February 23, 2024 • 32 mins
The Bulls are 26-30 as of 2/23/24, having fallen to the Boston Celtics in an uncompetitive blowout their first night back from the All-Star Weekend break, in which no Bull participated at all for the first time since 1980. Chicago also is having some major issues at power forward as another disappointing play-in run inches ever closer.
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Welcome to a solo edition of theBulls Bros. Podcast on Bulls Brother Alex
joined by No. One. Itis Thursday, February twenty second. The
Bulls lost predictably to the Boston Celticstwelve. Didn't really even feel that close.
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Luke Cornett had a big game fiveor six, shooting ten points,
ferocious dunk on Demarga Rosen's head,and uh, you know, the Bulls
are not a serious team. Theyfall to twenty six and thirty on the
year, the ninth seed in theEast. Still the Atlanta Hawks somehow are
still behind them, even though theyhave All Star quote unquote Trey Young and
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injury replacement all Star. But alsonevertheless, this year the Hawks twenty four
to thirty one. So the onlygame and a half behind us on Yako
and Kongo was out in definitely theirbackup center. So they have their own
injury troubles. But I don't understandwhy they're not as good as us,
because we're not that good. That'sthe that's the prelude to this. We're
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just coming back from the All Starbreak. Noble is represented in any facet
of the All Star weekend experience.And now that there was some great shakes.
It's just that it's an indictment ofthe roster and the roster building.
Now, you could say Kobe Whitehad a shot at being an All Star
this year, and he did.I think with a full season of him
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performing at this level next year andnone of that weird the five and fourteen
start with Zach that we had beforeZach went down. If things a little
more stable at the start of theseason, I think he has a shot
of making the All Star team nextyear. Kobe White's legitimate, but you
know, everybody else is not,and they are making good money to be
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what they are, which is asub five hundred team in the weaker of
the two conferences. Also, newscame out today that Jerry yinstffhinted that he
might move the White Sox. Idon't think it's gonna happen with the Bulls
anytime, but I just man,I want to talk about Jerry Yinstone.
I want to talk about what isgoing on with this embarrassment of an ownership
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group for one of the the greatfranchises in the NBA with one of the
great fan bases in the NBA.Although Chicago fans don't care about Bulls basketball
the way they care about Bears footballor Cubs baseball. I would say we're
third after those two. But Chicago'sa great sports town and we care about
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all of our teams. So evenbeing third in Chicago hierarchy sports team wise,
is still better than first in mostplaces, just because that's the fandom.
Like Chicago fandom is great and doesn'tdeserve what Jerry Rozer has done,
which is basically just treated like likepassive income or something. You know,
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he's just doing as little as possibleand trying to make as much money as
possible. It's just, I don'tknow, it's such a disrespect full thing,
dis aspectful way to treat your fans. I just I just think it's
just just horrific stuff. Now,the Boston Cellics are the best team in
the NBA, well in the East, maybe in the NBA. The forty
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four and twelve, they won sevenin a row. But the fact that
we were never gonna win, thatwe never even cared about winning, that
there was no engagement by anybody,you know, really outside of uh.
You know, Io Desumo, whohad a nice game starting for Zach,
played forty almost forty one minutes.You only had fourteen points and six of
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fourteen, shooting two of six froma deep buddy at eight rebounds that eight
assists. Bucivich had twenty two pointsand fourteen rebounds and got totally outclassed by
Christus Sports Angus. Tomarto Roz wasokay. Alex Carusoe starting at power forward
junior and Phillips got major minutes tothe rookie seventeen to forty five, seventy
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minutes, forty five seconds of actionfour or fivection from the field, which
is nice, nine points minus five. But Kobe White was minus twenty six,
team worst, but he had twentypoints forces to rebounds the steal in
thirty five minutes. Anyway, thisis all you know, I guess.
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Here's one thing I want to sayis that you know, the Celtics are
obviously the class of the NBA,have been for decades, one of the
great teams, the Lakers of theother one. The Warriors now can be
put in that class, The Spurs, the Bulls, they're right in there
right and also the one of thebig markets. They're the third biggest market
outside of New York and LA.There is no way. There's no reason
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that we should be this total jokeof a franchise with no future and you
know, no real present that peoplecare about. It's just completely embarrassing and
and just just an indictment on thefan base. So I just you know,
I hate it so much. Ihate it so so much, and
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it's hard to watch these games.It's hard to get excited about the Bulls
future because again there is none reallyand yeah, a's our weekend. No
one played in the Rising Stars Gamesfor the Bulls. No one played in
the All Star Game for the Bulls. No one played in the Skills Challenge,
which is a joke of the thingor whatever. No one played in
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three point contests. No one partookin the dunk Contest. They went to
the G League for the dunk contest. They went to they got a two
way guy, Jacob Topping, andthen they had Mac McClung, who's playing
for the Austlia Magic. I thinkthat's how you said, Orlando's G League
Magic affiliate. He's played in fourtotal NBA games, two total dunk contests.
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Jaylen Brown, speaking of the Celtics, Jim Brown played in the Dunk
Contest particular, the Dunk contest thisweekend didn't do that great. He was
in the finals, but he wasn'tgood. But anyway, Yeah, it's
an embarrassment of a team. We'regonna finish as the ninth of the tenth
seed and we're gonna miss the playoffs. We're gonna make the plan and our
church kind of show us at theend of the year. Is gonna spin
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that as somehow being successful in quoteunquote competitive, which it's not. If
you're competitive, you'd be competing forsomething at the end of the season into
the postseason. I guess you cancall it planes the postseason, let's let's
call let's call it the playoffs.You'd be in the playoffs if you're competitive.
We're not competitive. We're a joke. And that's the thing too,
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is like we're spinning our wheels.We're going to We've got this older team
now except for you know, Kobeand I or something. I like Kobe
and I. But the other thingI want to talk about is injuries.
The Bulls medical staff has got anoverhaul since this happened, but you know,
frequently mismanaged Derek Rose, injuries,the little things, injuries over the
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years joking Noah, But now we'redoing it again. We got this Lonzo
ball thing that's sort of snowballed fromyou know, a sort of a short
expected turnaround time at first with hisknee injury, to always out for the
year, to always offer this yeartoo, to always off for a third
year. You know, we're payingthat guy eighty million dollars. He's played
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thirty five games out of you know, so far two and a half seasons.
