in happiness

Kenny just got taller and we’re not talking about height

he’s filming the video as we speak lmao

Bro I fell to me knees also oh God oh fuck

Jet?

The king of the 4th quarter 🏀

First person I thought of after reading the headline

Tbf he did this when GarPax was gone too (like most Bulls fans)

And we back!

Couldn’t be happier for my GOAT

Crazy cause they were Litch talking about it last episode

As someone who is also the fan of a team with a terrible owner, hopefully you guys find a competent GM. Knicks aren’t that far removed from the Isiah Thomas and Phil Jackson years. It really can change almost overnight if you bring in people actually good at the job.

Gonna make a prediction: I think the Bulls hire Chad Buchanan from the Pacers. He interviewed with them last time, has had a lot of team-building success since, and, this is the most important part: Buchanan knows what it’s like to work under an owner who’s stingy with his money.

I’m not going to get excited before we find out who our new GM is. Everyone was so happy when GarPax got ousted, only to be followed up by AKME. The problems start from the top.

Jerry is gonna have to be forced out, Dan Snyder style.

jerry is obviously the bigger issue, but these two were seriously bad at their jobs too. almost every move they have made has been absolutely terrible. even Gar Forman/ Paxson for as bad as they were would make one or 2 good moves every once in a while. just absolutely atrocious decision making. like who the fuck thinks patrick williams is worth 95 million dollars

Hopefully the evaluation of expansion teams and the recent sales push him over the mark

You can always get lucky like the Knicks with Rose.

People said the same about Dolan. Now we’re one of the favorites to make the finals and went to the ecf last year first time in a quarter century. You can do it with shitty ownership

Yeah but at least we get a new dice roll

I felt joy when Jerry finally canned GarPax. Now I feel nothing. He’ll never let the bulls be contenders again

Ivey’s career died for the Bull’s sins

Mf was on Detroit for 4 years, bulls minding their business and this dude is there for 9 days before completely blowing them up

Many people are proclaiming this

Proclaim it!

I’ll go yell dumb shit in the streets with him now

First of all through God all things are possible, so jot that down

Jaden Ivey was right. Everything he said was correct and I condone all his actions. My name is Patrick Williams and I play for the Chicago Bulls.

Bulls legend

He is risen!

So that was the plan. Move the batshit crazy guy to the team that’s about to fire their staff anyways, everyone is happy!

You didn’t like three straight 7th overall picks, the Paw debacle and then the half season of legit basketball before Lonzo’s leg gave up? That’s Bulls ball baby

It’s really ironic as a Bulls fan whose been pro tank anti-play in I’ve watched people in our sub argue against tanking using OKC, Detroit, Rockets, Spurs, etc. as examples of tanking not working. We’ve been bad so long, they’ve not only been proven wrong but those teams are all arguable championship contenders.

If there is one lesson to learn from the Bulls it is DO NOT RUSH A REBUILD. You need to be maximizing opportunity cost. No the draft is not guaranteed, but nothing is. Sitting around with a team and hoping that a miracle happens in player development or player relocation is just as much of a risk. Doing nothing or trying to be competitive for the sake of being competitive is a risk in sports. It may not feel like one, but it is. If you have to operate like a small market team, focus on asset generation. Do not try to reinvent the wheel. You need to be patient & do meat and potatoes team building.

Both the Bulls & Kings imo are really good examples of what happens when you get anxious “We have to make the playoffs, we’ve been bad too long! We need a culture!” and you end up wasting a decade to be mediocre. The irony is you end up with a worse culture than if you’d tanked.

Absolutely catastrophic tenure. P Dub with a top 5 pick, leveraging all your assets for a Demar/Zach/Vuc core that optimistically had like a 2nd round ceiling, constant asset mismanagement until you have to dump players at their lowest value for next to nothing (Lauri, Zach, Coby, Ayo). Lotto pick on Essengue who looked like a DOA project that couldn’t even play in the NBA before getting hurt for the entire season.

Will remain fairly hopeless as long as the Reinsdorf are here, but something had to be done

We’ll do that after 4 hours, not necessary yet lmao

SELL THE TEAM or croak Jerry!!! Only way to save two franchises

Master gave Dobby a glock?

Billy needs to go, too

Also refused the deal New Orleans offered Atlanta in the draft last year. Bulls could have two lottery picks this year if they accepted

We definitely should’ve got a first in that trade.

Yall shouldn’t have even held Caruso that long, that’s the main problem. Could’ve gotten a monster haul dealing him anytime before the 2024 deadline when he was coming off a 1st team All-D season and averaging double digits shooting >40% from three

Been a long time since I heard that

I remember really liking Troy Weaver…

Massive oversimplification. Our fanbase has always been really divided between a tanking portion and a “Winning Culture” portion. The tanking portion has always argued we we’re jumping the gun and being desperate with no real way out, the winning culture loved him because they thought he was finally making moves to compete and that, with player development, this team would be more.

He did get a lot of initial leeway bc he got credited with Jokic so who are some random guys on the internet to question him? but it kind of started to fade fast. I think the jumping the gun crowd was obviously right seeing as how some of the things that specifically got us into trouble were the Vucc trade and the Lonzo trade. Two clear win-now moves. I also think that team was overrated and largely being carried from what I would argue is the best ball of Demar Derozan’s career, which is another massive division among these two camps is whether or not that 20-21 season was real & whether we just got unlucky. I don’t think we got unlucky. I, and many others in the tank or asset generation camp would argue this was always built on a house of cards. For example, AKME basically overlooked Lonzo’s known knee injuries to try to force the “Winning Culture”. There’s no world where Lonzo doesn’t break down, even if it was real imo, so the point is moot.

They were the 1-seed at one point, kinda wild that that whole team’s success was dependent on Lonzo’s legs not falling apart.

That all being said, that Vooch trade was fucking inexcusable. One of the worst trades of the decade.

The hire was widely praised around the league when it happened. Shows what we know

Rumor is Billy was going to leave for UNC if they stayed. Seems real since this announcement happened the same time UNC announce Malone as coach.

Malone already accepted it

Billy wanted them out if he were to stay