🔴LIVE! | Chicago Bulls Media Day! | Recap of Interviews | TheSlamDuncan
All right, let’s see here. We are live. Going to be uh doing a quick recap of Bulls media day as I believe this was the I think Boozel was the last um press conference that we’re going to get. So, uh that pretty much wraps up all the interviews for today. So, I just want to go ahead and kind of talk about some of the stuff that we all got to listen to. Um, if you have not listened to any of the interviews, we will listen to parts of them probably in this stream. Um, unfortunately though, I cannot stream for that long. Um, I do have a thing later in the afternoon and so I might have to come back later and stream later. But, uh, welcome in everybody. Um, I appreciate everyone that has joined in immediately. I see you kicked me down. Appreciate you being here. Um, so yeah. Uh, so first off, uh, hello if you if you did not see my last stream. Um, I am back. I know it’s been a little bit. I did stream on Thursday, but um, I’m recovering from being sick, so if you do hear me cough, um, don’t worry. It’s just how it’s been. Um, I do apologize in advance, but um, we got a lot of stuff to talk about because, um, it is obviously media day. We finally get to hear from AK as he finally, you know, steps out of his shadows and, you know, shows his face for once. Um, we got to hear from probably the key players. I would say definitely Kobe, Giddy, and Buzzales are more of the key guys that I was I really wanted to listen to today. We got to hear from them. And I think that specifically Bzelis, he said some very interesting stuff that I want to recap uh in the stream and kind of talk about um, you know, maybe this idea that he’s kind of thrown out there. Um, we’ll talk about what Gideon and Kobe had to say and then specifically we have to talk about AK’s vision. man. Like I I I have I still just continue to have issues with what AK says at the press conferences. Um I understand that the front office has already has the MMO of like we’re not going to we’re not going to we’re not going to you know um sorry about the ad. Hold on. Um we’re not going to talk about specific details, etc., etc. But it just it really just bothers me how much he just avoids questions that I’m like I don’t think that was very hard to avoid. Um, I think you could have easily answered that one and it would have been fine, but he continues to avoid it. So, we’ll talk about that. But before we get into it all, make sure you hit that like button on the stream. Helps me out a lot. Um, appreciate everyone being here. I’m excited for this Bulls season. Um, I have an exciting announcement coming on the beginning of October. So, um, first like fiveish days of October, it should be announced. So, be on the lookout for that. Um, we are continue our typical coverage uh on this channel here. So, uh, Bulls post games will always be, uh, here on this channel, so continue to tune in for Bulls postgame streams. But, um, I have some stuff to immediately want to talk about. But first and foremost, Kick Me Down, how you doing? Um, what did you were you able to listen to any of the interviews uh that we got today or press conferences because um, there definitely some interesting stuff. There’s some interesting little sound bites that I think is important to keep keep in mind and that we could take away from. But uh let me know if you were able to listen to any of it. But um first and foremost, I want to talk about Boozelis because uh this was a very I don’t know what you guys thought of, but um there was this was a very interesting interview. Um yeah, it’s a it’s a very interesting thing to just kind of listen to Bzelis. Um best way I could describe it is that he has a very like very very confident demeanor about himself right now. Um he talks as if like he truly understands who he is as a player. Um but he also really talks like hey I I’m speaking as if like my standard of myself is that I am better than a lot of people on the court. Um I that’s like the biggest thing I took away from him was just like okay like he the way he talk like you know it’s one thing to say something like what I have on this screen on the screen here where um you know he says that he wants to be an alldefensive guy but uh he the way he was talking was it was very much like I have I am really confident in myself and I truly believe that um I can be some like be you know hold to what I’m saying. um accountable. Like I I think this is very very very interesting to see from Booze Ellis. And um look man, if if this guy is going to do what he has said in his press conference today, then I have a lot more faith in the Bulls. And you know, he had a quote also that Will Gotle said that he basically said like, “Hey, I think we’re gonna we’re gonna surprise people.” Um and if he’s if the Bulls are gonna surprise people, I think it really depends on this guy. I won’t lie. Um I personally do not have many expectations for Buzzales this upcoming season. He has now placed a lot of expectations on himself including being an alldefensive guy, you know. Um but if he, you know, becomes an alldefensive defender, a very solid starter, then yeah, my my expectations then do increase. But um I I hope that that happens, but I’m not going to hold him to that just yet. Year 2 is weird for a lot of a lot of players. um they’re still kind of learning the tempo of the game and everything and um trying to figure out who they are as a player and what they certainly do need to work on. But um this is interesting. I won’t lie, this is very very interesting. Other things that Bzelis did say um his for him and this is what I love to hear by the way uh for the defining success for him as a team win a championship. That’s the benchmark. and he just flat out said that and it’s just like and again it’s it’s the way that he did say it I think is important but like he said like this is it like nothing else matters like we cannot say that we have success until we win the championship which is great like I think that is a very good clear message to not just send to you know the media or to like the front office but to send to the fans like this is a guy that on our roster it to him team success is not met until a championship is is is fun. That’s very good to hear. I’m very happy that he just straight up said that. Um and I hope to see that eventually happen one day, especially if it’s, you know, due to his success. But, um, I’m happy that he said that. But the biggest thing I think I want to point out from the Buzzale’s interview or press conference was this. Um, someone asked him, so Will got asked him about the team goal, right? But then he also asked him, “What’s your individual goal this year?” and he flat out flat out said, “I want to win most improved player this year.” And I’m like, “All right.” Like, that’s a hell of a quote to just come out and say it with full out confidence. Like again, it if you have not watched the Boozel interview, go watch it and just listen to how he said all these things. I I think this is like very important part of this. But he came out and said, “Listen, I I want like with full confidence in himself and very clearly confident in his skills says, I want to win most improved player this year.” I’m like, “All right, this is quite the expectations to put on yourself.” I hope it happens. If if Buzzalees wins most improved player this year, oh my god, I would feel that it would be incredible. Not just because he’s one most improved player, but it’s because he’s a secondyear player, right? And a lot of us, especially for um people that we when we look at lottery um picks, like lottery picks, you know, if if you’re heading into your second season, a lot of us are just like, well, you should improve, right? Like if you don’t improve from your rookie season to your sophomore season, like I you know, it’s it’s almost a disappointment, right? Um it’s expected of you to improve. Um and I’d also argue that it is very similar for someone going for their second year to their third year. Um year three is usually the big jump for me. um is when like I expect a major jump if if they have it in them. But um if Bzelis were to win most improved, I want to make it clear it would have to be a significant jump because like I said, you’re not just going to come and immediately just win most improved player from, you know, he averaged like 8 point something points per game last season, right? Like if he just improves to let’s say 13 points per game and you know his rebounding goes up to like six per game or something like that. That’s not enough to win most improved. Like those are pretty big, you know, jump in numbers, but that’s not enough, right? Um to me it’s like if he’s going to win most improved player, he’s going to have to average like 20 um like 20 points per game, be a hell of a defender, like one of the best defenders in the league. Um we’re talking about increasing your rebounding to like eight at least eight per game, almost two blocks a game. like you know scoring has to increase a lot in terms of efficiency as well as just overall in general scoring. Like there’s a guy that was seventh in the rookie of the year voting and he’s saying I want to win most improved. It’s going to have to be a hell of an improvement then. Um but either way though even if he doesn’t hit that right I like that this is the expectation for himself. This is not the expectation placed on, you know, onto him from the coaches, the the front office, not from anyone else. But he said it himself that this is my expectations. This is reaching for the stars for him. And he may not eventually get to the stars, but if that’s the goal, then I have full faith in him to improve drastically um moving forward here because he has that mindset in him that hey, I’m going to be better and I’m going to continue to improve at a high rate. That’s very good to see. That’s quiet and you know I like to call it quiet confidence but it’s it’s not exactly that. I I don’t know if I want to say like he he was very blunt about his confidence I think in the in the interview. So um this is going to be crazy. Um this is Basel referenc’s uh projection per 36 here. um this is, you know, this would be a quite the leap if he can get to this and even then I don’t know if he would win most improved. Um but if he if this is what he ends up being this year, oh my god, like I’d feel incredible because in my opinion at least, I think Booz isn’t going to get to these numbers until year three. But if he can get to these numbers in year two, like that I feel so much better about him becoming an all-star um moving forward and him to continue to develop into a great player. But a lot on his shoulders, man. It’s a lot on on a guy that like he’s heading into his age 21 season. Like that’s a lot to carry. Um I I’d be thrilled if it happens. So that’s what I wanted to start out with this recap is because I think Bzelis had by far the most interesting interview today. Um I think that this was extremely important to watch. So if you have not gone and watched um the interview from Bzelis, go watch that. It was the last interview. So, um, here I I’ll pull it up here, um, and put a link in chat, but, um, this is this is big. Um, I think overall just to hear Bales with this sort of confidence in himself. Uh, on my last 9 minutes of launch, oh, I probably talked all those nine minutes. So, um, appreciate you checking in. Kick me down if you have already left. Uh, I, you know, I appreciate you checking in if you are still here. Thank you for taking your lunch time to see or watch me. So, um, that’s going to be interesting. Uh, I hope you are able to uh listen to these