It's, uh, it's horrific thefact that not only was the medical
stuff, you know, kind ofineffectively reported at first because the bulls,
I'm not exactly sure if it's thebulls operate like they're controlling, like they're
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handling government secrets. Well, say, you want my government sects being handled
appropriately or not these days, butthe bulls are you know, it's like
it's like they're handling it like it'sso important that they keep under wraps the
injury status when you know, it'sa disaster, right, Maybe they're just
trying to like slow roll the disaster. And I think that if they sort
of like gradually reveal the full extentof the information and how bad it is,
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it'll look less terrible then if itwas just announced right away like he's
out. It definitely probably for years. You know, he's had three surgeries,
by the way, three knee surgeries, he said. All kinds of
people look at it and it youknow, it's unclear if you can move
up, but you can walk upa flight of stairs. You know.
This is technically a starting point guardmaking twenty mille dollars a year. We
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just lucked into Kobe White becoming afringe All Star guy this year. That's
the only way that we've been ableto stay afloat, you know, and
it just basically buys ownership more timeKobe White becoming good because they're not going
to do anything to like compliment KobeWhite or build around him in a way
that you could lead to winning,because he's a easy contract right now for
a starting point guard, but alsoa starting point guard who's a fringe All
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Star. You know. Instead we'rejust gonna say, oh, he's good
enough. This is finding just keepyou know, dragging out the same team
we've been dragging out for years,even though it's not good. It's crazy
the amount of delusion in the frontoffice. I don't know if it's I
don't know if they know better.I don't think our tourist, Conder Service,
knows what the fuck he's talking about. But but you got to think
somebody watching the team is aware thatthey're losing a lot of games and they're
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not close to winning anything. Idon't know, but anyway, so,
yeah, the medical staff has beenbeen rough, and now we're seeing it
again, you know, sort ofslowly. We've got this sort of disastrous
situation of power forward. We madeno moves at the trade deadline, which
we talked about with me last week. No moves the trade deadline, and
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now we've got a situation where,uh, well, like our turnerist,
Conder Service came out and said thathe was, you know, happy with
the team, was competitive quot unquoteblah blah blah, bullshit. You know,
obviously it's not competitive. It's bad. It's a bad team. It's
it's it's competent because the players,some of them are good. You know,
it's not put together that well.The pieces don't really fit that well
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in tandem, but they're all individually. There's there are enough strong guys in
that top six or whatever that theteam seven. Maybe that the team wins,
you know, a little less thanhalf of its games. It's not
that's not good, you know whatI mean. That's not a team that
can win a playoff series. That'snot a team that can get to the
playoffs. So it's not good.You know, competitive means you don't lose
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sixty games. I guess if bythat definition, then yeah, sure they're
competitive, but like what the fuckis that? You know? Anyway?
Medical staff? So I keep gettingoff track because it's so annoying, but
yeah, the medical staff seems tobe fucking up all over the place.
So the Bulls may no trades,you know, to obviously they're they're they're
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big obvious needs were three point shootingand defensive wing depth and a power forward,
just a power forward depth or Imean, I really don't think Patrick
Billiams is a power forward by theway. I think he is a small
forward that they're trying to play outa position because they don't have any power
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forwards and they have done anything toaddress that really outside of signing Tory Craig.
So now, Patrick Williams has beenout with a left foot injury since
Chany twenty fifth. He's supposedly notclose to returning. Billy Donovan said lasts
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or sorry no earlier this week thatPatrick Williams has not begun to run yet
while he's recovering from his foot injuryand the stab is being super careful.
The quote is very very careful.With Williams, who is the number four
pick in twenty twenty. Kasey Johnsontells us that he's still experiencing discomfort in
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that foot, and yeah, sohe's out in definitely. It's been a
month. We don't know when he'scoming back. Tory Craig, who the
Bulls signed as you know Williams insuranceor possibly a Williams replacement starters. He
has started at times for Williams insteadof Williams, but he hasn't been that
good. He's barely been healthy.He's played in thirty three games. The
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Bulls have played in fifty six games. Craig started eight times. He was
out from mid December until early Februarywith an acute sprain of his right planter
fascia, and now he's out again. He suffered a right knee brain according
to Hoopster, while he's working outover the All Star break. So they
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also break is the time we're supposedto relax and recover from injuries. The
Bulls are so bad at doing thatthat they get hurt instead of healing,
they go the other way. Overthe All Star break, so the the
Bulls. Pierre Department tweeted that,Yeah, he's got a right right in
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his brain and he's gonna be reassessed, uh two or two to four weeks
from now. So that doesn't meanhe's gonna be back in two to four
weeks. It means the balls aregonna take stuck again where he is in
two to four weeks, And knowingthe Bulls, that probably just means that
say, oh, he's out foryou know, another two to four weeks
after that. Right, they couldalready know that it's bad and just be
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b as saying, you know,I just don't trust them at all about
anything. So so there you go. So that wipes out the Power forwards
on the roster technically. So AlexCrusoe is playing at Powerful where he's you
know, very good, but he'ssix four six' five and you know,
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Billy Donovan, he's listed at sixtyfive. He's Billy Donovan loves playing
shooting guards at Power forward and center. Uh, it's not really. I
guess we have to stop him fromhimself for the Bulls and just not you
know, just give him actual powerforwards. So there was talk apparently of
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Daniel Gallinari, who played with BillDonovan in twenty twenty season with your the
Oklahoma City Thunder. He's thirty fivenow and he just keeps getting hurt because
he's old. But you know,it's a stretch four and apparently he spoke
with Bill Donovan about playing for theBulls. He ultimately signed with the Milwaukee
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Bucks, you know, who haven'tbeen there great either, but they're the
third seed. They've got Giais hadto com point with Damian Lillard. They're
good. They're not gonna win anythingthis year. I wouldn't expect, honestly,
but it's a it's a good teamthat on paper, you can talk
yourself into being, you know,fringe title contenders this season. So uh
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he according to Casey Johnson of MBSports NBC Sports Chicago again, uh Donovan
explained that essentially Gallinari decided not tosound of the Bulls because he thought you
have a better chance at playing timeon the Bucks. The Bucks, by
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the way have Gianni stempted to qumpoa power forward? The bulls have went
healthy. Patrick Williams and Tory Craigand and Bobby Portis comes off the bench
and is the third big man offthe bench, so he plays some four
some five. But and you guysj Crowder in there too, so so
yeah, like on that pretty stackedBucks team, Gallinari thinks that he has
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a better shot at minutes, SoI feel like that's bullshit. You know,
Gleno is an actual power forward.I don't know if Patrick Williams again,
I think he's kind of just Iknow he's sixty seven and uh he's
two fifteen. But yeah, he'sa little slate. He's he's not quite
he's he's a small forward. He'snot very good either, that's the o
thing. But Tory Craig is listedat six to seven to twenty one.
