I wish Lavine had value. That guy steals money.

Lavine balled out the 2nd half of the season but he is woefully miscast as a number 1 option or max contract guy. That's the problem

They need to fire Billy Donovan too. He needs to be part of any "rebuild' that they might be considering too.

I don’t know how you’d bring him back. They’ve shown nothing and have gotten worse during his tenure.

He got lucky with Derozen’s first half last year, otherwise they’re a fringe playoff team despite his GM selling the future for a tall Serb who’s mostly sucked since arriving here.

I think he has 4 years left on his deal after the secret extension they signed him too. I was rocking with AK but he might need to go on the clock too. He has made some terrible moves.

Hopefully they get Lucky in the draft lottery so that they can keep the pick. Gotta trade Derozan while he still has value as well. And add more size to the roster. No more of this small ball college crap either.

They have no cap space, no 1st round draft picks...it seems to me they are more likely to bring back most of this current roster than blow it up, which is probably what they should have been doing at the last trading deadline. It seems unrealistic to expect Lonzo Ball to come back in any meaningful form and they probably can only sign cast-off types.

It's just hard to see the Bulls going into a full rebuild rather than bring back the current roster with small tweaks.

Saying that, this team is likely to be, at best, a .500 type of team, and probably worse.

Their only shot is to have Patrick Williams develop into that guy. It won't happen with Billy D as coach or as long as Derozen's around. They have to make this kid no less than the 2nd option starting as early as next season but that would require Billy D changing how he coaches the veterans on the team first. He has to coach as opposed to cater to them and I don't think he has it in him to do so.

It's interesting that Vuc said that there are some things that have to change around there yesterday. I'm sure he was talking about the way the offense is structured. You cannot continue to structure everything you do offensively solely around Demar and Zach and expect to be that good of a team.

They had the 24th ranked offense with their 3 best players being mostly offensive minded as players. If that doesn't demonstrate just how much of a change is required then nothing else will.

Williams is not going to be the guy. He's a rotational player, and did improve, but there's no evidence to suggest that he'll be anything more than that. I do think they have to exhaust every opportunity for him to become more important considering that they are stuck on how else they will be able to improve.

Bulls just need to clear cap space for when Embiid asks out of Philly and Luka demands the Mavs trade him this Summer. Maybe add Dame as well to round out the Bulls championship Big Three.

1.8% chance of getting the #1 pick!

Is there any scenario where the Bulls could make a compelling offer for Luka?

Is there any scenario where the Bulls could make a compelling offer for Luka?

Bulls are in the Eastern Conference? Hmmm, maybe if the Bulls land the 1st or 2nd pick in this draft they could package it + Zach LaVine for Luka. And Zach would mostly be to make the trade work in terms of salary.

If you got the 1st or 2nd overall in this draft and Mark Cuban or whomever his GM is called and offered Luka for the pick....?

Even if the Mavs were to offer Luka for Alex Caruso AK would turn it down because he wants to use 28 games to assess what he's got in Caruso.

What if they wanted the PAW?

the one thing that still doesnt make sense to me is all of the locker room talk not matching the court effort. the sluggish starts and late game iso's were constantly brought up in post game interviews and donovan was the most vocal about it. yet it continued to happen. was donovan being pressured to play guys he didn't want to? the mavericks just got fined for sitting players. it makes sense to me the bulls were under the same pressure and why you wouldn't hear about it.

isn't it the HC's job to get the players to buy-in to what the coaching staff is trying to do? I don't think you can be Scott Skiles anymore and browbeat players into submission.