Mailbag: Do The Bulls Really Have An Offensive Identity? | Where Does Chicago’s Young Core Rank?

Mailbag: Do The Bulls Really Have An Offensive Identity? | Where Does Chicago’s Young Core Rank?

A few days ago when the Chicago Bears president uh Arturus Carnosova was interviewed, he said that the Bulls already had their offensive identity and that raised a lot of questions from Bulls fans asking what identity do the Bulls really have. I want to talk a little bit about that and the roster the Bulls are building and the type of identity that they’re trying to forge offensively while they still cannot overlook defense. We’re going to talk about all that plus dive into the mail bag and more right after this. [Music] What’s going on, Bulls fans? Welcome to another episode of Chicago Bulls Central, your number one spot for everything Chicago Bulls related. I’m the host, Hayes, but more importantly, you guys can follow the channel at Bull Central Pod on every social media platform we happen to be on. With that said, let’s go and get into this content today, y’all. And I want to talk start this episode off. We’re going to get into the mailbag. It’s mainly going to be built around your voicemails. Got a couple of firsttime callers or rare callers in there that I want to mix in. But I want to I want to start off with this with this identity thing, right? Arturus was interviewed and he said that the Bulls have their offensive identity. And you know, here’s the thing with that and and I know a lot of Bulls fans heard that and immediately thought, how do we have any identity? We won 39 games. And I understand that. I want to be clear. Nobody is wrong in saying how much of identity can you really have without winning. And I I I think that that the the the conversation is that is the difference between identity and culture. Every team has an identity. Even teams that are bad and that suck have an identity. Their identity happens to just be at that point bad basketball, right? Whether it’s bad defensively or it’s bad offensively and and and and stylistically an identity, right? Um now there are teams of course that are trying to forge it and haven’t really had that set in yet. Um, and therefore, you know, it is what it is. But culture to me is more about when you start winning games and you lock in a winning type culture because you could have several different types of identity, but a culture stays the same. The one thing I think about with that is like Greg Papovic. The Spurs over over decade basically had a winning culture, but their identity on the court actually changed quite a bit. If you look at from the beginning of the Tim Duncan era to the end of the Tim Duncan era, they they had several different on the court identities. Right now, all of those were winning because they had the roster to do so and a head coach and Greg Papovic that developed really well. And so that was part of their culture and the identity on the court which is able to shift. The Bulls, I think, at this point, have locked in on a style of play that they want to have, an identity that they want to have offensively, and that is playing fast, getting out in transition, attacking the bucket, taking more three-point shots. Right now, within that, they have some wiggle room and how that can change and evolve as your players evolve. And you have a lot of young players on this team, right? You still got, you know, several young players that are under 23 that you still have to look at and mold and see how they’re going to turn into. But at the engine of that offense is really Kobe White and Josh Giddy. That has been the engine of this team offensively with the style of play that we established last year. I think even early in the season where Josh Giddy wasn’t necessarily playing well, you had V rocking and rolling at a high level. Zack Lavine, you know, was still getting his his line shares of the shots because they were trying to market and move him. That even Kobe and Giddy were still important to the engine of the offense at that point in time. just giddy to a lesser extent. He was kind of more maximized after Zack Lavine left. Kobe White was a little bit more consistent as he was somebody who was around and he didn’t start off the season with the injury like Josh Giddy did. And I think you’re looking at those guys right now as the engine of your offense. Meaning that most things that start with the Bulls are going to start with them. That also comes to some of the shortcoming for for the Bulls as the far as in the half court where the Bulls have struggled at right at times, especially when we face a zone defense. We struggle at those times and that’s because Kobe and Giddy both thrive off driving. People have this like this notion about Kobe White like he’s like like this three crazy three-point shooter and it’s like he can get hot from three. Absolutely. And he you know as long as he signs another contract with the Bulls, he’s going to be the Bulls alltime leader in three-point shots made. That’s coming right around the corner. It’s it’s it’s it’s all but academic at this point. The bigger question is is he going to sign a long-term deal here? If