Adam Amin

I just don't think it's going to happen.

The Bulls kind of committed to this methodology, and if you want to call it soft tanking, I think that's the first phrase that comes to mind.

I don't necessarily call it that on the air.

I don't know if that's necessarily the right thing to do.

It's not respectful to what the players are actually trying to do because the players are not trying to lose games, and that has been made very apparent recently.

by watching these games when Colin Sexton's going off for 58 points in two games, and these guys are playing hard down the stretch against Phoenix to try to win a game.

It's a weird dynamic, and I, at the end of it all, would love to be able to say, oh, the Bulls ended up with the best possible lottery odds that they can get.

It improved their opportunity to get one of these superstar, potential superstar players coming out of the NBA draft, and that's all well and good, but it's not fun to sit there for 48 minutes of basketball, two and a half hours a night with all of you, and call it every time that they turn the ball over.

fairly clear that Billy Donovan's trying to win games and the players on the floor are not trying to lose because they're, as we've talked about ad nauseum, a lot of them are fighting for jobs.

A lot of them are fighting for contracts.

A lot of them are fighting to get experience.

They're not going to try to lose games purposefully.

So it's an interesting dynamic to sit there.

And by the way, it's easier, I would say as a fan, because if you do want this team to lose games, all you have to do is not watch.

You don't have to watch them try to lose or try to win because

I've always made the joke, like, the difference between, the only difference between fans and us, you know, Stacy and I, is that you guys can shut it off if you want to.

You guys don't have to watch.

You guys can say, all right, well, let's hope they lose this one and turn off the game and come back in the fourth quarter and look at the score or check on Twitter or check on Insta or check on, you know, your box score the next day.

you guys can kind of turn it away and look back and hope that the results that you want are there.

For us, it's a little bit different.