Coby White Says He Fits ‘Perfectly’ — Why Bulls Fans Need to Relax 😤🐂 | Massive Test For Bulls

Coby White Says He Fits ‘Perfectly’ — Why Bulls Fans Need to Relax 😤🐂 | Massive Test For Bulls

Yesterday, Kobe White stepped up to the mic and made it clear that he fits perfectly on this team. And anybody that thinks he’s a ball stopper going to slow down the Chicago Bulls offense, they just got put on notice. And on today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the numbers that actually back that up and show why Kobe White is exactly what this Bulls team is missing as far as offensively. And his return is not going to slow down this Bulls team. We’re going to talk a little bit about that. Plus, the Bulls have a big test tonight coming up in Giannis Antoupo and the Milwaukee Bucks. We’re going to talk about that as well and dive a little bit into the mailbag. We’re going to talk about all that and more right after this. [Music] What’s going on, Bulls fans? Welcome to another episode of Chicago Bulls Central, your number one spot for everything Chicago Bulls related. I’m the host, Hayes, but more importantly, you guys can follow the channel at Bull Central Pod on every social media platform we happen to be on. With that said, let’s go and get into this content for today, y’all. And uh Kobe White made it clear yesterday for anybody who’s been trying to make this conversation piece that he couldn’t he’s not going to fit in on this team, he made it clear that he will fit perfectly on this team going so far as to say that he is not a ball stopping. Matter of fact, Kobe White said this. Yeah. No, I mean I’m very excited to get back obviously uh you know just the way the team playing um we playing for each other and it’s exciting so for me but you know you still got to stay patient at the same time and you don’t want to rush anything and um so the team is doing really well. So, um, I’m excited to get back, but I’m also it’s very fun watching them play, too. Uh, I think, um, I mean, I think the way I play fits perfectly with the way that we play. So, quick decisions. I’m not a ball stopper. I don’t hold the ball like uh, you know, I just play to win. So, I mean, I don’t see no problem or anything like that when it comes to me getting back to it. It’s just terms of like finding a rhythm, playing again. I haven’t played in a long time and couple months. So, just finding my rhythm and being being patient with myself when I, you know, do miss a couple shots and stuff like that. You giving yourself grace. What does that look like? Uh just he knows me and coach got a good a great relationship when we’re super close and he knows how hard I am on myself to go out there and perform at a certain level every night no matter if I’ve been playing or if I haven’t been playing. Uh and I I think that he just wants me to, you know, obviously it’s going to take time to get back in rhythm because I haven’t really played. So, he just wants me to focus on that and just like don’t be too hard on myself. And I think people need to start putting some respect on Alec Jacobe White’s name. And here’s the thing. For the people that have tried to make this narrative thing that Kobe White’s not going to fit on his team, somehow he’s some high isolation score that’s going to slow down the flow of this team. I need y’all to slow down, shut up, and actually learn some basketball. Right? There have been some arguments made from fans that actually just aren’t rooted in anything basketball or supported by anything that we see. And and like most times with a lot of fan arguments, fans tend to take the wrong angle on it because there are some legitimate questions that you can ask about Kobe White’s streakiness. That would probably be the best avenue that you you can have for it. But trying to make this conversation on Kobe White and if he’s going to fit in the flow of the offense, if he’s going to be some selfish player and some balls stopper, I need you to actually go and watch how things play out with this team. Kobe White has been one of the most unselfish Bulls players literally his whole entire tenure here. And even if you look at it over the last two seasons where he’s he’s risen as a scorer on this team. Go and look at his oncourt offc court minutes with Demar De Rozan, somebody who actually is a ball stopper and a ball dominant player and Kobe White was able to fit in seamlessly and play really good basketball with him. Then you factor in how he was playing with Josh Giddy in last season and you start seeing that Kobe White is not some ball stopping player that people try to make him out to be. He’s not some heavy isolation player. Like Kobe White scores in isolation, less than 20% of his scoring comes in isolation plays. Just this this rhetoric that Kobe White is some Zack Lavineesque isolation player is just not supported by anything basketball-wise at all. Kobe White has been the ultimate teammate his whole entire tenure, which in Chicago, he’s a locker room guy. He stepped up as a leader um you know, over the last couple years with this Bulls team as well. All these things are are legitimate. Then when you start looking at the numbers of things as well, Kobe White last season averaged 24 and a half points after the All-Star break, 4.3 assists, and he did so by uh by shooting slightly under 50% from the field. On top of that, his usage rate wasn’t even crazy. He was in the 77th percentile per um per cleaning the glass, which means that he’s still not he was able to score off the at the rate that he was without being a high usage ball stopping player. There’s just there is no stat. There’s