Elias Schuster

And it's very hard.

We saw this when they first traded for Nikola Vucevic even, and they were pushing for the play in that year or whatever it was in 2021, where they go get a guy like Vucevic.

They still weren't able to make the playoffs.

It's just like when you add in these new pieces, it's really hard to get on a winning track, especially when other teams are vying for seeding in a way.

So...

Is it possible they went too many games?

Absolutely.

It's the Bulls.

Julie Donovan, you said it exactly right.

He's not going to coach with just development in mind.

He's going to coach with winning in mind.

But whether or not they could pull it off, I definitely have questions about that with this group.

Right.

I think if you want to keep adding on, too, Gershon Yabusele, going to get him from the Knicks was a confusing move.

Nick Richards, you flip Usmani Jain, who's now had multiple really strong games for the Bucs.

He's a 22-year-old forward that would make a ton of sense for this philosophy they've had of adding these former lottery picks who haven't had a chance.

They flip him for Nick Richards because they needed center depth, I guess.

But also, why do you need the center depth?

if uh you know if your plan here is to go for draft picks is to go for uh just development and rebuilding so it's when you know the question is that that's why i kind of brought it up earlier right there still needs to be a lot uh set in stone this off season of like what is the plan here because did they change up the whole roster yes did they take a big step like did they take a

step backward I still think yes they took a step backward and they added some second round picks which I know a lot of people joke about but I do think in today's league like we see them packaged in all these deals and stuff so you can make something of second round picks so in a way like they did take this small step back but was it a big enough step back