Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor is joined by Alex Golden to preview Chicago’s season – and why the focus will be on its young core. Check out the full conversation on “The Kevin O’Connor Show” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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For the Bulls, their rotation this year is a bunch of young guys, a bunch of, you know, awkward fits, a bunch of dudes where it’s like you’re just trying to figure out who’s gonna be your keepers long term.
Alex, what’s the number one thing you’re looking for this year with the Chicago Bulls?
I just think that with this team, you want to see that growth from Giddy and White and Bezealous really as your three main guys, and we’ll see how much Esingay actually plays.
I don’t know if he’ll get a lot of rotation minutes this year just because he’s such a project, but, you know, Vusovi shot the ball incredibly well last year.
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This is a guy that probably thought he was gonna get traded.
But for some reason, the Bulls were asking for a first round draft pick in return for Vusovich when they never asked for picks back in trades.
So I don’t know why Vouch all of a sudden got the first round draft pick label on him, but I think he’s a name to keep an eye on as someone that could get moved.
And personally for me, I know that a lot of Chicago fans probably feel the same way.
If this team once again goes 39 and 43 and finishes 10th or 11th in the Eastern Conference.
I mean, it feels like they’re on the treadmill of mediocrity.
They just cannot figure out a way to just make a decision of, hey, let’s try to tear it down, or let’s try to go make a big trade and do something.
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They just continue to do this whole entire thing of, hey, we’re on this hamster wheel of mediocrity, going nowhere and I kind of feel like that’s what this roster is right now, so hopefully some young guys will make some, you know, improvements.
It’s a shame.
It’s a shame, Alex.
It’s a shame.
They’re the Chicago Bulls.
They’re the Bulls.
Like there’s a Michael Jordan statue outside the stadium, uh, you know, of all the of all the crappy NBA teams I’ve seen play in their arenas, Bulls fans are still among the loudest with their vibe in the arena, despite the team being so average, and yet they are always mediocre.
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And so I, I, I think it’s a shame for the NBA that the Bulls continue down this path in the middle, and I just hope I hope this is a year in which, you know, Giddy takes a leap or Manus Mzelos looks like the next big star, or, you know, Kobe White takes a leap and they decide to re-sign him to a big money deal.
I, I, I hope for Bulls fans, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel here where it feels like they’re just stuck, but not a lot of reason to feel that way over the last decade or so.