“Come make $22 million a year to live in chicago and be our starting shooting guard. If we’re bad, you’ll get traded to a good team at the deadline since it’s basically an expiring deal.”

Easily tradeable and a very good contract for him too. Worst case scenario for Norms contract is that it is used as an expiring contract (2nd year is team option). I think even keeping him for 2 years at this contract is a very good value trade for his production.

Wish Raptors brought him in though to add some depth since we have Kawhi now.

We were never gonna keep Norm after the Giannis move. We’re going to have to rely on the MLE and vets to fill out depth. THJ was a big move in that direction, and there will be more.

The spacing thing is overstated. THJ, Portis, Davion, Wiggs, were all at 40%+ last season, and Giannis is going to give them all better looks than they’ve ever had (besides Bobby obviously who’s used to it by now).

Bulls have always done this tbf.

I think Bulls might actually be suprisingly good.

Giddey just keeps getting better, they added an athletic big in Claxton for him. Now a certified bucket getter in Powell.

Buzelis is really getting better as well.

Could see them being like a 5-6 seed potentially.

This is like typical Bulls tho. Pick a red team in the eastern conference, they going all in for a shot at the playin every year

And this sub clowned on the new rule. God forbid you actually watch games and don’t want to see the Jazz benching starters in January. It was so bad they were DNP’ing Isaiah Collier. Again. Isaiah Collier.

So excited for silly season to be nerfed.

Yea in the last 25 years, the Bulls only tanked for half a season even though they were consistently middling (with the exception of the Baby Bulls and D Rose years)

You haven’t even seen the new system in effect. There’s a very real chance that genuinely bad teams that aren’t tanking are going to get screwed by the lottery multiple years in a row

The worst team in the league has a chance to fall to the 12th pick, that is insane.

Yeah the idea that having slightly reduced odds for the #1 pick is going to curse the worst teams in the league to permanently be terrible is ridiculous.

Watching basketball in March this season was hell, there was like one good game in a 5-6 game slate where either one or both teams weren’t tanking. I’d rather watch competitive basketball year-round

It’s because Adam Silver implemented it

Honestly only thing I don’t like about this new system is a team in last place could end up with pick 16. Seems a bit over corrective but in general love what’s it’s done to the league.

Not last year! We finally dumped guys (Vuc, Ayo, Coby) so we could get a few extra lottery balls and land Caleb.

Bad teams trying to actually improve instead of signing the most garbage roster possible to get better picks

The new lottery system disincentives completely bottoming out for a bottom 3 record.

The best place to be to get the highest lottery picks is like the bottom of the playoffs/play ins rather than the worst in the league.

Do you by any chance know Kofie? He’s a huge Pistons fan. I wonder what his take will be on this.

You clearly know nothing about Frank Isola then lol. There are stories of him playing pickup in NY and NJ and throwing fits and trying to call technical fouls. Dude is a talentless scrub.

KOT4Q one of the most popular basketball youtubers. great funny knowledgeable guy. should check him out!

Basketball YouTuber who is a bulls fan

KOT4Q. Makes basketball and 2K content. Also has a podcast called Number on the Board (used to be through the wire before they got bought out by ESPN if I’m not mistaken)

Pack the paint and giannis can only score 22 instead of 30!

Some undrafted 6’6 shooting 38% from three. I can already see it

Spo will have me running the 2nd unit by then

No

Do not disprespect the Julius Randle and Mpj frontcourt. 

I’m not positive about Milwaukee being a pushover either. They probably won’t be a top 10 team but they’re going to play hard and there’s a ton of upside in Kas, Ware, Rollins, Burries (not an Ament guy but you can include him)

Turner and Herro are very offensively gifted players as well

Defense is going to be sketchy but the team could be decent.

I could see them finishing above the Bulls, Nets, and even Wizards (more a bet against Trae and AD staying healthy)

Brooklyn so bad people can’t even remember how to spell it correctly

Nets had a nice month, and their coach is to good to not have them at least play hard

Zach Collins might even be healthy!

Bro, how do you improve from almost triple double season?

¹⁷⁄₉.¹⁄₈.3

He was cooking before injury. I guess he can make allstar

That’s actually shocking tbh. Feel like he earned 2 years especially if he chose to sign with a non contender

he has been falling hard 2nd half of the season for a while but the goodwill from first half always buys him good rep. which is why clippers didn’t want him

Which is the exact reason the Clippers basically gave him away 1 year ago

Great spot-up shooter, but they’ll need someone with more juice on the ball (that can also play off Giannis) like Norm had.

Emphasis on “can” shoot. Not that they’re good shooters, but just that they’re willing to do it.

Caleb Wilson can shoot the midrange all day

He would have averaged double digit assists if we had a shooter