I honestly don't even think that trade was that bad for the Pacers. First, it's Indiana. They're going to have to overpay a little to get any sort of star. Second, this year's draft class looks pretty bad and the Pacers are pretty good this year. Their pick likely would have been in the twenties, so they're probably not losing much there. Assuming they continue getting better, their 2026 pick likely wouldn't be that great either.
Choosing to commit to winning now with Haliburton seems like the right play and I think Siakam will fit well on that team. If they look pretty legit to finish out the year and maybe again next year, they may be able to lure another superstar into coming to Indiana.
I feel like both teams actually benefited from the trade. Toronto was obviously going to move on from Siakam regardless and they managed to get a couple young players and three first round picks out of it, even if those picks likely won't be amazing. They also got Bruce Brown who I'd guess they'll likely try to flip by the deadline or this summer, so that could further add more young pieces or draft picks.
Three picks is still a lot for a guy who might turn in about 2.5 months of play for you. The 2026 top 4 protected is a lot for that. It's like a magnitude higher than what the Clippers paid for Harden.
This is an all-time boner if he walks, and if you're to believe it Siakam was indicating to a LOT more "desirable" locales that he wouldn't automatically re-sign. They're putting a lot on a few words of goodwill toward Indiana leaked by his agent and reported as basically somewhere between a sentiment and a hunch.
> Assuming they continue getting better
I didn't see this single-season leap happening so I'm still an Indiana Truther until they sustain it for awhile.
I don't think he walks, but would be concerned that he won't walk because the Pacers promised him a max already
I just don't see the market for him in free agency where he gets that elsewhere, let alone to the point where he'd take less to leave out of spite or something.
not every team is the small-market Bulls, which has to negotiate against themselves and overpay players
You're right. If he walks, Indiana totally fucked up. I think most people assume he won't though. Assuming he doesn't, the trade doesn't seem too bad to me.
I like the deal for Indiana. The biggest risk they're taking is on Halliburton staying healthy down the stretch.. If that happens, they could be a tough out in the playoffs. The Pacers have been on that treadmill of non-lottery first rounders for years. They'll never break out if they keep drafting Chris Duartes who are useful but not difference-makers. May as well take a leap and see if you can get a deep run out of it.
Indiana still has some chips left but I imagine they would become extremely conservative with them if Siakam were to leave. It would be pretty bitter.
But I just don't think the "win" part of this gamble really has enough payoff. If the gamble here is Siakam on a huge deal (representing the win) vs. losing 3 picks for 2.5 months and he leaves (representing the loss)... I'm not sure I'd play! Entirely possible we're all just haters on Siakam's potential here. I'm not really sure how I feel about him at all which itself is a strange thing, I'm an asshole and have opinions about everything (sorry everyone for that), I really have no idea what I think Siakam. Julius Randle seems like an inferior player in almost every respect but has been so much more meaningful in terms of team success.
I'm gonna lose what little interest I have left if the deadline passes again with no action intended to make the team less shitty and boring in the future. The product is dreck. Give people a reason to turn on the TV. Trade Lavine for another mascot to pair with Bennie, I don't care, just demonstrate that management is awake.
"Mrs. Krause, we're going to blindfold the first boobird and place him on this trampoline directly under the backboard. Benny will then jump on the trampoline. Please take this umbrella to guard against the blood spray. Okay, everybody count down with me --"
I wish people would stop talking about the Toronto GM like he's amazing. Yes, he won a championship and deserves all of the credit for building that team. But since then it's been a lot of questionable moves. For all of the comparisons to the Bulls, trying to make the play-in when your team is terrible is probably the most apt. They traded their own 2024 first round pick for Poeltl, let Van Fleet walk for nothing, and traded OG and Siakam a year later than they should have. They did OK in the OG deal as Quickley is good, but Barrett is not worth his contract. In return for Siakam they got a bunch of junk picks and Bruce Brown. Maybe they strike gold with one of those picks but they're going into a bad draft (but at least they have Poeltl, I guess).
Yeah, it seems like Joe Dumars (or, hehe, Jerry Krause) is the rule rather than exception for a GM's life cycle. And Jerry even rebuilt a champion once.
I just have this irrational dislike of everything about the Raptors. I think it's because of all the media hype after their entirely Kawhi-driven championship. It created inflated reputations for Van Vleet, Siakam, Anunoby, Lowry, Nurse and Ujiri. There's nothing wrong about any of them individually but in a team context they sucked from 2019 onward, yet you'd never know it from reading some national media.
