Cody Westerlund

is a really good spot to be in for the bulls i think it's a little bit more scrunched together the talent level the top four of this class and cooper flag last year obviously but it's interesting for the bulls perspective too getting the four pick it's almost like from a scrutiny standpoint like you'd rather have the pick certainly number three or number two whatever it would be you want to have as much optionality and choice as you can but they could really just sit there and take whichever prospect of the top four falls to them

Obviously, A.J.

DeVansa is expected to go number one overall.

Darren Peterson, Caleb Willison, Cameron Boozer follow in some order.

Most people think Peterson's going to go too, but the Bulls can kind of just sit there and it doesn't have to be a super hard decision, which shouldn't be confused with the fact that they'll still do their entire pre-draft prospect or evaluation with all the prospects, all the top prospects that they can, and see if anyone can move up on their board.

But I expect...

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

Listen, it's easy to be optimistic.

I'm sorry.

It's easy to be more optimistic about Bryson Graham than we were about Arturis Karnasovas in the same situation, just because AK didn't have a good track record when it came to drafting.

Any of his perceived draft successes, whether it's Io, whether it's Modest, guys fell to him.

I was at Io's draft watch party down in the South Loop, and

he he went in the second round it just kept falling falling right into their lap and then modest you could say the same thing happened to him falling out of the top 10 i'm curious as to how much you found his comments to be refreshing bryson grahams talking about his approach to talent evaluation in the draft specifically

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.