As De’aaron Fox Trade illustrates, the bulls still don’t know what they are doing

On the whole, the Chicago Bulls received the worst feedback from analysts among the three teams who took part in the De’aaron Fox-Zach Lavine trade.

To regain the return of the bulls: they received Kevin Huerter, Zach Collins, Tre Jones and their own 2025-pickback, which they had anyway, as it was protected.

To do this, they sent Zach Lavine and a selection of the second round 2025.

By removing the trigger for this deal, the bulls are decisive for several reasons with more shops before the 3pm period on Thursday at 3 p.m.

• This seems to be a reconstruction attempt, with a strong focus on the word “appears”, and this only deal is simply not good enough. Chicago has no way for a chance of real competitiveness with his current squad, and even his tanking process – if that is, sees this – looks terribly uninspiring.

• Coby White is in a strange contractual situation that only writes after the bulls to make the trigger for a deal now to optimize a trading return. (The TL; DR version: White’s Play is worth more than it can earn in an extension of the bulls. Therefore, with absolute certainty, it will become an unreserved free agent in 2026. If the bulls now exchange it, the reception team gets it For two possible playoff years instead of only one, which means more value.)

• Lonzo Ball’s contract is an obvious way of taking over money for the price of equity in the long term. The 21.4 million US dollars of Ball have from the books from the books this summer, and with Apron teams, who would surely want to save money in the future, Chicago could ask these teams for compensation to compensate by taking on agreement that a lot run longer.

• Nikola Vučević plays one of his most efficient basketball. It is not sustainable, but when did the NBA teams ever prevent it from acting for a player who clearly plays above his usual level? The bulls now have to unlock the center, especially as a team like the Golden State Warriors, desperately desperately desperately to carry out a squad -upgrade.

Let us discuss the broader topic here.

The bulls are for a reconstruction in the way the Washington Wizards were a year ago: bad.

While you are now controling your own future in relation to the equity design, you have no additional incoming value. You have a Portland selection that is probably never conveyed as a selection in the first round, as it is protected by lottery by 2028. Then she turns into a single selection in the second round.

The bulls have young and exciting rookie Matas Buzelis. But that’s … well … somehow It.

Patrick Williams still has not broken out in his fifth NBA season, and that’s right to sign a new deal worth 90 million US dollars over five years. Very few teams would be ready to accept this now unless they are paid for it.

Ayo Dosunmu is good, albeit unspectacular. By chance he is in the same contractual body as knows, which means that the bulls should also be motivated to exchange it unless they don’t want to lose anything in the summer of 2026.

What the most important acquisition of the last low season, Josh Giddey, has disappeared as expected. The guard will set up big raw numbers, but its actual influence is below and it could belong to the worst group of defenders in the league, regardless of the position.

All of this draws an extremely depressing picture of the bulls, a franchise that is constantly behind the 8-ball in terms of the direction and a plan under the possession of Jerry Rinsdorf.

These bulls should have bending into a reconstruction two years ago, but they stubbornly kept their way to irrelevance. Back to the Giddey acquisition, when they sent Alex Caruso to Oklahoma City, they could not achieve part of the equation, as they knew that the thunder made a war treasury of the draft.

The bulls are not only unable or lazy. You are both. They don’t seem to do their due diligence, they are terrible negotiators and they make their fortune a dead weight by sitting on them for too long and the rest of the NBA world never runs at a significantly higher speed than they do.

If the NBA were a jungle and most teams were apex predators, the bulls would be sloths that sit high in building surfaces and never saw it down and never recognized the value of the raise of the moment.

Even if you are lucky, win the lottery and get Cooper Flag, questions about the ability of the franchise to build around it should be raised day 1.

This Thursday is a great opportunity for the bulls to lose some of the above criticisms. You should be proactive, think exclusively about how you optimize the draft return and show the league that you finally understand that you have to increase your game.

If you do not do it -or worse, give up white for a return that makes the Dallas Mavericks blush -the organization will quickly find that your fan base, which is already approaching the pointed apathy, correctly cancel the bonds of the binding .

After all, it’s just fair. The team radiates arrogance and superiority and looks at the fans and the NBA in general and won 35 games a year. The bulls only divided into the analysis when they were half a decade to the party for half a decade, and their apparent inability to dig a few centimeters deeper in their design preparation, it becomes consistently disadvantageous.

Despite their obvious struggle to run an NBA franchise, they never come before things. They have never been proactive. Will this change be under the current president of basketball operations artūras Karnišovas? Only time will show it.

It has to be nice to live on Michael Jordan’s legacy 27 years later.