REACTING to Alex Caruso for Josh Giddey trade 🤝 UNIQUE trade in today’s NBA | Numbers on the Board

REACTING to Alex Caruso for Josh Giddey trade 🤝 UNIQUE trade in today’s NBA | Numbers on the Board

man all let’s get into the trade we had a trade come on man um Alex guso got traded for Josh gidy one for one straight up you don’t really see deals like this happen where it’s like one for one no draft compensation especially coming from a team with a bunch of draft compensation and the and a team that wanted to get rid of Josh Giddy and a team who is looking like they’re probably going into a direction of a rebuild and they have a one of the most valuable role players on the market and they trade him for Josh giddy well you don’t see that a lot because you don’t see teams be naive enough to trick themselves and try to trick their fan base into thinking that they’re doing something that they’re not so if youit if you traded this guy at the deadline or even before that You’ be in a lot better position but the reality is you waited like you’ve done since y’all have tried to make this team work um and yeah this is this is this is y boy act this is the dude that had Chicago people talking highly when he came over rightfully so and since I think it was just like we were excited to get rid of the gar PEX era and get into a new regimen and then it’s like damn did we actually need gar like would garps have been better like you you don’t know the most frustrating thing about this trade is not even the trade in itself because Josh giddy is not the who people are trying to make him out to be as a player he’s a fine NBA player but the thing that frustrates me is and I keep saying it NBA fans are a lot smarter than I think organizations and G M and ownership try to believe so when I see the Bulls from the top which is the ownership um try to sell that they doing something that all of the fans know that they’re not that’s what frustrates me and then you end up being here when all of the the Chicago Bulls fans knew that the time to trade Caruso as much as they didn’t no fan wanted to trade Alice Caruso nobody in in the NBA as a fan would want to but you have to in the position that you were in and they like no we going to keep running this back we one piece of away all man The Big Three we got Zack dear V we and it’s just like man and I think that’s what make bull fans and a lot of people that reacted to the trade so negatively yeah that’s what it was about was the fact that you could have gotten a lot more but you waited and everybody in the world was like why are y’all waiting and boom and then it it kind of makes it a little negative but I don’t think a people are really trying to you know you got people who don’t know basketball that’s gonna say things about giddy but yeah he is a good NBA player but the negativity is the fact that you could have got more I I’m trying to figure out is it just like in the moment thing or is it just like since he’s my player I kind of overvalue him because I mean the bulls not the only team I know we talking about the Bulls but like a lot of teams fall into that chap where they just kind of hold on to the player and everybody seems like they should go but it’s just like oh we G to hold them out and now instead of first rounders or a young player well I guess they got a young player back but it’s like you’re not going to get the same thing you were getting beh uh before so it’s like what kind of like makes people think that like yeah we should hold on on this dude I don’t know Mike and yeah a lot of teams have done it the Bulls are just a team that it seems like they’ve done it too many times like even the Zack LaVine thing if you traded Zack LaVine when it seemed like it was time to trade him you he would not be on this team right now and you wouldn’t have to deal with the I know we talking about Kus or the Bulls trade but like I’m thinking of another dude that’s like kind of hanging out there to people like Mel yeah can he be in the same situation where it’s like you’re not getting cuz they want start next he won’t cuz he’s 27 like it’s a little different we trade a 30y old guy it be surprised I think that Mel bridges’ value doesn’t diminish other than his contract being less like you traded him last year he had three years left you trade him this year he’s got two years left I think that’s where some of the value gets lost um I just did you did you publicly say anything about the trade as a bulls fan like how how do you feel I literally all I said was go do your thing cruo with like a little Emoji how do you feel though as a bulls fan about this TR it’s been about 48 hours or so I just felt like it was a long overdue I felt like you should have did it when you had two first round picks what about the trade itself though it’s fine I I mean I think Josh giddy maybe this is somewhere where he can come and Thrive but other than that I think it’s a nice experiment if you wanted to work it out and see what happens I’m not going the first thing I kind of thought about and again these are two different players but Alonzo came in he was able to kind of spread the ball around and push the pace if Josh get he not going to defend the same way but if he could replicate the same way yeah zo’s a 40% catch and shoot player Josh giddy is not nowhere near that I’m trying to look for the bright sides for him cuz I I I do like I do like Josh gidy as a player you want to know the bright side Mike what before last season Josh giddy was widely considered one of the 25 best players under 25 he had a bad year got played off the court in the playoffs and he had the off the court happen as well yeah and because of that he’s tanked his value and his public perception mhm um but again last year he averaged six or not last year the year before last year he 16 7 and 8 that’s pretty damn good for a 20-y old now he’s 21 years old I don’t I don’t like the trade yeah my main thing is like if we’re going to a rebuild which this trade may seem like that’s what it is but then again this this front office is as ridiculous as any other front office who knows the mar Rosa might be back on the team um if we’re going towards the rebuild not getting one of the 17 first round picks even one of the ones that might turn into two seconds in two like just some type of draft compensation bothers me because you see a lot of reports about The Zack potential trade oh it’s a salary dump they’re going to have to attach something to to get the the Zack line contract off we can’t convince them to give us a bad first round pick and use that as the thing that we attached to Zack LaVine to get off his contract no not not not with another good GM you can’t but that but that’s the thing about the aruny so Sy they’re awful awful awful at at negotiations vich three years $60 million why why do you feel like you need to give USV $60 million when he was one of the worst bigs in free agency that year yeah I guess they felt trading Larry marketing