Fred Katz

if you go out and you play well and you're a pros pro, like you might be able to, and you might be able to get something there.

The Bulls have all this cap room.

Like I had so many agents who had guys who were upcoming free agents and might get traded, say to me like, oh, just hope my guy gets traded to the Bulls.

Like there were so many teams who were hoping their guys got traded to the Bulls because of the Bulls financial situation coming up where they have so much money to spend and we'll see how they're going to do it.

And so he's in like,

a good I mean look he went from a team that's awesome to a team that is very far from awesome and I'm sure that's not the best but that's a good situation to send a guy to and it's a very interesting situation to follow heading into the summer he was the fifth pick in the draft not that long ago and last year

was doing a really good job for Detroit until he got hurt and it ended the year, was doing a good job as an off-ball shooter.

Tell you what, close games really determine so much of what we say about this stuff.

Like, we said they played so well without Jokic, and don't get me wrong, they did.

Their point differential wasn't crazy without Jokic.

It might have been.

It was like right around even or something like that.

And you look at the games that they've lost recently.

First of all, they're like all to...

really good teams and second of all it's like they lost to cleveland by two they lost to the knicks in double overtime they lost to detroit by three they lost to oklahoma city like those are their last four losses at the same time despite the guys who are out you'd like to see them go two and two against that level of competition even if every loss is by two points

Yeah, I will add to your point and say that their defense is about 10 points per 100 possessions better when Aaron Gordon is on the court.

And some of that is due to shooting variance.

Teams are shooting a bad percentage from three when he's out there, and I'm sure he doesn't affect it to the degree the three-point numbers say it does, but passes the eye test of how much better they are defensively when they have his level of wing defense.

No Peyton Watson is important.

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