Nick Baumgardner

But I could easily...

easily see them passing the atlanta hawks who are a game and a half above them the hawks by the way have lost three in a row they've got jalen johnson but not a lot of star power beyond that and there's going to be games where if the bulls get those guys back i'm sorry billy donovan doesn't coach to tank if they don't sit them down can you not see a situation where they fail at this stated goal of getting out of the middle this season

Are they going to buy out one of these guys?

These are guys that are not only –

can help them win over these next handful of weeks, but are also going to steal potentially developmental minutes from a guy like Jaden Ivey or from Rob Dillingham, who you need to evaluate.

Elias, I'm sitting here.

I'm listening to you.

I'm thinking through all of these things.

I'm looking at the Bulls roster right now.

And I just keep coming back to, what is the point of all of this?

Because you're saying that the Bulls might win enough games to make the play-in after...

Arturis Karnasho says the plan isn't the goal, but it's clearly been for them.

And then you keep guys like Colin Sexton and Afrone Simons.

Look, when Afrone Simons got traded to the Bulls, I'm like, this is like a bucket.

This is a guy that go get you 25 on a night.

Why is he here?

Well, I could see the Simons thing even, Elias, but the Sexton thing makes no sense from a timetable standpoint.

And he could be helping someone, I don't know, that's trying to make the playoffs.

Or we'll continue to be this message of, like, development, trading for more draft picks, all this stuff.

Like, that's why this felt like the beginning.