Bulls 2026 Offseason Thread

[WrigleyField 22]

1 hour ago, Tryptamine said:

Just listened to Bryson Graham interview and he justified yesterday by saying that basically they weren't interested in any of the players who were available to them. So with the #38th pick they tried to turn it into other assets/future picks and with #56 they valued the roster flexibility regarding undrafted players and free agents more than they valued any player that was available. 

If they actually do stuff with the open spots, it's a warranted approach. Even if it's just throwing horsefeathers on the wall and seeing what sticks.

Even something minimal like the 2nd round pick swaps are low value bets. Make enough and some eventually hit or become trade assets or whatever. 

[Outshined_One]

1 hour ago, WrigleyField 22 said:

If they actually do stuff with the open spots, it's a warranted approach. Even if it's just throwing horsefeathers on the wall and seeing what sticks.

Even something minimal like the 2nd round pick swaps are low value bets. Make enough and some eventually hit or become trade assets or whatever. 

I'm just frustrated that they traded for all of these picks in the first place.  Kam Jones could be a fine player on this team, and my comment last night was partly red wine-driven, but if there's no desire to use these picks and NIL has gutted the second round of the NBA draft, why even bother getting these picks in trades?

I'm kind of curious as to whether the NBA will end up tweaking things to lure more guys away from NCAA, because it seemed like a substantial chunk of second rounders this year were either stash-and-pray picks or guys who ran out of eligibility.

[Irrelevant Dude]

15 minutes ago, Outshined_One said:

I'm just frustrated that they traded for all of these picks in the first place.

The Ayo trade just burns me.  How they couldn't get a first round pick for him is just beyond me.  And if they couldn't, they should have just kept him.  Yeah, he was expensive to re-sign, but that doesn't mean you just give a valuable piece away for nothing.

[gflore34]

54 minutes ago, Outshined_One said:

I'm just frustrated that they traded for all of these picks in the first place.  Kam Jones could be a fine player on this team, and my comment last night was partly red wine-driven, but if there's no desire to use these picks and NIL has gutted the second round of the NBA draft, why even bother getting these picks in trades?

I'm kind of curious as to whether the NBA will end up tweaking things to lure more guys away from NCAA, because it seemed like a substantial chunk of second rounders this year were either stash-and-pray picks or guys who ran out of eligibility.

Just taking a glance it appeared a good deal of the teams did what the Bulls did with their 2nd rounders.  

[Tryptamine]

54 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

The Ayo trade just burns me.  How they couldn't get a first round pick for him is just beyond me.  And if they couldn't, they should have just kept him.  Yeah, he was expensive to re-sign, but that doesn't mean you just give a valuable piece away for nothing.

Honestly a starting 5 of Ayo/Giddey/Wilson/Buzelis/Claxton would have been legitimately kind of good

[NorthsideAvenger]

1 hour ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

The Ayo trade just burns me.  How they couldn't get a first round pick for him is just beyond me.  And if they couldn't, they should have just kept him.  Yeah, he was expensive to re-sign, but that doesn't mean you just give a valuable piece away for nothing.

The story of AKME's time Chicago. Wait too long to trade players and when does trade players he got underwhelming return. 

[bukie]

1 hour ago, gflore34 said:

Just taking a glance it appeared a good deal of the teams did what the Bulls did with their 2nd rounders.  

29 of the 30 2nd round picks were traded at least once.

[Old Style]

3 hours ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

The Ayo trade just burns me.  How they couldn't get a first round pick for him is just beyond me.  And if they couldn't, they should have just kept him.  Yeah, he was expensive to re-sign, but that doesn't mean you just give a valuable piece away for nothing.

They didn’t get enough for Caruso either.