interviews later um because they’re they’re a good time. Um, all right. Here’s the other thing that I and I’m happy that the Bulls just posted this because this is what I wanted to talk about anyway. Um, Will Gotb from CHO asked Boozel, you know, like cuz Bzel came into the interview and or the press conference and kind of said like I worked on a lot of things. um I worked on a lot to get better as a player and then it was just kind of like vague. But then Gotle specifically asks what did you specifically work on? Uh because you know you could say you just got better as a player but what did you do? Um I want to draw attention to the the second um the second sentence here. Okay, this is huge because I was kind of interested to know what Bzelis was actually doing this off seasonason because um first and foremost I think obviously we think okay you’re young he’s he’s you know kind of skinny um he needs to add some muscle which is like the obvious thing but what was his kind of long-term goal of like all right what what am I going to be looking at as a as a player you know where do I fit into the NBA um and what’s his kind of just his own sort of identity in within himself. play what does he think of his own identity as a player and you know what he goes to work on in the off season I think is pretty important to look at because I then look at those specific things then in the following in the you know the the next season I’m like hey you said that you worked on these things well I’m going to be paying attention to those things right and it wasn’t him saying catch and shoot threes or you know working on my offball cutting um or you know working on uh you know like finishing like just at the rim or anything like that. It was shooting off the dribble, shooting when they go under screens, more ball handling, and setting screens. Th all four of those things are more towards except maybe setting screens, but I I’d argue even then that that’s it’s still part of this. All four of those things are towards being more of an onball player and being more, you know, working towards being that sort of allstar mold, right? Um he is a forward right but you know we’ve seen many forwards in this league and they become on ball right Jason Tatum I think a lot of people talk about is like maybe Booz can become the next Jason Tatum which that’s a pretty lofty goal to reach but um you know we we’ve seen fords with sort of similar builds be I’m ball dominant and have great success saying this is like oh my god okay we’re already at the point with him that he thinks that he wants to work on these specific parts of his game first where He’s like, “I want to work on shooting off the dribble.” You know, if he’s going to be running the pick and roll and they go under the screen, he wants to be able to launch it. Like, that’s huge. Like, the best stars are able to read the screen navigations from the defense. And if they go under, they’re able to launch that three-point shot with no hesitation and get it off and knock it down. Um, more ball handling. We’ve seen, you know, little spurts of Boozel’s ball handling in his rookie year and then, um, throughout summer league and his, you know, rookie and now sophomore years. Um, but we also have seen where the ball handling isn’t um where it needs to be and like he has some sloppy moments which is obvious that’s going to happen as a rookie. But to be an onball star, you need to have that ball handling. And he already is like, I need to work on this. Um, and then setting screens he talked about a little bit more into detail um, in the press conference where he said I like he didn’t really do a lot of screen setting last season which he said also is you know expected from him as a rookie. Like that’s that’s not abnormal. Um, but the biggest thing was that he wants to look to set screens and to go on with what the big kind of I think theme of today’s press conferences were from the Bulls was to be more physical. Um, setting screens as a 610 guy is important, at least in my opinion. and uh Boozel as if he’s able to go ahead and set some pretty major screens and look to uh get, you know, guys open, but then use the screens as a way of either vertical spacing or to um create mismatches for himself, right? Because if he’s really working on these on ball drills, right, and on ball skills to get his own shots off and um be a guy to be able to shoot off the dribble, not be relying on others to set him up, then if you’re able to set a screen and get a mismatch, right, and force the defense to heavily focus on you, that’s where you truly do become a star. That’s where your gravity on the court is so much greater than the others, right? Um and so I do really value screen setting, especially for a guy that isn’t a center. um if you’re able to set a screen and you know properly use it and use it to your advantage. Um not just for yourself but for the others like this is huge. Um just another skill set to add to him. Um as you know I I was kind of worried when we did draft him like he might be a jack of all trades but masters of none. Um, so if he’s able to kind of get these to where he’s close to mastering these four skills, then oh man, um, this is going to be interesting to see an offensive end what he can become. So, I’m I’m truly excited just to see what Buzzale has for on this season. The other thing that um I thought was interesting was Sam Smith, who you know, longtime uh writer for Bulls.com, he asked Bonzalees like, “Hey, um there’s a lot of things that you’re kind of good at um that we saw maybe some flashes of in your rookie season, but if there was one thing for you to be great at and and tell everyone like, hey, look at this, like pay attention to this specific thing, what would it be?” And Booz says my defense and just straight up just said that. Um and then eventually came to this quote which is what he says like I want to be coaches all defensive guy. Um Booz for what he for what we he said here he said all these quotes about you know like uh the ability to you know do all these things on offense but he then also said if there’s one thing to watch for this season it’s going to be his defense. the Bulls as a whole with this theme, if you have not watched any the the press conferences, it’s just like physicality is the biggest thing. Um, we need to be better defensively. Like Art Turus kind of immediately came out and said his opening statement that the biggest things for this year’s player development and then working on our physicality and being better defensively. Um, with the current roster as it’s constructed, there are not a lot of good defenders on the roster. There’s at least historically, right? Um, and there’s a lot of guys that are gonna, at least right now, as we’re as we’re currently talking, that are looking to have the ball in their hands a lot that are also have not been good defenders in their in their career so far. Um, but if there’s one guy, right, that can be that great two-way player or has that great two-way potential that is ready now to contribute, right? And this is me saying that, hey, Noah Sen is not part of this discussion as of yet because he is, you know, 18-year-old rookie right now. Um, Bas would be that guy where he is able to contribute effectively on both ends of the floor consistently. um and he’d be the only guy, at least in my opinion, that I’m looking at as plus on both sides. Um it’s him, right? So, you know, I I think that one of the biggest key components when depth is being discussed recently has been like people kind of forget this part that I I find really just just like it’s always interesting to kind of listen to, but it is Yeah. Like you can have depth of like playable guys, but how much depth do you have of guys that are great two-way players or impactful two-way players? To me, that’s where your depth lies, right? When you have many more guys that can impact the ball on both sides of the floor, right? That’s where you have more depth, right? The Bulls, when you look at the roster from top to bottom, like you can argue that like 12 of the 15 guys on the roster deserve playing time and should be in the rotation, right? and AK came out and said like, oh, like I think that one of our strengths is our depth and we’re seeing that recently teams are looking towards depth with their roster, especially in the Eastern Conference. And I’m like that’s all fine and dandy where I’m like yeah I think that you can argue that you know Jaylen Smith who might is like looking as the odd center out like yeah he could be getting some playing time but how much depth how much of these guys within your so-called depth are able to impact the ball on both sides of the floor consistently. Okay like this is where the Andrew Nehards come in. This is where the Lou Dorts come in. Right. This is where guys that are, you know, that we recently saw in the playoffs that may not exactly be on ball dominant but were very impactful and effective. This is where their impact lies. It’s being able to be those types of guys on both ends of the floor. But that’s the reason why there’s so much depth is because you have so many of those guys. How many of those guys in this Bulls roster can we say that the two main ball handlers that right now that we’re looking at, they’re neither are good defensively, right? Kevin Herder is only really good on offense. Trey Jones is, you know, maybe back and forth, but he’s pretty small. Um, IO is potentially a guy, but we’ll see. His defense has declined, you know, at least at least last year declined a little bit, but he’s come back from injury, so we’ll see how where he is. But Buch is not anything like that, right? Um, Patrick Williams cannot is just not effective enough on on offense to be able to say that. And defensively, he’s not hasn’t been anything great either. So, there’s just a lot here that I’m like looking at this bull so-called depth and I’m like I don’t like it’s all right. I see some playable guys, but I don’t know if how many I would call them as like good two-way players or impactful like maybe not good but just decent two-way players. There’s just not a lot of that. So, I don’t really know how much depth the Bulls really do have. Um, but if Buzzalees can get the train rolling where he shows I’m going to be impactful on both sides of the floor, um, and be a plus guy on both sides of the floor, then hopefully others like a Senate and others, um, are going to follow suit. Um, Isaac Aoro, I know, has been brought up a lot in the press conferences so far and and I’m not trying to be hating him on him day one, but um, a lot of people talked about his physicality and that’s great. I think Aoro, yes, like his defensive abilities is something that is going to be looked at as pretty important because the front office and Billy Donovan and others have talked about physicality and defense. So, that’s AOR’s calling card. But, um, even with Aoro, as much as I want to say like, hey, yeah, he can be an impactful player in the offensive end, he just hasn’t been. Um, he’s only good shooting in the corners and he rarely takes shots above above the break from three-point range. um it doesn’t take a lot of threes anyway, so it’s not that impactful. Um and this is where you get into like the whole conversation of like, well, your best defenders can’t play on offense, but then your best offensive guys can’t play on defense. So, um there’s a lot still with this Bulls roster when I especially when I look at it and all these arguments being talked about is like how it’s being constructed and that maybe we’re better than someone like me is saying, I’m like I still see a lot of holes. But like I I’ve been