nothing that actually that actually supports Kobe White being some player that’s going to come in here and mess up the flow of what the Chicago Bulls are doing. There’s just none of that. Now, one could say that, you know, is he going to mess up the flow just by the nature of him getting back up to to basketball speed and all that type of stuff. There’s nothing really to simulate NBA basketball. You have to actually get on the court and play NBA basketball. There’s no no real replacement for that, right? But when you look at the on ball offball roles that him and Josh Giddy have already shown that they can work together at the end of last season, you’re now looking at a Kobe White who was already coming into this season considered to be the Bull’s best offball player. He is now joining a team that is now towards the top of the league in assist as far as moving the ball around. We have also finally started moving off the ball more as a team, which is already one of Kobe White’s strengths. Kobe White joining an offense that is already more open, that is going to create more lanes and avenues for him to get more open shots with the B, which the Bulls do generate, and how Kobe creates off drives for himself and others. This is exactly the flow of what the offense does. How do you think Trey Jones gets his assists? Trey Jones isn’t some stand at the top of the key. He creates off drives as well. For at the start of the season, through the first five games, Trey Jones was leading the NBA in drives. That’s exactly where Kobe White fits in. And for the people that make the question about Kobe White’s defense, Kobe White’s struggles on defensively are there and they are legitimate, but they’ve always come in pick and roll. And that’s always been the Bulls problem is the pick and roll um is the pick and roll defense. It’s always been the Bulls problem, right? With VC, with Kobe, with Giddy, with Lavine, with Demar, it’s always been that. But you’re looking at a team now that has gone to a more zonebased and hybrid zone type system that makes rotation easier on on the players. It keeps your help defense always closer around and it puts players more on ball. Kobe White over the last two and a half years has been an above average on ball defender for his position. Now, I’m not saying he’s elite. I’m not saying that Kobe White is ever going to turn into some elite elite defensive player, but Kobe White is not a slouch defensively. It’s if you can avoid the pick and rolls, which the Bulls are doing. It’s part of our defensive scheme. And you got to give credit up to Wes Unel. It’s been part of the Bulls defensive scheme to avoid uh pick and rolls and and make it more of a on ball situations by the by the way that we’re able to switch and switch quickly. We don’t have to wait for the pick and roll to happen and and we try to get out there and hedge that as quick as we can. Those are things that are going to again intentionality from how this team uses its personnel is a big part of why we’ve been able to be successful so far on the season. So, like I said, and this I don’t want to throw a bunch of numbers at you. go out there, do your own research and look at it objectively. But the fact of the matter is is that we have seen Kobe White a already be a team player with a much more isooriented offense and he was able to fit in with that without taking away from the heavy isolation player. We saw him last year with Josh Giddy have one of his best stretches or most efficient stretches as well while his usage rate did not jump out out the stat sheet, right? And so that’s the things that you want to look at with this team and that’s that’s where you want to look at Kobe White after the All-Star break. And that’s what this Bulls team is trying to simulate but be more effective at is how they played after the All-Star break last year. And even if you look at that with a usage rate of 26% which is not super high at all. And the way they was able to create 12 points off assist while also generating over 25 points per game himself. We talked about that last season. Josh Giddy and Kobe White were responsible for almost 90% of the Bulls offense by themselves with the way that they created for others and scored themselves. That is not a player that’s going to come in here and stop what the Bulls are doing offensively. I I I listen I I know that I can be argumentative at times, but everything should be rooted in fact and not in this fluff feeling that some fans that don’t actually watch basketball want to be loud about without actually knowing the details. When you make broad comparisons, and that’s usually what it and that’s what it’s been a lot with Kobe. People try to compare Kobe to Jamal Crawford and Ben and Ben Gordon. People now trying to compare him to Zack Lavine. That is not who he is as a player. I need us to update and be smarter as basketball fans in the way that we talk about stuff. Like I said, if you want to talk about a concern with Kobe White, that concern could be streakiness. But last season, we saw Kobe White have his best season with the least amount of streakiness we’ve ever seen from Kobe. And part of that was due to guess what? playing with Josh Giddy and a point guard in Josh Giddy that is able to actually create and make players better around him and we already have seen that fit and we saw it work in the Chicago Bulls favor last season with Kobe White and Josh Giddy. You add in everything the growth of Modis Nicolusu is playing at at the rate that he is right now and also the fact that just as a team we are a more refined offensive dominant team as well. I tell you