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If the Bulls keep playing at this level all year, they won’t be picking in the lottery at all. They’ve had one of the most difficult schedules in the NBA so far. They’ve won AT Dallas and Portland and almost snuck out both games in LA. In years past, we get blown out almost this entire road trip. 8 of their next 10 games are very winnable. This team has the talent to be in the playoffs and they are finally playing like it even if it’s not a perfect mesh. I do agree, there needs to be some movement to build the team they want and would be odd if they didn’t.

I think everyone in this thread is correct and the fact that nobody can figure out who's fault it is proves that everyone needs to go.

entertaining and many positives but the only thing that’ll stick out to me is that quick 3 from Lavine followed by WCJ not stepping up in the screen and allowing Hield the 4pt play. Wow, that was frustrating. That’s not coaching, that’s common sense and basketball IQ that they both should have at this level.

WCJ is insanely frustrating on defense now, he was and should be the catalyst on this D but there are a lot of boneheaded mistakes and laziness on standard plays that shouldn't happen consistently in rookie years, let alone now. I do agree, he can set a good screen now though and does get bullied by guys like Nurkic but not many Centers like that in the league. We need to have a banger on defense as a backup when facing teams with C's like that. I really like Lavine but IMO if we do not have a superstar, he is pointless to have here and they should be looking at trading him when he has a stretch of good games. This isn't a 2 way player like Jimmy Butler, he works hard but he just doesn't appear to want to pay defense consistently. So far, he looks lost nearly every other game and he needs to be the consistent one but he has the ball in his hands less with Coby handling so much now and . If we can somehow land a star, I think he has the potential to be a lethal #2. He's got nearly a 1:1 Assist to Turnover ratio right now, very bad. Lauri can't stay healthy and not worthy of an extension at this point unless he comes back and looks amazing, even then, hard to give a guy that cash that can't stay on the court consistently. There's going to be some tough decisions to make but At this point, I think Coby and Williams are the future. Coby does need to increase efficiency and improve defense over the rest of this year in his new role.

That was an unbelievable comeback, they looked like contenders, every single guy played great in the 2H. Beat Sac and I think the WC road trip is already considered a win.

Made the championship a Made the championship this week and was projected to win by 40 with my great team. Take a look at my team yesterday to see Cook, Kamara, Sanders and even my backup Damien Harris out. 4 backs! Never have I ever been so screwed repeatedly by a team in my life.

I find myself oddly irritated the Bears are in this position. I checked out after the 6 straight losses and was in the mindset the season was over and that maybe we were closer to blowing it up. I want to build something elite, not middling and needing help to get into the playoffs. This situation is just biding these schmucks more time, we are 1-5 vs. winning teams this year. It’s tough to say we’ve definitively turned it around when we’ve beat three bad teams in a row and lost to the Lions right before that (should be two losses to them this year). I’ll be excited to see a playoff game but also perturbed knowing next year could get ugly with the QB/WR/OL/Defense situations. Mitch and ARob will probably get more money than the Bears should pay, we will be stuck with Foles and have significant money tied up on defense that isn’t performing as it should. But...Go Bears?

Taking nothing away from Jrue Holiday, this would be an awful trade for the Bulls. Jrue Holiday has been in the playoffs 4 times in his 11 year career, three of those he shot less than 42% and less than 16ppg. He’s 30. Lavine has improved every year so far and is much younger. We have yet to see what he can do with a winning team around him and probably won’t. Who knows what Lauri is and we will get a better glimpse this year. Neither of there players are a top option but Holiday never has been or will be either.

To top off my regular season $hit$how, I lost the last week of the regular season on that Ravens safety to knock me down to 5th place (luckily we put 6 in playoffs this year) and a 7-7 record with 2,019 total points, the next closest guy as 1,863. I've given up most points in the league by a decent amount. We pay out 1st place in regular season pretty heavily since in this league, we believe that should be considered "the best team" over the long haul of the season so hopefully I can at least win 1st in the playoffs. What a brutal year and waste of a team.

I failed to mention but keeper league, I drafted Kamara in the 18th round his rookie year and also kept Sanders as a 5th rounder. I had the 4th pick this year and was able to get Cook.

I have BY FAR (200pts) the most points in my league yet this weeks loss put me in 4th. This isn’t a few big weeks I’ve had, it’s every week yet I’ve faced the most points of anybody. Best team I’ve possibly ever had. Tannehill (was originally Dak) Cook/Kamara/Sanders/Harris DK/AJ Brown/Evans/Boyd Hockenson/Engram/Goedert Koo i don’t think I’ll ever have a team this elite or deep again, really frustrating.

Will never not be incredible that the Cavs took easily the worst player out of the 10 at #1.

This draft is filled with guys that could help right away (I still think he can), but likely aren’t going to get significantly better. There’s nothing wrong with taking a raw player that has the room to end up being the best player in the draft in that situation. The Bulls don’t really have much to lose in a weak class. Trust the AK process.

AK is a boss, you know he's either legit having these discussions or just leaking them but to see the Bulls appear to be aggressive is so refreshing. I don't care who they choose tonight, I'm trusting the process. If he can do this somewhere like Denver, he can do it here.

As for Harden, clearly he’d be the best player in a deal with us but do we want to use our assets for a guy that may have had his peak? He’s 31. Lakers traded for AD and he’s 27 right now, they have probably 5-6 years left of him at a monster level. Harden gives us a couple more years at this level which is great, but only if the rest of the team around him was ready (much like Lakers were by pairing LBJ with AD).