iel I think they felt like they had to play V he was going to walk which they should just let him walk I but like every single tradeit that they’ve done and almost every single sign that they’ve done feels like an overpay Larry market and trade obviously we got dear Jones Jr in the first- round pick for Larry Market this is hindsight Larry Market was a great basketball player he wasn’t great when he was in in Chicago um what’s the Wendell Carter and France Vagner forvic and with jet J Howard is in that trade too overpaid for a 29 year old Center but again in the moment in time I was excited about it because well the Bulls did something and V at that time was a legendary Like That season that he had before he came to the Bulls was crazy but like they have like the Kobe white deal is amazing but I don’t think they got that deal thinking that he was about to be the second and most Duma was one of the last free agents to sign a deal I don’t they knew they didn’t want but yeah and luckily he came out and he blossomed but like I don’t think that’s anything that’s predicated to them this is just the thing is this front office is just weird even if they bring back this is like the silver line all suck they’re bad they’re one of the worst in basketball one of the worst in sports in just all sport I think other GMS know that so honestly they probably not going to give you that much they G well they ain’t made a trade since 2021 before this one and if I’m another GM and I know you have a bad record of making bad deals I’m to offer like s prey s pry had this press conference in that like yeah Josh gy basically requested the trade so prey and them didn’t even have the leverage Josh giddy was going to get traded anyway you know what I’m saying but the Bulls were so enamored by Josh giddy I guess they were like all right forget it we don’t even want no seconds we don’t even want no first here here’s Alice Caruso one of the best role players that you can have on the team right now I think the Bulls just didn’t have no leverage cuz like you brought and in in reality the Bulls brought back a good young player MH who had a down year where else what other trade was going to give them anything near that to just to ease to be able to say you got something cuz like also Caruso’s money he doesn’t have a lucrative enough contract to where you could Tron a year something significant well right now you could I mean not saying that they should have but because thear Rose and te is off the books patri techically they could absorb something they could have but I’m not saying that was the right thing to do um I I think that the leverage play is something they could have had because opposing teams wanted Alice Caruso yeah so if we say sam prey is offering us Josh giddy we go back to the Warriors and say hey y’all want Alex guso right well we already got this deal on the table for Josh giddy what can you give us and then the Warriors give us something boom hey s War I’m just saying they were interested that this was one of the things that was they have y should have won anyway hey Moses Moody that’s the same trade for Moses Moody but just better but the drafts right hey the Warriors off for us Moses Moody and a lottery protected can you at least give us a lottery protected as well boom we got oursel a deal and now you feel like you won the trade but instead they say hey we love Josh giddy so much that we not even going maybe they did call around maybe they did I was going to say I I I get what you’re saying but I don’t know if you get I don’t know based off that deal it doesn’t seem like they called around do you think that alexo’s value from last year when he was off for two first rounders and part part of that is like hey we team that’s trying to compete today those two first round picks we don’t care about in February but now it’s June and like ah we don’t really want to give that but you think his value has changed that much no I don’t I don’t well I think it has changed because like Dereck said um the contract his value is that the contract is short and it’s small and then also you’re going to have to like the the OKC Thunder are going to resign him six months yeah they’re going to give him a contract extension so teams are aware of that too and then the Bulls also have to want something that’s the other thing they have to have they have to get something back that they really want and like you said they must have been enamored with Josh giddy because when I look at the Warriors roster they don’t have the they don’t have any picks that they can give me so I don’t know what the Warriors are their interest didn’t really mean nothing for me uh would you have one in Andrew Wiggins or Josh giddy give me Josh giddy so I mean but I’m just like we have multiple multiple offers the Bucks could have probably won the Grizzlies were team that were interested in February um and the gries have multiple first- round picks one of them was a ninth overall pick but again they not trading nine right now but in February they were trying to trade us nine what what what turned out to be nine and buttery effect it’s probably not nine if Alex guso was on the team last year so it’s just a bunch of different things that like and I’m going off right now by the way and my argument for kind of for the Bulls because I any argument about what they could have did way back then I’m I’m 100% against the Bulls but as far as right now with just looking at the value for right now it’s not as bad as it it has been perceived I think the context that OKC just has a billion first round picks it’s like you tra because they are GM good but that just s prey man can you lose a trade please you don’t you can’t even feel the 17 first round picks you don’t have that many roster spots so they gonna have to use them eventually and that’s why gming is so good because s you know what Sam pressy leverages in every trade I don’t need your trade mhm if the Bulls don’t want to do for Caruso cool we’ll go we’ll go try to get Mel Bridges we’ll go try to get him we’ll go try to get hey we could we could we can mess around go get Paul George Kevin we have all these PS we don’t need trade boyss we got we got PS on Pi on this is what it is if you want giddy let’s do it if not see you later and the Bulls are like you know what give us giddy cuz we not even going to play around cuz I I guarantee the the Thunder when that clock hit they was active mhm so they letting them know man listen we not this not going to be a 4 day 5 day thing we got we got moves to make so you either in the Huddle or you out it and if you out it we driving B Scream y’all know what that is that’s that bird man [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

On Numbers on the Board, Mike, Darrick and Pierre join Kenny Beecham to react to the Chicago Bulls trading Alex Caruso one-for-one to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Josh Giddey.

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