he is, that record’s probably going to be down about two or three years. But, you know, the offball creation, the offball movement, right? The the jump shot ability, that’s something that this team is surely missing that I do think can help that offensive identity. But the playing fast, the getting out in transition, the getting buckets, and attacking the rim are things that I think are going to be part of this Bulls um identity offensively, especially when you look at Noah Essen, Modis Buzzel, both being two players that are really important to the Bulls future as things stand right now. You’re going to want those guys as they grow and evolve and change as players. they’re going to be important, right, to to to what this Bulls team is doing on the basketball court. And I’ll say this, like one thing that this team did not really have during the Demar Rosen, Zack Lavine, Nicolus, Alice Caruso era was that their style offensively, they had a style. Make no m sense about it, but it was heavy isolation. And every team is going to have isolation. I’ve seen a lot of Bulls fans anytime we have isolation like, “Oh my god, we’re going back to ISO ball.” Like there’s not a single team in the NBA that does not have isolation scores or does not need isolation scores. The Houston Rockets were an amazing team last year. They lacked a player that can score in isolation. They went out and got Kevin Durant cuz they needed an isolation score, right? So, you still need that balance, but moving the ball around is going to be part of this Bulls identity. And I tell you what, I like that because you want to get everybody involved. And that that’s one thing that I think really when you look at the second half of play from the Chicago Bulls, even though Kit Giddy and Kobe were on crazy runs, everybody was involved, especially before Trey Jones went down, you had everybody, him, Kevin Hurder, Zack Collins, everybody was involved in touching the ball and and when you do that, that keeps defenses on their heels. Yeah, you have your main two guys, you know your offense is going to start and generate from, but when your whole team is a threat, especially as you get in transition, it makes the defense have to be honest and aware of where everybody is on the basketball court. That’s one thing I got to commend Billy Donovan for. And you guys know I’m not a Billy Donovan. I’m Praise for Billy Donovan is hard to come by for me because some of the some of the things that he lacks at I think are important to building a to to actually winning on the highest stage. But I know the Bulls aren’t there yet. So maybe Hazes are being a little bit too tough on him at times there. But Billy Donovan’s evolution of the Bulls offense with at the start of the season, so much of the team still being the same, I got to commend him on that. I talked about that 20 second shot clock that we that we played with in in in um in training camp was ended up being really important to this Bulls team. I think that’s what you start when you’re talking about establishing culture. You’re talking about doing things when people come into the building, you have to know this is how you have to play. One thing that I always say and I and I I always like to go back on is that Hammy Hakez, who was a player that took a bit of a step back last year, but when he he was in his rookie year and so many people were like, “Hey, Hammy is having him a really good rookie season. He looks like a guy on the uptick.” He said, “Hey, I had to learn how to be a Miami Heat player first and then play NBA basketball second.” And that to me, that is the one of the perfect quotes when you understand that a team has a culture and a style. And I think that’s going to be important and and that gives you the vision on how you’re building your team. Which leads us to our next thing. Are the Bulls building the right roster to the style that they want to play. And I got to give them credit. Yes. Now, we got to wait and see what’s happening with Josh Giddy in his contract situation. But for this conversation, I’m assuming Josh Giddy’s coming back. If he’s not, we’ll revamp the conversation. And I even think you’re seeing that even if Josh Giddy is not back, you can still keep the same style. It has to change a little bit, but you can still see the same style. But we’re assuming Josh Giddy’s coming back cuz it’s still the most likely thing. Rebounding defensively. When you look at the Bulls projected starting lineup, Josh Giddy, Kobe White, whether it’s Io, Isaac Kuru, or Kevin Herder, they’re at the three. You got Modus Buzzel, Nick Lavus. That’s your projected starting lineup. What what what’s the commonality that you see there? Good rebounding further position. Mod Balis needs to get a little bit better than that. But we saw towards the end of the season as he started dealing with the physicality better, we started seeing, hey, no, he’s he’s starting to be a much better rebound. You look at the last couple of months of the season, almost six rebounds per game over the last couple of months of the season, whereas earlier he was averaging three. So he almost doubled his rebounds going towards the end of the