EXCEEDING Expectations: Ayo Dosunmu becoming a key piece for the Chicago Bulls | CHGO Bulls Podcast
I assum Dave just another incredible night 30 minutes off the bench I Billy is clearly relying heavily on iO yeah has well uh surpassed Javon Carter in this rotation um basically he’s been leading the Bulls bench yeah uh in minutes for the last month it feels or
At least the last few weeks worth of games 13 points tonight on fairly efficient six of 11 didn’t knock down either of his threes but were you know you know they were close one of them went half three of the way down yes also doing what we’ve come to expect from iio
Doing on defense had a couple of steals tonight I mean what what can’t you say about this this young guy attack attack attack o transition I oh he’s just always in attack mode man and his layup package just becoming it was awesome um the defense that he played when I can’t
Remember what who missed that first shot but then uh we saw the guy coming back down the other floor and then he took that away and went back down and scored and got the dunk like it’s so much fun watching him play you see him playing
With a lot of fun a lot of smiles on his face when he’s out there playing basketball now um and will you talked about just the Comfort level of him right now this season just say how comfortable he is I guess with the team and now being that way on and off the
Court you know it’s kind of showing you know on the floor and it’s amazing because you know to come from where this offseason was pretty much the last guy uh to sign with the bulls to resign I should say uh with the bulls and then it
Was a lot of questions and we talked about it here on the show like okay well where’s he going to fit you know will he get time like whose minutes is he taking and IO was never he never wavered you know in his confidence in his ability to
Get down out there on the floor and showcase what he can do he just needed the chance and so he was scoring as I kept saying like the game within the game like he was scoring these Pockets you know and just when the Bulls needed
A bucket B I got it I’m going I’m going to the bucket I’m and I’m finishing it’s so in control watching him going and finish and it looks so chaotic until he gets to the rim and that is a real straight up skill that is a dude that some real
Straight up skill as a finisher iow is becoming just really really dope at that man and knowing he’s got you know that little thing he can do as far as the inside pocket passes when he’s inside getting the big man involved even though we did not like that pass to V in that
Fourth quarter but that’s okay but he just really uh will just really looks like he’s coming to his own and is finding his own Niche on his yeah you never feel like he’s really doing anything that is like out of his comfort zone or stuff that he doesn’t feel like
He can do like he’s good at a lot of different things and he sticks to those things yeah um and going back to your point about like him in the rotation yeah I mean he was the last guy signed on the roster the Bulls paid more than technically they needed to because uh
You know basically with the way that his money was working like they could have just offered him a smaller like closer to his cap hold and they overpaid technically to keep him and we were all kind of like Well why’d you do that if you just signed Javon Carter to be your
Starting or backup point guard like where does IO fit into this and why are you now giving him more money than you needed to and I mean another guy that is just going to be on a steal of a contract yes for this year and two more
After that um I has been outstanding he’s outplayed his contract already and I just feel like his defense is so outrageously good that is kind of overshadowed at times because of how good Caruso is and just like the team being a really good defensive unit he was shutting down Bradley Beal for the
Majority of this game I know Beal had uh 17 18 points on 17 shots which is like not great efficiency MH um he blocked him a couple times wait that he was just getting over screens contesting shots picking Pockets he blocked the [ __ ] out of Bradley Beal on a drive Baseline
Gabriel just mentioned that that block was insane he was just amazing and like the shots that Beal was making were tough shots with like contests he fouled them once but I thought it was pretty Ticky tack I did not love that call that was like one
Of them that I thought could have gone the other way um just really special defensive talent that they’ve got in iow and then yeah just turning that into offense and transition um attacking Closeouts like he’s just he’s found the things that he’s going to need to do as
Like a role player that’s going to play a lot of minutes and he’s gotten good at those things and then yeah you like sprinkle in some of the pick and roll stuff that he did at Illinois uh I just he’s like very much in command of his game his confidence seems like it’s
Through the roof and he really knows his role and he’s executing it yeah uh Maas in the comments said I was at the game of Phoenix ad was out there practicing free throws after the game I assume you mean IO dumu and not Anthony Davis that’s awesome awes that’s awesome man
Like they yeah I like what their mindset is right now man like they really feel like they can win every game that they’re playing like again it’s a mentality the more they continue to play the more they’re in these kind of games this is why this game was so exciting to
Watch because it wasn’t a fluk you know what I mean like they were really playing basketball it was fun to sit here and watch which is why I can sit here with some excitement like damn that was a fun ass game of course I wanted to
Win of course I wanted to get this Victory but damn like it just gave me like oh man we can really kind of do this right here this is a good it was a good game let me just say that it was just a good game uh flip side in the
Comments said anybody else hold their breath when I went for that early layup on Grayson thought Captain [ __ ] might lay him out we we did but like Dave you had a good point which is like IO the way that he sort of slow played that layup in transition didn’t give gra an
Opportunity to pull some dirty fluky [ __ ] he didn’t allow it like he closed off his body and was like Hey Grayson I’m going to get this bucket and you’re not going to touch me that’s right he didn’t jump into him he didn’t try to body contact which is what Grayson you
Know is known for and good For like the May
The Chicago Bulls may have found themselves a gem in Ayo Dosunmu. The third year player, drafted in the second round out of Illinois, just continues to improve for the Bulls.
How high is Ayo’s ceiling? Matt, Big Dave, and Will weigh in on the CHGO Bulls Postgame Podcast.
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Ayo is going to be really great