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He's a combo forward. You know, there's a little again. Both both
guys are kind of skinny for powerforwards. That's kind of the issue,
right, But there are technically powerforwards and Alex Crusoe is really not.
But he's doing that to play KateDonovan. And the fact that we couldn't
get a crappy buyout guy is justyou know, let alone like doing anything
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to make a trade. Obviously,the trades we should have made have been
should have been to tear down theteam, right, but even if you
want to get better, there arethings we could do to do that at
the trade deadline instead of just doingnothing and just being happy with being the
ninth seed a team you know,and then probably again like this team will
probably not make the playoffs, theyprobably will make the play in But basically
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because the Brooklyn Nets have totally fallenoff three and seven in their last ten,
they're twenty one to thirty four overall, their foreign hackings behind us.
They're really not that far behind us, but they they are also thought that
good. They just fired their coach, Jack Von and they're going to probably
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missed the plan. But I guessthere's a world where maybe Brooklyn within a
struder at the point over Spencer Danwidy. That's an improvement. So I suppose
there's a world where Brooklyn con rally. They lost three in a row,
but hard to see. The Bullshave some talent, it's just that they
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don't really fit well together. Theynever really have. We've seen it over
and over and over again. Andthere's talk now of Damar joining Damar working
on an extension again to stay withthe Bulls like the Bulls did with Damar
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said it was, you know,like talking to a girlfriend that you want
to get with, whom you wantto get married, and it's just about
like working it out. But it'ssomething that bull sizes want, So that
would be a disaster, that wouldjust be a waste of everybody's having money.
Tomato Rosen deserves better than the Bulls. Honestly, it's been fun to
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watch him. I enjoy watching him, but like, why, you know,
he's thirty four, why would hewant like a long term deal?
I mean, money is why hewould want to stay with the Bulls.
He wants him to overpay that basically, to over pay for him and to
probably make like, you know,thirty five ish forty ish a year,
to be on the second best playeron the ninth seed for like three more
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seasons or whatever. We want runlike we're not gonna be at the end
of that run. We're not gonnabe a ninth seed, will be the
tenth or the eleventh seed, becauseeveryone's gonna be getting older tomorrow, is
taking a step back this year tothis point. You know, he can
still get done sometimes, but he'snot the consistent scorer, does not the
takeover guy that he was the firstyear he was here, when he was
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like a legitimate NBA caliber guy,and he was. He did make a
team. He made like the secondteam, which is kind of generous for
the best player on the sixth seedthat got destroyed by the Bucks in the
first round. But whatever. Anyway, So yeah, so our top two
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powerfulwards are out. One of thebetter buyout options is out. Didn't join
the Bulls, didn't think there's opportunityfor him to get playing time. And
by the way he would start rightnow, I would assume, I mean,
Cruse is awesome, but you canjust start Cruise at shooting guard over
Ayoup then move out of the benchinstead of starting Crusive out of position at
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power forward where he's more likely toget hurt playing against bigger guys. So
yeah, incredible, incredible devan ofthe roster. I just want to do
a quick look at the remaining guysin the buyout market here former Bull Ryan
Ouh, Giacano, Danny green Ford, Joe Harris former Detroit Piston who with
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him. We've been linked with thisguy. This is a sharpshooter, a
wing who can play the two orthe three. Has some injury issues recently,
but you know, it's pretty goodfor a couple of years there in
Brooklyn. So he'd kind of benice to have. Daniel House is kind
of a defensive oriented wing, that'dbe fine. Corey Joseph, I don't
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think we need more little point guardssoss on him. Kevin Knox, who's
like a project form, a lotterypick former Nick. I think if it
were me, I would be downfor that, because what else have we
got going on. I think themore shots you get at, you know,
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guys with upside that are young,you should take. Especially you know,
again, we're going nowhere. Thisteam is completely you know, rudderless,
right, there's no real direction.It doesn't seem to have any goals
of actually being good or competitive anytimesoon. So I would sort of wish
it would go the other way andtry to, you know, get as
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many assets as possible, get asmany young players with some talent and upside
as possible. Now that Kevin Knoxis like, it could be a bust.
It certainly seems like he's a bust, right, but who knows freaking
Cort Mass is available. You havesome good years there, Affilly and stuff.
I think that again, he's probablybetter start going on an actual team
that wants to do something. Buthe would help us. Robin Lopez former
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Bowl he traded the Kings and thenhe was cut. Timenzi Metu Center whatever.
I don't know. Franknan lakena formerNick lottery pick as well, dropped
by Philip Jackson. I think Iwould pass on him. I think we've
seen what we need to see.Victor Ladipo, former two time All Start
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with the Pacers, hasn't played allyear. He's dealing with a torn p
teller attendant, so stay away.That's It's sad it's happened to him.
He was really fun and dynamic towatch for a couple of years there.
He just couldn't stay out of me. But still a decent defender when he
came back, which is the weirdpart right of that, Like he retained
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that element of his game because usuallythat's what goes with like major injuries.
Anyway, Ish Smith, who's playedin almost every team he hasn't played with
the Bulls. That'd be fun justfrom that perspective. But again, you
don't need like a point guard.Really, we're good on that front,
even though again the guy that thepoint guard that we're playing the most money
to a point guard to whom we'repaying the most money, Lonzo Ball is
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hurt. But even without him,we still have enough point guard dead that
we're good. Juan does Gano Andersoncan play some. You can play anything
from two to four, just notthat well. You know, he's got
a jumper, he's okay. Uh, that's the kind of guy that I
think would be a fine Bulls pickup. So that's a review. So
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all these buyout guys who've been boughtout or released this year and remain free
agents, I would Danny Green iscooked. So I would say avoid Danny
Green for the Bulls team if theywant to like add a little depth and
you know, make this like fakeplayoff push or whatever. Like, they're
not going to get out of theplaying bracket for sure. None of these
guys that I just listed are goingto help them elevate too far beyond the
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nine seed. I wouldn't think,honestly. But yeah, maybe I guess
there's a word where they could helpyou be the eight seed. They're not
gonna help you win anything. Soif you're them and you know the Bulls
are not that good even with you, then I don't know why they would
join the Bulls instead of you know, the Heat or the eight seed.
