Idea: Hakim Warrick to the Bulls?

Warrick is pretty much Tyrus with a slightly more developed offensive game, a little worse than TT as far as defense and rebounding. Better outside shot. He’d be a decent backup PF for cheap. He is not a back to the basket 4 at all. Mainly a slasher/jumpshooter. No post moves. Still I’d rather pay him a mill or two then waste the money on Taj.

And no lux tax.

in your depth chart.

I feel think this is the season that we all watch Derrick become a star and make everyone else a lot better. The young man is gonna make us all witnesses. Gordon is gone now. It is what it is. So Drose has the key to the franchise. With some playoff experience under his belt, he’s gonna create shots for Deng/Tyrus—shots that Kirk couldn’t create. I expect Tyrus to have a big year with Drose out there scoring and getting everyone involved. I think Hinrich should start with Deng, Tyrus, Noah and Rose. Hinrich should get good shots and go hard on D. Salmons and Miller off the bench. Let’s hope they stay healthy. If Gray is ever on the court then something has gone seriously wrong. Not sure what VDN is doing out there. But even he can’t mess up Derricks shine. Let’s get it!!!!!

What I’m talking about here is increasing our true depth. To count on a rookie that some had going undrafted for quality minutes on a fringe playoff team is, well… unrealistic.

Hakim represents quality depth for minimum cost, and I think still has undisplayed potential due to being stuck in Suckville the last four years. Worst case scenario, the bulls pay a little extra and end up getting 20 minutes, 10 and 6 out of him. Best case is we find another player who can play the uptempo game with DRose (and isn’t this all about surrounding him with teammates who can play off of his game?) and maybe, just maybe is worth developing in the future. I think one thing people ignore is that whenever he plays, he gets to the line. Who else can you say that about on the Bulls’ front line?

Kig – good point out. Hard to have credibility when you can’t even get the depth chart right. It changes my argument zero, however. Miller plays the high post, picks and pops, and passes, while Tyrus and Warrick would share minutes. Tyrus gets the bulk, obv, but I like the idea of an NBA quality backup.

There are no answers at this point in the offseason. But quality is out there for proactive teams. Come on Gar Paxdorf. This is your JOB.

sign warrick’s finely manicured beard for much less, and remain under the cap.

thinking maybe I underestimated him, but I don’t see anything there. Admittedly, I haven’t watched him live much, but when I saw him I wasn’t impressed. Yes he’s a high flier, but he’s not taking over an NBA game, and seems to only repeat what Tyrus does there.

His defense and rebounding seem to be pretty bad. He’s been consistently averaging 7 rebounds per 36 minutes every year. Compare that to Tyrus who averaged 10, then 9.3, then 8.4. If Tyrus is a problem at “only” 8.4 per 36 last year, I don’t see how a guy who’s ceiling is 7.3 over his 4 years is going to be anything other than a liability at the PF spot.

I don’t see why we go over the luxury tax to get a backup PF who gives up as much as he adds. I said in another thread that i’d take him if he could replace Taj Gibson’s money and minutes, but not for anything more than that.

where this helps our roster out at all. Basically you are going to almost pay double for a guy that is going to give you at most 20 minutes a night unless we make a few more roster moves? He’s certainly not worth paying the tax for and it would take away minutes from Thomas which I think many people here agree we did too much already last season.

It’s too bad they didn’t draft Ellington instead of Taj and then made a run at Warrick.

Or wait, they could’ve drafted Blair instead of Taj and we’d have a real post player for the first time since Elton Brand. That would’ve made too much sense though.

Blair is not a real post. He’s 6 foot 4. He’ll be very Milsap like on how he scores (IE put backs and dump offs)..

But the point everyone is missing is Warrick won an NCAA tittle. So Pax LOVES him!

Sean has twice as many post moves as our entire roster. And to the guy saying Blair is garbage, give me a break he’ll be 3 times the NBA player Taj is going to be. If he can’t help getting 9 fouls in summer league games what is he going to do when he has to defend real NBA forwards? Between Douglas, Ellington, and Blair the Bulls really dropped the ball with their second first round pick