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Very interested to see the last moves. A Lauri trade should materialize in the next day or two I'd assume. Sign Niang as a defensive C with the MLE?

I believe MLE got used on Caruso
 

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I thought I read somewhere they still had some sort of exception. A trade exception in the theis deal?
It was a 3 team S&T. Theis to HOU, Caruso to CHI, 4-5m TPE to LA.

They have been very creative with the finances this off season for sure.
 

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The problem with trading first rounders, especially years out, is you never know what could happen. Furthermore we gave them Thad Young, who is a very solid player and very Spurs-ian, for a guy they weren't re-signing anyway. We overpaid.
 

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The problem with trading first rounders, especially years out, is you never know what could happen. Furthermore we gave them Thad Young, who is a very solid player and very Spurs-ian, for a guy they weren't re-signing anyway. We overpaid.
So what are we now 4-6 seed in the East? Worst case scenario if this new team falls flat blow it all up to get picks back lol.
 

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how do we stack up against them? We got allot of shiny new toys but do we even compete with these teams?
 

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This team ain't gonna be able to shoot a lick.
 

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This team ain't gonna be able to shoot a lick.
We have Lavine and Vucevic I am not sure what you mean.

Lonzo is meh I guess, but he's not as trash as he once was so take what you can get there I suppose. Derozan of course refuses to shoot any 3s, but he can hang around the midrange while PWill takes the 3s instead.
 

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We have Lavine and Vucevic I am not sure what you mean.

Lonzo is meh I guess, but he's not as trash as he once was so take what you can get there I suppose. Derozan of course refuses to shoot any 3s, but he can hang around the midrange while PWill takes the 3s instead.
Isn't derozan the only guy on the roster that can't shoot 3s?
 

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The Bulls were a lot better team than their record last year. They just didn't know how to close games.

They should be a solid team that gets to the 2nd round. But yeah, Nets, Bucks and Sixers are still clearly better.
 

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The Bulls were a lot better team than their record last year. They just didn't know how to close games.

They should be a solid team that gets to the 2nd round. But yeah, Nets, Bucks and Sixers are still clearly better.

I dunno that the sixers are clearly better. But the nets are certainly loaded, and the bucks have Giannis. That’s why I’m sad they traded Thad. He was a body to help defend Giannis
 

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I dunno that the sixers are clearly better. But the nets are certainly loaded, and the bucks have Giannis. That’s why I’m sad they traded Thad. He was a body to help defend Giannis
Yeah true about Thad.

I think that the Nets win the title easily this year if their big 3 was even close to healthy. Same goes next year really. I don't know how you stop all 3.
 

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great spacing, they can get to the rim, shoot the mid range, and aren't bad defensively
 

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I thought I read somewhere they still had some sort of exception. A trade exception in the theis deal?
They have an 8 mil exception from the theis trade and they still have their BAE. AK killing this off season so far
 

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