burlydee wrote:League Circles wrote:burlydee wrote:
Who said anything about trading PWill? Some teams try to acquire multiple good young players.
PWill is a 3-4. Giddy is a 2-3. He's a facilitator which the Bulls need. He's only 21.
Caruso won't be on the team when the Bulls are ready to compete. Zach doesn't want to be here. Derozan is going to want $30 million.
Its time to flip this roster. Sell the old guys for value. Resigning a 35 year old DeMar makes no sense and you're not going to have cap space even if you let him go. Trading him now is imperative.
Zach is stuck on this team indefinitely. We actually can pretty trivially have like 20+ mil of cap space this summer if we want (though we probably shouldn't want to). It's imperative that we clear salary to take advantage of Coby's value contract while we can. That means this summer or next summer we need to have bad contracts off the books, and Giddey projects to be a bad contract (or cap hold, more precisely) by then.
Oh wait, I just realized who Giddey is in terms of his controversy. Hell no am I trading Demar for him AND bad salary.
We can't clear cap space without renouncing PWill and Demar. And who are we paying with that cap space? There is nobody on the market. There aren't any good free agents the Bulls can attract with that money.
Our opinions on Giddey differ. I think he could be a cornerstone. But regardless of that, the Bulls with Demar is just going to be mediocrity. That's it. They either trade him, resign him to a bad contract or lose him for nothing. This is the exact same mistake they made with Vuc.
Losing Vuc for nothing was the right answer. It was their mistake to not let him walk. Not sure what you see in Giddey because I don't watch him, but his shooting is a big concern given how big of a chance he's had.
You're right about free agency at least this summer which is why I said we probably shouldn't want to clear cap space. But next summer when Giddey has a huge cap hold I'd much rather try to get a player that we wouldn't want to upgrade right away.
Regardless, not sure why OKC would want to upset their formula right now for an old expiring Demar.
I'd love to use Patrick and/or Caruso to move Vuc's bad deal and get a decent draft pick or rookie scale prospect in return. As far as I'm concerned this team now is Coby and Zach and a bunch of irrelevant parts. And I have no desire to just punt on multiple season in a row waiting for some draft miracle. I want to at least be a play-in team next year but with a younger, higher upside roster and more salary flexibility. If we play our cards right we could have huge cap space in summer 25 along with Coby and Zach.