saying, the whole reason why I’m talking about this is just because if Bzelis can get the train rolling on plus side plus side being a plus player on both sides of the ball, it puts the Bulls in such a better position. Like a much much much better position. Um and so this is going to be the stuff I’m looking at for him this season. Um once again, I don’t have that many expectations, but that might change. Um that might change with what he said today. Um because the this is a very very like you know bold like overall press conference from Bzelis. And so if you’re going to come out and say these things then I’d like to change my expectations overall for you um this upcoming season. So I’m I’ll be looking forward to it um and watch him very carefully. Sorry about the cough. Hold on. I need to respond to a message. Okay. Rick Wesley, too bad you don’t post more often. Keep up the good work. I appreciate it. Hey, um don’t worry, we’re going to be as long as I’m healthy because the whole reason I I was planning on doing a lot of stuff in September, but then I got sick in the first week of September and it’s still kind of lingering. Um, and I I really do apologize about the lack of content um, since like the Troy Jones or like even like the Giddy video wasn’t like the best content, but um, yeah, I do apologize about that. But like my plan is to get more content out for you guys, especially as we head into training camp here um, and heading into the first preseason stuff. So yeah, be on the lookout. I’m going to be doing a lot of stuff. Um, got some exciting things to talk about uh, with you guys once we hit October. So, yeah, I I I promise I will be doing more content than just streams. Um, that is a promise for me this this season. Um, and we’ll see how it goes from there. Um, all right. So, I wanted to just kind of start off with Booz cuz I I if you were able to listen to it as at the same time I was when it was happening live. Um, I do think that Bzalis was by far the most intriguing interview today. Um it what he said was very very bold and I I love hearing that because I I think it really makes sure that he keeps himself accountable and he very clearly is reaching for the stars like he wants to be great. um he may not get there just due to you know he just doesn’t have that allout talent to become something like that but at least I I’m pretty confident moving forward with him that he is going to be the best that he can be and we’ll see what that eventually becomes. U maybe it’s not all-star but I think it will be at bare minimum a very quality starter. Um and that’s that’s great. Like that’s a that’s a very that’s still no matter what a good thing uh for the Bulls. So, I’m going to be watching him a lot this year. My plan wasn’t to be too critical of him this year just because uh he year two is is sometimes tough on on guys. Um defenses adjust, but it’s also just like I I really do think that players are like starting it’s a whole like learning curve of like, oh, okay, like I worked on this, but like I have to als I have to really get better at this one skill that I might have already worked on. And so maybe they’re not exactly just there yet. Um, but it’s also the biggest thing for me is just like especially for someone as young as Boozelis. Um, year two is like your body is still trying to catch up with everything. Um, you know, he worked on his body. He clearly talked about at the press conference, but um, your body might not be there yet in terms of what you want to do. Um, so like you have all these ambitions in mind, but does your body allow you to do such things yet? And it really can’t do that until he just gets older. So, um I’m not going to be as of right now changing my expectations too much about Bales besides maybe just think that defensively he might be a little bit better, but I might change that even more as we head into the preseason here because this is pretty bold from him. Most improved. He wants to be an alldefensive type of guy or coached as if he’s an alldefensive guy. So, that means he makes a mental error then like you know coaches who have to get onto his ass, right? um he talked about all these skills that he wants to um that he worked on this off seasonason and these are a lot of onball stuff here. So, this is going to be pretty important. And then here’s his quote on uh his body work, keeping his agility, but not, you know, also adding weight, but just making sure he doesn’t lose um his agility and his speed alongside of it. So, um it’s going to be quite interesting, man. Quite quite interesting. I’m looking forward to it um this year. Uh all right, other stuff I want to talk about because we need to talk immediately and I’m going to go from the last interview today to the first one because I um it it’s a whole thing right now with AK and we unfortunately just have to talk about it. Uh first and foremost, one of the things that I do think is important to talk about uh I want to bring attention to what he said about Kobe White. Um it does seem like as of right now that uh Kobe White will not be at the start of or he will not be playing at the start of preseason. Okay. Um this is the this is probably the biggest news of the day um in terms of like what’s going to happen soon from here on out. Um biggest news if you were not able to catch it. Uh Kobe White will not be um will not be ready to start training camp. It looks like he suffered a calf strain in August. Um, and so AK said he hopes to see him ready by the end of preseason. So my hope is from what I’m hearing from this is just that uh it’s nothing really too severe um and that they’re being as cautious as possible and I I hope that Kobe is going to be able to play in at least one preseason game. Um I think that players that aren’t able to play in a preseason game, they it they’re pretty behind um when the season does start and like you’re playing catchup all year. Um, so I would like for him to at least play in one preseason game, ideally two, but I don’t think we’ll get there. So, at least one. Um, he will also be limited in training camp. So, the Bulls training camp starts tomorrow. Uh, and we will see who is going to be in all these, you know, all these drills and everything, but Kobe will be limited. So, we’ll see what he participates in. Uh my biggest then question is this is gonna be already kind of like an insight of maybe what Billy Donovan’s kind of um kind of depth chart or rotation’s going to be is if Kobe White does not start in the pre any preseason games which I don’t believe he will or sorry he will definitely not be starting early on um in the preseason. We will see if he’s able to play in one. Um who’s starting right cuz I think that’s a big question right now with all these guards on the roster. It’s like who’s going to start? Um, you know, assuming Giddy’s at at the one. Um, and then Bzel is at the four and is at the five. We’re still kind of questioning who is going to be kind of the the second forward. Um, and this is assuming that Kobe would start. Uh, we don’t really know if it’s going to be Isaac, is it going to be Kevin Herder? Is it going to be Trey Jones? Is it IO Dumu? Um, my guess would have been it was going to be IO from the start, but I guess we’ll see kind of soon here. um if we’re able to get some insights on some scrimmages that happened like who’s going to be running with who. Um but my if I had to make a guess it was going to be that if assuming everyone was healthy it was going to be I was going to start at the three quote unquote um and he would be the last starter um or at least the start of the season. But with Kobe I don’t really know now. Um we did see um some games where Trey Jones did start uh at the end of last season. Um, obviously Kevin Herder started uh at the end of the year and was getting a lot of playing time and he started the the uh playing game. So, um, it’s just going to be interesting to see again just kind of just a gauge of the depth chart. Where does Isaac Aoral fit into that? Because I I do question like what exactly A Cororo’s role is going to be here. Um, does a Coral maybe slide over to the two quote unquote? I wouldn’t personally hate that, but there’s a world, I guess, where you can I I I’d be astounded if we did this, but there’s a world where you start Giddy, Auroral, Patrick Williams, Montes, Buzzales, and then Vuchich. I I I would personally hate that lineup, but like there’s there’s that world. Um I I I don’t want to even think about that. So, if I had to make a guess that if I assuming I was going to be the fifth starter and starting at the three, um, then I would have I would guess maybe that Trey Jones would have been the next guy to just kind of slide into the lineup here. But it would be interesting to see. Um, so keep this in mind as we kind of get some updates from all the people at training camp, you know, Casey Johnson tweeting and stuff out of like, hey, if any scrimmages happen, like who are the clearly the starters, who are clearly the bench guys? um which are who are the teams that’s going to be interesting to watch because I I’m going to be very very intrigued of what Billy is going to be thinking early on in the season. Um there’s also this world and I I I’m only just going to say this just because it is interesting of what happened last season and I doubt it. Okay, what I’m about to say here, but this is something to keep in mind. um you know, we talk a lot about how much depth this this roster has, but um there’s guys that more so aim they’re like more defensive oriented that don’t really impact the offensive end and like Dalon Terry is one of those guys. And the other guy that I’m going to be more intrigued with throughout this year is definitely Julian Phillips cuz I want to see if he’s adding some weight. But if you remember last year at the start of the season, okay, um Julian Phillips was like the second guy off the bench, it was IO and Julian Phillips were the main two subs early in the season. Now again, different roster, right? you know, there’s a lot other lot other guys here now than compared to, you know, at the start of last season. But, um, it does seem like Julian Phillips, at least at the start, was, you know, ahead of guys like Dale and Terry and even he was even ahead of guys like Bzelis early on. Um, very clearly that that changed as the season went on, but Phillips was someone up there. And I’m just kind of thinking to myself like I don’t really know what the plan is for off the bench and like there’s a world where Billy like kind of starts a maybe a guy that isn’t as like that impactful but just we’ll throw him in starting lineup just to kind of get his minutes up and then um we’ll just have the bench guys come in later and they’ll probably close the game with someone else. Um but again I seriously doubt this would happen but just keep this in mind. Um there is that sort of world where maybe that does happen. I doubt it, but um you know, if we see like Julian Phillips or like Perry or someone running with the starting unit, I’d be shocked. But there’s just like the argument of just like, okay, we’ll just start him. We’ll he’ll play like six minutes and then he’ll be benched for the rest of the half. Um again, just keep this in mind. There’s a lot of stuff that we can do with this Bulls uh lineup and all all these moving pieces, but we’ll we’ll be looking to see what happens. Um once again, Kobe will be limited at the start of training camp in preseason. We will see what he does officially debut in preseason here. Uh reminder, calf strains for whatever reason end up becoming Achilles Achilles tears. Um and Kobe does wear the number zero. So uh if we want to continue