Uh. You know, and JimmyButler takes off half the season these days
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but remains a killer in the playoffs. So you know, obviously that would
be the move. But they couldbe like Kevin Love was last year for
them. But or there's other teamstoo they could use some help, like
the I think the Bucks could usemore help or depth. So do the
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Bucks take a flyer on like JuantToscano, Anderson or somebody. Maybe Joe
Harris gets some shooting help. ButI think you know, the Bucks big
issues wing defense, perimeter defense,right, So I don't know. Cork
Mass is kind of chippy. He'dbe kind of fun for them. But
anyway, so I think for usto be like a fake playoff team or
whatever, I think the guys thatcan help us with Joe Harris, Daniel
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House for defense, I suppose freakingcorpor Mass is kind of fun. I
don't really mind Rolo coming back,honestly, but Drobin's been pretty good for
us at center, so Rolo wouldbe our third center. You can't really
play any four, So yeah,I don't really like that. I don't
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know, I just miss him,so I'm down. I'll be watching some
Dwayne Wade Bulls highlights the other day, and it was just a weird team,
man, you know, Michael Carter, Williams, Robin Lopez, d
Wade, Rondo, Jimmy, weirdteam, weird energy, you know,
just such a kind of like thisroster but like you know, high ropside,
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more talent. You know, theycould have won that Celtics series if
Rondo didn't break his thumb, theycould have probably beaten the Wizards in the
next round and then gone on toloose to the Cabs in the Eastern Conference
Finals. This is twenty seventeen,the last Jami's season. I think the
Three Alphas era, you know,just because the upside of those guys in
the postseason, you know, it'slike it's like sort of a weird inverse
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mirror version of what we're doing nowwith these good but not great players.
Those guys couldn't quite congeal in theregular season. Plus the youth was such
a mess, and like those youngplayers like Denzel Valentine's on that team,
just a lot of like crappy draftpicks at that point that didn't really hit.
But you know, Rollo at thetime was good. And then Jimmy
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was great, great. The Bullsdidn't appreciate how great he was. He
was great, and Rondo was sortof dogging it trying to preserve his energy
for the playoffs obviously, and wasamazing in the playoffs, kind of like
the playoff Rondo and the Lakers seriesor whatever. But he would later go
on to be awesome for Pelicans,and he had sort of renaissance after his
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run with Bus. But but inthe playoffs he was special. He was
great. Wade get it done inthe playoffs on offense, and in the
regular season it wasn't quite the highflyer that he used to be, but
he was still really good. Sothat was you know, So the core
of that team was good, andthen the rest not so much anyway,
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got track. So yeah, sosorry Joe Harris stil House, freaking court
mass. Let's say no to RobinLopez just not you know, he's the
third center. I don't think hewants to do that. And then Juanta,
Sacana Anderson. So none of thoseguys are like amazing fits. I
think House and Harris make the mostsense for us. We have one open
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roster spot right now, so wecould just sign one of those guys and
then not have to waive anybody.I don't like the team that much,
so I'd be happy for us towaive somebody. But whatever. Anyway,
to this point, the Bulls havedone nothing at the bio market and they
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will have made no transaction moves thetrade deadline for a third year in a
row. So just brutal fatties.Young Faji Johnson, whom Nate had wanted
last week, uh signed with theSuns. It's a decent little bio pickup.
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Delon Wright good point of his typedefender. I was bought about the
Wizards and signed with the Heat.It's a great pick up from the Heat.
Special Dani widiem flipped the Rappers fromthe Nets and some of the Lakers
hometown team is that Biambo was cutwith the Groses earlier this year and then
he signed with the Thunder to givehim some center deb which is nice.
Former bole Daniel Tice got bought upby Indiana and signed with the Clippers for
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the home stretch. That's earlier thisseason too. I'm just just going through
the hooge rumors list of guys thatwere already kind of yeah, bought out
and the I already moved on toother teams. Another just rob coortunities lost
by the Bulls because the Bulls arelazy. Yeah, So there you have
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it. It's a it's a weirdtime. It's a weird time to be
a Bulls fame. I'm just I'mjust so worried about the medical staff of
the present echoing the medical staff ofthe past and mismanaging injuries and underreporting what's
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happening. It's you know, obviously, basketball is silly and it's not that
important compared with what's going on therest of the world, right, but
it's important to us, you know, and it's it brings great joy when
it's going well, when your team'sdoing well, or even if the team's
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doing miserably. But you've got alot of assets, and you've got your
own p and you know, andstuff like that, and you've got young
guys with some upside and you know, intriguing play or flashes of intriguing play,
like that's something, right. Youjust think about all the stuff we
could have gotten back in trades forCruso, Derozen, maybe Zach before he
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went down, not really actor,but certainly before, or even maybe Vucivic
or Drummond. You know, it'sjust crazy to me that we just didn't
do any of that. You know, it's just hard to watch when the
players are so checked out on themselves, you know, like the players feel
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about themselves the way we could wantthem, which is we're all sick of
it, you know, except forKobe White. I've really enjoyed the Kobe
White renaissance and that's been really funand I wo'd assume as legitimately gotten better.
So that's been fun to watch.And then the the individual games of
Demartin Rows and now as Cruso Iwill concede are fun as well. I
hate watching Nikolovu, which I getlike a twenty intent and I you know
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what I mean, I think itwas like twenty two and eleven to be
specific, write something like that,No, twenty two and fourteen, but
minus eighteen because of course. Butyeah, that guy's like the center Boozer,
basically center version chrls boozer. Justthe just a miserable viewing experience for
me at Max's watching more than Ido, but man, brutal. Anyway,
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there you go, special solo editionof Bulls Bros. Rambling about our
injured power forwards and a lot ofother stuff. Please stay tuned for further
Bulls Analysis next week. Trying tobring these to you every week and you
know, keep watching if you're amasochist like me and Max. I guess
Welcome to a solo edition of theBulls Bros. Podcast on Bulls Brother Alex
joined by No. One. Itis Thursday, February twenty second. The
Bulls lost predictably to the Boston Celticstwelve. Didn't really even feel that close.
