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Luke Schenscher's 1 Good Game's avatar

"When LaVine is traded it’ll be for players with less burdensome contracts , nobody interesting and young enough to demand minutes in this year’s rotation."

Where do I place my bet that when this trade happens and we get nothing in return, K.C. Johnson will give us a tweet saying "Chris Duarte was better in his rookie season than Zach LaVine was in his, so they're basically the same player"?

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"Where Ball was the ultimate role player who could fit around anyone and make them better, Giddey requires a carefully designed infrastructure to maximize his strengths and cover his weaknesses."

This is exactly what I think so many Bulls fans are missing. Ball was so great because he could fit into any rotation and make it better. The only way Giddey makes a team better is by specifically building that team to suit him.

To be clear, this is not a knock on Giddey. As a Bulls fan, I genuinely hope he blossoms into a star here. This is an indictment on the front office. They think because Giddey is a jumbo guard who can pass that he's basically what they lost in Lonzo. He's not. He's the exact opposite. It just proves that they really had no idea what they were doing the first time around and stumbled onto short-term success until Lonzo went down.

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