to avoid the number zero Eastern Conference, uh you know, starter curse with Achilles tears, then um I’m definitely would say play it very cautious with Kobe. Um Alurn, Tatum, and Lillard all tore their Achilles. They all were number zero all in the Eastern Conference. So, um, please I I’m going to just definitely say for Kobe, just please be careful. Um, this was brought up in his press conference a little bit. Uh, play this as cautiously as as possible. Take as much time as you need, especially because this is a contract year for Kobe White. So, uh, rough start to his contract year. Um, but hopefully it doesn’t impact him too much. Um, it will be interesting to see what does happen though with the calf strain. Hopefully doesn’t end up being worse. Is Matas her best shot blocker? He definitely has the potential. Oh, don’t get me wrong, Salty Solution, I think Matas can definitely be all defensive, but I I definitely could see that in his cards. Um, the thing is though is that do I think he could be all defensive this year? That was not something I was expecting, right? I don’t I don’t I don’t expect him to be all defensive level this year, but with the way that Luzales was talking about like he he he talks as if he should be near or at all defensive level this year. So, that’s going to be very interesting to watch. Um, not only is that making sure that you fill the box score with stocks, but just, you know, eye tests, individual impact of getting over screens, rotating effectively, not getting lost in rotations, which is like one of his main issues that we saw last season. Again, rookie, I’m not, you know, that’s expected, but um, you know, defensively, it’s not just the whole physical thing. Like he he might have all the physical tools, but mentally he has to make sure that he’s ready. Um, and it does seem like Billy’s running a lot more zone for whatever reason. at least, you know, we saw it last season and then um you know, there’s talks of it in the press conference with AK and Billy uh today. So, if you’re going to be, you know, an effective zone team, then you have to have effective zone defenders and Booz got to be part of that, right? Um understanding where you should be in a zone, who to take at any moment in time. So, it’s a lot, right? If you’re all defensive level defenders are I mean, the impact that they have is like other worldly, okay? Like I don’t I don’t think people fully understand sometimes how good these guys are defensively. Um so that’s a lot on Buzzel’s shoulders then to try to figure out is if he’s going to be an alldefensive level guy this year. I mean he’s 21 man or heading into his year 21 or age 21 season. So like a lot um don’t don’t put too much on your plate. That’s all I’m just going to say um for now. All right. Other thing we do have to talk about when it comes to Kobe White uh which was um talked about from AK. Uh this was the quote from AK which is that um AK won’t comment on Kobe White’s upcoming free agency as per usual with this front office. Um but he did say this. This is you know that I don’t know if it’s just like the typical but like it does seem like as of right now again it’s to the media that they do plan on keeping Kobe for the long term. So, um, once again, reminder that there is no way Kobe White signs the extension that the Bulls can give him because the Bulls can only offer him a certain amount of money due to his team friendly contract currently. Um, and extensions go off of your, uh, your your current year of salary um, or I guess last year of your salary in your contract. And, um, Kobe is obviously on a very team friendly deal, which means that you cannot offer him that much cuz he’s only making about 13 million. So 140% of 13 million to get not too high. Um it’s around 80 million over four years. So um I due to that I fully expect Kobe White to go into unrestricted free agency and look to get a much bigger payday as he should. Um but with that being said um Bulls could lose Kobe for nothing for sure. However, um it is important to keep in note that Kobe definitely would you know I I would say that he outperformed his contract as of current current times, right? um he’s outperformed being a being a 13 million per year player with his current that he’s currently on right but you know we still have this year it’s important you know this year’s important as well but uh do that like Kobe probably isn’t looking for another kind of you know pay cut I guess pay cut you could say um I do think that contract goes a lot because of restricted free agency and his agent knew that like hey restricted free agency sucks um just get the deal now and we’ll we’ll worry about getting bigger money later. Which is why I’m saying that like the threat if if the Bulls truly want to keep Kobe, I think the threat of him leaving is pretty slim just due to the fact that he already kind of took a pay cut. So like I don’t really see him taking another pay cut if that makes any sense to like leave for some sort of contender. There’s a world. Um but I I I think honestly there’s a good chance that if the Bulls look to resign him, he will resign because the Bulls can offer him a decent chunk of money. Um, so, uh, just important to keep in mind for future stuff and we have to pay attention to Kobe and IO this year because, um, it is contract years for both of them. And Kobe is starting out with the injury and I was recovering from an injury. So, we got a lot to kind of, uh, look at for uh, for for a lot of people. So, that’s going to be um, fun to kind of just keeping keep track of this entire year. Uh, all right. Big theme of today. Okay, I do want to bring this quote up from Will Gotautle which just that um our tour has mentioned a couple times Bulls can handle the Heath physicality in the playing game. So it’s just like if if if there’s one major theme to take away from today, it’s the the word physicality. Um defensive intensity, uh both Billy and AK were huge on this. It’s like the biggest like thing that they’re trying to focus on, which is very odd honestly because it’s going to be something that I think is a major challenge with this roster. Um, last season I think it was a lot of like player development but also playing faster. Um, and trying to like find ways to score from three-point range, etc., etc. And the Bulls, you know, overall they they hit their mark. Um, you know, they were like third in the league in terms of three-point attempts. They um, you know, shot like, you know, a lot of shots in transition. They were playing fast. They had, you know, I think the second highest pace in the league. like that all kind of hit and that’s great and all, but where are we in terms of the defensive end? I again with the lack of personnel the roster, I don’t really know how this team’s going to suddenly become better physically or find a way to, you know, be better a bit a better team in terms of physicality standpoint in the game. Um, how do we just suddenly become a better defensive squad? I don’t know. Um, Aoro definitely helps and that was like the one move that they made this offseason. So, like that’s one area I guess, but I don’t think one specific player is going to come in and fix all the defensive issues and be able to fight through screens and suddenly the the team defense looks incredible. So, um that’s a lot that’s going to have to change here uh for the defense to take a major step forward. I will also say this though, I want to make sure that the offense does not take a hit if they are really focusing on defense. Like the the last thing I want to see is the the pace to slow down and all of a sudden we’re playing a lot slower. Um because we’re trying to be better defensively and trying to muck up the game and everything like that and then it kills our offense, right? Um I want us to make sure that we are better defensively for sure, but we got to keep our offensive identity that we had last season. You know, continue to get the threes up, continue to shoot in the paint, and um ideally increase your free throw percentages um and free throw attempts, but um play with pace. You know, look to get out on the fast break as as much as you can. Do not take that away from the what we saw from LA like what you know what we did last season. Okay. Do not let the defense affect your offensive identity. Um it is great that if the goal is to improve your defense and make sure the younger guys that are developing get better defensively, that’s great. But we cannot make we cannot let that affect the offensive end. We cannot suddenly start, you know, only shooting like 29 threes a game and um not looking to push the tempo, um being in the bottom 10, bottom third of the league in terms of fast break points per game. That cannot happen. Okay. Um because one of the things that sometimes does happen is if like, hey, we’re we’re trying to be better defensively, which means that we want to limit the amount of uh possessions that the opposing team has, but they just inherently get more possessions if we just play faster and shoot more shots, right? Um, but we don’t want that to fully, you know, affect our offense. Like continue to shoot f play fast, shoot threes, um, and get out in transition. Do not suddenly start thinking, oh, we got to play slower just to be better defensively. I do not want to see that. So, um, I’m hoping that is something that we do not suddenly just kind of fall into that trap. Um, important important to keep in mind. So, um, there’s that. Uh, I have to look. I I swear to God that Kobe or sorry. Oh, yeah, it was here. Um, Kobe in his press conference, he talked about that his personal goal for this season, shoot 40% from three-point range. Um, I want you guys to keep this in mind um, for a lot of this year because, uh, I have something that is important about this. So, just I’ll leave it there. Um, but this is definitely something with Kobe that I’ve talked about on this channel a lot where um Kobe is a scorer, right? Um, you know, he got to 20 points per game and which is a incredible feat a feat. Like that’s that that’s great. Like I think this is something that’s hard to do in this league, but um if you look at his entire career, he has not shot better than 38.5% for three-point range. Um he took a careerhigh 7.9 threes per game last season, which is great. Shot 37%. That’s about league average. I think that’s actually league average. Like it’s exactly league average. So, um, you know, it’s good to be league average, but can you be better? Um, if he truly wants to become an all-star, and it seemed like he wants to set the expectation for himself to be all-star caliber this year, then this has to increase. Um, what like I I don’t know if he necessarily needed the attempts to increase. Ideally, I want to see like 8 and 12 to nine, but no matter what, this number has to increase. The percentage from three-point range has to increase for him because, um, as good as he’s improved with his finishing at the rim and getting to the basket to be able to finish, um, I do think that the three-point shooting is going to be the differencemaker. Um, being more efficient from three-point range and shooting more threes will heavily increase this number. So, this is going to be something that we got to keep in mind. Um, and this is his own personal goal. I hope he increases it to at least 39% this year. That’d be great. Um, and again, keep I want I just want to say just keep keep this in mind um for something from me later. Um, thumbs up. But, um, there’s that. Uh, last um, I’m not really going to talk about B um, too much. Uh, you know, I I almost kind of feel bad for him that he’s still here, honestly. Um, I I I I think that