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Luke Cornett had a big game fiveor six, shooting ten points,
ferocious dunk on Demarga Rosen's head,and uh, you know, the Bulls
are not a serious team. Theyfall to twenty six and thirty on the
year, the ninth seed in theEast. Still the Atlanta Hawks somehow are
still behind them, even though theyhave All Star quote unquote Trey Young and
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injury replacement all Star. But alsonevertheless, this year the Hawks twenty four
to thirty one. So the onlygame and a half behind us on Yako
and Kongo was out in definitely theirbackup center. So they have their own
injury troubles. But I don't understandwhy they're not as good as us,
because we're not that good. That'sthe that's the prelude to this. We're
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just coming back from the All Starbreak. Noble is represented in any facet
of the All Star weekend experience.And now that there was some great shakes.
It's just that it's an indictment ofthe roster and the roster building.
Now, you could say Kobe Whitehad a shot at being an All Star
this year, and he did.I think with a full season of him
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performing at this level next year andnone of that weird the five and fourteen
start with Zach that we had beforeZach went down. If things a little
more stable at the start of theseason, I think he has a shot
of making the All Star team nextyear. Kobe White's legitimate, but you
know, everybody else is not,and they are making good money to be
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what they are, which is asub five hundred team in the weaker of
the two conferences. Also, newscame out today that Jerry yinstffhinted that he
might move the White Sox. Idon't think it's gonna happen with the Bulls
anytime, but I just man,I want to talk about Jerry Yinstone.
I want to talk about what isgoing on with this embarrassment of an ownership
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group for one of the the greatfranchises in the NBA with one of the
great fan bases in the NBA.Although Chicago fans don't care about Bulls basketball
the way they care about Bears footballor Cubs baseball. I would say we're
third after those two. But Chicago'sa great sports town and we care about
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all of our teams. So evenbeing third in Chicago hierarchy sports team wise,
is still better than first in mostplaces, just because that's the fandom.
Like Chicago fandom is great and doesn'tdeserve what Jerry Rozer has done,
which is basically just treated like likepassive income or something. You know,
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he's just doing as little as possibleand trying to make as much money as
possible. It's just, I don'tknow, it's such a disrespect full thing,
dis aspectful way to treat your fans. I just I just think it's
just just horrific stuff. Now,the Boston Cellics are the best team in
the NBA, well in the East, maybe in the NBA. The forty
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four and twelve, they won sevenin a row. But the fact that
we were never gonna win, thatwe never even cared about winning, that
there was no engagement by anybody,you know, really outside of uh.
You know, Io Desumo, whohad a nice game starting for Zach,
played forty almost forty one minutes.You only had fourteen points and six of
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fourteen, shooting two of six froma deep buddy at eight rebounds that eight
assists. Bucivich had twenty two pointsand fourteen rebounds and got totally outclassed by
Christus Sports Angus. Tomarto Roz wasokay. Alex Carusoe starting at power forward
junior and Phillips got major minutes tothe rookie seventeen to forty five, seventy
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minutes, forty five seconds of actionfour or fivection from the field, which
is nice, nine points minus five. But Kobe White was minus twenty six,
team worst, but he had twentypoints forces to rebounds the steal in
thirty five minutes. Anyway, thisis all you know, I guess.
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Here's one thing I want to sayis that you know, the Celtics are
obviously the class of the NBA,have been for decades, one of the
great teams, the Lakers of theother one. The Warriors now can be
put in that class, The Spurs, the Bulls, they're right in there
right and also the one of thebig markets. They're the third biggest market
outside of New York and LA.There is no way. There's no reason
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that we should be this total jokeof a franchise with no future and you
know, no real present that peoplecare about. It's just completely embarrassing and
and just just an indictment on thefan base. So I just you know,
I hate it so much. Ihate it so so much, and
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it's hard to watch these games.It's hard to get excited about the Bulls
future because again there is none reallyand yeah, a's our weekend. No
one played in the Rising Stars Gamesfor the Bulls. No one played in
the All Star Game for the Bulls. No one played in the Skills Challenge,
which is a joke of the thingor whatever. No one played in
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three point contests. No one partookin the dunk Contest. They went to
the G League for the dunk contest. They went to they got a two
way guy, Jacob Topping, andthen they had Mac McClung, who's playing
for the Austlia Magic. I thinkthat's how you said, Orlando's G League
Magic affiliate. He's played in fourtotal NBA games, two total dunk contests.
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Jaylen Brown, speaking of the Celtics, Jim Brown played in the Dunk
Contest particular, the Dunk contest thisweekend didn't do that great. He was
in the finals, but he wasn'tgood. But anyway, Yeah, it's
an embarrassment of a team. We'regonna finish as the ninth of the tenth
seed and we're gonna miss the playoffs. We're gonna make the plan and our
church kind of show us at theend of the year. Is gonna spin
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that as somehow being successful in quoteunquote competitive, which it's not. If
you're competitive, you'd be competing forsomething at the end of the season into
the postseason. I guess you cancall it planes the postseason, let's let's
call let's call it the playoffs.You'd be in the playoffs if you're competitive.
We're not competitive. We're a joke. And that's the thing too,
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is like we're spinning our wheels.We're going to We've got this older team
now except for you know, Kobeand I or something. I like Kobe
and I. But the other thingI want to talk about is injuries.
The Bulls medical staff has got anoverhaul since this happened, but you know,
frequently mismanaged Derek Rose, injuries,the little things, injuries over the
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years joking Noah, But now we'redoing it again. We got this Lonzo
ball thing that's sort of snowballed fromyou know, a sort of a short
expected turnaround time at first with hisknee injury, to always out for the
year, to always offer this yeartoo, to always off for a third
year. You know, we're payingthat guy eighty million dollars. He's played
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thirty five games out of you know, so far two and a half seasons.
