DuckIII wrote:As to the question, I would say no based on the assumption the Bulls simply use their pick, do some small free agency stuff or secondary lateral trades, sign Giddey and just roll into the season. Which, barring specific opportunities I would imagine to be unlikely, that is more or less what I want to see.
But to me there is risk behind this question and I hope (though I know otherwise) AK is not thinking like this. How the Bulls fare next year in what will be pretty much without question the weakest conference the NBA will have seen in the roughly 30 years I've paid close attention to the league, should be irrelevant to the team building plan.
If we start making win now moves that aren't "damn, now you're on a straight line to contender even if everyone's healthy" types of win now moves, we could do even more long lasting damage than we've already done to take advantage of a meaningless one year anomaly.
Bring on the Vucevic 2.0 trade!
I hope AK doesn't do that and just stays the course (what you outline in the first part of your post).
To answer the OP's question...it's no. A team with TJ, Nembhard, Mathurin, Nesmith, Toppin, Walker, Turner, Siakam and whatever moves they make this off season should be better than the Bulls.