I thought he did pretty well with these trades. Maybe a bit late but I'm not sure they would've gotten much more a year ago either.
He basically made the same calculation AK did, that his group 'deserved a chance'. Now, his team were remnants of an NBA Championship, the Bulls won a single playoff game.
And Masai's quotes at least show someone with a shred of accurate self assessment and humility, far more than AK has ever said:
>"I am patient, I was maybe to a fault. I was patient with that team last year because I believed in them. I believed in those players, I believed in what they brought. But now we have to look to the future."
Looks like Giddey has been cleared by the police. He'll probably get a slap on the wrist by the NBA, but probably not much more.
Think we could get him for a reasonable trade? From what I've read, he'd fit in better here than in OKC. Maybe Giddey, Mann, and a good pick for Caruso? Not sure who else we have that they'd want. Maybe DDR, but the numbers don't match up at all.
I'd take Giddey, Mann and a pick for Caruso. Adding young talent should absolutely be a priority for the Bulls this deadline season, which means it most certainly won't be.
I think it's obvious they run him back for a 4th year and see what happens. The big thing with Giddey is that he came into the league with awful shooting mechanics. On jump shots from distance, he was holding the ball way out in front of him — doing that thing you do when you're 12 and can barely lift the thing comfortably. I don't think he's ever gotten fully comfortable shooting in a way that doesn't result in the ball being thrown back in his face. That's outside of now being the 3rd or 4th most important ballhandler on the floor and this thing happening (which might not be over. The alleged victim hired Gloria Allred, you just don't do that as a "precaution." If I worked for him I'd warn him that a civil suit seems likely.)
Hadn't heard about Gloria Allred being retained. That's an important data point, but I'm not certain Giddey would be the target of anything she was involved in.
The family refused to cooperate with the police and apparently are quite rich and are worth far more than Giddey. That refusal continued after Allred was retained over a month ago.
It's entirely possible (maybe even likely) that they hired her firm to deal with harassment resulting from the Giddey situation, rather than Giddey himself.
Regardless, that is something I didn't know and it will be interesting to see what the fallout is.
Giddey's shooting mechanics and being down the list on OKC ball-handlers are why I think he'd be better here. He would be able to lean into his strengths here, rather than his biggest weakness being his primary focus in OKC.
The Giddey thing is interesting. While I definitely don't brush off potential predators, the guy was 19. It's crazy that he was getting booed by entire arenas and getting compared to Karl Malone.
Vooch with a classic Vooch game. The man sure knows how destroy his opponent when they're not an NBA-caliber center. I mean Porter was literally on the Bulls summer league team this year...
Completely agree! I think I actually may have said something like that after summer league. This team is desperate for size and shooting - the two things Porter offers and the two things Sanogo does not.
I'm trapped between questioning Donovan's judgment in playing Dalen Terry and praising his ability to get the guy some reps without totally tanking the team. He clearly doesn't deserve NBA minutes right now and I hope a game like today is used as a reason to not give him anymore.
The symmetry between Pat Williams' 4th year stats and his career averages is astounding.
Think it's basically required with Pat hobbled and Craig out. Instead of Javonte and DJJ, they've got Phillips and Terry. Who both look like totally blown picks to me.
100% agree with this. Just working with what we have haha. I honestly think AK freaked out when DJJ left after saying he'd stay and AK made a rash decision to try to draft someone to replace him. Phillips was that someone...
he kind of said this is what happened. that they targeted a 2nd round selection to replace the 11th man. But surely he wouldn't play this year because like everyone they draft they have no day-one basketball skills
Looking at the game logs, I think Ayo was already on the court.
The choice is really whether you have Carter out there instead of Terry. I'd probably choose Carter most of the time, especially in games like last night's where he'd be matched up against the equally minuscule Dennis Schroder.
On Carter, has anyone else noticed that he seems like he's usually wearing a big ice pack on his left knee when he's on the bench? This has been going on for a couple months now, and nobody mentions it and he's not on the injury report. Kind of weird.
I'd get it if it was like a big mole or an extra eye or some sort of disfigurement that would be rude to address, but a giant ice pack on your knee mid game seems newsworthy. Especially amidst questions of "why isn't this guy playing".
Yep, I've noticed that too. He doesn't seem old enough to warrant ice packs on the knees simply for going through warm ups. Definitely makes me think something isn't right there and management is just hoping no one will notice.
