Cody Westerlund

This is a step in layering it.

You mentioned the word refreshing earlier, I think.

To me, one of the most refreshing parts so far for him is just he seems to have a realistic grasp of how big the challenge is.

He's not coming in here...

To go back to the point I made a little earlier, I think free agency ties to this.

The Bulls could have upward of $60 million in cap space.

What does he do with that cap space?

To me, it doesn't feel like he's trying to add a ton of immediate help.

I think the most important thing he could do this offseason would be to use some significant portion of that cap space, whether it's $20 million, $30 million.

It doesn't have to be all $60 million, but take on a bad contract to get a future asset immediately.

in the draft.

You'd love a first round pick in the future, but sometimes a bad contract can also come with a good young player attached to it.

Maybe the bad contract you take, you can flip Pat Williams' bad contract that isn't as high as someone else's and you get a draft pick or a young player with it.

So I think that will tell us a lot if he uses...

a third half of that $60 million in cap space to take on someone who's not really helping them right away.

I think that'd be really smart.

I think he should do it.

I think it would really further his big picture vision too.

Do you feel like he's in a position to go out and explore the restrictor free agent market and sign someone to an offer sheet?

Because I think that counters to what we're talking about when we say a rebuild.