what, for people that are that are so worried about Kobe White coming in and completely disrupting things, like I said, I need updated arguments more than just he’s Zach Lavineesque, he’s a ball stopper, I need you to actually have an intelligent argument and I’ll hear it and it is what it is. And I and I would love to hear from somebody who has um you know a varying opinion on that. Let me know how you guys feel about it. But the fact of the matter is the numbers just don’t support what y’all talking. Well, some of y’all have made y’all talking points in regards to Kobe White. Like I said, the streakiness, you can make a conversation with that. The turnovers at times, you can make a conversation off that. I got I got rebuttals for that, but you can make conversations that those are more legitimate and thought thought forward uh uh thought forward arguments in regards to what you’re concerned about Kobe White being re um ingrained back into this into this team. But the fact of the matter just lies at like a lot of a lot of the talking points or arguments people have just aren’t legitimate when you look at the numbers. They’re just not. And don’t none of y’all start talking about well my eye test because some of y’all eyes y’all need glasses cuz some of the that y’all be talking about with the eye test don’t hold up to nothing. Don’t hold up to a goddamn thing. You need to get your eyes checked. But with that said, Kobe White did talk about when he’s eyeing his return. And he and he talked about the West Coast trip with the Chicago Bulls. So, uh the the Bulls uh have a West Coast trip between November 16th and and the 19th and it seems like that may be when he’s eyeing that return, right? So, he’s aiming to return sometime during that stretch. Over that that three-game stretch, they play the Utah Jazz, Denver Nuggets, and Portland Trailblazers. And we’ll see. Seems like at practice, Kobe White is doing a lot of of uh simulating live action things. He’s testing his calf. He’s doing some endurance training. He’s getting in some runs, which is really good uh with that. And so, you know, we’ll see what what it comes down to. But before we get to that Utah stretch, we got a stretch of playing four teams all above uh five five and three record or better. Starts today with the Milwaukee Bucks. Then we got the Cleveland Cavaliers. then the San Antonio Spurs and then the Detroit Pistons. That’s going to be a gauntlet for the for the Chicago Bulls. And I tell you what, it’s going to be really good for the Bulls to get their offensive weapon and Kobe White back on this team despite what uh you know, some some Bulls fans will have you say. But that stretch starts off today against the Milwaukee Bucks. And this is a huge test for the Chicago Bulls. Of course, the Bucks are coming into this with a 5-3 record like I just mentioned. And when you look at the the the Milwaukee Bucks and the things that they are strong at offensively specifically, this is going to be another test of the Chicago Bulls defense and especially our three-point defense. The Bucks are are are taking the 12th most threes in the league right now at 39.3 threes per game. They’re also hitting that at at the fifth best three-point percentage in the NBA so far at 39 a half. The Chicago Bulls so far have really benefited from tough three-point defense, but it’s it’s raised a question because when you look at the analytics of it all, teams are taking good three-point shots and they’re taking shots that that that they usually make. And so, there has been a legitimate question asked by some is that are the Bulls is the Bulls defense like that or is it really that the Bulls have run into some cold shooting from teams? I think that’s a legitimate shot. When you look at how the the New York Knicks and and and things, you know, even when when we got out to that huge deficit against the Philadelphia 76ers, it came from a lot of three-point shooting and teams getting hot from that three-point line. The Bucks are coming in here looking to do that. Now, the Bucks do score 49 and a half points in the paint per game as well, which the Bulls are giving up a lot of points per paint in the game, and that’s something that we have to look out for. The Bucks, while not as necessarily deep as the Chicago Bulls, they have one player averaging over 20 points per game. That’s Giannis who’s averaging 32 points per game and he’s playing at a legit MVP level right now. But they do have six other players averaging in double figures. Now, they only have one other player that’s averaging over 15 points per game and that’s Ryan Rollins who’s averaging 16.3. But other than that, they got Kevin Porter Jr. averaging 10, right? He’s only played one game so far, though. Uh, you got Cole Anthony coming off the bench averaging 11 for them. You got AJ Green averaging 12. You got Gary Trent Jr. averaging 12.6. And then Kyle Kosma also averaging 12.9 points per game. So while the Bucks don’t have the players that you look at like hey these players are killing it scoring whatever but they it’s they do it through balance and they do it through a lot of different players doing a lot of things surrounding Giannis with shooters and getting him a center. It’s always been a recipe for success for the Milwaukee Bucks. And Miles Turner while not doing offensively for this team or rebounding wise more on that in a second. He is averaging 2.1 blocks per game. So, the Bulls are going to have to look out for that while they try to score in the paint as well in this game. And we’ll just see how that how that develops for this team, right? But as good as the B the Bucks