he should just be off contending somewhere, but I don’t really know what that where that is. Um, I’ll talk a little bit about IO, but then we’ll talk a little bit about Giddy. Um, biggest thing for Giddy that I found interesting with his interview, nothing really about anything tweeted was just like he talked a lot about leadership. Uh, how much he wants to be a good leader for the team. Um, and that’s, you know, an onc court and offc court skill. So, I honestly that’s going to be quite interesting for me to watch because um leadership for me, there’s many different forms of leadership. Um there’s the Kevin Garnettes who are extremely expressive and they shout out defensive coverages and um they’re, you know, consistently trying to get people amped and uh they’re not afraid of getting in people’s faces and like holding people accountable with their voice, right? There’s, you know, like people like Alex Caruso are very similar to like Kevin Garnett, maybe not as, you know, intense, but like there there’s similarities there. There’s then like the ideas of what like Jason Kidd and John Stockton would do, which is like, oh, hey, we’re going to be um, you know, the leader of or the coach, I guess, on the court, extension of the coach, where we’re going to run the offense. We’re going to call the plays. We’re going to set people up and um we’re going to make sure the offense runs smoothly, quote unquote. Um, but then there’s like people like Tim Duncan who I think is just a great leader by example where it’s work ethic. He doesn’t complain. He listens to coach. He comes in and he does everything he needs to do. Um, continues to stay professional. Um, and continues to be one of the best players in the league and shows everyone else how to do it, right? Um, and there’s always other ways too, right? Um there’s leadership in clutch moments where you um fully take over the moment and uh say, “Hey, I have this possession. Don’t worry, I got this. Rely on me guys.” Right? Um and then there’s leadership in terms of game planning, which is a lot on the coach, but it’s also, you know, on the players themselves to recognize mismatches, etc. With Giddy, it’s going to be very interesting for me to figure out like what does leadership mean for him because he’s not great defensively. Um, I do think that his instincts defensively are better as the year went on, but he’s not anything spectacular. Um, you know, he gets some steals here and there, which is good, but I’m like, hey, what what does it mean for you to be a good leader, especially on that end of the court? Um, we don’t really have, you know, that sort of defensive anchor at the moment. It could be Booze Ellis. That’d be fantastic, but it’s not that yet. So, what does that mean for him? But then specifically on offense, like I don’t want Giddy to only just be the extension of the coach and like run and be like try like oh I’m going to be like a Jason kid and like run offense smoothly and everything like that’s that unfortunately just I think I feel like a leadership style is just it’s kind of going out the window as we currently move forward in the NBA. Um there are players that do that and a lot more. So with Giddy I’m gonna be watching like how vocal are you on offense? Is it going to be just leading by example and you just, you know, come in and, you know, be professional, do your work, um, you know, make sure your body’s in shape and everything, or is it going to be that you’re going to have be having conversations off the court with guys, you know, talk about running the offense and setting guys up specifically for, you know, certain actions, um, talking with coach and being sort of like that kind of bridge between player to coach. Like, is that what’s what that means? I don’t really know. Um, so I’m hoping that we kind of get that solidified. Um, once again though, I just want to say this, like I the way that I really view today’s game right now, like the whole idea of like having this pass versus point guard as like your leader or whatever, I just truly do not value that as much as I used to do back then. Like the Rajan Rondos of the world. Um, you know, in ‘ 08, like that was a very important piece to that 08 championship for the Celtics. um you know, you have a bunch of stars on that roster and then you have a distributor to come in and be the leader to call out the plays and everything. That’s great. Like, you know, back then where you’re not shooting a bunch of threes and you know, the balls, you know, you have a Ray Allen that’s like coming around and running floppy action so you can just be only an offball guy. Um that that’s one thing, but in today’s world now, I don’t view it as that impactful right now. Um if you got the ball in your hands, which Giddy does need, then you got to be able to score. So to me, a lot of it is like, yeah, you could be a great passer, which we’ve seen obviously many great passers in this league, but they also have the ball in their hands because they can score. Uh James Harden, Luca Donuch, Trey Young, etc. So you have to if you’re giddy, in my opinion, if the best thing for me is if for leadership is you got to go out there and recognize when you’re going to be able to score and go and convert. Um, that to me would be the best leadership because that’s what leadership is right now when it comes to on ball players. Leadership is I’m going to go and score when the team needs me to do it. Um, that’s like my definition of it, but I know that he’s not that sort of player. He’s a pass first guy. So, um, I’m I’m going to be interested to see what leadership means to him. Um, and is it really truly valuable? Um, it’s kind of one of those things that don’t, you can’t really ever like physically, you know, bring it to somebody, but we all know it’s there. So, we’ll have to evaluate that as the season goes on. Um, and what that truly does mean to these guys. Uh, update on Iumu. Um, IO did uh talk and he uh he um was describing what happened the offseason. So, Oh, sorry, that’s Kobe. Um IO says he’s a full go. So um IO is fully ready to go for training camp which is great news. Um Bulls have everybody here at training camp. Uh the only only guy that is not ready to go is Kobe White. As we said earlier, uh IO is a full go. He is a full go for training camp and is ready to go ahead and compete. Uh I described his off season as um there was like a month and a half of him where he was just coming in and just doing work and just you know rehabbing his shoulder. Then in July he said he was able to pick up a basketball and do do some things with it like shoot dribble and everything just no contact. In August he was able to do contact. So he’s gone through the contact portion which is always the biggest leap in my opinion. Um so he’s gone through contact and he is fully ready to go for training camp. Um, I talked about earlier that I don’t, if I had to make a guess of who the fifth starter would be, assuming that it’s Giddy, Kobe, Bzal, Vuvich, who is going to start at the three, then I would have said it was going to be IO. Um, IO is a full goal area at the start of the season and Kobe is not going to be ready to start training camp fully. So, um, if there’s a chance for IO to go ahead and get into the starting lineup at the start of the year, it would be right now, especially with Kobe potentially being on the shelf early on. um or at least is just limited um for now. But once again, I hope Kobe is able to just uh get through this quickly and be fully recovered and and get back to playing um for at least one preseason game before the season starts. Um but we we will see. Um biggest thing for me with IO this year, I just want to point this out, is just that his defensive numbers definitely weren’t the best last year. Um offensively, he had I think a pretty solid season. And I understand the three-point percentage wasn’t great. Um, but he still averaged a careerhigh in points per game. Um, no, continued to have very few turnovers. He increased his assists per game by a pretty significant jump overall in similar minutes. Uh, continue to have great efficiency for a guard. I mean, a guard shooting 49% from the field or 50% consistently every year is great. The problem was just this efficiency here was from three-point range wasn’t good, but he um did take four threes a game, which is a good sign. Um the the the only thing with IIO like the only reason why like I’m not that concerned about him with the three-point percentage is just that um when he was a starter it was honestly pretty solid. Um and uh I know like these numbers aren’t amazing. Like 36% obviously it it could be better. It’s a little bit that’s below league average but um there was a point when he was starting earlier where like this number was like at like 39%. and like he was averaging like nearly 16 points per game as a starter. So that’s why I’m just like I I feel a lot better about him moving forward even with like the poor year from three-point range as a whole. But also if there was ever a year to bet on him to be better from three-point range, if you just look at each year for him, uh the odd years for his career are just better from three-point range for whatever reason. I don’t know why. Um I mean year 1 37.6, year three 40%. So, this year should be pretty good as well according to the trends. Um, I know we shouldn’t be betting on that, but he has shown at least even last year that he had good three-point shooting in him. Um, but yeah, 33% is not going to cut it. So, that’s going to be the biggest thing. But the shoulder to me is going to be like, hey, where are we in terms of your defensive level? Are you able to get through screens effectively? Because one of the best things that I was able to do in his first two seasons was be able to screen navigate amongst the best in the league. like he was one of the best point of attack defenders in terms of guards in the league in his first two years. Um, and even in his third year, it was pretty solid as well. It wasn’t as good, but it was still pretty solid. Last year though, it wasn’t that good. It it was a little bit it was pretty poor overall uh from IO. Um, there’s still the good defensive instincts and everything from him, but that that point of attack defense is important for a guy like him because he can guard multiple positions and he has a 610 wingspan. Um, that’s important. So, he needs to find a way to make sure that that’s going to continue. Um, and hopefully the shoulder surgery and him feeling better with it is going to allow him to screen navigate better. Um, and ideally just make him feel better overall as a player. So, um, going to be definitely paying attention to him as this is another contract year player for the Bulls. Uh, we have a lot of contract year guys. U, um, especially including Vuvich here. Um, really quickly with Vuvich, I don’t really have much to say about Vu. Um, I, you know, listened to him uh, a little bit. He said some things that are interesting. Um, but uh the biggest thing that I took away from him is just like he doesn’t he’s not ready to retire anytime soon from basketball. He’s going to soon be 35, which is great uh for him. Uh I just don’t really know what the Bulls are planning on doing um with his with his contract and his situation. So um from all indications from what V did say is that Billy Donovan did not have any plans to cut his minutes. So, that’s important to keep in mind. Um, I know that we’ve been discussing on this channel like maybe Billy runs like a threeman center rotation where they all get 18 minutes a game um or something or sorry, they they all get like 16 minutes a game. That’s pretty tough to do. Um, and honestly, I