Julia Poe

I really am looking forward to our conversation that media will get to have with Arturas later today.

I would love to get a little more insight into that one.

It does not make sense for a variety of reasons.

Yabusele has a player option next year that he will absolutely pick up.

He is 30, so he does not fit the timeline that the Bulls are trying to fit into of like 23 and under being the ideal time.

age range with you know maybe up to 25 26 also being cool and working in with that group he's well outside of that and I don't know how he fits in with this group the Bulls have really enjoyed playing a double big lineup they feel like that's the best version of themselves

Are you going to lean into the best version of yourself if you are trying to maybe be a little bit less competitive?

I don't know.

So I think this creates a very confusing lineup where, you know, they like playing Jalen Smith at the four.

They like playing Modest Bezelis at the three.

If you do that, maybe that means that you're committing to, again, a 30-year-old undersized center.

I do not understand this one.

I'm not going to pretend to understand this one.

Maybe it will make more sense if different pieces of it fall into place, but I just think that that one's a real head-scratcher, honestly.

Yeah, I think that we are now in the worst-case scenario for any front office, which is they have to get lucky.

And that is a thing that can happen.

Teams get lucky very often.

Look at the Dallas Mavericks.

But luck is going to come into play here, which is that they are going to be able to marginally improve their draft odds.

And then if that hits, and then if they actually draft well, which, as Layla brought up, is not necessarily the most proven scenario,