season. But he’s he’s a question and I can admit that. But other than that, like really good positional rebounders. And when you get that all five players being good positional rebounders, what does that do? That gives you more opportunities to get out in the fast break. Then what do you need to do in the fast break? You need to have solid solid passing. When you look at this, almost everybody in that starting lineup are solid to smart passers. Josh Giddy, Kobe, we already know. Iodumu amazing passer in transition. That may be what what puts him in the starting lineup. And that on top of his defense um which we salty there even if it is uh Kevin Herder. I think Kevin Herder showed last year he can be a smart passer in the team concepts. Modest really smart passer. We already know VooC especially when you get in the half court a really good passer on top of that going even into the bench Trey Jones really good passer Zack Collins a smart passer right so you have those type of things Don Terry really good in transition too when the half court gets there it’s a little bit shaky at times right so you’re seeing a commonality in we want players that can move the ball around right so that’s a commonality there as well the rim Josh Giddy Kobe thrive off driving to the lane I would assume was really all over the place with his and I mean that in a positive way he can do a little bit of everything offensively. Kevin Herd is more of a floater. He likes to shoot out there on the outside, provide that spacing. Minus Bzelis is a lob threat right away, as is Noah Essen. And Minis Bisellis, I think even more, is going to have those isolation opportunities next year. Vouch really isn’t an attack the rim guy, but he’s a post guy that gets his buckets near the rim. So, that’s really good there as well. Right. So, you’re seeing that again, that commonality in what we’re having here. the Bulls seem to actually have a vision in building the roster and I’m starting to see that vision and maybe that was what they had before. When you look at Dalen, when you look at Julian, um when you look at Patrick Williams, there was some commonality there as well, but I think, you know, Patrick Williams just never really evolved. He never really grew as a player. Dalen, it was still how good is Dalen actually going to be as a player? That’s still a question there. And same thing with Julian, right? But they still do have some upsides. And then for the bigs, physical bigs, it seems like that’s the route that we’re going. But the the Bulls still need that defensive more big that that Ror if they’re going to have Gideon Kobe as your back court. We don’t have that yet. But you look at it Vuch Zack Lachland Albert right now. Lachland is probably not going to get in the NBA game yet, but there’s some commonality in how they can get to the rim. Zack and and Lachlan more physical than Vu, but people like to talk about Vu as if he’s like this big softy. Vu actually gets physical once he’s locked into the game. You just got to feed the big man pretty consistently. So, I think that this Bulls team, I’m seeing the vision on the identity that they want to have offensively. The question now is how are they going to have enough defense to overtake that? Because the Bulls, we lack defenders. Io, Noah Essen, Isaac Auroru, Dalen, right, Patrick Williams are really the best defenders on the on the on the on the Bulls roster right now. Modis is going to grow defensively and I think we saw a little bit of that and and now that he’s gained the 10 pounds of muscle maybe that hopefully that’s going to help him be better and more locked in defensively but but you have to have some of that defensive balance out the offense. We’ve seen some teams be able to offense offense offense but those are teams that are elite offensively. So, if the Bulls want to be a winning team, they have to find more defenders and better defenders, which maybe they have done that in in growth and things from last year. Or they have to be not just good offensively, not just fast offensively, they have to be elite in offensive efficiency. And that’s something that has kind of escaped those Bulls a little bit so far in this build. And we got to see if they can obtain that. But that’s just my thought. I I’ve been thinking and ruminating on that for a couple of days since we we heard that quote. I just wanted to talk about that a little bit of a higher level. I know that, you know, some of these highle basketball conversations people don’t got time for, but you guys can let me know how you feel down below. With that said, enough of me yapping. It is Saturday. It means this is your episode today. Let’s get into these voicemails, man. This first one, this one’s from the 773. Hey, love your YouTube channel. Just listening to you this morning. I do have um a thought on this whole Josh Giddy thing. The fact that Bulls fans are so entrenched on the signing of Josh Giddy as if he were the second coming of Michael Jordan movie or LeBron has us falling into the same exact trap that we have been falling into since the end of the Jordan era minus the couple years with healthy Derek Rose. I think we just got to let