Julia Poe: Bulls' front office is relying on luck for its plan
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What recent trades have the Bulls made?
Can you imagine Lovie Smith doing the whole good, better, best thing and saying bleep the Packers?
Come on, guys. Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Never let it rest. I'll see you on Tuesday. Middays 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score. He's got 18. And all the way to the cup. And a vicious right-handed slam. A mild dose in the grill of Pete Nance. Yeah, that's just running the floor.
And unfortunately, Io DeSumo is no longer a Chicago Bull. That courtesy of our Bulls radio network. We now go to the Circa Sports Illinois hotline. Download the Circa Sports app today to talk about Io and more as the Bulls are busy at this trade deadline. It is the Bulls and Sky Beat writer for the Chicago Tribune, Julia Poe, who joins us from Toronto. And she's on Twitch, twitch.tv slash thescorechicago. Hey, Julia, thanks for joining us.
hey guys how's it going i just had to make sure i had not also gotten traded uh while this is happening it's been it's been a pretty crazy day here julia you would fetch a first rounder let's let's not get it twisted several multiple first rounders no second round picks for julia we're not taking in those those protected picks either we want the straight up thing we want our entry into the lottery speaking of julia are the bulls tanking
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, Julia, that's what we're trying to figure out because we brought this up in our 10 o'clock hour of the show and that was fresh off of the news about Iodosuma being traded away. Part of a trade involving four second round picks and Julian Phillips. And we were even discussing whether or not that was selling a little bit low when it came to Io's value. You know, what do you think of the return?
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.
Yeah, Julia, that's a point that we were making, too, was remember this time last year at the trade deadline when Arturis Karnaschovas talked about getting nine or ten. What we gather was, depending on the word you want to use, formidable players, better than role player players, really good players, however you want to.
He said really good, I think. Yeah, really good. Really good.
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
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