with the way that AK kind of talked about stuff, um, it doesn’t seem like that they’re going to be planning on doing something like that. But um I don’t know honestly it it it fluctuates consistently. So um we will see what the plan is for Billy Donovan and crew um to figure out with the rotations, but as of right now it seems like Vucha is saying he’s ready to go ahead and play starter minutes again, which I wouldn’t expect anything less honestly from the Bulls. Um I’d be kind of shocked if anything did change when it came to that, but we will see um at the end of the day. Uh all right, hold on. Give me one second here. I need to do something um as I fix. Well, what the heck? Why? Oh, well, Sorry, I do apologize. I am trying to fix my salary cap uh spreadsheet and I don’t know why it’s giving me a bug here. Give me one second. No, no, no. Fudge. I did this before and I don’t know why it’s giving me so many issues now. Crap. Hold on. Hold on. One sec. I almost fixed it. Give me one second here. Uh, no. Perfect. All right, cool. So, um it is always really early to be talking about this stuff, but I do think um it is important to just be talking about this stuff uh constantly as um there are big story lines to always look at. So, um here is the updated uh salary cap spreadsheet as of right now for the Bulls. Um so, only reason why I’m bringing this up right now is just because uh we know Oh, I for I actually I didn’t put Giddy’s contract in. So, this this is going to change in a second here, but um we know who this the the expiring contracts are. So, Boo Collins, right? Uh Kobe and IO, if you’re wondering what these blue numbers are, these are their cap holds. Okay, this includes Kevin Hurders uh for right now. Um we won’t talk about Javon Carter, but Dalon Terry, this is is last year um of his rookie deal, which is important to note. Um, but the only reason why I’m just bringing it up is just because we talked about Kobe and IO and it’s just like, hey, um, it’s important to always be looking ahead. Um, you know, they they they if you have not listened to any of the press conferences yet, um, the, uh, contracts, you know, were brought up. Um, but they both just kind of said the same thing. It’s just like day by day. We’re not going to worry about it too much. Um, which is great. Um, that’s that’s that’s that’s overall good from them, but I’m sure it’s always on their mind. Um, I am just going to go ahead and tell you right now of what I do think the Bulls can offer IO because I I I do wonder what exactly the plan is for him because it seems like he’s in a lot of trade talks. Um, but we will see what what is going to happen with him. I’m going to tell you what they can offer to him that I think is actually a pretty solid offer. Um, real quickly though, um, if you did not I when I did my stream on Thursday, I gave my own grade for the Giddy uh, uh, contract signing. And, um, this was assuming that this was the numbers because Spatric had these numbers at the moment in time. Um, where it was an 8% raise each year, which is typical. Um, and it goes up every year and it goes from 22 to 27 million for the last year. Um, so we have now found out that this is not the numbers for Getty’s contract. um Spotreaker was able to come out and tell us that hey um it is a flat $25 million per year which is um at least in my opinion that’s a benefit to the Bulls for what their current situation is at. So um um I think overall it does help the Bulls. So, if you were not here for when I gave my grade on the giddy um new contract, uh my grade was a C++. Um really just a TLDDR of why uh I had C++ and nothing higher because a lot of people think it it should should be higher than that. Uh I have also read a lot of people saying it’s similar to what I I I have. But um to me, I think the Bulls gave up. Um they they had a chance to get him on a much more team friendly deal. Um it they I think they should have stuck to the guns to the four years 80 million and I don’t think really Giddy could have done anything about it. Um and I understand everyone’s like oh like we’re afraid he’s going to get pissed off or whatever. I’m just like this is restricted free agency y’all. I I don’t want to hear it. Um, but I think that they didn’t need to budge from the four years 80 million honestly, but they definitely didn’t need to budge from like the four years um 88 million. Like that was a very nice gift to Giddy honestly and then they went even farther and gave him even bigger gift. Um, when it comes to what I was looking for for contracts, it was either like the best case scenario in my opinion would have been the five-year uh it would have five years um $20 million per year or less uh and a team option in the fifth year. That’s like A+ honestly. And if you’re wondering like would that have been possible? I honestly think it would have um but maybe Giddy’s camp is doesn’t want the five-year lock in, right? So, if that was the case, then I’m like, “Okay, if you’re going to give him more money, which was, you know, my my max for him was $25 million annual average salary, but it would have been okay with me if you did a descending contract where that means you give him more money earlier. Um, and then it descends. But if you’re going to do that, it had to have been on a shorter term deal, just like if it’s what they gave him here, which was $25 million any salary. Um, I think that it should have been a shorter term deal where it’s like he would have been getting paid like 27 or $28 million this season and it would decline and then you have a team option ideally at the end of it. Um, instead though you go straight in the middle and you do uh four years fully guarantee, which is all right. Um, you can argue it’s probably a year too long. Um, and you didn’t get a team option at the end. And like if you had a team option at the end it would have been a pretty solid contract in my opinion but it’s not. Um so instead I and I did think at the time again I thought it was ascending which it makes it less team friendly. Now though because I did find out that it is flat across the board. I I I am increasing my grade to a B minus. Um this does help the bulls salary cap situation um later down the road in these years. Um it for this year I’m totally fine with Giddy getting about $3 million more than what he would have been paid if it was an ascending contract. Um because the Bulls don’t have any salary cap space anyway. Um they have some room under the tax already. So this is fine. Um however it is important to keep in mind that it is less than a million but um this does eat into some of the salary caps for the 202627 season. Um, so this number here uh for the bulls uh is actually already lower than what it was previously. Um, however though, it is not by that much. So, I’m not I’m not too worried about it at the end of the day. Um, the contract’s really going to look better in these years and it obviously will also look better or worse with how Giddy plays. Um, it does just make me feel better though about if like let’s say Giddy doesn’t really perform expectations then I do think that the contract will be a little bit more tradable just because it’s not ascending um and you know $25 million is just better to manage than 27. I know it doesn’t sound like a lot of a difference, but with the salary caps um not rising as much as we thought it was going to rise um these numbers really do matter. Um, and because uh the the tax aprons are a thing and a lot of teams are trying to avoid it. Even like some of the spending teams are just trying to avoid the tax aprons. Um, they’re want to go into the tax but not the tax apron specifically. Um, like every dollar matters, Ben. So, um, the best way I’ve always described it is that like, hey, um, there are three new players or three new contracts that the Bulls just kind of just suddenly added on. Um, and you know like Trey Jones, right? It just got 8 million. Um, I I mean for sorry for the 2026 27 season, but like Trey Jones, he got 8 million. As his you just rookie deal and then if the Bulls pick 12th overall next season, then they’re the first year salary is 5.8. Like between just these three guys and Trey Jones, a next, you know, first round pick for the Bulls, that’s like already 14 million. like this adds up like that. Sorry, not even what? My math’s terrible. That’s already uh what? That’s already 18 million. So like it it it just goes, right? This money is even if we’re not thinking like, oh, we’re that we give a lot a lot to this player, this money goes quick. So it’s important just to keep in mind like I understand that everyone’s just like, oh, it doesn’t it’s not that big of a deal, but like this number being 25 to 27, it might actually really matter. Um, and it’s just more team friendly in general, which is not a bad thing. I don’t know why Bulls fans want to complain about team friendly uh contracts for especially players that are not haven’t been proven at all. So, um, this is better for the Bulls, at least in my opinion, especially because I don’t really care about this year in terms of the salary cap stuff. Um, Bulls have still the non- tax pyramid level exception. Um, so I mean like I’ve been kind of I’ve been an advocate for just waving Carter just eating the contract and you would still have $13 million to spend before the tax. So like maybe just spend 10 of it on a non tax level exception on somebody, but I no one’s really available right now for that. Anyway, they still have the buy annual exception available to them. I at this point would recommend not spending that. Um which is fine. Bulls are hard capped at the first apron. First apron is this number right here. Um this is the number of how much space below the first apron, which is in it’s reminded the first apron is in luxury tax. Those are two different things. Um, so we have $13 million below the luxury tax, but we’re um $21 million below the first apron, which is we are hardcapped at. That does not currently matter at this moment in time. The bulls are never going to attack, so don’t worry about that too much, but just I always like to keep in mind like, hey, we are hardcapped. Um, but let’s talk about this moving forward. So, um, let me get rid of Kevin Hurder’s cap hold for a second here, um, to look at where we are in terms of bull cap space. This is my projection. Okay. I I unless I’m messing something up here, and again, this is just an estimate of of where the Bulls might pick. Um unless I’m messing something up here for this off season, I honestly and people have talked to me about $80 million in salary cap space or $100 million in salary cap space, and I’m like, I don’t know where you’re what number you’re getting those from, but like I I’m here to tell you that’s just not the case. Um this is the number right here. This is the This is where the blue box is right now highlighted. Um the number is $34 million. 