Cody Westerlund
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But I expect when the day comes on June 23rd, it should be a pretty easy decision for the Bulls at four.
Yeah, he reiterated, best player available.
Best player available a couple times in that interview session yesterday.
And then he went on later, near the end of the interview, and was given more specific examples.
Like, I don't care if he's a 6'4 guard.
I don't care if he's a 6'11 big man.
Might have had placeholders in there, obviously, in his mind when he's telling us that.
But he's just kind of paraphrasing their player profile.
I don't care who they are.
You take the best one, who you think is going to have the best NBA career, and you essentially figure it out.
So...
I don't think β 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.
But you get the idea there.
So that's the strategy every team should have.
I think it's a strategy that, in the back of their mind, AK and Mark Eversley had too.
They just didn't execute it very well.
But look β
He's coming in here and trying to prove a point to fans first, I think.
This is a different mindset.
Here's who I am.