So there have been a ton of rumors about miami considering trading down in this year's draft and a bunch of teams in the top 10 considering trying to move up, to presumably to draft Beasley.  I would normally be ecstatic to not hear any of these rumors involving the Bulls, but now I am not so sure. 

  Rumor has it on ESPN, Link, that memphis is considering trading Mike Conley Jr (last year's #4 pick), Mike miller, and the #5 pick for Miami's #2 pick and Daequan cook.

  I don't know if Memphis will do this, since they were initially hoping to use Lowry instead of Conley in the trade, but this is a ton of assets to offer to acquire Beasley and I think the Bulls should contact  Memphis and consider trading down.  I really see the purpose of this trade mainly to acquire Conley and the #5, with Miller being just gravy (Gravy that shoots 42% from 3 point land, but gravy none the less).

  Both Conley and Rose are touted as being pure point guards, it's hard to compare them statistically because they were in very different offensive systems (pick/roll vs drive/kick), but they both played amazingly well, both got their teams to the NCAA finals (and lost), both were freshman, and both measured out similarly in the combine. 

  Rose is certainly the bigger of the two guards (~2in height, 4in standing reach, and 20lbs heavier), but Conley was actually able to bench 3 more reps than Rose's 10.  Interestingly both ran the 3/4 court sprint amazingly fast (Rose 3.05 vs conley 3.09), but both were slow (considering their sprints) in the lane agility test (Rose 11.69 vs Conley 11.63), and both have 40+in verticals. 

  If you're curious about how their freshman year statistics measure up (using pace adjusted statistics per 40 minutes), they suggest that Rose was the better scorer 19.5 vs 13.9, but both did it almost equally efficiently (TS% 56 vs 59%).  Rose turned the ball over 3.5 to Conley's 2.9, and was far from Conley's assist numbers 6.2 vs 7.9 (again I think this is less indicative of talent and more indicative of type of play, while turnovers might actually still be useful metrics). 

  I have posted a bunch of info on Conley and in no way do I think he'll be better than Rose, but I do think that Conley and the #5 pick will be more beneficial to the bulls than Rose alone.  The Bulls still could use a big man, and having the #5 pick will mean the Bulls either land Love, Lopez, or Mayo (if Minnesota and Seattle both choose to go big, probably unlikely). 

  If the argument against this is that the Bulls need a star, then at least based on the history (Draftexpress) of how players have done in the past chosen at various picks, the bulls still win.  The #1 pick has NOT become a star (29% of the time), while the #4 and #5 picks have not become stars (66 and 62% of the time respectively); keep reading.  But having 2 picks means the bulls do have a 12% chance (based on history) of acquiring 2 stars and a 40% chance that neither becomes a star.  I would take those odds any day, so I think argument is crap. (note: If you calculate the average number of stars to arise from the data, it is .72 for having picks 4 and 5, vs .71 for having pick 1)

  All of these thoughts are predicated on the idea that Memphis is actually considering trading Conley and the #5, but if they are the Bulls could fill a lot of holes.  They would add a pure point guard (Conley), a 3point shooter Miller, and probably a big man (Love is my hope, but I'd be okay with Lopez).