34 and a2. Okay, that’s my projected salary cap space for the Bulls 202627 or Bulls 2026 offseason. Okay. Um that is with getting rid of all the cap holds that you do not currently see on the screen. Um so that’s Vu, Collins, Herder, Javon Carter, Terry, they’re all gone. All right. Um I’m retaining all the players that I currently have and that are currently under contract or guaranteed under contract. And then I kept Kobe Whites and Iumu’s cap holds because you need to keep those capolds. If you want to keep their bird rights and if you want to go over the salary cap to resign them, then we got to make sure we keep those. Okay. Um now, uh if we get rid of those then yes, like there is a world where the bulls could get rid of these caps. And yeah, there’s a lot more space to be had. As you can see right now as I delete these that the green number goes up and we’re like, hey, we’re at 73 million now. So like yeah, maybe close to 80. It’s not exactly 80, but we’re we’re we’re there, right? Um thing is though is that I just no matter what I I there’s just no way, at least in my opinion, of that happening. Um Bulls have made it very adamant that they want to keep Kobe and the only way that can really make sure that they keep him is if they keep the couple. So, um this is going to probably stay. This can change like if Patrick Williams is able if we’re able to get rid of Patrick Williams’ contract and everything, that’d be great. But, um you know, doubt that’s going to happen. I think I forgot a zero. But still though like this is what I have for now. Um now in terms of what I am looking at for IO Dumu. Um so let me go over and bring up a um Right. Hold on. I need to type in this. God. What? What’s it? Oh, here it is. Yeah. Come. I’m trying to bring out the extension rules. Give me one second. All right, here we go. So, here is the rules for extension. Um, so, uh, how much money can a player receive in a veteran extension? Um, first year salary and a veteran extension, it can be worth up to 140% of the salary in the final year of the player’s previous contract or 140% of the NBA’s estimated average salary, whichever is greater. Annual raises are limited to 8% of the first year extension salary. Okay. Um, so I currently do not have the exact number. I’ve looked for it, but we’re going to go off of the last season um for the NBA. Um let’s see here. Interesting. Okay. Okay, wait. That that’s actually really interesting to see. Um, okay. Actually, we’ll we’ll go up basketball reference. Um, this can change obviously, but we’ll go up basketball reference right now. So, this is actually the average uh salary according to the basketball references numbers, which is great. Um, so how this works, so like if you’re IO, right, and you’re looking for extension, this is how much he’s getting paid this year, right? So, I mean, quick math, right? 7.5 * 1.4. Um, you’re basically looking at this is your increase for IO. Like this would be his first year salary on a new extension based off his last year of his of his contract which was this year, right? That’s not going to cut it for him. He’s too he’s much better player than this. Um, he’s not going to be looking for only this much, right? Um, so instead though, if we go off of this number here, which this can change. I just want to make that clear. Um, but we’ll go off that number for now. Um, I just want to make sure if I’m I’m actually Yeah, like it it should be it should it should be that the median. Yeah. Um, so we’ll go off of that. I think it’s 14.1, right? Yeah. So, we’ll just say 14.1 and then you times that by 1.4. Okay. So, this would be the most that the Bulls can offer IO um at his first year. Okay. And then we can increase it by 8% every year. Let’s just not let’s just not increase that by 8% or we’ll just just kind of average it out here. We’ll just say all right uh 19.4 9 19.74 um million over four years um you get 79 million, right? So the Bulls can offer IO this much money pretty much which is basically my way of saying like hey I don’t think that you need to offer IO that much money because that’s you know more than a mid-le exception easily. But um what I wouldn’t be opposed to because if you’re wondering how I look at this um this is IO’s capital right um there the ideal thing for the bulls would to be um if we can offer IO a contract that is lower than this cap hold for at least for this year this would increase the amount of salary cap space the bulls would have um but it won’t be probably that much more but it would still be um it would still increase the bull salary cap space as this cap pulled would wipe away. Okay. Um it also then doesn’t risk IO leaving an unrestricted free agency which I think at least for me personally I want to keep IO around. I know he’s in a bunch of trade rumors right now but I I would personally just like to get him to extension right now. Um, but you know, if the Bulls want to offer him like the mid-level exception, which if you’re wondering what that is, uh, here is this number for um Oh, it’s contract. Sorry, I messed up. Here’s this. Here’s the number for the mid-le exception for um I’m trying to find next year’s. Hold on. Sorry. I don’t want to I don’t want to use this year’s. cuz I want to try to find next year’s track MLE. Oh, come on. Here we go. Finally. Jesus is a great website, but it’s hard to just kind of navigate sometimes. Oh, actually, okay. I did not realize it. Oh, I I should have known this. All right, so here’s the mid-level exception for next season. And oh god. All right, I don’t know. Honestly, this would like All right, we’ll see what we’ll see what the bulls do here. Uh, pretty much though, yeah, this is actually not an ideal spot. I thought it was lower and I guess it’s not. So, I guess if you’re the bulls because the catapult is it’s even lower honestly. It’s 14.3. Okay, that that that changed. [Music] If you’re the Bulls then like it it wouldn’t hurt you to just like offer like I’m sorry I’m just doing quick math like offer this much. I doubt IO takes this like he can honestly just go into the off season next year and just ask for a mid-level exception and would get paid more. Um I think honestly the bare minimum for IO to start would be this number. And this is MLE like like it’s I know I know it sounds insane but like this is the middle exception at least projections. This could be lower, could be higher um based off of what happens to the salary cap here, but this is what we have for now and it’s it’s based off of this salary cap right here um 165. So I mean I don’t know like would would IO just like take the the you know fouryear 60 million? I’d offer it to him at least right now. Um, it would eat some of the salary cap space, but then you’re not trying to deal with the whole cap hold. But you want to keep the cap hold. I don’t know. But honestly though, the whole just point is like you have options here for the bulls. You want to keep IO and you want to think about like, all right, we’ll just lock them up. We won’t use up that much cap space extra, but we’ll, you know, get rid of the catapult and everything, then um, that’s cool. Um, but if not, then I don’t really know um what the plan is. then they’re probably looking to trade him at the end of the day, which is also an like that’s fine. If you want to do that, too, that’s okay. I’m not I’m not here to complain. Um I would personally like to keep IO though. I think IO is a guy that even if like the team’s not necessarily winning, I just like having him because he can um go and uh be an impactful player either starting or coming off the bench. Um he doesn’t need the ball in the sands uh to be effective. And so if if you you know Bzalis takes a massive leap this year like he doesn’t need the ball in his hands right or IO doesn’t need a ball in his hands and can let Bales flourish. So um I think it’s just a guy just to kind of have around um you know obviously Chicago connection is also there but like it’s less than that honestly like I don’t forget the Chicago thing for a moment just like having IO around as a good finishing guard that can complement others I just think is good but that could also be a very valuable piece on a contender. That’s all I’ll say. Um, I know a lot of people are trying to trade into Houston, which I get it. Um, I’m not exactly the biggest Reed Sheper fan, but it is just important to keep in mind. All right, but with that being said though, um, I think I have overall covered all the press conferences here. Um, if you if I did miss anything, let me know and I’ll I’ll cover it really quickly here. But, um, I do think that is all the press conferences uh, for Bulls media day. And I’m sure there’s other interviews going be coming out later. Um I actually checked honestly earlier and I could be wrong completely. Um I I I looked at uh I was really looking into with um when when uh God sorry hold on excuse excuse my thoughts. I I read something. I was trying to I was I’m comprehending what I just read on Twitter and then I’m I’m also trying to um keep everything in mind. So, what was I saying? God damn it. Um sorry, recapping everything that we saw. Oh, yeah. Um, so I was looking at Chicago Sports Network and you know with when NBC Sports Chicago was covering the Bulls like they would have Bulls media day and you know we’d have you know Will Purdue and you know Kendall Gil right and Jason Goff they’re all there and they would typically interview players but we don’t have that anymore as Jerry Ryanorf has officially you know has his own network and it absolutely sucks. Um, congrats to them by the way for getting a bunch of Emmy nominations that I do not think they deserved but they got a bunch of them. And I’m sure you guys are aware of that because they made sure to make us all aware that they got a bunch of Emmy nominations that I’m just like cool. I I guess that’s that’s great. Um, congrats to all of them. But, uh, when it comes to Chicago Sports Network and all this coverage, I don’t really know what’s going to happen with their coverage from here on out. Um, like I I was looking for like some sort of live broadcast. There’s nothing on the programs for today uh for any of the broadcast stuff. So, I was like, “All right, well, I guess that Bulls Media Day is all through Twitter um from here on out.” But maybe there’s going to be stuff later on YouTube. But, um if there is stuff later on YouTube that is pretty important to be looking into, then I will be probably starting up stream later than today and talking about it um and you know, listening to it with you guys and um trying to like break down what we saw. But I do not, as of right now, I don’t have any of that unless something did come up. So, let me know if did something else was popping up here, but I as of right now, I don’t have that. Um, I’m pretty sure everything that we need to be covered was covered. Um, and if there’s other stories that do come out that are also pretty interesting and important, then uh let me know and we will um we will talk about it. Um, last but not least though, but as we do uh as we do kind of come to a close here for the stream, as I do have to leave soon or something, um, all right, hold on. I I I need to find it was Casey Johnson that tweeted out or if it was old Gotautle. It’s so weird having Casey Johnson not like not like be like a journalist anymore. Like he he is still kind of doing it but like he he’s not like that’s not his main role anymore with when he is not working for Chicago Sports Network. That’s just not his thing. Um, but here, okay, here here’s what it is. Uh, I don’t know what you guys what you guys’ thoughts are when it comes to how the Bulls are doing their their process right now, but AK continues to preach this whole building while competing thing. And I cannot stand for the life of me that this is the I guess the mantra for the Bulls right now. Um, there was also then a quote that I I believe if I can pull it up really quickly here, I’ll get it. But it was along the lines of just like AK talking about that they’re not trying to skip steps. And I’m like, what? Like I as much as I want to believe in AK to like, yeah, we’re not going to skip steps or anything like that. Um, I don’t I don’t believe him. Like he’s already skipped multiple steps. Um, and I understand everyone’s going to have their agreement and disagreement on this sort of stuff, but to me, I think AK has already skipped steps and we cannot just be talking about as