Also, I'm not a doctor or anything, but I'm pretty familiar with how to take care of knees because I'm a runner, and I don't remotely understand icing a knee DURING activity. I think at this point there's actually debate about whether icing afterwards makes sense (I don't). But during... you want to keep everything warmed up, not cold! That's why you see guys run back and hop on exercise bikes and stuff.
Maybe it's not ice... maybe it's a heating pad? It looks like ice, but I guess I'm speculating.
yeah I'd rather have Carter out there. As mentioned earlier perhaps part of it is Patrick Williams 'limited' (injury or BD?) to 23 minutes
but if you're looking for a backup guard, use Carter. If a backup wing, play Ayo up a position. No need for Terry to play at all and go 10 deep. When Torrey Craig returns even moreso.
I thought last night's game was pretty deflating outside of the final minute where the Bulls - again - pulled out a clutch win where the opponent missed threes and FTs. It was cool to see Coby White seize that opportunity to close late with the Raptors (now pretty bad) defense concentrating on DDR.
But for most of it it was just like the slogging sad Bulls. Huge % of midrange shots, so much Vucevic, LaVine somehow making his perceived trade value even worse by being a $40M 4th option then getting hurt.
I'll be honest, I was pretty fine with last night's game. Sure, the Bulls played an old-school style where they shot a lot in the paint and midrange, but it also kind of made sense against a team who started a G-League center and played small whenever he wasn't on the court.
Yes, Stacey will probably use this as evidence that this is how the Bulls should always play which is obviously wrong, but it made sense for last night's game. I was even fine with Vooch's usage since he was making everything. Again, fine for last night's game as long as this doesn't convince Billy and AK that this is how this team should play from here on out.
Zach's passive-aggressive deferring to everyone else (take that, Billy!) also contributes to Voochification. If Zach's gonna hang in the corner on offensive possessions and play hot potato whenever the ball rotates to him (occasionally throwing it out of bounds or to the other team) and they've got Williams and Ayo or Terry out there for defense, no one aside from Coby and Vooch is willing to take a shot.
Reading comments on Reddit and YouTube about how amazing Vooch was last night are hilarious. The man was guarded by Scottie Barnes the majority of the night, and when it wasn't Scottie, it was the backup center from our Summer League team this past summer. If Vooch didn't have a huge game last night, I would have been incredibly disappointed.
But hey, maybe if opposing teams keep running out these kinds of players, Vooch can inflate his numbers enough to make him somewhat tradeable!
KC tweeting last night (he didn't get flown to the game because he's not media but a broadcast partner and it was on TNT) about MORE VUC
then today on their podcast, the co-host (also working for the media partner) had a hot topic of discussion on who is providing the most winning impact this season, and here's why it's Vuc
Like everyone, I expect the guy to be a walking advertisement for the team because he always was one, he was more loyal to the franchise even when someone else paid him. But this is just totally detached from reality in a Baghdad Bob kind of way. The kind of thing that isn't even worth the breath to refute because it's so ridiculous.
Vucevic is shooting 27% from 3. In the last 10 games, it's 21%! There is simply no way to spin that as "good," much less "the irresistible force propelling the Chicago franchise into a new dimension of absolute dominance."
BREAKING: per KC Johnson, Zach LaVine has "very pliable and strong ankles." Not sure what that's supposed to mean, but KC felt it was important enough to clarify on the most recent Bulls Talk podcast.
Interesting question here from Darnell Mayberry. Donovan said he subbed out Pat Williams in the first few minutes because he was wasn't attacking the defense. So Mayberry — braving KC Johnson giving him the stink eye — asked the obvious question: is it a concern that a guy in his 4th season still hasn't mastered "the basics"?
I honestly don't even think that trade was that bad for the Pacers. First, it's Indiana. They're going to have to overpay a little to get any sort of star. Second, this year's draft class looks pretty bad and the Pacers are pretty good this year. Their pick likely would have been in the twenties, so they're probably not losing much there. Assuming they continue getting better, their 2026 pick likely wouldn't be that great either.
Choosing to commit to winning now with Haliburton seems like the right play and I think Siakam will fit well on that team. If they look pretty legit to finish out the year and maybe again next year, they may be able to lure another superstar into coming to Indiana.
I feel like both teams actually benefited from the trade. Toronto was obviously going to move on from Siakam regardless and they managed to get a couple young players and three first round picks out of it, even if those picks likely won't be amazing. They also got Bruce Brown who I'd guess they'll likely try to flip by the deadline or this summer, so that could further add more young pieces or draft picks.
