This is a genuinely weird feeling as a Bulls fan. Nearly everything has gone right over the last month or so.
1. AKME were fired despite just signing extensions last year.
2. The Bulls managed to hang onto their draft position despite Milwaukee doing everything they could to overtake them.
3. Portland makes the playoffs giving the Bulls a second first round pick this year.
4. Phoenix also makes the playoffs which locks that pick into 15 instead of having the potential to drop to 16 (not a huge deal, but still a positive) due to Portland and LAC having identical records.
5. Billy basically quits, which forces the Reinsdorfs to give full control to whatever new front office comes in. The Billy requirement could very well have turned some potential hires off from the job opportunity.
Come on, Silver, bump us up into the top 4, please!! It doesn't even need to be #1. I think anyone in the top 4 would have a very good chance at becoming a star in the league.
(Posted this in the previous thread before this article came out.)
I don't like The Chicago Bulls being a leadership training ground (with the trainer being John Paxson) but if lowering expectations I agree it wasn't a dismaying list
Generally agree. Maybe the only negative news is how many guys projected as mid-1st rounders are choosing to forego the draft and go back to school. That will thin out the crop at #15 and have a cascading effect all the way down to #38.
I REALLY want us to hit a Top 4 pick but if we don't pull a ping pong ball, I'm still advocating to try and use #9 and #15 in a trade to move up. The best path forward for any rebuild is finding a star and there might be a few at the top of this draft.
Anybody forego the draft that you feel like would have been a good fit at #15? Mullins is the only person that comes to mind that had been mocked in that area, and I wasn't stoked about him coming to the Bulls.
Would be thrilled to move up to the top 4 - I've got a feeling the price would be mighty, mighty steep.
I saw Thomas Haugh mocked to the Bulls and he might have been interesting. Not a Mullins fan either, but if someone was going to grab him between #10 and #14, then they're now gonna take a guy the Bulls might want.
Another Jerry victory. If Billy really did get a secret extension, him resigning means Jerry won't have to pay it!
I'd bet he's getting a big check, out of 'respect'
This is a genuinely weird feeling as a Bulls fan. Nearly everything has gone right over the last month or so.
1. AKME were fired despite just signing extensions last year.
2. The Bulls managed to hang onto their draft position despite Milwaukee doing everything they could to overtake them.
3. Portland makes the playoffs giving the Bulls a second first round pick this year.
4. Phoenix also makes the playoffs which locks that pick into 15 instead of having the potential to drop to 16 (not a huge deal, but still a positive) due to Portland and LAC having identical records.
5. Billy basically quits, which forces the Reinsdorfs to give full control to whatever new front office comes in. The Billy requirement could very well have turned some potential hires off from the job opportunity.
Come on, Silver, bump us up into the top 4, please!! It doesn't even need to be #1. I think anyone in the top 4 would have a very good chance at becoming a star in the league.
(Posted this in the previous thread before this article came out.)
And the leaked list of executives all look like totally reasonable hires with high upsides!
Bulls might be starting something fun.
I don't like The Chicago Bulls being a leadership training ground (with the trainer being John Paxson) but if lowering expectations I agree it wasn't a dismaying list
Generally agree. Maybe the only negative news is how many guys projected as mid-1st rounders are choosing to forego the draft and go back to school. That will thin out the crop at #15 and have a cascading effect all the way down to #38.
I REALLY want us to hit a Top 4 pick but if we don't pull a ping pong ball, I'm still advocating to try and use #9 and #15 in a trade to move up. The best path forward for any rebuild is finding a star and there might be a few at the top of this draft.
Anybody forego the draft that you feel like would have been a good fit at #15? Mullins is the only person that comes to mind that had been mocked in that area, and I wasn't stoked about him coming to the Bulls.
Would be thrilled to move up to the top 4 - I've got a feeling the price would be mighty, mighty steep.
I saw Thomas Haugh mocked to the Bulls and he might have been interesting. Not a Mullins fan either, but if someone was going to grab him between #10 and #14, then they're now gonna take a guy the Bulls might want.
"and their top-10 lottery pick plus 21 year old Noa Essengue from last year’s draft"
Just a heads up, yfbb, but Essengue can't legally drink yet (he's 19).
thanks I'll correct. I think I was originally writing how there were multiple 21-and-other options
Drinking age is 18 in France where he's from! So my math says French 19yo = USA 21yo. #science
It's the same reason I started letting my dog order cocktails when she turned 3.
My current guess is they’re going to hire Matt Lloyd and he’ll hire Micah Nori.