Bulls offseason < Pacers? Would u bring BG/Kirk back?

the Bulls did the best they could do, Kirk & Ben were not going to get you to the next level, imo, sometimes change is just good, I like the make-up of this time, and I’m ready to see this team play.

No way would I want Kirk back on his current deal. We filled the need for shooting with Korver and defense with Brewer. Kirk is a great defender and all, but he is a much better PG than SG and we already have a PG. BG on the other hand is tough. I would love to have that guy back, but the price of his current contract is steep! A smart coach could make BG and Rose the most deadly offensive backcourt in the league (except maybe Parker and Ginobli). Those two guys playing off each other with Boozer still in the mix would be fun to watch! However, I think Luol/Brewer could potentially be just as good a fit with Rose as a BG/Brewer combo, but for different reasons (I am assuming we’d have to give up Luol to get BG back). The big if is whether Luol can step back 2 feet and start knocking down threes. He is not the playmaker that BG is, but if he can knock down open threes and be a good slasher, I think Luol’s defense is a better fit on the court, not knowing how much of an improvement Rose will make in that area.

In the end, I try not to pine for players that we once had. I like the team we have. If we can find a solid 2 in the remaining offseason, at the deadline, or next year, I think the Bulls will be solid.

We got a guy on a much better deal as a backup pg and a big athletic defender at two, so I have to say, its officially time to move on from Kirk and BG. Deng is the best player of the bunch and we still have him, so I am just hoping he can start hitting some threes and we can collectively liquidate the last 12 years and move on to accepting our position as the Pacers/Heat/Knicks/Suns/Mavericks of the 2010s.

and I am a huge Kirk supporter cuz he did other things and let rose/deng take their shots. but he really couldnt hit his open 3’s, and that is why he was worth letting go.

Hey, they were young and had upside, were promising talents etc, but ultimately they were frustrating players to watch and we didn’t even look close to winning a championship.

I much prefer the situation we are in now. I do somewhat regret Kirk leaving, albeit on a more sentimental level, but considering what we have now, No regrets as a fan whatsoever.

For all the people who are whining about the departure of BG\Kirk\Tyrus etc and that we didn’t get the ‘big 3’ anyway, would be the same people whining if we kept their ‘beloved’ players and never tried in the first place. because that was the alternative people.

I think the org showed some balls, rolled the dice, crapped out, and ended up with a better team then when they started, with better fitting players around their new young franchise player. They turned a team that has been an 7th or 8th seed to a team people are talking about for 2nd or 3rd seed ( and this was the ‘disaster’ scenario )

As a fan, If you are upset at that, you’ll never be happy, people have to get real , the org done a pretty fantastic job IMO, constructing the team we have going into next season, note how other ‘all-in for free agency’ teams have fared compared to us.

You can be disappointed as a fan that we didnt fare better in FA I guess, but I don’t think you can point a finger at the org and say they are useless cos we gave up BG,Kirk,Tyrus to get where we are now.