Three picks is still a lot for a guy who might turn in about 2.5 months of play for you. The 2026 top 4 protected is a lot for that. It's like a magnitude higher than what the Clippers paid for Harden.
This is an all-time boner if he walks, and if you're to believe it Siakam was indicating to a LOT more "desirable" locales that he wouldn't automatically re-sign. They're putting a lot on a few words of goodwill toward Indiana leaked by his agent and reported as basically somewhere between a sentiment and a hunch.
> Assuming they continue getting better
I didn't see this single-season leap happening so I'm still an Indiana Truther until they sustain it for awhile.
I don't think he walks, but would be concerned that he won't walk because the Pacers promised him a max already
I just don't see the market for him in free agency where he gets that elsewhere, let alone to the point where he'd take less to leave out of spite or something.
not every team is the small-market Bulls, which has to negotiate against themselves and overpay players
The overpay isn't in the picks (trash) but in what they told him they'd pay him to stay.
You're right. If he walks, Indiana totally fucked up. I think most people assume he won't though. Assuming he doesn't, the trade doesn't seem too bad to me.
I like the deal for Indiana. The biggest risk they're taking is on Halliburton staying healthy down the stretch.. If that happens, they could be a tough out in the playoffs. The Pacers have been on that treadmill of non-lottery first rounders for years. They'll never break out if they keep drafting Chris Duartes who are useful but not difference-makers. May as well take a leap and see if you can get a deep run out of it.
Indiana still has some chips left but I imagine they would become extremely conservative with them if Siakam were to leave. It would be pretty bitter.
But I just don't think the "win" part of this gamble really has enough payoff. If the gamble here is Siakam on a huge deal (representing the win) vs. losing 3 picks for 2.5 months and he leaves (representing the loss)... I'm not sure I'd play! Entirely possible we're all just haters on Siakam's potential here. I'm not really sure how I feel about him at all which itself is a strange thing, I'm an asshole and have opinions about everything (sorry everyone for that), I really have no idea what I think Siakam. Julius Randle seems like an inferior player in almost every respect but has been so much more meaningful in terms of team success.
I made a wrong turn in Chicago once and wound up in Indiana.
I'm gonna lose what little interest I have left if the deadline passes again with no action intended to make the team less shitty and boring in the future. The product is dreck. Give people a reason to turn on the TV. Trade Lavine for another mascot to pair with Bennie, I don't care, just demonstrate that management is awake.
ok, hear me out: ring of dishonor, where they put the camera on fans who booed a picture of Jerry Krause, then Stacey King shames them for 5 minutes
"Mrs. Krause, we're going to blindfold the first boobird and place him on this trampoline directly under the backboard. Benny will then jump on the trampoline. Please take this umbrella to guard against the blood spray. Okay, everybody count down with me --"
(And Jerry monetizes the footage with an OnlyFans page.)
I wish people would stop talking about the Toronto GM like he's amazing. Yes, he won a championship and deserves all of the credit for building that team. But since then it's been a lot of questionable moves. For all of the comparisons to the Bulls, trying to make the play-in when your team is terrible is probably the most apt. They traded their own 2024 first round pick for Poeltl, let Van Fleet walk for nothing, and traded OG and Siakam a year later than they should have. They did OK in the OG deal as Quickley is good, but Barrett is not worth his contract. In return for Siakam they got a bunch of junk picks and Bruce Brown. Maybe they strike gold with one of those picks but they're going into a bad draft (but at least they have Poeltl, I guess).
Yeah, it seems like Joe Dumars (or, hehe, Jerry Krause) is the rule rather than exception for a GM's life cycle. And Jerry even rebuilt a champion once.
I just have this irrational dislike of everything about the Raptors. I think it's because of all the media hype after their entirely Kawhi-driven championship. It created inflated reputations for Van Vleet, Siakam, Anunoby, Lowry, Nurse and Ujiri. There's nothing wrong about any of them individually but in a team context they sucked from 2019 onward, yet you'd never know it from reading some national media.
I thought he did pretty well with these trades. Maybe a bit late but I'm not sure they would've gotten much more a year ago either.
He basically made the same calculation AK did, that his group 'deserved a chance'. Now, his team were remnants of an NBA Championship, the Bulls won a single playoff game.
And Masai's quotes at least show someone with a shred of accurate self assessment and humility, far more than AK has ever said:
>"I am patient, I was maybe to a fault. I was patient with that team last year because I believed in them. I believed in those players, I believed in what they brought. But now we have to look to the future."
Looks like Giddey has been cleared by the police. He'll probably get a slap on the wrist by the NBA, but probably not much more.
