The Chosen one wrote:Hi everyone, this is my first post on this board. I know most Chicago fans are very excited about the young talent on the Bulls, especially Zach and Coby. What do you guys think of the backcourt? What do you all think is their ceiling together? I think they will be dynamic, both being able to score over 20 points a game with playmaking duties split between them. I definitely believe Coby will be the point guard of the future for the bulls! Lavine will be an Allstar next season. I loved that he improved his defense and playmaking last season. I think with a healthy team Lavine playmaking will improve and be even better this year.
Great 1st post.
This is actually a subject that I've been thinking about a lot, especially because in Donovan's interview, Coby was the 1st player that he mentioned when talking about the Bulls young talent.
IMO it appears clear that he's already made up his mind that he wants Coby to start together with Zach.
ChettheJet wrote:I would say Lavine will do better if he's got a guard next to him that the defense has to pay attention to. Pick anybody they had, Satorasky, Dunn, Harrison, Arcidiacono, they weren't threats. The same goes for Markkanen in whatever funk he played in last year, Carter it appeared wasn't allowed to shoot in the 3point Boylen scheme and Porter and Hutchison hardly played.
If the defense has to watch the other four players they can't double team Lavine and if they do White and Markkanen can be behind the arc to get an open shot while Carter can be moving to the basket. Maybe they will actually try a pick and roll.
Donovan is the biggest difference in how anybody could play
I just recently posted that Zach has never had a triple-double in the NBA (he has come close, but failed on assists), but I think that he will next season because IMO he'll be starting together with Coby.
However, one of things that came out of the Eversley interview (and which I didn't know) was that he was with the Wizards organization when OPJ was traded.
He said that, when he sees OPJ now, he's not happy with his conditioning, and that he wants OPJ to work to get back to where he was with the Wizards.
And that was exactly what I thought. It appeared to me (that for a guy making 28 Mil./Yr.) OPJ was not in the best of shape.
Also, in the "Bulls Bubble" thread I saw the 1st clip that I'd ever seen of OPJ working out in the weight room with the team. So, it may be that Eversley can motivate him better than Gar/Pax were able to.
The 2nd aspect of that, was that IMO Gar/Pax also knew OPJ was out of condition, but didn't care, because they planed to let him walk at the end of his contract anyway.
So, I wouldn't count OPJ out of the equation until after we see how the Eversley/Donovan team motivates him.