Julia Poe

Looks certainly looks like it.

I mean, this is a this is as big of a deadline dump as I think a team can really do.

You know, looking at the list right now, they've got, I believe, eight players total have been sent out.

They have sent out the majority of their expiring contracts.

And this is what a nosedive looks like.

You know, you take a lot of guys that are on expiring deals and you get them moved and

some of them kind of going for a lower price tag than I think the Bulls necessarily would have wanted.

And you trade arguably one of your top three best players to the team that is chasing you for a play in tournament spot.

I think that counts as, you know, committing to at least a short-term tank.

Yeah, I think that the first three moves of this deadline, there's been six total.

I think the first three, which were the Vucevic trade, the Herter trade, and then tagging Emmanuel Miller into that three-team deal with Sacramento for the second rounders.

All of those made a lot of sense to me.

And then about midway through the week, I think the Bulls have veered in a direction that I am struggling to follow.

I think that the return on Io DeSumnu was much lower than what there was ever an understanding of the Bulls trying to get for him.

I think that the return for Kobe White was a little bit lower and just different than what was expected for the Bulls to go for.

And I straight up don't understand.

I know it's a smaller one, but I straight up don't understand why

the Dale and Terry trade for Yabusele.

So I think things have gotten a little bit convoluted here, a little bit messier maybe than preferred, and that makes this whole idea of doing a short-term tank, it makes it sting a lot harder and a lot worse when the players that are being traded away are players like Io and Kobe who have meant so much to this franchise.

you know formidable whatever you want to say that that's higher than role player but not max contract is essentially how i took it when you consider that message that he gave based on now what we're seeing you know how do you compare and contrast the two yeah i think that when you look back at kind of the timeline of the last year it's confusing i think if this is where the bulls were always going to end up which is not investing in a long-term future