How Artūras Karnišovas’ bold words could reshape the Bulls: An end-of-season analysis
The Bulls’ heartbreak echoes as they bid farewell to the playoffs. What seismic shifts await? K.C. Johnson, Kevin Anderson, and Tony Gill dissect Artūras Karnišovas’ post-season press conference (1:00). They reveal their top insights (5:36), debate Karnišovas’ accountability (12:36), and discuss the burning question: Will Zach LaVine finally be traded this offseason? (18:47). Later, K.C. reveals details on DeMar DeRozan’s potential future with the Bulls (39:36). Don’t miss out on this unmissable episode of the Bulls Talk Podcast!
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27 Comments
Zach is not the problem! Vooch is the issue. Resigning vooch was a BIG mistake!
Trade Zach because hes ready to go. Trade Vooch because his effort on defense isnt worth his inefficient offense. Keep Demar and Pwill. Draft or sign a young athletic center that can provide some floor stretching
A possible trade w/ Golden State:
Lavine + Caruso for Kuminga, Draymond, & Wiggins.
Pros: Bulls get a young talented athletic wing in Kuminga, an enforcer in Draymond (something Chicago has been missing since Rodman), and Wiggins to make the money work. Warriors get the guy they wanted last trade deadline in Caruso, get rid of the Wiggins contract, and some scoring help for Steph & potential Klay replacement in Lavine.
Cons: Chicago would hate to see AC go, but he's the only way to get rid of Zach's contract. Golden State would miss Draymond's leadership, but has become a distraction with all of the on court antics.
I have the fix. Do whatever it takes to trade for Zion Williamson
Zach LaVine and Patrick Williams need to stay healthy!
Yes, please trade Lavine. He deserves to be on a better team then this garbage of a franchise
Thank goodness.. maybe white& DeRozan could play for the Sky.. 😅😅 Bulls should sell the TEAM. PERIOD..
Last draft Bulls had no picks and still got 3 new rookies. This draft we got a 1st round pick (lottery at that). Just saying
VUCEVIC HAS 2 GO
If any, what would a vooch trade look like? Anyone know?
The biggest problem you lost so many draft picks and players that actually developed like Wendell Carter Jr. , Lauri Markkanen but their own draft pick Patrick Williams never developed but kept. While Carter or Markkanen could become like Joker in their own way. Imagine this team with Tyrese Halliburton and Coby White as your starting guards instead of Lonzo Ball or Zach Levine and then sign vet FA. Not trading for Vuc which never made sense trading for the best player on the worst team in the league. I question that trade from the get go and then trade for DeMar and sign Ball. Signing Levine to the max contract was stupid cause he’s not a max player. Somehow they need to get rid of all of them. Now they get a lottery pick in worst draft ever just great. These guys should be FIRED right now. Their so called CORE was aging veterans at the end of their prime and two injury prone players. That’s indefensible. Your best player was defense minded backup guard and rebound minded center. The next two to three years they have to roll with the youngsters. Ayo Dosunmu, Coby White, Dalen Terry, Julian Philips and pray to God that Patrick Williams can break out. Maybe get lucky enough to get the only star out of this turd of a draft. Finishing the next season with worst record and keeping the picks.
AK: we’ll believe it when we see it.
No mention of Billy Donovan???
Smh
Zach is not a leader at all. He is a man full of excuses. And yes, I feel bad that he was injured, however, he is not the Bulls leader. Coby White is and second is Ayo D.
Chicago smh 🤦🏿♂️
No way they can trade Coby. Untouchable, Ayo would be difficult to accept but maybe
Vuc and Zach should be gone…
Demar sounds like he might actually consider leaving the dysfunctional bulls. That's a real possibility too. Bulls just need to blow it tf up from HC down to roster.
😴😴😴😴
Off season moves Ideally:
Replace Coach Billy Donovan – his rotations are horrendous most nights. His use of Drummond has been atrocious two years in a row! Why resign him and not play him? He has a 22 rebound game and the next game he played like 15 minutes. Billy either doesn’t like him or he’s an idiot of a coach!
Get bigger. Way too many guards. We have got to acquire wing depth.
Trading Zach and maybe even Caruso to package him for a good deal makes the most sense.
Trade Vuc the lack of size is one thing but to have a non defensive big man make no sense. I like Nic Claxton. Good defender, shot blocker and rebounder.
Starting line up. Coby White, Ayo, Demar, PF (Size, Wing, Defender, gets to the free throw line) Center (Shot blocking, Rebounder)
Why bring up height now? The Bulls have lacked size since AKME retooled the Bulls roster back in 2021. Size has been the main issue for years. We hoped Patrick Williams would develop but he lacked the willingness to grab rebounds and attack in the paint.
gotta call out some (likely unintentional) hindsight bias. When Javon Carter was signed, Coby was a mediocre pro and Ayo was a FA drawing zero interest. Lavine was healthy and a 3&D pg was a fit, starting lineup or otherwise.
And most teams aren't going to want Zach alone. They'll want something else.
If Zach can't be happy in a major city. Chicago, of all places. What's going to make him happy in Utah, Detroit, Milwaukee, etc.?
Not a single playoff game won, just a runway dunk and him acting like Mariah Carey. So, most teams will want more than just him.
We might have to give up Lonzo as a package to drop Zach
Also, can KC and y'all start a Play Sanago spree.
Like, bruh, Sanago should've gotten more time.
"Today I got time, cuz"
– Sanago to Bam 😂 if he played during the play-in
Man please we've heard bold words before, bulls been only winning about 45 games for the last 3 or 4 years, tired of "bold" words. His recent "bold" words means nothing to Most Bulls fans we've heard it all before no one with common sense is buying his empty "Bold" words and the team will go out next year and only win 40 games, AK is trash, so is reinsdorf.
Is there a strategic move in which the Bulls could draft Bronny James in the first round, which could force the Lakers hand into trading Lebron's expiring contract to Chicago for Zach… which would give them a lot more options in 2025.
This offense was really built for Lonzo Ball showing proof that fell apart when he got injured