Southpaw wrote:JimmyButler21 wrote:Will never forgive the Bulls for winning meaningless games when Ja Morant, Luka Doncic, and Trae Young were there in the top 5
And people claim we've been tanking the last few years. We are just bad but not bad enough to get the top picks. Meanwhile, those teams who tanked are creating a winning culture faster than the Bulls.
As for the playoffs, I'm enjoying the influx of young blood. Trae was awesome against the Knicks (tho I'm still annoyed by him hahaha), Ja is a gamer who reminds me of a young D. Rose but cockier. Tatum and Luka are known commodities at this point and both are carrying their teams. Luka is a boss.
MEM and ATL plain and simply drafted, signed and traded better than GarPax... 3 years in a row (well, actually 5 years if we include the bumbling 15-17 stretch). Even hit on late picks (Collins, Huerter, Clarke, Brooks). Took shots on 'unwanted' guys like Valanciunas, Kyle Anderson, Melton, Grayson, and they've all played and developed well. They also kept building that cheap bench, instead of renting and dumping them (like Justin Holiday and Nwaba, who were entirely decent finds).
Obviously Trae and Ja were huge picks, but trading Luka for what became Trae and Reddish is obviously a "mistake," that has still kind of panned out due to the success of all their other moves.
More than anything it just demonstrated the ineptitude between forward-thinking, modern NBA FOs and GarPax. Plenty of opportunities in those 3 years even with #7 picks.
