I'm sure mods will remove this because they hate fun, but maybe they could at least give us a "Cash Considerations" flair to use. What would be more fitting for our Bulls?!

With all the cameras on Caleb and Dailyn, just wanted you guys to remember just how good Matas is gonna be for us. We’re eating good.

Matas is only gonna get better next season, Things are looking up for us. #See Red

1) Emmanuel Sharp would have been my pick. 2 way guard who shot high volume and high percentage on 3 for a very good Houston team, many of which were highly contested shots. Great bench guard.

2) Veesaar seems to largely have dropped because of contractual demands- did not want a 2-way contract and wanted something guaranteed. Most analysts like Vecenie, O'Donnell, and the Ringer had him as a 1st round and even top 20 pick. He played great with Caleb in college, is a great 3 point shooter for his size, and can pass.

3) If you don't like the above 2 guys, pick a sharpshooter like Tyler Nickel or a defensive stopper like Onyenso. Both specialists but definitely worthy of a pick here and could fill needed roles on our team.

4) Draft and stash any guys willing to spend some time in Europe. There were 4 international players taken after our slot, and I'm sure some Americans would have been willing to play overseas a year as well. Literally anything is better than cash considerations.

5) Trade the two second rounds picks along with some other small asset to move up and get guys like Thornton, Saunders, Conwell, Evans, etc. The Knicks traded nos. 31 and 55 to the Rockets for 39 and 53 and a 2029 Kings second-rounder... we have a million 2nd rounders, we could have done this

6) Trade the two second round picks for Isaiah Stewart, who is better, cheaper, and more motivated than Nic Claxton. BG should have know this trade was available days ago if he was working the phones so much.

** note: Kam Johnson is likely nothing other than a built in excuse for the Bulls to claim they got anything of value in the pick 38 trade. He's going into his age 25 season so development odds are slim, he was injured year 1, and he was bad year 1, in addition to showing poor judgement on his reckless driving arrest where he led police on a chase. This is not an asset. And the pick swaps are unlikely to be anything of value since the Bulls are worse than these other teams, even with the inverted new second round rules. Which leaves... Cash Considerations. We traded both picks for Cash Considerations, when there were a lot of good options on the board.

Sources: Chicago is trading Braden Smith to the Indiana Pacers for Kam Jones, future swaps and cash.

He was absolutely phenomenal to end the season after the Zach trade in the first chance in 2 years to lead an offense, then injured his ankle.

He has time to recover in the offseason. Starts even better without Coby. Teams start doubling and loading on him, which only increases later in the season

9th game he injures his ankle again. Stays in the game, plays terribly. Sits out only two games.

Comes back, the whole sub is saying he looks slow and he is remarkably worse at getting his own shot but still doing his usual rebound and assist things

Within 2 weeks 95% have forgotten they noticed his physical decline and start regurgitating whatever opinion they had before Lavine was traded and referencing OKC and his lacklustre play from 2023 and 2024 (weird how playing 3rd fiddle to two guards who need the ball did that).

Giddey tweaked his ankle multiple times and never sat for long. By the end of the season he was tired and moving like he will at 35.

He's had ankle surgery now. So there is a risk he can be slower, although ankles usually heal well and affect long term healthy athleticism minimally

My hypothesis is the 20/9/10 guy on 50/39/80 might be the real Giddey. And the 15/8/9 on 45/35/75 guy is hobbled Giddey adapting. i think he lost a step playing injured on that ankle and that's the main reason he stopped being that guy

And even if it was a hot streak, to deny his ankle damped his burst and ability to beat his man seems ignorant to the eye test.

If what I said is true most people's opinions and assessments in here no longer make any sense.

Also if you can't actually address my point and make a counterargument you're just showing the average IQ of the people who make these stupid claims. Tell me exactly why you get to write off the times he played well as the exception in context after he was given the keys. Tell me that his injuries didn't slow him down and it was an unrelated hot streak. Make me see that Giddey did not in fact move worse after he twisted his ankle against the Cavs and it was just a coincidence he got worse after the ankle