it go. And if they sign him, great. If they don’t sign him, oh well. But it just keeps getting to me as a bull stand, not you, that we continue to fester on this whole Josh Giddy thing when it’s Josh Giddy, um, an unproven NBA player who had a terrific second half of one season. promising, but it sort of gets me thinking that as a Bulls fan, this hope we have, this investment that we’re putting in the signing into the signing of one player like Josh Giddy is emblematic of my entire experience as a Bulls fan, the post Jordan era, whether it be Ron Mercer, Jaylen Rhodess, um, Uh, what’s his face? Eddie Curry, etc., etc., etc. Um, I just think we all need to stop. Have a good one, bud. Bye-bye. I don’t think that Bulls fans wanting to keep a talented 22year-old has anything to do with a player being the second coming of LeBron James or Michael Jordan. Like, I think that you went too far into the comparisons there. Like, I get what you’re getting at, and make no mistake about And I get what you’re getting at, but you have to understand this is a Bulls team that’s never been a big free agent destination that is a place right now where they’re trying to find talent. So, of course, people are going to be invested in what’s happening with the talent that’s on this roster. I don’t think that it’s like Eddie Curry or anything like that. I think that you see a young player in a state of a roster. Like the thought process, I’m not saying this is what you’re saying either, brother, but the thought process that some people have of, oh, if they’re not a star, just let them go. Let them walk. That’s not how you build a team. That’s not how you have success in building a team. where you’re at right now. While you’re trying to establish yourself and you’re trying to get to a place of talent, you want to keep the talent that’s on your roster. I don’t think that that’s a bad thing. You don’t get better by letting talented players walk. And and but but to your point, I do think like if for some reason the Bulls did let Josky walk. I mean, the world goes on. It sucks and it would be to me a mismanagement of assets, especially considering you traded Alice Caruso for him. But I mean, the world goes on. You got to make uh better decisions going forward. Then you got to keep trying to build your roster. The world ain’t going to stop. I don’t think it’s a bad thing or this thing that people are looking at him like the next coming of Michael Jordan if they want to see Josh Giddy stay in a Bulls uniform. The Bulls have the money, they have the cap space, they have the flexibility right now. Why let a player that’s extremely talented and still scratching the surface of who they can be. Why let Why let that player go? That’s just my personal opinion, but you guys can sound off on how you feel about it at all down below. All right, let’s get into the next one, man. Uh wait, hold on. I want to get back to this also for people who talk so and this isn’t to the the callers. isn’t to you, brother. But for the people that like to think, oh, it’s just half a season. You’re not basing it off just half a season. When you sign a free agent, are you are you betting off not seeing any basketball? No, you’re going and looking at everything that they’ve done in the NBA. And the thing, the fact of the matter is when Josh Giddy is actually able to play point guard and play his game. We have two experiences of that. His second year in OKC where he averaged 16, six and six or eight and eight. And then last season with the Chicago Bulls on the back half of the season where he averaged almost a triple double. Then on top of that, even when he was not doing those things, he was still in impactful. Being being in the 98th percentile is of points generated off of or open shots generated uh by a player. That’s that’s that’s something that’s substantial. You can’t overlook that, right? And he’s 22 years old. But, you know, that’s my thought process. But, okay, let’s get into the next voicemail, man. This one’s from Kaden. What up, peace? It’s your boy Kaden again. Um, actually got two takes. I don’t know if I’ll call them takes, but they I got two takes right now that’s like heavy on my mind about the Bulls. One is about Patrick Williams. And yeah, I know we all tired of talking about Patrick Williams. You know, we at the end of our rope with him. I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt one last time. And it’s only because he came into last season with a foot injury and that could have been the reason he looked so bad. And I don’t think he ever really recovered from that foot injury because he was in and out kind of most of the year. Like, so I’m gonna give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he took such a defensive slide because of that foot injury. And we’ll see what happens this year with Patrick Williams. But this is absolutely the last year that I’m like, okay, like give this guy a chance to to do what he do. And I I understand why Bulls fans and you even said you were you were kind of out on him. Like I I understand why Bulls fans are out on him, but like I think we should give him, you know, at least the first half of the