offense is, and as much of a challenge that it will present for the Chicago Bulls defense, uh the Milwaukee Bucks defense is bad. It’s it’s bad. It’s it’s honestly pretty trash, right? Milwaukee Bucks are coming into this with the seventh ranked offense as far as offensive rating, but they are 22nd in defensive rating on the season so far. And so when you look at what the Bucks do as far as off uh defensively, it’s all bad, right? Not ranking. They are top 10 in opponents uh points scored in the paint, points scored off turnovers for for opponents, opponents second chance points, and fast break points given up. These are all areas where the Chicago Bulls are are dominant at, right? So the Bulls are going to have to do what they’ve been doing, attacking in the paint. And with the amount of points that the Milwaukee Bucks give up in the paint coming into this game, there’s a lot of room for that. The points that they give off turnovers as well is another thing that I think is really telling that you want to look at with this team because if the Bulls can play in those passing lanes, if Isaac Auroru uh Iodum, if he plays, he is listed as questionable for today as well. If he plays in today’s game, you know, the the the havoc that they can reach as well as Trey Jones and getting turnovers and getting the Bulls out to fast breaks. We saw the comeback against Philly. the Bulls are doing that in forcing turnovers or forcing bad possessions and then using that to get out to their offense early, which we saw benefited the Chicago Bulls hugely, right? So, that’s something that they’re going to want to want to get to. Basically, the Milwaukee Bucks are a team that are susceptible to just being outworked. And with the Bulls and the physicality that we’ve been playing with and the activity that we’ve been playing with, this is a game where we are going to have to double down on outworking the Milwaukee Bucks. And if you can outwork them, it can be done. Again, they are bottom 10 in the league as far as opponent’s points uh scored in the paint, opponent’s uh points off turnovers, opponent’s second chance points, and opponent’s fast break points where those are all places where the Bulls are extremely t uh strong at. And and the biggest one is the rebounding. The Bulls have to win on the glass tonight because the Bucks are in the bottom 10 of rebounding in the league and they’re also in the bottom 10 of assists, meaning the ball does actually stick with the Milwaukee Bucks. They don’t get a lot of assists. So therefore, if the Bulls can and I think the game plan has always people always ask this question, well, who’s going to stop Giannis? And the question to that, the answer to that has always been nobody. But you can stop the players around him. And I think this is a Bucks team that is hugely susceptible to stopping everything else around Giannis and then using that to your benefit to then slow down the team as a whole. Hell, if Giannis even scores what he’s been averaging, 32 points, that’s not going to do much if you can stop and slow down everything else around them. And that’s where the Bulls have to try to make their mark today against the Milwaukee Bucks. They have to try to do that. And I think that the Bulls can, man. Again, I you guys know I don’t predict wins and losses. I just don’t do that, right? But even with the, you know, but I try try to talk about what the Chicago Bulls can do to win. And the fact of the matter is this. The Milwaukee Bucks are coming in here averaging 120 points per game. Averaging 120 points per game. And you got to respect them for that. But the defense, the defense is where you can be outworked. And so, listen, even with them being a really good offensive team, like I said, they are good. They’re in the top 10 as far as offensive rating, but they’re in the bottom half of the league as far as overall net rating. That’s how much their defense can hold them back. But the Bucks have benefited off of efficiency. They’re number one in effective field goal shooting percentage and number two in true shooting percentage. They don’t typically take bad shots, so you have to play really good defense on them because they aren’t going to really take bad shots in this game. So whether IO’s playing or not, it comes down to activity. It comes down to can you outwork this Bucks team. That is where where they have the most susceptibility at. Attack them. Attack, attack, attack. Especially getting downhill, getting in the paint. Put some pressure on them also. And if you can do those things, the Bulls can come away with a win today. You’re going to have to fight hard. They’re going to have to get it done. The Bull the the Bucks are are barely beating teams as well. While the offense has been elite, they only have a point differential of 0.8, 8, meaning that they’re winning these games by average of less than one point. The Chicago Bulls are coming into this with the second highest point differential in the Eastern Conference at 4.8. Work. You got to work. And if the Bulls do that, they again, they can win this basketball game. But we know Giannis with shooters is dangerous. And as I’ve said many times, the Bulls cannot overlook anybody. And they are in a stretch that is going to be hugely difficult for them with this stretch. This kicks it off. The Bucks. We got the Cavs next on Saturday, then the Spurs and the Detroit Pistons. That is a gauntlet, y’all. And I hope that the Chicago Bulls are ready, prepared, and and able to do what they need to do to take care of business here. Because if they do, I’m telling y’all right now, as more people come start realizing