if like, all right, here’s the new game plan. We will not be skipping steps and like, okay, new clean slate, everybody. Well, we’re going to make sure that we watch this Bulls offers and make sure they don’t skip steps. And I’m just like, we’ve skipped already plenty of steps. How the hell are you going to be a team that’s going to be building while competing when you don’t have extra draft picks to work off of? I I don’t know a single situation where you’re able to build and also compete without any extra draft picks. Okay? Like you the problem with this whole game plan is that you’re competing so you’re not going to get a good draft pick overall. You’re not going to be high in the lottery. Okay? but you’re also then not getting a good enough draft pick to help your team get better to being overall better and having the potential. So, you’re still in no man’s land when it comes to this sort of idea. It just bothers the hell out of me that this is the the game plan and they don’t have any extra draft picks. Okay, I’d be okay with this game plan and I’ve made it very clear. I’d be completely okay with this game plan if we had a bunch of extra draft picks. So, you traded Josh Giddy or you traded Alex Caruso and you got Giddy plus a draft pick, right? You traded Lonzo Ball and hell, you may have not gotten a first round pick out of that, but you at least got some seconds. And we saw in just this past draft that people were trading second round picks to get into the first round. Okay? Like, this is just the problem I have when it comes to this front office. You cannot do this. You can’t do this sort of idea, at least in my opinion, where you’re building while competing without extra draft picks. Okay? it it is extremely difficult to be competing and also building when you don’t have any extra draft picks alongside of what of your own because the only extra draft pick that they have right now is the Portland pick that um may or may not ever come over to us and it might just end up being a second rounder and we’re already short on second rounders because we’ve traded you know many away. So I just for the life of me one more time as I want to make this clear when it comes to my stance with the Bulls right now. This front office with their whole idea of like hey we are going to be building while competing and your all your assets that you have to draft assets are your only your own plus less of your own because you trade away second round picks. I don’t have faith. I I I I don’t understand this game plan at all. Um let me bring this up for you as I skip ahead here in a video. I’m going to turn off the music for a second, but just just listening to this and I don’t know, give me your thoughts, you know, either now or later in the comment section down below. But I just I just started to lose my mind when I when I was listening to this sort of stuff. I think the team success as well is is essential to getting your guys to be allstars. I think I mean, how do you justify saying, “Well, we’re just going with depth.” But you still don’t have those dudes. Well, I think I think the team success as well is is essential to getting your guys to be allstars. I think we are focused on winning and uh you know those guys have to get better this year and uh team success will establish them if if they are good enough to be allstars or not. I mean, you argue, you know, you can argue that if if if Josh and Kobe had those kind of months like they had in March in January or December. Hold on. Sorry, I went to the wrong spot. That was a different quote. Hold on one second. Sorry. Hold on. I thought that was the right one. I think because, you know, we were one of the last teams in terms of creating turnovers. So, defense is focus continuing obviously offensively to do the same things that we’ve done. I wrote I wrote down the wrong thing. But with you know getting better defensively we we’ve done those things at the end of the year much better uh you know with injuries etc. And did that affect or impact kind of some of the offseason decision- making that you guys had coming into this year? Yeah. So I I think there are two things is you know you’ve noticed the shift a little bit that a lot of uh teams are trying to make their roster deep. So they can sustain you know the you know 82 games and if any injuries happen you you can survive the injuries and the next man in line uh you know plays and um and then the second one is the parody of Eastern Conference because you know you talk to a lot of a lot of teams right now they think they’re in and they can their intent for trading for Isaac was to sort of coach our fans the team that plays with now we will take your questions. Um Kobe is going to be limited uh he and he’s going to be limit on uh uh him being ready for regular season. Second one is the you uh you mentioned your intent for you know playing better defensively. You got to start we can uh talk about that um is that we’re going to have to do different things defensively continuing obviously offensively to do the 14th of and we couldn’t handle it. So those very specific things we’re going to have to What do you say to the growing pocket here? When we, you know, got into this transition and we in this, you know, starting our second year, uh, I think we were messaging the fan base that this is the way we have to do it. Uh, we have to be patient. We have to be do the right way and we can’t skip steps. So I think for this team, you know, for next year, we got to show growth and we got to get better every year. Um, you know, again, we we saw the glimpse at the LA, you know, last year. Uh, you know, we also saw our, you know, you know, how we, you know, played against Miami and and those lessons are learned. But, uh, I think, you know, this group is pretty young and, uh, there’s a lot of potential there. So, all right. It took me a while to get to. I I wrote down 740 instead of 540. My bad. Um, but when it comes to that, like it just bothers me so much because I already think the Bulls have skipped so many steps. Like, it’s just the the way that AK said all that where we’re just like, yeah, we got to work work on our growth and we we can’t skip steps. The problem that he already is trying to say of like, hey, we’re going to be building while competing, but we’re also not going to skip steps. Like the biggest thing for me is the development, right? But if you’re trying to compete, then you’re actively sometimes hurting your players development. If everything is about player development, then the wins don’t matter, okay? At least in my opinion. Like if you’re if you’re developing your players to in a great rate and they’re becoming great overall, the wins are just going to come eventually. Okay? But this whole idea of we’re building while competing, it’s just so contradictory, at least in my opinion, with the way that the roster is constructed and the way that they’re building the team so far. You can’t do both these things at the same time right now with their current asset pool. You just can’t. So, I I just am I’m waiting to see like I I I I I’m let me be clear. I have no patience right now with AK. But when I say what I’m waiting to see, I’m just like I’m looking to see if he will eventually go out and actively get more draft assets or actually get more young talent right now because the reality of situation is is yeah, Kobe, Giddy, like they we want to think that they’re like they’re a young back court, but like yeah, Giddy’s on the younger side. Kobe’s already in his age 26 season if I’m not mistaken. It might be age 25, but I don’t know how much I really consider that young at this point when it comes to player development. Like I don’t really know how much I have faith in that like oh yeah Kobe’s going to suddenly just blossom into some sort of all-star. Um getting a Sier in this draft was good. Like that’s a step in the right direction. It’s also a risk because yeah he is extremely raw and he might not turn to anything. Um but it’s the type of risk that the Bulls have kind of put themselves into because of the situation that they’re in. like they’re not going to go out and they’re not able they’re not they don’t have a you know a record that’s bad enough to go out and make sure they secure themselves like a top six pick and pick a little bit more of a safer guy that has better potential. They just don’t have that luxury right now because they continue to try to compete while try to build somehow. Um but they also don’t have the luxury at all of having extra draft picks where you have many chances to hit in the draft even if you’re you know picking late first round or something like that. Like, yeah, there many offsters that come out of the late first round, but you don’t have those extra draft picks to go out and take those stabs at those guys to try to see if you if you can if you can find one of those guys. So, I I’m just like mindbggled at with it all that this is still the mantra for the Bulls. Um, at least for what I I I I unfortunately wasn’t able to listen to this entire press conference as I was I wanted to listen to the players more, but at least I didn’t hear the word continuity, which is a good step in the right direction. The other thing that was not mentioned, at least as far as I know, was that there was no mention of, hey, we’re trying to make the playoffs is like is our goal. Um, now again, AK is usually always very vague, so I don’t really know what he has in mind, but at least that that’s like not something that’s like hanging over our heads at the start of the year where it’s just like, all right, it’s playoffs. Like, we got to make the playoffs this year. That just should not be the goal at all. At least in my opinion, like this year is just all right, let’s see where the young players get like develop into. If we happen to make the playoffs because guys are developing greatly, Boozel ends up actually being, you know, uh, most improved player and all defensive level defender, great. That’s great. Like that that’s that’s a fantastic sign of the future. And I’ll be completely wrong about this Bulls team future and then I’ll feel so much better about them. But if they don’t, then, you know, they only improve like incrementally like a little bit. That’s okay, too, right? Like it’s all about player development. Like if we’re at least just making sure that Buell is is getting better, good. If we’re seeing that Asen with, you know, him getting some time in the G-League or still getting some minutes in the NBA and you can see he’s adjusting well and understanding where he needs to be, good. That’s a good thing. Okay. If we’re seeing Giddy take some steps towards being a better onball scorer and on ball creator, good. That’s a good thing. Okay. But if it doesn’t if it happens to just end up that we continue to lose, that’s okay. At least in my opinion. For many others, they’re not okay with that. But for me, this has to be just a year of just making sure that we improve and hopefully find ways to add more assets to our more assets to be used to acquire young talent. Um, that should be the goal. Um, and nothing else, at least in my opinion. But I I immediately the first sentence is just that I see is just build while build while competing. I’m like, “Oh my god.” Um, it is truly just the Rindorf terminology being sent over uh onto us. So, I I’m just gonna say don’t fall for it. Um, I’ll end it there. But, uh, that’s going to do it for me, y’all, for this stream. I might be back later. Um, let me know if you guys uh um find anything. If you have not joined my Discord, uh, Discord link is in the description box below. 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