It's, uh, it's horrific thefact that not only was the medical
stuff, you know, kind ofineffectively reported at first because the bulls,
I'm not exactly sure if it's thebulls operate like they're controlling, like they're
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handling government secrets. Well, say, you want my government sects being handled
appropriately or not these days, butthe bulls are you know, it's like
it's like they're handling it like it'sso important that they keep under wraps the
injury status when you know, it'sa disaster, right, Maybe they're just
trying to like slow roll the disaster. And I think that if they sort
of like gradually reveal the full extentof the information and how bad it is,
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it'll look less terrible then if itwas just announced right away like he's
out. It definitely probably for years. You know, he's had three surgeries,
by the way, three knee surgeries, he said. All kinds of
people look at it and it youknow, it's unclear if you can move
up, but you can walk upa flight of stairs. You know.
This is technically a starting point guardmaking twenty mille dollars a year. We
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just lucked into Kobe White becoming afringe All Star guy this year. That's
the only way that we've been ableto stay afloat, you know, and
it just basically buys ownership more timeKobe White becoming good because they're not going
to do anything to like compliment KobeWhite or build around him in a way
that you could lead to winning,because he's a easy contract right now for
a starting point guard, but alsoa starting point guard who's a fringe All
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Star. You know. Instead we'rejust gonna say, oh, he's good
enough. This is finding just keepyou know, dragging out the same team
we've been dragging out for years,even though it's not good. It's crazy
the amount of delusion in the frontoffice. I don't know if it's I
don't know if they know better.I don't think our tourist, Conder Service,
knows what the fuck he's talking about. But but you got to think
somebody watching the team is aware thatthey're losing a lot of games and they're
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not close to winning anything. Idon't know, but anyway, so,
yeah, the medical staff has beenbeen rough, and now we're seeing it
again, you know, sort ofslowly. We've got this sort of disastrous
situation of power forward. We madeno moves at the trade deadline, which
we talked about with me last week. No moves the trade deadline, and
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now we've got a situation where,uh, well, like our turnerist,
Conder Service came out and said thathe was, you know, happy with
the team, was competitive quot unquoteblah blah blah, bullshit. You know,
obviously it's not competitive. It's bad. It's a bad team. It's
it's it's competent because the players,some of them are good. You know,
it's not put together that well.The pieces don't really fit that well
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in tandem, but they're all individually. There's there are enough strong guys in
that top six or whatever that theteam seven. Maybe that the team wins,
you know, a little less thanhalf of its games. It's not
that's not good, you know whatI mean. That's not a team that
can win a playoff series. That'snot a team that can get to the
playoffs. So it's not good.You know, competitive means you don't lose
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sixty games. I guess if bythat definition, then yeah, sure they're
competitive, but like what the fuckis that? You know? Anyway?
Medical staff? So I keep gettingoff track because it's so annoying, but
yeah, the medical staff seems tobe fucking up all over the place.
So the Bulls may no trades,you know, to obviously they're they're they're
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big obvious needs were three point shootingand defensive wing depth and a power forward,
just a power forward depth or Imean, I really don't think Patrick
Billiams is a power forward by theway. I think he is a small
forward that they're trying to play outa position because they don't have any power
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forwards and they have done anything toaddress that really outside of signing Tory Craig.
So now, Patrick Williams has beenout with a left foot injury since
Chany twenty fifth. He's supposedly notclose to returning. Billy Donovan said lasts
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or sorry no earlier this week thatPatrick Williams has not begun to run yet
while he's recovering from his foot injuryand the stab is being super careful.
The quote is very very careful.With Williams, who is the number four
pick in twenty twenty. Kasey Johnsontells us that he's still experiencing discomfort in
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that foot, and yeah, sohe's out in definitely. It's been a
month. We don't know when he'scoming back. Tory Craig, who the
Bulls signed as you know Williams insuranceor possibly a Williams replacement starters. He
has started at times for Williams insteadof Williams, but he hasn't been that
good. He's barely been healthy.He's played in thirty three games. The
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Bulls have played in fifty six games. Craig started eight times. He was
out from mid December until early Februarywith an acute sprain of his right planter
fascia, and now he's out again. He suffered a right knee brain according
to Hoopster, while he's working outover the All Star break. So they
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also break is the time we're supposedto relax and recover from injuries. The
Bulls are so bad at doing thatthat they get hurt instead of healing,
they go the other way. Overthe All Star break, so the the
Bulls. Pierre Department tweeted that,Yeah, he's got a right right in
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his brain and he's gonna be reassessed, uh two or two to four weeks
from now. So that doesn't meanhe's gonna be back in two to four
weeks. It means the balls aregonna take stuck again where he is in
two to four weeks, And knowingthe Bulls, that probably just means that
say, oh, he's out foryou know, another two to four weeks
after that. Right, they couldalready know that it's bad and just be
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b as saying, you know,I just don't trust them at all about
anything. So so there you go. So that wipes out the Power forwards
on the roster technically. So AlexCrusoe is playing at Powerful where he's you
know, very good, but he'ssix four six' five and you know,
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Billy Donovan, he's listed at sixtyfive. He's Billy Donovan loves playing
shooting guards at Power forward and center. Uh, it's not really. I
guess we have to stop him fromhimself for the Bulls and just not you
know, just give him actual powerforwards. So there was talk apparently of
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Daniel Gallinari, who played with BillDonovan in twenty twenty season with your the
Oklahoma City Thunder. He's thirty fivenow and he just keeps getting hurt because
he's old. But you know,it's a stretch four and apparently he spoke
with Bill Donovan about playing for theBulls. He ultimately signed with the Milwaukee
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Bucks, you know, who haven'tbeen there great either, but they're the
third seed. They've got Giais hadto com point with Damian Lillard. They're
good. They're not gonna win anythingthis year. I wouldn't expect, honestly,
but it's a it's a good teamthat on paper, you can talk
yourself into being, you know,fringe title contenders this season. So uh
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he according to Casey Johnson of MBSports NBC Sports Chicago again, uh Donovan
explained that essentially Gallinari decided not tosound of the Bulls because he thought you
have a better chance at playing timeon the Bucks. The Bucks, by
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the way have Gianni stempted to qumpoa power forward? The bulls have went
healthy. Patrick Williams and Tory Craigand and Bobby Portis comes off the bench
and is the third big man offthe bench, so he plays some four
some five. But and you guysj Crowder in there too, so so
yeah, like on that pretty stackedBucks team, Gallinari thinks that he has
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a better shot at minutes, SoI feel like that's bullshit. You know,
Gleno is an actual power forward.I don't know if Patrick Williams again,
I think he's kind of just Iknow he's sixty seven and uh he's
two fifteen. But yeah, he'sa little slate. He's he's not quite
he's he's a small forward. He'snot very good either, that's the o
thing. But Tory Craig is listedat six to seven to twenty one.