season up till Allstar break. I I think we should be patient with him through all break. Um, my second take is, and maybe it’s not such a crazy take, but my second take is I think that the league, everyone in the league and um, a lot of the media underrate the the Bulls core. Like, I genuinely think that we have a comparable core to some of the better young teams in the league. Obviously the OKC’s and um Rockets are kind of out of our stratosphere, but you know, some of the better young cores in the league, I think we are comparable to those teams. I think things haven’t shaken necessarily right for us, but when you really like think about it, we spent the whole half a season with veterans who didn’t fit our young core on the team and like all of these things, all of these moving pieces happening, all of this uncertainty, and we still squeaked out 39 wins. So, I’m I’m excited, bro. I’m excited for what the Bulls could be. And I know a lot of people are down on AK, but I don’t know, man. He might he might he might have sneakily been making really good moves lately, man. But that’s just it, bro. Let me know what you think about the Patrick Williams thing, man. Like, as always, thanks for what you do, bro. I’m about it. Being patient with Pee Will and after there there’s been a lot of people recently has brought up the fact that Pee Will started off with a foot injury and that and in fairness, maybe that is what we saw the defensive slide from him last year. Maybe that is why we saw a little bit of that. And you know, Patrick Williams is going to be on this roster, but I do think as the Bulls keep adding more forwards, it’s making him less and less prioritized. So, he’s going to have to really lock in if he’s going to want to be on this team. Um, and you know, be patient with him. Okay. I mean, let’s see what happens with him. I, like I said, at this point where I’m at with Pill, it just comes down to I’m not expecting much. If I’m surprised, if I’m wrong, if he comes out and shows us something, great. I’m not gonna have any problem with that. I’m just not expecting it, hoping for it or anymore when it comes to P. will just if you going to show us show us. Now, as far as the Bulls young core, let’s let’s look over that for a second. The Bulls have Josh Giddy, Musellis, Noah Essen, Julian Phillips, Dalen Terry, Pwell as players under 23 if I’m not caught off on the ages. You have then Kobe and Io that are a little bit older than those guys, right? I guess you can include Jaylen Smith in that as well as he’s still a fairly young player himself, but that’s it. Um, and I that’s a that’s a solid potential core, but I think you’ve seen kind of more proof of concept with other some of the other young cores. Julian and Dalen are still guys that are still really proving what they can be at the NBA level. Um, you know, P. Will is a player that right now most people are disappointed by his output. Modest and and is is a player that’s on the upside. We all like to see, but he’s played one year so far. Noah hasn’t officially taken an NBA court yet, and we don’t know if Josh Giddy’s going to be back in a Bulls uniform. So, we have some talent, some young talent on this team, and there’s still talent that’s still trying to find their way. But, we’ll see how this core is viewed after the season for sure. As far as AK’s making some solid moves, yeah, I think that is more than what people are willing to give him credit for, but he’s going to have to show it off and do it consistently because one thing with AK that we’ve seen so far is that, you know, he made some ser some solid moves and then he stayed stagnant for three years, right? You can’t stay stagnant. So, he has to keep it up and then I do think some bulls fans will start coming around on what AK has done or not done, right? But all right, let’s get into the next one, man. This one’s from Rob. Hey, it’s Big Rob. Many blessings to you, my brother, and to you and your family and my condolences to you, you as well as a family. So, you know, keeping my prayers with you. I wanted to say this to you. I was just watching you talk about Patrick Williams. And one thing I will say about him is that I think I’m more disappointed in him because you can see the t like he has a potential but then potential after 5 years it’s like well do you even want to be successful and I’m not saying that to be disrespectful in any way but taking it from this approach if if any job you see the Julian Phillips, you see um No, you see them just slowly just getting more force consistently and then you’re seeing yourself slowly being pushed out. The only way I can see him even getting into the rotation is staying in rotation unless he literally is busting people’s ass in training camp. That’d be the only way I can see him being convincing. And even then, I just don’t think that’s his personality. And I don’t think he has that drive. And I hate saying that about a player, but at the end of the day, he hasn’t shown anything to us and to himself that he wants it. And if I don’t even care about the money at this point, obviously when people say he’s one of the worst contracts in the NBA, I mean, that’s an