Think we could get him for a reasonable trade? From what I've read, he'd fit in better here than in OKC. Maybe Giddey, Mann, and a good pick for Caruso? Not sure who else we have that they'd want. Maybe DDR, but the numbers don't match up at all.
I'd take Giddey, Mann and a pick for Caruso. Adding young talent should absolutely be a priority for the Bulls this deadline season, which means it most certainly won't be.
I think it's obvious they run him back for a 4th year and see what happens. The big thing with Giddey is that he came into the league with awful shooting mechanics. On jump shots from distance, he was holding the ball way out in front of him — doing that thing you do when you're 12 and can barely lift the thing comfortably. I don't think he's ever gotten fully comfortable shooting in a way that doesn't result in the ball being thrown back in his face. That's outside of now being the 3rd or 4th most important ballhandler on the floor and this thing happening (which might not be over. The alleged victim hired Gloria Allred, you just don't do that as a "precaution." If I worked for him I'd warn him that a civil suit seems likely.)
Hadn't heard about Gloria Allred being retained. That's an important data point, but I'm not certain Giddey would be the target of anything she was involved in.
The family refused to cooperate with the police and apparently are quite rich and are worth far more than Giddey. That refusal continued after Allred was retained over a month ago.
It's entirely possible (maybe even likely) that they hired her firm to deal with harassment resulting from the Giddey situation, rather than Giddey himself.
Regardless, that is something I didn't know and it will be interesting to see what the fallout is.
Giddey's shooting mechanics and being down the list on OKC ball-handlers are why I think he'd be better here. He would be able to lean into his strengths here, rather than his biggest weakness being his primary focus in OKC.
The Giddey thing is interesting. While I definitely don't brush off potential predators, the guy was 19. It's crazy that he was getting booed by entire arenas and getting compared to Karl Malone.
Vooch with a classic Vooch game. The man sure knows how destroy his opponent when they're not an NBA-caliber center. I mean Porter was literally on the Bulls summer league team this year...
Still think we should have kept Porter and offered him a contract instead of Sanogo.
Completely agree! I think I actually may have said something like that after summer league. This team is desperate for size and shooting - the two things Porter offers and the two things Sanogo does not.
Somehow we wound up showcasing both of the best players on our summer league team for the Raptors:
https://gleague.nba.com/player/1631241/javon-freeman-liberty
Oh yeah, I totally forgot they ended up picking up JFL.
I'm trapped between questioning Donovan's judgment in playing Dalen Terry and praising his ability to get the guy some reps without totally tanking the team. He clearly doesn't deserve NBA minutes right now and I hope a game like today is used as a reason to not give him anymore.
The symmetry between Pat Williams' 4th year stats and his career averages is astounding.
Every time I see Dalen Terry on the court, I wish he had some actual NBA skills. The kid is just insanely long. If only he could put that to use...
Think it's basically required with Pat hobbled and Craig out. Instead of Javonte and DJJ, they've got Phillips and Terry. Who both look like totally blown picks to me.
Honestly, I'd rather see Phillips play. We know what Terry is and it's not an NBA-level player. Let Terry go out there and at least be athletic.
I guess, but man, I can't believe we gave up 2 seconds for him. That'll get you an actually good player.
100% agree with this. Just working with what we have haha. I honestly think AK freaked out when DJJ left after saying he'd stay and AK made a rash decision to try to draft someone to replace him. Phillips was that someone...
Bit of an overreaction to a guy they pretty much wasted and began to use as a fucking backup center of all things lol
He's basically turned into Shane Battier in Dallas.
he kind of said this is what happened. that they targeted a 2nd round selection to replace the 11th man. But surely he wouldn't play this year because like everyone they draft they have no day-one basketball skills
Why not have Ayo in that role. He's shorter but otherwise much more capable
Looking at the game logs, I think Ayo was already on the court.
The choice is really whether you have Carter out there instead of Terry. I'd probably choose Carter most of the time, especially in games like last night's where he'd be matched up against the equally minuscule Dennis Schroder.
On Carter, has anyone else noticed that he seems like he's usually wearing a big ice pack on his left knee when he's on the bench? This has been going on for a couple months now, and nobody mentions it and he's not on the injury report. Kind of weird.
I'd get it if it was like a big mole or an extra eye or some sort of disfigurement that would be rude to address, but a giant ice pack on your knee mid game seems newsworthy. Especially amidst questions of "why isn't this guy playing".
