I saw they have 14 SRP. They have added 9 in the past week.

When did the Bulls have so many assets?

It fascinates me how these high paid people seem to have no plan or vision. Most front offices have no idea how to build a team or what it takes. Pulling it off is difficult, but the concepts behind it are not and it’s all public knowledge for decades.

Asking Gemini for good trades around the league.

#BringBackGarPax

Yeah it feels like this puts them on the Charlotte track. Young team that can go out, play fast and generate great offense. It’s a good environment for a buy low guy to turn things around, and a good environment for Giddey and Buzelis to continue developing offensively.

Now it’s just a matter of bringing in guys to make it work defensively while that development happens. No one they moved at the deadline would help with that.

I do think it’s fair to say that this deadline was the culmination of a lot of bad Bulls moves coming together, but given where those moves put them I think they’ve done fine this time. If they could go back 2 years they could do far better, but now they’ve just gotta do what they can with what they have.

Reminds me of when the Pistons were collecting Wiseman, Bagley, Okafor, Noel, Josh Jackson etc

Which is dumb because we can’t even develop our own projects. We have some of tge worst player development in the league. We’re the last team that should be taking them on.

Don’t be, because the bulls were doing very good without him in the beginning, but that before we lost everybody. Can’t lie, initially I was okay with losing Coby, but now that we lost Ayo, I’m pissed.

We attempted a watered down version of that. I’m also partially convinced the only reason we kept Chauncey so long is the front office knew the team would have huge exploitable flaws with him as coach and wanted to lose a few extra games because of him.

I wonder if the League would get pissed and fine a team that put out a team made up of 6 guards and 6 centers. No resting. No load management. Just nonsense roster building.

I’m pretty sure that’s what Brad Stevens tried to do and Mazzulla decided to turn them into a borderline contender instead

The Celtics tried exactly that with centers this year, and it backfired in a fun way. 

The key version of this is to have no backup point guard. Your prospects can play within a real system, but then the bench is completely nonfunctional.

This is what the sixers did that finally made the league step in. They played a roster with no pg

Kinda been what we’ve been doing with having absolutely no defense outside of Kessler, who’s decent but not a one man army. At least that’s the hopium with trading for JJJ.

This isn’t new. This is how the Thunder got Chet in the one or two years they tanked. They had some great players, but there were literally no centers on the roster. They couldn’t win against any team with a semi competent big man, even when their guards played great.

Mickey Johnson was a forward

Continuous second round picks after a while are more of a hinderance if anything. 4 second rounders and the other second rounders they’ve gotten is extremely excessive.

I mean he’s exactly what they needed, more ball handling part time PG play. It’s a great addition imo

If we make no additional moves, we’re under the 1st apron and can re-sign him

Yes

Maybe? This team has made the WCF back to back years and added an objectively good basketball player who also addresses roster concerns. They’ve also already gotten “over” the Denver hump and San Antonio’s roster has virtually no one who’s been on a deep playoff run, so, not sure what the point is there.

Not all assets are created equally. This is a pretty good use of them.

Even a half season rental is a win here? They gave up absolutely nothing of value.

Not sure the point you’re making. One team wins per year that can’t be the basis for every single trade made

We have his bird rights now and got some salary back from dumping Mike and Dilly. We can easily give him a competitive deal.

Kind of. Are you gonna pay him next year?

I mean, they could if the objective is just stay under the second apron. Right now for next year they are at \(190.4m with 9 players on the books and the 2nd apron will be \)223.7m. So if they sign him for ~$20m, they can fill out the rest of the roster with minimums.

They’ll be in the repeater in the 2027-28 season but Donte is off the books, so they could play it cheap and not go too deep in the tax.

The next year Gobert and Randle are off the books. So even with signing him, they can avoid tax hell.

Is he gonna make a difference this year and put you over the hump to beat OKC, spurs, or nuggets?

I think they feel good in their match ups with Nuggets and Spurs. They beat the Nuggets a couple of years ago and the Spurs haven’t been tested in the playoffs. They gave size to deal with both teams.

Against OKC, the thing that really hurt them was a lack of ball handling. We just attacked Randle and Naz’s dribble every time they touched it and Gobert’s not going to handle so that’s asking a lot of Ant and guys like Donte. In the 4 playoff losses against us they lost the turnover margin 77 (19.25/game) to 53 (13.25/game)

So this gives them a low turnover ball handler (1.4/game) who can run the offense at times and shoot it.

I don’t think it puts them over the hump against us but I think it’s one of the best trades they could have made.

We already beat the nuggets. He helps massively with our biggest weaknesses against OKC.

Literally would be hard to make a better trade to achieve that goal.

They already beat the nuggets two years ago. Spurs have yet to prove anything.

Silence, 10th seed with a pity all star.

They needed guard depth, and yes they can pay him.

dfs + first/s?

Would of had to been Tari Eason. Which are you guys looking to get rid of?

They could absolutely use him. He would be quite literally a perfect fit

Dunn has made a pretty good career for himself, so maybe that’s mid since he’s never been a star but he’s lasted 10 season and counting

Dunn should make an all defense team this year 

No superstar but carved a niche role and he does well in

Why? Let’s say the Bulls get some lotto luck in the next two years. They could be a team on the come up looking for a star to get them over the top. At time maybe something happens and a guy like Sengun or Chet are wanting out of their team. You can send them a few pospect a few salary fillers and a bunch of seconds.

Just trade them later

I want to see Yuki guard Wemby

Yes, because original report was just Ayo for Rob and the other guy. At least now we know Chicago also received picks. I said it makes more sense not complete sense.

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There’s no difference between a super late first and a second. The odds of someone drafted there being impactful is basically zero. No one is giving up real assets for Ayo.

Zack Collins isn’t even a C you want to build around. Thats if he even stays healthy.

I hope there’s a method to the madness with all the guards but I just hope Tre Jones doesn’t get ruined like his brother.