League Circles wrote:jnrjr79 wrote:League Circles wrote:It's mind boggling to see proposed Zach trades that solve zero problems for us.
If the returning player isn't a pretty obvious upgrade at the 4/5 positions or a high level prospect, I don't see the point in trading Zach at all.
From everything that's publicly available in terms of reporting, it does not sound like either side has any interest in Zach returning, so I assume he's out of here if there's a market for him. The only way I see him sticking around is if he has to demonstrate he's healthy before anyone will trade for his salary.
IMO, the ship has sailed on the "well, what if we keep Zach after all" scenarios.
You're probably right, but I don't really care what Zach or AK want. If there isn't a trade to improve us we shouldn't do it. Now that improvement can either be now or in the future, but I wouldn't dump Zach just to formalize a divorce.
If by "improve the team" you mean "well maybe improve the team but primarily get out of the luxury tax," then I think that's what we are pretty likely to see. AK says he's not going into the tax unless the Bulls are in the top 4, that he wants to extend DeRozan, and that he wants to keep PWill. There just aren't a lot of ways to do all that without a Zach trade involving significant salary relief, so my guess would be that'll be objective #1, and getting actual useful assets will be viewed as a bonus.
That's just a guess. Maybe they surprise us and trade DeMar or let him walk. Maybe some team would take Vooch in a pure salary dump. But my guess is they're first going to try to get salary relief via Zach, since both sides seem to want the same thing.