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He's a combo forward. You know, there's a little again. Both both
guys are kind of skinny for powerforwards. That's kind of the issue,
right, But there are technically powerforwards and Alex Crusoe is really not.
But he's doing that to play KateDonovan. And the fact that we couldn't
get a crappy buyout guy is justyou know, let alone like doing anything
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to make a trade. Obviously,the trades we should have made have been
should have been to tear down theteam, right, but even if you
want to get better, there arethings we could do to do that at
the trade deadline instead of just doingnothing and just being happy with being the
ninth seed a team you know,and then probably again like this team will
probably not make the playoffs, theyprobably will make the play in But basically
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because the Brooklyn Nets have totally fallenoff three and seven in their last ten,
they're twenty one to thirty four overall, their foreign hackings behind us.
They're really not that far behind us, but they they are also thought that
good. They just fired their coach, Jack Von and they're going to probably
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missed the plan. But I guessthere's a world where maybe Brooklyn within a
struder at the point over Spencer Danwidy. That's an improvement. So I suppose
there's a world where Brooklyn con rally. They lost three in a row,
but hard to see. The Bullshave some talent, it's just that they
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don't really fit well together. Theynever really have. We've seen it over
and over and over again. Andthere's talk now of Damar joining Damar working
on an extension again to stay withthe Bulls like the Bulls did with Damar
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said it was, you know,like talking to a girlfriend that you want
to get with, whom you wantto get married, and it's just about
like working it out. But it'ssomething that bull sizes want, So that
would be a disaster, that wouldjust be a waste of everybody's having money.
Tomato Rosen deserves better than the Bulls. Honestly, it's been fun to
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watch him. I enjoy watching him, but like, why, you know,
he's thirty four, why would hewant like a long term deal?
I mean, money is why hewould want to stay with the Bulls.
He wants him to overpay that basically, to over pay for him and to
probably make like, you know,thirty five ish forty ish a year,
to be on the second best playeron the ninth seed for like three more
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seasons or whatever. We want runlike we're not gonna be at the end
of that run. We're not gonnabe a ninth seed, will be the
tenth or the eleventh seed, becauseeveryone's gonna be getting older tomorrow, is
taking a step back this year tothis point. You know, he can
still get done sometimes, but he'snot the consistent scorer, does not the
takeover guy that he was the firstyear he was here, when he was
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like a legitimate NBA caliber guy,and he was. He did make a
team. He made like the secondteam, which is kind of generous for
the best player on the sixth seedthat got destroyed by the Bucks in the
first round. But whatever. Anyway, So yeah, so our top two
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powerfulwards are out. One of thebetter buyout options is out. Didn't join
the Bulls, didn't think there's opportunityfor him to get playing time. And
by the way he would start rightnow, I would assume, I mean,
Cruse is awesome, but you canjust start Cruise at shooting guard over
Ayoup then move out of the benchinstead of starting Crusive out of position at
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power forward where he's more likely toget hurt playing against bigger guys. So
yeah, incredible, incredible devan ofthe roster. I just want to do
a quick look at the remaining guysin the buyout market here former Bull Ryan
Ouh, Giacano, Danny green Ford, Joe Harris former Detroit Piston who with
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him. We've been linked with thisguy. This is a sharpshooter, a
wing who can play the two orthe three. Has some injury issues recently,
but you know, it's pretty goodfor a couple of years there in
Brooklyn. So he'd kind of benice to have. Daniel House is kind
of a defensive oriented wing, that'dbe fine. Corey Joseph, I don't
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think we need more little point guardssoss on him. Kevin Knox, who's
like a project form, a lotterypick former Nick. I think if it
were me, I would be downfor that, because what else have we
got going on. I think themore shots you get at, you know,
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guys with upside that are young,you should take. Especially you know,
again, we're going nowhere. Thisteam is completely you know, rudderless,
right, there's no real direction.It doesn't seem to have any goals
of actually being good or competitive anytimesoon. So I would sort of wish
it would go the other way andtry to, you know, get as
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many assets as possible, get asmany young players with some talent and upside
as possible. Now that Kevin Knoxis like, it could be a bust.
It certainly seems like he's a bust, right, but who knows freaking
Cort Mass is available. You havesome good years there, Affilly and stuff.
I think that again, he's probablybetter start going on an actual team
that wants to do something. Buthe would help us. Robin Lopez former
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Bowl he traded the Kings and thenhe was cut. Timenzi Metu Center whatever.
I don't know. Franknan lakena formerNick lottery pick as well, dropped
by Philip Jackson. I think Iwould pass on him. I think we've
seen what we need to see.Victor Ladipo, former two time All Start
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with the Pacers, hasn't played allyear. He's dealing with a torn p
teller attendant, so stay away.That's It's sad it's happened to him.
He was really fun and dynamic towatch for a couple of years there.
He just couldn't stay out of me. But still a decent defender when he
came back, which is the weirdpart right of that, Like he retained
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that element of his game because usuallythat's what goes with like major injuries.
Anyway, Ish Smith, who's playedin almost every team he hasn't played with
the Bulls. That'd be fun justfrom that perspective. But again, you
don't need like a point guard.Really, we're good on that front,
even though again the guy that thepoint guard that we're playing the most money
to a point guard to whom we'repaying the most money, Lonzo Ball is
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hurt. But even without him,we still have enough point guard dead that
we're good. Juan does Gano Andersoncan play some. You can play anything
from two to four, just notthat well. You know, he's got
a jumper, he's okay. Uh, that's the kind of guy that I
think would be a fine Bulls pickup. So that's a review. So
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all these buyout guys who've been boughtout or released this year and remain free
agents, I would Danny Green iscooked. So I would say avoid Danny
Green for the Bulls team if theywant to like add a little depth and
you know, make this like fakeplayoff push or whatever. Like, they're
not going to get out of theplaying bracket for sure. None of these
guys that I just listed are goingto help them elevate too far beyond the
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nine seed. I wouldn't think,honestly. But yeah, maybe I guess
there's a word where they could helpyou be the eight seed. They're not
gonna help you win anything. Soif you're them and you know the Bulls
are not that good even with you, then I don't know why they would
join the Bulls instead of you know, the Heat or the eight seed.