opinion. There’s plenty of players I think that don’t deserve the money that they have because they haven’t lived up to the contract. But I think you’re here or there. My thing is like he has to show he wants to be in the NBA, that he wants to be involved, that he can carve a role for himself. He doesn’t have to be an all-star, but he damn sure can be reliable, like you said, 3 and B. But if he’s not willing to put that effort in being that guy, then it’s not going to be too long until he’s out the league. I hate to say that to some players cuz he’s still young still, but you got him time. You’ve been given opportunities. I just feel like it’s a little bit too a little too late. At least in my opinion. And if I’m wrong, please let me know. You know, I respect your opinion. Many blessings to you. God bless. Peace. People will have to come into training camp uh killing it. And he has to come into training camp locked in. He has to come into training camp showing that he really wants it. And I and you know, maybe that’s there in them. Uh again, I I at this point in my personal journey uh with with being a Bulls fan, I’m over Pew Will, but that doesn’t mean that I’m out on PeeWee Will, right? Those are two different things. I’m over Pee Will, not out on P. I still do think that there is some talent where Pill can absolutely help a basketball team. He’s just has to be more consistent in his execution and in wanting it and in going out there and and and attacking. And so, we’ll see if PW can do that. You know, some people blame it on coaching, but I look at it like this. Modis came in to basically the same situation that PE will did with the same amount of shots and you definitely felt the impact that Modis Buzzel made more than what PE will make. So for people that’s like oh it’s coaching coaching didn’t prioritize and Modus wasn’t prioritized either. So you know I can only give so much excuses for things like that but if P will comes into training camp he’s going to have to earn it because there are people that are going to be looking at Noah Essen is not coming into training camp with the mindset oh I’ll be in the G-League. He’s coming into the training camp with the mindset of I’m about to show these coaches no you need to play me and if if Noah does crack that rotation that’s gonna be less and less opportunities for P will so we shall see what happens Rob but great voicemail let’s get into this next one man this one’s from Reggie hey this is calling in after seeing your video about Yeti and his contract uh negotiation is a lot to be a part and while I understand the Bulls was wanting the low ball. I think you all know that he was never going to sign us for 20 million. Uh I would have offered like a 5year $120 million deal right off the bat, you know, work it up to, you know, 27 million a year. If but if he would have moved off for 30, I probably would have agreed to it. So instead of 5 years 150, I probably would have done like two plus one for the team optional the third, you know, this way when he’s like 20, what 26, he’s a free agent and they probably sign like a $50 billion deal. But if AK is holding out, you know, to draw some bigname free agent, you know, and that’s just uh free agency. I don’t like that idea because most of the guys that are going to be available are going to be on the older side. They’re going to be looking to be a part of a championship team and not a rebuilding team because that’s exactly what the Bulls are going to be. Now, I don’t want to say that, you know, the Bulls are a terrible place to go for free agents, but you know, our history, it just says that the Bulls and his front office has a terrible reputation. And that reputation is this is not a winning franchise. And post Jordan, I can’t say that they’re wrong. You know, we’ve had terrible head coaching. We’ve had a terrible front office. We’ve had ownership that is extremely cheap. And despite having one of the best fan bases, it’s hard to overcome all of that. But uh what do you think? Do you think the Bulls front office and ownership has uh made it too difficult for NBA free agents to go there or is it something else? Thanks for hearing me out. Something that Bulls fans, I don’t think, acknowledge enough when they have these conversations is that the Bulls are never have never really been a big free agent destination. Never really been a big free agent destination. And so because of that, how you treat your players in the negotiations, it matters and it matters to how you’re viewed around the league. I remember Dwayne Wade at one point was talking about like uh you know, even way before he signed with the Bulls, he’s like, “Yeah, all I know is that some of my favorite players aren’t in with that organization.” And like raised question like there have been times in agents. I think people forget that agents talk to each other as well. Like if the bull if you have a tough negotiation with with your player and agents like yeah you know uh [ __ ] negotiating with the Bulls was [ __ ] terrible. Like it it those type of things play a part into it. So I think how you treat players matter in negotiations and even if they are on the way