Julia Poe

They're going to be active right up until the moment that the commissioner says Pencil's down at 3 o'clock today.

So that is something to just kind of keep in mind and keep an eye on.

I think that...

You're definitely right that there is, I think, Ivy Simons are two players who are a good example of, you know, definitely players who can make an impact early on.

But I still think that when you look specifically at what they've done to the front court and kind of where the front court is at right now, bringing in some players like Dillingham, like Dieng, who maybe have just not been able to play very much at all in their young careers.

These are situations where I do think that you're seeing the Bulls take a significant enough step back that they believe that they are going to be able to duck out of the play-in tournament.

But you're not wrong.

This is the problem with doing all of this at the deadline.

They won too many games at the start of the year to make this a very effective tank job.

They just can't lose enough games.

I was looking at the standings of that earlier.

All they're doing is improving on the margins.

All they are doing is moving up in the lottery.

as much as they can if they are committing to a tank job here.

But they're not in a good situation where they can really fully like nosedive down and be competing

for solid odds in the top four.

And that is a really frustrating position to put yourself in.

It's just that middle ground.

It's a lot of middle ground in Chicago.

Yeah, like I said, I don't understand that one.