that this Chicago Bulls team is elite. Well, is legitimate, I will say. Um, you got to prove that by by by the tests that are in front of you and how you handle those tests. And this is a test that the Chicago Bulls need to come in and handle pretty damn well. and we’ll see what this team can do. We’ve done it as a team. We’ve done it through activity. We’ve done it through fighting and I think that this is a team that has a lot of fight left in it and the season ain’t nearly done yet. So, let me know what you guys think on that down below. We do got a voicemail to get into this voicemail that we have. This one is from Pharaoh. Hey man, appreciate the content. Man, I am not going to lie. I did not see Chicago starting off with this much heat cuz I was definitely going into the season with the anticipation that oh man, Chicago is going to stink it up. But boy, did they change my mind around. But us real Chicago fans know that things can host out real fast, especially with our history of people getting interest. So that’s why I wanted to, you know, put a shine on how deep our roster is. And I didn’t even realize how deep our roster was until after the first couple of games. But that’s one thing that I really appreciate that we didn’t really have in a in a past is that if our some of our key players go down by like injury, we actually have the death pieces and players to step into the roles and keep us above float. And that’s just man that really se that makes us such a different team from our uh past years being able to like have bench players like Denon Terry Julian Phillips to step into the roles in case our star players our key players get hurt. So yeah man um I’m not going to I love the Bulls are doing it right now. I’m not going to put too much glaze in them because you know we really need to see how we look against some of these competitive West teams. But, uh, that just makes feel even better when Kobe White and Zack Collins gets, uh, incorporated into the lineup so we can actually, uh, use the pieces we have to do some damage and some things. But, man, I’m just I’m just excited, man. Hey, appreciate you again for the content. Chicago is up. First of all, shout out to you. Uh, this is voicemail came I think around uh, Halloween, so we’ve played a couple of games since then. Um, and again, we’ve with the Bulls winning, there are a lot of people calling in. So, I I apologize that I’m a little bit slower and getting into some people’s voicemails, but you’re absolutely right. The Bulls depth is crazy, and that is one of the Bulls biggest weapons at the start of the season is their depth and how they play as a team. And I think that that like and and to keep all this in mind, we haven’t even seen with Kobe White and Zack uh Collins out, we haven’t even seen the best version of that yet, right? Like so the way that this team can still grow in those areas as far as depth and throw and attacking and refining what they do as a team, man, this team has the chance to be to chance to be something special in Chicago that we have not had in a while. And that is something that I’m truly excited about is just to get that out on the basketball court and to see what this team looks like at full strength. I said on yesterday’s episode is that this team is kind of proving the theory of AK Wright. Nine to 10 really good players, but with that you got a player in Josh Giddy that is turning into a superstar. You add in another player that coming into the season, I think most people would have said if anybody’s going to be contending for all-star appearance this year, it would have been Giddy and Kobe. And we’ve been missing one of those guys the whole time with the season. When we get Kobe White back, I can’t wait to see what this team looks like because I think they’re going to surprise even more people, especially with the people that like to doubt Kobe White. But that’s my time for today, guys. Make sure you guys are following us at Bull Central Pod. Uh you can send us any feedback, questions, comments, concerns. bull centralgmail.com. Lastly, if you want to leave a text message and our voicemail for the mailbag, the number to do so 773-270-2799. We are the number one spot for everything Chicago Bulls related, but that is thanks to you lovely and beautiful people. Like I like to end every episode on stay safe out there, see red, and always go Bulls. Love you guys. Peace y’all. This has been a presentation of the Break Media. [Music]

Coby White has spoken — and Bulls fans need to hear him. In today’s episode of Chicago Bulls Central, Haize breaks down Coby White’s strong message to the media about why he fits perfectly with the Bulls’ current system. No ball-stopping. No ego. No friction. Just quick decisions, winning basketball, and a player who understands his role on an elite offensive unit.

We dive into why the narrative surrounding Coby White’s “fit” is outdated, how his post-All-Star numbers (24.5 PPG on nearly 50% shooting) back up his claim, and why adding him back into this rotation won’t disrupt the team’s flow — it’ll enhance it.

Then, Haize turns toward Coby’s potential return on the upcoming West Coast trip, what his recovery looks like, and why the Bulls need him back during this brutal four-game stretch.

Finally, we preview Bulls vs Bucks — a matchup that will test Chicago’s three-point defense, rebounding discipline, and overall activity. Giannis is playing like an MVP, the Bucks offense is humming, and the defense is flimsy. If the Bulls want to win, they’ll have to outwork Milwaukee in every category.

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