Paraphrasing a Who song, Meet the new Bulls, same as the old
Bulls. Things won’t change much as long as GarPax is in charge, and with
Reinsdorf’s loyalty thing, that's not happening.
Let’s take a look at the puzzling trade before the deadline. GarPax made many moves to acquire lottery pick, Doug McDermott. He never developed into the player they envisioned, leading to his departure. It looks like they are giving his minutes to Denzel Valentine. His inconsistent three point shooting and lousy defense makes it seems like McDermott never left.
At the start of the season their aim was to make the
playoffs. I don’t how trading Taj Gibson will help accomplish this goal.
Granted, Gibson is going to be a free agent and the Bulls would get nothing
when he left. Hence, they traded him and still got nothing. You know how bad the players they received are
when two can’t get in the rotation, which sometimes goes eleven deep. The key
player, Payne, needs to be developed, which is not something this organization does. In
the mean time in the last two games, in limited minutes he is 4 for 15, so he
fits right in. The only positive from this is Bobby Portis got a chance. He has
played well and should improve. The fact
that this took so long is a result of GarPax’s "puppet coach" [Fred Hoiberg].
However, since the last time I wrote about the Bulls they
are 4-1 with impressive victories over the Toronto Raptors, Boston Celtics,
Golden State Warriors, and a Lebron-less Cleveland Cavaliers. The only loss was
to an under .500 Denver Nuggets. They have moved into sixth place in the lousy
Eastern Conference. This puts them in a position for a first round knockout and
a lower draft selection a.k.a. NBA purgatory.
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