Chicago Bulls 2025-2026

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ChiefGritty
So the guard stable is now Giddey, Tre Jones, Isaac Okoro, Dillingham, Anfernee Simons and Collin Sexton.

With Matas, Patrick Williams, Jalen Smith, Leonard Miller, Guerschon Yabusele and Ousmane Dieng as bigs.

Still too many guards, there's probably another move.

And with sticks and stems of draft capital from other teams, very little chance to get to the bottom this year, and ownership that won't pay the tax, stop me if you've heard this one before, but this is an absolutely 100% certain go-nowhere team which will not under any circumstances be a meaningful contender for the foreseeable future.

Karnisovas should be fired but won't be.

The current state of the Bulls might not make the top 10 of reasons why, but Jerry Reinsdorf is one of the most disgraceful people in American public life, he is an absolute monster. He's like the Forrest Gump of everything that is fallen and bad and anti-fan about the sports industry in this country.
 
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skamin7
The windy city bulls might be a better team at this point. I honestly don't know what we are going to do with a ton of second round picks when very few selected actually ever pan out.
 
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phats22
ChiefGritty said:
So the guard stable is now Giddey, Tre Jones, Isaac Okoro, Dillingham, Anfernee Simons and Collin Sexton.

With Matas, Patrick Williams, Jalen Smith, Leonard Miller, Guerschon Yabusele and Ousmane Dieng as bigs.

Still too many guards, there's probably another move.

And with sticks and stems of draft capital from other teams, very little chance to get to the bottom this year, and ownership that won't pay the tax, stop me if you've heard this one before, but this is an absolutely 100% certain go-nowhere team which will not under any circumstances be a meaningful contender for the foreseeable future.

Karnisovas should be fired but won't be.

The current state of the Bulls might not make the top 10 of reasons why, but Jerry Reinsdorf is one of the most disgraceful people in American public life, he is an absolute monster. He's like the Forrest Gump of everything that is fallen and bad and anti-fan about the sports industry in this country.
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small sample size but dillingham has appeared to be another ball dominant high volume shooter one step forward, two steps back
 
#141      
ChiefGritty
phats22 said:
small sample size but dillingham has appeared to be another ball dominant high volume shooter one step forward, two steps back
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Unlike Ivey and Dieng who have flashed some promise in the league, Dillingham just looks to be a total bust.

And as currently constructed he's not even going to play down the stretch because there are so many other on-ball guards.

(By the way, in the name of accountability for bad takes, I loudly proclaimed that Dillingham was a better pro prospect than Reed Sheppard on Kentucky two years ago. Very wrong.)
 
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phats22
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hahahaha, thats Pulitzer prize winning journalism (from the athletic)
 
#147      
EyeoftheIllini
skamin7 said:
The windy city bulls might be a better team at this point. I honestly don't know what we are going to do with a ton of second round picks when very few selected actually ever pan out.
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Believe it or not, second round picks do have value. You’re right that most don’t pan out and very unlikely you’re going to find a star, but a handful a year become solid rotation players.

Beyond a player that you draft though, they have value as trade capital. Taking the Bulls trades out of the equation, 9 of the 14 other trades made at the deadline so far have included at least one second round pick. If we use more than a couple of the second rounders we just got in trades to actually draft players than AK isn’t doing his job right. Then again, who actually believes he has any idea what he is doing.

AK has shown no great ability at drafting, no great ability at trades and has no idea the value of the Bulls assets or other teams assets. Now because he a good decision with the Caruso trade to get Giddey, it looks like he thinks he’s found a cheat code. Finding good players who have been underutilized on contenders should certainly be part of his strategy, but it shouldn’t be his whole strategy. But when you hold on to players too long and drain their value so you can’t get any first rounders in return, I guess that’s all there is left. Despite what Gritty has said, first rounders matter. Sure some might be so far out as to not help immediately or even soon, they can also be capital for future trades.

Successful GMs who are playing “chess” understand their whole portfolio of assets and have a plan. Mr Checkers doesn’t seem to have either. So now the Bulls are pretty much in total rebuild (at least a couple of years later than they should be) with the guy who got them to this point still in charge. Well at least we now have the Timberwolves to root for this season.
 
#148      
Roundball Sage
Mr. Tibbs said:
is there really a more dysfunctional front office in the NBA than the Bulls of the past 15 years ?
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It is such a travesty that Chicagoland has such passionate Bulls fans and yet are stuck with such a pathetic and clueless Bulls management (and that Owner that wont be named). When Michael Jordan left the Bulls he had plenty to say about the Bulls organization and none of it was positive. And all these years later... nothing has changed -- except the poor quality of play from what they put out on the floor.

All the best to Ayo -- a fine basketball player and class human being.

So, the Bulls are Tanking again. Seems to be what They know how to do best. And most often.

I guess maybe the Timberwolves might now be considered Chicago's FAR FAR Northwest Suburbs?
 
#149      
ptgrd23
Bulls will contend for #1 pick next year.
 
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