Josh Giddey speaks on requesting a trade from OKC and going to Chicago

Josh Giddey speaks on requesting a trade from OKC and going to Chicago

after the Josh giddy trade to the Chicago Bulls for Alex Caruso it was revealed that giddy actually requested a trade as OKC were looking to play him more as an off thebench role in next season and he didn’t want that in this stage of his career and here’s what he had to say about it and the trade to Chicago Sam pry offered pretty specific detail in his statement announcing the trade saying that he h some conversations with you about a reserve role that you didn’t show much interest in and professionally conveyed your desire to maybe seek opportunities elsewhere that leads to the obvious follow-up question which is in your initial dealings with the bulls have you been given any indications or assurances that you’ll be the starting point guard next season um yeah I mean in regards to Sam’s comments um I mean it’s you know pretty accurate we spoke a lot throughout the offseason and um and even in our exit interviews and and um I’ve had a great relationship with Sam throughout my entire time in Oklahoma and um the one thing about him that’s that I you know really respect is he’s transparen and he’s very open and honest with players and um and especially with me throughout this whole process and obviously I came off a tough year um you know my role shifted a little bit um I was playing a lot more you know off ball and kind of in a different role to what I’ve ever done in my career so um there was no secrets that um it was going to take some kind of flexibility on my part to um you know fit in with the team that we had and the structure that we had and the type of players that we had so um and he spoke about to me about you know looking at potentially different roles coming off the bench running the second unit things like that and um and I just said to him like at this point in my career you know I’m 21 years old it wasn’t something that you know I was overly eager to do and um and he he he completely understood and um just throughout the whole process we were open and honest with each other and um and I said to him look um you know coming off the bench at this point in my career um it’s not something you know I’m I’m I’m trying to do and and you know take a reserve role but um he got it we worked together through the whole process and um and he he got me to a great spot I’m very very excited to be here um in Chicago and um all First Impressions have been unbelievable the people have been great and I feel you know very welcomed here so just quickly following up Josh did have the Bulls given you any indications or assurances you’ll be the starting point guard next season uh no I mean we haven’t spoke about roles and things like that as of yet um I’ve had a lot of you know I’ve met with Billy a bunch of times already um he’s been unbelievable in the conversations we have we’ve had but I understand that the team that’s here there’s a lot of good guards um IO Kobe um Dal they got a lot of guys that can handle the rock so um I think it’ll make for you know the competition that we’ll have throughout training camp and things like that to to push each other be better um is going to be great and um you know we’ll see what happens you know when the season rolls around you talked about last year it was it was a tough year for you I mean the obvious question is going to be was all the stuff that happened off the court did that carry on the court did you think that kind of played into it or was it more of a Personnel change where the Thunder were going and your fit was just different than it had been the previous two years yeah look I think there’s a lot of things that go into an NBA season there’s a lot of distractions um whether it’s outside noise um whether it’s internal change and I think for me um a lot of it came internally a lot of it came more with um how good our team got and how much we evolved as a group and uh my role kind of I don’t want to say diminished but it kind of was different to the first two years I had so it was a big adjustment for me learning to play off the ball obviously got guarded a lot differently just with the lineup that we had and um obviously you know with guys like Czech coming in um it forced their centers to make adjustments so um a lot of it was you know basketball related um for me at least that’s that’s the way I felt um but as I said it was more credit to our team than anything we just got good quickly and um you know um those kind of things happen and um you know I my role changed a little bit and it was just a year of adjusting and learning different things I’m just curious if you can talk a little bit about your experience in the playoffs and just the way that ended with your role kind of diminishing a little bit and uh since then have you done like any you’re reflecting about some of the stuff that you can continue to grow and work on in your game as you transition to the Bulls yeah I mean it was tough because you know as a as a player you you first you want to get to the NBA and then when you’re in the NBA you want to be a part of big games in the playoffs and um and that you know I’ve dreamt of that moment for so long and for it to end the way it did um you know kind of left a sour taste in my mouth for a long time and and it’s tough to go into the summer as that as your last you know stint in the NBA for That season and um and it just showed me that there’s so many things I have to work on to be able to um be valuable in those moments and um and and as I said earlier these are the lessons that you know I’d rather learn now um as a young kid in my career um opposed to when I’m later in my career and it’s the first time I’m experienced playoff action and I don’t know what to expect and um you know it was probably a blessing in disguise for me it really taught me what I need to work on um how I need to get better and obviously shooting’s a big one um but also the the defensive end is something that um I think just coming into this offseason it a switch just flipped in my mind and I just realized that to to be at the highest level you’ve got to really compete at that end you got to be able to sit down guard guys and um that’s that’s the side of the ball that I really want to take you know pride in I think the offense will come naturally but it’s that side of the ball that um I really want to take steps forward in um to make sure when playoff time comes around that um you know I’m ready to go both sides of the ball and not just you know one

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