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Cody Westerlund

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Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

But I expect when the day comes on June 23rd, it should be a pretty easy decision for the Bulls at four.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

Yeah, he reiterated, best player available.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

Best player available a couple times in that interview session yesterday.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

And then he went on later, near the end of the interview, and was given more specific examples.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

Like, I don't care if he's a 6'4 guard.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

I don't care if he's a 6'11 big man.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

Might have had placeholders in there, obviously, in his mind when he's telling us that.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

But he's just kind of paraphrasing their player profile.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

I don't care who they are.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

You take the best one, who you think is going to have the best NBA career, and you essentially figure it out.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

So...

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

I don't think – that's the mindset almost all teams have, unless you're a contender at the highest level and you're picking in the 20s in the first round and you know you need to plug in a guard to surround LeBron with shooting or something, which might be a bad example because the Cavs always traded their first-round picks to get proven shooting.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

But you get the idea there.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

So that's the strategy every team should have.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

I think it's a strategy that, in the back of their mind, AK and Mark Eversley had too.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

They just didn't execute it very well.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

But look –

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

He's coming in here and trying to prove a point to fans first, I think.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

This is a different mindset.

Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Cody Westerlund talks Bulls' fortune in landing 4th overall pick in NBA Draft

Here's who I am.