Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Score callers sound off on Bulls' direction after recent trades
05 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: What are the initial thoughts on the Bulls' recent trades?
Rahimi Harrison-Grody.
The great Kevin Harlan.
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Rahimi Harrison-Grody. Middays, 10 a.m. to 2 on Discord.
You will hear Kevin Harlan with us today at 1 o'clock, so we'll get Taco Bell updates, E-Moss, and more right here on 104.3 The Score. This is Rahimi Harris and Grody, and we're going to go to the phones because the Bulls are making deals, but have you figured out a direction yet? 312-644-6767. We start with Anthony in Plainfield. Anthony, you're on Rahimi Harris and Grody.
Good morning, guys. Thanks for taking my call. So a couple things, and I should start with saying I have not been a fan of AK upper board management for years. What they have done has been brutal. They obviously waited too long to get things going here. With all of that said...
these last two weeks or this last week or so, we've collected nine second-round picks, and we've gotten a few players, for a bunch of players that have no future on our roster. All I've heard is we didn't get first-rounders for Io, we didn't get first-rounders for Kobe. But if you look back at all of these drafts, and you're on draft night, and you're seeing these teams in the mid-late 20s,
All they tend to do is trade out of those slots, and those second-round picks we're acquiring for guys like Ayo, those are going to be future first-round, late-20s picks if the Bulls decide they want to go that route. So they have plenty of options now that they have all of the picks. I don't look at this as we didn't get a first-rounder for Ayo.
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Chapter 2: Why are fans frustrated with the Bulls' management decisions?
And, like, again, going back to the whole thing with what you're talking about with AK, I agree with you. Do we trust him to make decisions? But also, if you keep Io and you re-sign him and you look to trade him in the future, do you really think he's going to trade him at the right time for the right capital then? So you don't trust him?
Well, here's part of my issue, Anthony, and I appreciate you calling, is that you're assuming the Bulls are going to flip guys like perhaps Colin Sexton or Anthony Simons, who are quality players. And they're the ones on expiring deals. Io's having a career year, but because of how he came up, like you mentioned the bird rights, he's going to be a more flexible contract.
Now, Io's older than, quote, the timeline, end quote, if you look at 26. But as we've just mentioned, Anthony Simons, Colin Sexton is 26. Colin Sexton is that same age. So, you know, I don't necessarily know that... You think that they're going to get bad enough, but Colin Sexton, Anthony Simons, and Jaden Ivey can play. Like, Jaden Ivey's a shot creator.
I don't know that you're going to get as bad as you want to get keeping those guys here, unless you're talking about next year tanking. And I don't see that being the case in this.
There's no evidence that they're willing to tank, first of all. And we'll see by 2 o'clock today if they're more willing to tank.
We're going to hear from Arturas Karnaschovas at 3.30, and that's when I think we get a lot more answers.
And so because of what Anthony said, I think two things can be true. One, a.k.a. made a move, there's just no reason to trust him at this point. You can't point to something, look what AK did, and say, that makes me think, one, he's a good evaluator of talent, look at the drafts, and two, that he's going to be in a position where he's going to get better players. That's... You have Ayo.
You had him. He was right there. Re-sign him. And then if you want to move him later as part of a deal for a superstar, he's the type of player a team will take back in a deal for, I don't know, a Zion Williamson, a John Moran. You can go down the list. Whatever disgruntled superstar pops up next because there's always one or two.
My thing is Ayo was a good enough two-way player. Not as good as Caruso on either on the defensive side.
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Chapter 3: What options do the Bulls have after acquiring second-round picks?
They love the play-in. That's what they look for, the play-in. That's what's on their bulletin board today. Play-in. We're going to play for the play-in. It's just a joke. Look how fast the Pistons turned it around. I mean, they were horrible for years, and then they get one guy. There's no plan either. Are they tanking? Are they not? They just want to stay relevant?
I mean, if I see Mack McCawn out there in a starting lineup, oh my goodness, this team, I'm sweating.
You might see Mack McClung. And you know what's funny about the Pistons is they had that horrible, atrocious losing streak, but we all knew that they had had more talent than what was showing up on the court. They had pieces. They drafted well. They had Cade Cunningham at that time. They had drafted well and they had made some savvy trades and acquired some first-round picks.
And I think you and I were both of the mindset that Detroit wasn't as bad as they had looked. And I think JV Biggerstaff is a great coach. So I'm not surprised to see them doing what they're doing. Donnie, great call. And I'm surprised you went with me instead of Marshall because the height advantage is definitely in favor of Mars Hall.
I don't want to get dunked on tonight. I'm fine.
Dude, you're basically the average height of the Bulls tonight. You realize that, right?
I'm only 6'2", guys. Don't listen to her. I'm only 6'2". I'm only 6'2".
Is he over 6 feet tall?
I'm over 6 feet tall.
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Chapter 4: How do fans feel about the direction of the Bulls team?
They don't care about fans. They don't care about anything. Get a couple hometown guys to keep the fans involved, and then they just want money. And then to trade away all these guys that we had, and we don't get a single first-round pick, except for the one pick that we traded away. We got that one pick back. And then for all these guys, we don't get a single second-round pick.
It's just an atrocity. It's spitting in the face of these fans. And something needs to change with this organization. I appreciate it. I don't argue with anything that you just said because, again, if there was evidence to be like, oh, I can point to this or point to that, I can't point to anything since the lack of a pivot after Lonzo Ball got hurt, and that was years ago.
Well, and the thing is, even with what we're going to hear today, Arturis Karnaschovas has come off of, in the actions that the team has taken, I think they've come off of the 9 or 10 good players concept because of the expiring deals, and That's the part that I need him to fill in the gaps on what changed from last year at this time to this year.
You say that, but if he keeps some of these guys and he thinks they're one of the nine or ten good players, then that means he doesn't think anything has changed.
Well, at least we'll get some understanding. Thanks for everybody for calling in. Thanks for the text. Thanks for the tweet that sent me back to a very, very interesting place with campaign. We have more coming up here on Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. Olin Krutz, our friend, is coming up next. Talk a little Bears.
Talk about the, I think I've got to ask him about a drill he was coaching yesterday, too, for his O-line kids. So we'll do that next.
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