I know it might sound crazy, but Bulls are truly worse than their record shows (5-13).
The Raptors win came off of getting blessed with so many FTs (to send into OT), and even then barely squeaked away with the GW Caruso 3. The Pacers win was simply due to them bricking a lot of shots… they had so many good looks, but just failed to capitalize on most of them (still only won by 7, in a close game). The Heat win is more of a Heat loss, than a Bulls win, with them choking that 20pt lead
Our only 2 solid wins are against the Jazz and Pistons. However bad you think the Bulls are, they are worse than that
I mean their intent to do it seems pretty clear now, they just can’t make any moves until other teams’ contracts become tradeable, along with those other teams having a clearer picture of their situations/needs for the rest of this season. You can’t really fault them for not blowing it up right this second, when’s the last time we saw a major trade happen in November?
But you can definitely fault them for going into this season with optimism after making zero major moves this offseason. What did they expect was going to happen? They had every opportunity to blow it up this offseason, yet they stood pat.
I think they expected to be a borderline play-in team again and figured that was just fine for selling tickets, but then it quickly became clear they wouldn’t even be good enough for that (like 1-2 weeks after the season started lol). Now they’re stuck with this mess until at least mid-December at the earliest, if not the trade deadline.
Really can’t blow it up until December 15 when newly signed contracts become tradable. And most teams tend to wait until days before the deadline to make moves.
I know it might sound crazy, but Bulls are truly worse than their record shows (5-13).
The Raptors win came off of getting blessed with so many FTs (to send into OT), and even then barely squeaked away with the GW Caruso 3. The Pacers win was simply due to them bricking a lot of shots… they had so many good looks, but just failed to capitalize on most of them (still only won by 7, in a close game). The Heat win is more of a Heat loss, than a Bulls win, with them choking that 20pt lead
Our only 2 solid wins are against the Jazz and Pistons. However bad you think the Bulls are, they are worse than that
They also got shat on by the healthy version of the pistons, so the road map to only one win so far isn’t inconceivable lol
Bulls are also about to go on a 10 game gauntlet. Probably 9 losses.
The Bulls being shit this year was the most predictable thing before the season.
I can’t believe y’all haven’t blown it up yet.
I mean their intent to do it seems pretty clear now, they just can’t make any moves until other teams’ contracts become tradeable, along with those other teams having a clearer picture of their situations/needs for the rest of this season. You can’t really fault them for not blowing it up right this second, when’s the last time we saw a major trade happen in November?
But you can definitely fault them for going into this season with optimism after making zero major moves this offseason. What did they expect was going to happen? They had every opportunity to blow it up this offseason, yet they stood pat.
I think they expected to be a borderline play-in team again and figured that was just fine for selling tickets, but then it quickly became clear they wouldn’t even be good enough for that (like 1-2 weeks after the season started lol). Now they’re stuck with this mess until at least mid-December at the earliest, if not the trade deadline.
It really frustrates me.
Lavine, Demar and Vuc are all valuable pieces and they’d get calls from 29 teams about Caruso.
If they were clever about it they could get back a real haul for them
The whole league is waiting for this shoe to drop but it will for sure.
Really can’t blow it up until December 15 when newly signed contracts become tradable. And most teams tend to wait until days before the deadline to make moves.