WindyCityBorn wrote:
He should be ahead. He has played like 5 seasons. He still wouldn’t start because the Bulls are about to push Williams hard. They are not bringing on anyone to play over him.
Glad somebody sees this. Kuzma has done as well in WASH as he did with the losing Laker teams, so when given time he's a quality player. And it's not like anybody is suggesting that he play 16 minutes a game. The Bulls need PWill to grow into HIS NBA game but at the same time they need scoring off the bench. It's perfect for Kuzma to come off the bench with Caruso and take the minutes behind both Patrick and Demar while one of them stays on the court. He can make the occasional start so neither has to play through an injury or either can just take a game off. Then whoever they draft at #18 at the 3 or 4 doesn't have to get force fed into the rotation.
Like I said, 2 parts of a Kuzma deal are relieving WASH of a couple of years of his contract and reducing their overstock of forwards. Yes they have KP but for a year Vuc would create serious matchup problems for opponents. Look at the Bulls pick any center that you imagine they would have and which one does PWill guard? Or if you're moving him for Gobert who's your new PF and how does he guard KP?
One poster correctly asked why WASH would want TBJ back, the same has to be asked of the suggestion that the Bulls would, or could be forced to, take back Gafford. They just traded him a year and a half ago, he's made no progress on having an offensive game more than 4 feet from the basket and they're supposed to bail WASH out of the $12M a year mistake they made?