53 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

I mean, he had great (albeit young) players with him in OKC and it just never fully materialized and they felt he was expendable. I just don’t feel like his game fits the SLAP acronym. He isn’t a tough physical player, he is hurt a lot, right now his contract is palatable and I think you can probably get fair value from him.

I think where I am - let him play and trade him at the deadline. Put him in positions to be a stat stuff, you also get the new front office and staff to work with him, than make a decision and I don't think his value should be very different. And there is value to me in having a credible distributor / point guard around to help allow you to assess and ensure development for Matas, Essengue, Swain, Wilson, etc.

Not a huge fan of the Swain pick, but ill let it breathe a bit. They really need 3 point shooting. Giddey goes on stretches where hes really good shooting the 3 and Matas flashes beyond the arc, but a ++ 3 point shooter would be real nice.....Sexton/Simons aren't really slappy from a size/length aspect but bringing one back for their 3 point shooting might be needed.

Speaking of not slappy, i still really like Veesaar. He obviously can play with Wilson and having a stetch 5 out there at times with all the bouncey guys would help.

Tobi Lawal would be fun if they just want allllll the bounce.... Hes shown some flashes of a 3 point shot in previous years. Super slappy.

Edited Wednesday at 11:23 PM3 days by The_scs787

Thank you for last night Bryson.

And f*** off Reinsdorfs tonight.

https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania/31d26529d36f8

Lamelo Ball traded to Timberwolves

9 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania/31d26529d36f8

Lamelo Ball traded to Timberwolves

LaMelo driving in the snow is a terrifying notion.

14 hours ago, Kyyle23 said:

DAMN YOU ISHBIAAAAAAAA

That was a great 24 hrs followed by a sad 24 hrs. I'm not opposed to sending out the 2nds considering you have 2 top rookies and a young team. But just giving them away is sad.

104.3 The Score] Why did the Bulls trade both of their 2nd-round picks Wednesday, including No. 38 overall? Bryson Graham explains that none of the players on the board were targets of the Bulls. “How can we get some future assets and push this pick forward?” he says. “That was the thinking.”

Maybe they need to expand their scouting target list lol?

Have they also dramatically cut back like the White Sox in this area?

Go to chicagobulls

r/chicagobulls1y ago

A Severely Understaffed Front Office: A Deep Dive Into The Bulls Deficit in Personnel and a Comparison to Other Teams

Not every team in the NBA has a public listing of their staff directory. The Chicago Bulls do. So do a few other teams. I decided to take a look at the front office group at the United Center and how it compares to the size/roles in other front offices. Surprise: the Bulls front office is woefully understaffed, even before the firings of Patton and Weinman. Below is an analysis of investments other owners have made in their front offices and how the Bulls have fallen behind. I compared the Bulls to three other teams. The Miami Heat (mid to large market), the Knicks (large market) and the Pelicans (small market). The Bulls Front Office is smaller than each of these three teams (especially dwarfed by the Pelicans and Knicks).

One notable difference is analytics. Each of the other three teams has heavily invested in analytics, with multiple individuals being responsible solely for analytics. The Chicago Bulls analytics group is made up of 1 person. With no insult to this individual, who I am sure is very talented, he graduated college in 2018 and it appears working for the Bulls was his first job out of college. Again, I am sure this person is talented. But I do not understand how the coaching staff or the remaining front office is expected to treat his input with any level of credibility when it is so painfully obvious that even ownership doesn't have enough trust in analytics to get this poor guy some help. Other examples of roles in other front offices that don't exist in the Bulls Front Office: Cap Specialists, Team Chefs, in-house Basketball Products Engineers, Data Scientists, dedicated college scouts."

https://www.reddit.com/r/chicagobulls/comments/1k374li/a_severely_understaffed_front_office_a_deep_dive/

Edited Thursday at 03:48 PM2 days by caulfield12

Coby White stays in Charlotte 3/$74M

"Michael Reinsdorf has insisted in the past that the Bulls have everything they need to succeed and there isn't a use for more front office personnel. But information aggregation on the NBA, college, international basketball is an arms race. The sufficiency of your front office is not based on "does it appear as if we have enough people with enough time to do everything", the sufficiency is necessarily based on a comparison to what other teams are doing. Where other teams have more man hours committed to basketball operations, you have by definition created an information deficit and put yourself at a competitive disadvantage by not even coming close to matching their personnel."

Sounds pretty darned similar to the other Reinsdorf family property...

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49135150/2026-nba-offseason-trade-grades-contracts-new-deals-rosters-teams

TWolves get D+ grade for Ball trade.

Edited Thursday at 04:10 PM2 days by caulfield12

52 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Go to chicagobulls

r/chicagobulls1y ago

A Severely Understaffed Front Office: A Deep Dive Into The Bulls Deficit in Personnel and a Comparison to Other Teams

Not every team in the NBA has a public listing of their staff directory. The Chicago Bulls do. So do a few other teams. I decided to take a look at the front office group at the United Center and how it compares to the size/roles in other front offices. Surprise: the Bulls front office is woefully understaffed, even before the firings of Patton and Weinman. Below is an analysis of investments other owners have made in their front offices and how the Bulls have fallen behind. I compared the Bulls to three other teams. The Miami Heat (mid to large market), the Knicks (large market) and the Pelicans (small market). The Bulls Front Office is smaller than each of these three teams (especially dwarfed by the Pelicans and Knicks).

One notable difference is analytics. Each of the other three teams has heavily invested in analytics, with multiple individuals being responsible solely for analytics. The Chicago Bulls analytics group is made up of 1 person. With no insult to this individual, who I am sure is very talented, he graduated college in 2018 and it appears working for the Bulls was his first job out of college. Again, I am sure this person is talented. But I do not understand how the coaching staff or the remaining front office is expected to treat his input with any level of credibility when it is so painfully obvious that even ownership doesn't have enough trust in analytics to get this poor guy some help. Other examples of roles in other front offices that don't exist in the Bulls Front Office: Cap Specialists, Team Chefs, in-house Basketball Products Engineers, Data Scientists, dedicated college scouts."

https://www.reddit.com/r/chicagobulls/comments/1k374li/a_severely_understaffed_front_office_a_deep_dive/

AKME kinda made a show of modernizing on take over and it never really happened. I don't understand the kind of person who could have an nba team and like, kind hate everything about it.

Man still hate it but gotta give Bryson graham credit his interviews this morning were pitch perfect on it

Ok, so I think this is a thing, but NBA roster structure confuses me to no end.

Bulls signing guys like Sellers, Awaka and Atwell means they have more free roster space to use in the off-season — so they can leave space for another Claxton type deal. Taking a second rounder would have eaten up that space.

That of course raises the question of Kam Jones, unless they just waive him.

Also Sellers, Awaka and Atwell have odds stacked against them but god they have fun mixtapes.

I can't believe the Bulls aren't bringing Olbrich back! Dude had a triple double in his last game! ~sarcasm

Leonard Miller had his player option picked up which makes sense, i thought he played really well. He's definitely slappy too. A poor mans Caleb Wilson one might say.

Rumors out there that the Bulls are interested in John Collins. That'd be fun.

I'm reading that Caleb definitely has the athleticism to guards 3s, and we've see Matas guard 2s, so a jumbo lineup that can jump out of the gym would be fascinating to watch.....

PG- Josh Giddey 6'7"

SG- Matas 6'8"

SF- Caleb Wilson 6'10"

PF- John Collins 6'9"

C- Nic Claxton 6'11"

....probably not the route id go but id love to see it play out in a year you don't expect to win.