out, how you treat those players on the way out matters as well. That goes to that culture thing. The Bulls don’t have that. So of course it’s going to be max maximized and things like that as it goes forward and that’s part of the problem with the franchise. But, you know, we’ll see if they can start figuring that out. But, you know, how you treat your players matter. And because the Bulls have never really been in uh free agent destination, that is why keeping your players that show some promise is even more important to a lot of Bulls fans, at least in my opinion. But you guys can let me know how you feel down below. All right, let’s get into the last voicemail for the day. This one’s from Shay. What’s up, fans? Look, a lot of people are talking about Nicole Nicola Vousvich and uh they don’t believe that he’ll be traded or no team wants him. Look, let me tell y’all something. 18 and 11 is or whatever he averages. It’s very hard to do, especially for big man nowadays. And I believe that a team such as the Golden State Warriors, due to the fact that they don’t have an inside presence, a team like the and I’m going keep harping on this, the Indiana Pacers, due to the fact that they don’t really have they don’t really have any inside depth. And a lot of teams that do need a lot of inside that use a guy like Nicole. Now look, I’m not saying B is the end all, and I know he’s a lot older, but 17 and 11, it’s really hard to come by with Sims nowadays than that. And and I believe a lot of things such as the Indiana Patriots, especially with knowing that they don’t have have Tyreek Tyler and Pascal Siakum is the only person that can keep them head heads above water. and as old as they worriers knowing that they don’t really have much outside presence, much rebounding when it comes to their big man. Even though they have Al Horford, but Al Horford is not a super rebounding type of big man, they could use him. So again, I don’t again, you may not believe I don’t believe that AK is smart to trade him the right way, get the right answers, but I do believe that there is a market out there for Nicole. We just don’t know it yet or AK hasn’t tested the right market, but that’s just me. Anyway, tell me what you think. Peace. I don’t think V has a market right now. And I think that’s indicated by, you know, remember we heard that the the AK laid some groundwork for offseason move. No ground no move happened. But I do think to your point that as the season goes on and as you approach the trade deadline and teams are gearing up and getting ready for what they think are going to be long playoff and maybe championship runs could look at Nicola as an inspiring contract, a relatively decent contract at a little over $20 million. um and say, “Hey, that’s a guy that if we can add now before we go into this into this playoff run could definitely help us.” B isn’t the terrible player that some people make him out to be. He actually is. At 18 and 11 on on really good efficiency, not take only taking 14 shots to get that done. That’s good production for a big. And so I think that like yeah, he has his defensive limitations. Absolutely. Make no mistake about that. Those are there. But I think as the season goes on and a team is looking to add something specific to their team before a playoff run, Vin’s offense could be something that they look to add. So great points there from Shay. But um that’s my time for today guys. Thank you guys for tuning in to Mailbag Day. Make sure you guys are following us at Bull Central Pod. You can send us any feedback, questions, comments, concerns. Bull [email protected]. Lastly, if you want to leave a text message and our voicemail for the mailbag, the number to do so 773-270-2799. We are the number one spot for everything back for everything uh Chicago Bulls related. And like I like to end every episode on, go Bulls. Love you guys. See you right if you can y’all. Peace. This has been a presentation of the breaking. [Music]

The Chicago Bulls’ offensive identity takes center stage as Arturas Karnišovas’ recent comments spark debate among fans. Dive into the Bulls’ roster construction, exploring how players like Coby White, Josh Giddey, and Matas Buzelis fit into the team’s vision. Uncover the potential impact of young talents Noa Essengue and Julian Phillips on the Bulls’ future. The episode dissects Patrick Williams’ role and the challenges he faces in securing his spot in the rotation. Gain insights into the Bulls’ free agency reputation and the importance of player negotiations. Discover why Nikola Vučević’s trade value might increase as the season progresses. Tune in for an in-depth analysis of the Bulls’ strategic direction and roster dynamics.

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0:00 – Intro
1:10 – What is The Bulls Offensive Identity & Why Defensive Still Needs Work
12:41 – Voicemail: Why Are Bulls Fans Worried About Giddey’s Contract?
16:56 – Voicemail: Should Patrick Williams Be Given More Grace?
21:38 – Voicemail: Does Patrick Williams WANT To BE Successful?
25:19 – Voicemail: The Josh Giddey Contract Negotiations
28:55 – Voicemail: Does Vooch Have Trade Value?
31:55 – Closing