at the beginning of this past season, Chicago was hoping that some sort of post game would be resurrected out of Brown that the Bulls have lacked for so long. What ended up happening? Basically, P.J. Brown flopped. There were some streaks of offense, but nothing that lasted long. He only averaged 6.1 points per game and was fourth in rebounding on the team. And to top it off, Tyson Chandler all of sudden decided to be good. He finished the season 2nd in the league in rebounding, averaged a career high 9.5 points, was one the candidates considered for Most Improved Player, and made the USA Men's National basketball team. What the hell?!

I'll tell you what the Bulls need. This is exactly what the Chicago Bulls need...

Just ignore the foreign language in this clip.