Uh. You know, and JimmyButler takes off half the season these days
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but remains a killer in the playoffs. So you know, obviously that would
be the move. But they couldbe like Kevin Love was last year for
them. But or there's other teamstoo they could use some help, like
the I think the Bucks could usemore help or depth. So do the
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Bucks take a flyer on like JuantToscano, Anderson or somebody. Maybe Joe
Harris gets some shooting help. ButI think you know, the Bucks big
issues wing defense, perimeter defense,right, So I don't know. Cork
Mass is kind of chippy. He'dbe kind of fun for them. But
anyway, so I think for usto be like a fake playoff team or
whatever, I think the guys thatcan help us with Joe Harris, Daniel
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House for defense, I suppose freakingcorpor Mass is kind of fun. I
don't really mind Rolo coming back,honestly, but Drobin's been pretty good for
us at center, so Rolo wouldbe our third center. You can't really
play any four, So yeah,I don't really like that. I don't
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know, I just miss him,so I'm down. I'll be watching some
Dwayne Wade Bulls highlights the other day, and it was just a weird team,
man, you know, Michael Carter, Williams, Robin Lopez, d
Wade, Rondo, Jimmy, weirdteam, weird energy, you know,
just such a kind of like thisroster but like you know, high ropside,
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more talent. You know, theycould have won that Celtics series if
Rondo didn't break his thumb, theycould have probably beaten the Wizards in the
next round and then gone on toloose to the Cabs in the Eastern Conference
Finals. This is twenty seventeen,the last Jami's season. I think the
Three Alphas era, you know,just because the upside of those guys in
the postseason, you know, it'slike it's like sort of a weird inverse
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mirror version of what we're doing nowwith these good but not great players.
Those guys couldn't quite congeal in theregular season. Plus the youth was such
a mess, and like those youngplayers like Denzel Valentine's on that team,
just a lot of like crappy draftpicks at that point that didn't really hit.
But you know, Rollo at thetime was good. And then Jimmy
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was great, great. The Bullsdidn't appreciate how great he was. He
was great, and Rondo was sortof dogging it trying to preserve his energy
for the playoffs obviously, and wasamazing in the playoffs, kind of like
the playoff Rondo and the Lakers seriesor whatever. But he would later go
on to be awesome for Pelicans,and he had sort of renaissance after his
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run with Bus. But but inthe playoffs he was special. He was
great. Wade get it done inthe playoffs on offense, and in the
regular season it wasn't quite the highflyer that he used to be, but
he was still really good. Sothat was you know, So the core
of that team was good, andthen the rest not so much anyway,
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got track. So yeah, sosorry Joe Harris stil House, freaking court
mass. Let's say no to RobinLopez just not you know, he's the
third center. I don't think hewants to do that. And then Juanta,
Sacana Anderson. So none of thoseguys are like amazing fits. I
think House and Harris make the mostsense for us. We have one open
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roster spot right now, so wecould just sign one of those guys and
then not have to waive anybody.I don't like the team that much,
so I'd be happy for us towaive somebody. But whatever. Anyway,
to this point, the Bulls havedone nothing at the bio market and they
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will have made no transaction moves thetrade deadline for a third year in a
row. So just brutal fatties.Young Faji Johnson, whom Nate had wanted
last week, uh signed with theSuns. It's a decent little bio pickup.
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Delon Wright good point of his typedefender. I was bought about the
Wizards and signed with the Heat.It's a great pick up from the Heat.
Special Dani widiem flipped the Rappers fromthe Nets and some of the Lakers
hometown team is that Biambo was cutwith the Groses earlier this year and then
he signed with the Thunder to givehim some center deb which is nice.
Former bole Daniel Tice got bought upby Indiana and signed with the Clippers for
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the home stretch. That's earlier thisseason too. I'm just just going through
the hooge rumors list of guys thatwere already kind of yeah, bought out
and the I already moved on toother teams. Another just rob coortunities lost
by the Bulls because the Bulls arelazy. Yeah, So there you have
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it. It's a it's a weirdtime. It's a weird time to be
a Bulls fame. I'm just I'mjust so worried about the medical staff of
the present echoing the medical staff ofthe past and mismanaging injuries and underreporting what's
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happening. It's you know, obviously, basketball is silly and it's not that
important compared with what's going on therest of the world, right, but
it's important to us, you know, and it's it brings great joy when
it's going well, when your team'sdoing well, or even if the team's
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doing miserably. But you've got alot of assets, and you've got your
own p and you know, andstuff like that, and you've got young
guys with some upside and you know, intriguing play or flashes of intriguing play,
like that's something, right. Youjust think about all the stuff we
could have gotten back in trades forCruso, Derozen, maybe Zach before he
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went down, not really actor,but certainly before, or even maybe Vucivic
or Drummond. You know, it'sjust crazy to me that we just didn't
do any of that. You know, it's just hard to watch when the
players are so checked out on themselves, you know, like the players feel
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about themselves the way we could wantthem, which is we're all sick of
it, you know, except forKobe White. I've really enjoyed the Kobe
White renaissance and that's been really funand I wo'd assume as legitimately gotten better.
So that's been fun to watch.And then the the individual games of
Demartin Rows and now as Cruso Iwill concede are fun as well. I
hate watching Nikolovu, which I getlike a twenty intent and I you know
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what I mean, I think itwas like twenty two and eleven to be
specific, write something like that,No, twenty two and fourteen, but
minus eighteen because of course. Butyeah, that guy's like the center Boozer,
basically center version chrls boozer. Justthe just a miserable viewing experience for
me at Max's watching more than Ido, but man, brutal. Anyway,
(31:26):
there you go, special solo editionof Bulls Bros. Rambling about our
injured power forwards and a lot ofother stuff. Please stay tuned for further
Bulls Analysis next week. Trying tobring these to you every week and you
know, keep watching if you're amasochist like me and Max. I guess
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