Yep, I've noticed that too. He doesn't seem old enough to warrant ice packs on the knees simply for going through warm ups. Definitely makes me think something isn't right there and management is just hoping no one will notice.
Also, I'm not a doctor or anything, but I'm pretty familiar with how to take care of knees because I'm a runner, and I don't remotely understand icing a knee DURING activity. I think at this point there's actually debate about whether icing afterwards makes sense (I don't). But during... you want to keep everything warmed up, not cold! That's why you see guys run back and hop on exercise bikes and stuff.
Maybe it's not ice... maybe it's a heating pad? It looks like ice, but I guess I'm speculating.
yeah I'd rather have Carter out there. As mentioned earlier perhaps part of it is Patrick Williams 'limited' (injury or BD?) to 23 minutes
but if you're looking for a backup guard, use Carter. If a backup wing, play Ayo up a position. No need for Terry to play at all and go 10 deep. When Torrey Craig returns even moreso.
I thought last night's game was pretty deflating outside of the final minute where the Bulls - again - pulled out a clutch win where the opponent missed threes and FTs. It was cool to see Coby White seize that opportunity to close late with the Raptors (now pretty bad) defense concentrating on DDR.
But for most of it it was just like the slogging sad Bulls. Huge % of midrange shots, so much Vucevic, LaVine somehow making his perceived trade value even worse by being a $40M 4th option then getting hurt.
I'll be honest, I was pretty fine with last night's game. Sure, the Bulls played an old-school style where they shot a lot in the paint and midrange, but it also kind of made sense against a team who started a G-League center and played small whenever he wasn't on the court.
Yes, Stacey will probably use this as evidence that this is how the Bulls should always play which is obviously wrong, but it made sense for last night's game. I was even fine with Vooch's usage since he was making everything. Again, fine for last night's game as long as this doesn't convince Billy and AK that this is how this team should play from here on out.
Vuc with the 20-20 (shots-shrugs), though I am clearly deranged as CleaningTheGlass had him at merely 23% usage while feeling like 83%
I'm upset at opponents who don't start proper big men, they leave the Bulls no choice but to give in to Vuc's (and Bulls 'media') demands
Zach's passive-aggressive deferring to everyone else (take that, Billy!) also contributes to Voochification. If Zach's gonna hang in the corner on offensive possessions and play hot potato whenever the ball rotates to him (occasionally throwing it out of bounds or to the other team) and they've got Williams and Ayo or Terry out there for defense, no one aside from Coby and Vooch is willing to take a shot.
Reading comments on Reddit and YouTube about how amazing Vooch was last night are hilarious. The man was guarded by Scottie Barnes the majority of the night, and when it wasn't Scottie, it was the backup center from our Summer League team this past summer. If Vooch didn't have a huge game last night, I would have been incredibly disappointed.
But hey, maybe if opposing teams keep running out these kinds of players, Vooch can inflate his numbers enough to make him somewhat tradeable!
KC tweeting last night (he didn't get flown to the game because he's not media but a broadcast partner and it was on TNT) about MORE VUC
then today on their podcast, the co-host (also working for the media partner) had a hot topic of discussion on who is providing the most winning impact this season, and here's why it's Vuc
Like everyone, I expect the guy to be a walking advertisement for the team because he always was one, he was more loyal to the franchise even when someone else paid him. But this is just totally detached from reality in a Baghdad Bob kind of way. The kind of thing that isn't even worth the breath to refute because it's so ridiculous.
Vucevic is shooting 27% from 3. In the last 10 games, it's 21%! There is simply no way to spin that as "good," much less "the irresistible force propelling the Chicago franchise into a new dimension of absolute dominance."
BREAKING: per KC Johnson, Zach LaVine has "very pliable and strong ankles." Not sure what that's supposed to mean, but KC felt it was important enough to clarify on the most recent Bulls Talk podcast.
"The other bones really respect Zach's ankles."
The passage of time just keeps putting the lie to all the efforts to make Zach appear valuable.
I hope everyone remembers Jalen Rose because this just another rerun. That wasn't a tragedy but this is definitely a farce lol
Interesting question here from Darnell Mayberry. Donovan said he subbed out Pat Williams in the first few minutes because he was wasn't attacking the defense. So Mayberry — braving KC Johnson giving him the stink eye — asked the obvious question: is it a concern that a guy in his 4th season still hasn't mastered "the basics"?
Hoopshype link: https://hoopshype.com/rumor/2621881/
Billy couches it in very encouraging language — we know Patrick can do it! — but the answer seems to be "yes."