re: Windhorst: Pelicans will be sellers at deadline, Bledsoe also involved

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Lauri is also in his last year and there is some talk of the Bulls moving him. It would be teams trading players with different skillsets to see if they would re-sign them because they aren't going to re-sign their own guy.

I think the Pels would have to attach extra value.

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correct.
It's more of a we don't want Lonzo anymore, and they don't want Lauri anymore, or to be clearer, neither want to pay what they will get and they don't fit their team, so it's time to move on from them.
And yes i think we have to give up more to get him, but i would do it. The Bulls aren't going to give us a 1st and Satoransky or Thad Young, for Lonzo, so i think this trade has to involve Lauri, unless there is a third team involved. And i'm not giving up a 1st for him either. They can have 2 2nds or something like that.

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Also, the Lauri fit would be...interesting. Bring him in off the bench in a heightened Melli role? Play Zion more at 3 and small ball 5? I don't know.

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That's the kind of things i'd like to see played around with to close the year out. Move Zion to the 3 and play Lauri with Adams at times. See how the offense looks with Lauri at the 5. I think the most important thing that has to happened with this team is Zion needs to become a better defender, or no combination of 4/5 guys is going to work unless we bring back AD.

There's no reason to care about wins and losses this year. Figure out what you have with your young players and whoever you get back in trades, make some more moves in the offseason and have a more stable team for the future going into next season.


Ball/Hart/Wash 2nd to Bulls
JJ/Lakers 22 1st to Celtics
Lauri/Nesmith/Satoransky to Pels

Sato can pretty much play the 1-3 in whatever role is needed.

And if i'm beign honest with myself, i think all the Bulls would offer is a straight Lonzo for Sato swap with maybe a 2nd or two offered as well, and to be honest, while i'm ok with that value, that doesn't solve the issue with SVG not playing Kira, b/c if that's the trade, and JJ goes to the Celtics for a pick or maybe Ojeleye, that doesn't really open up anything for Kira as SVG would just play Bledsoe/NAW/BI/Hart/Sato at the 1-2-3 spots, just like he's been doing when one guy is out, and it's pathetic that i'm having to look at trades that force our coach to play our first round pick by getting rid of two guards and not bringing a guard back.

They’ll only give up Zach if he demands to leave

Unless Lauri will get significantly less than Lonzo, I'd rather keep and overpay Lonzo than Lauri. I've only seen him when he plays the Pels but his defense is some of the worst I've ever seen, he makes Ryan Anderson look All NBA. I'd rather have neither, but I just don't see Lauri as a fit on this team. It'd be different if Zion was projecting as an elite defender, but that prospect seems iffy at the moment.

That same trade was put up on RealGM trades board and there was universal derision and agreement that the Pels wouldn’t do that.

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I've seen Bulls fans basically say nothing more than Satoransky and a 2nd.

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One of my best friends is a Bulls fan, he wouldn't even want Zo for free lol

a max for him is $35M in year 1. I don't think he's worth a max.
That would make him a top 20 paid player, and he's simply not worth that imo. I'm sure he thinks differently.

And besides that, the only team that can create the space necessary to give him a max that he would be willing to go to is Miami, which is a real possibility.
He's not signing a max to go fart around with the Knicks or Bulls. So unless he gets the max from Miami, I can't see him wanting to go play for a crappy team, and that probably includes us.

I had to google what a "stan" is. When did that stupid arse word become a thing?

20 years ago.

And we literally know it comes from 2000 because its origins are from an Eminem song called... Stan.

I mean...come on.