 What's the worry, y'all? Can you just give me a few minutes to talk about the Chicago Bulls? I think it's normal for NBA fandom to go in waves and ups and downs and everything. And right now I'm kind of on a high, a relative high when it comes to Chicago Bulls and I know this is extreme cope and I know this is just setting myself up for being disappointed, but I'm kind of excited about the Bull season. Let me talk about it. Everybody here knew, had this similar idea that the Bulls should be selling right now, right? You made the big three of Zach Levine, DeMar DeRose and Nikola Vusevich and for the most part it has a result to anything. We had the one stretch in the first year where everything was great. The first 40 games of the season, the Bulls were looking great. We had one play between the number one seed on the Eastern Conference. Obviously that has been extremely short-lived with some injuries to Lonzo Ball and then after that the Bulls fell off for the second half of the season. They make the playoffs and they losing five to the Milwaukee Bucks. Next season they say, hey, let's run it back. We won't be blindsided by a major injury of Lonzo Ball. We can go on to next season knowing exactly what our team is because we know that Zou's not hooping and it was a disaster. And if you ask most people in NBA fandom what NBA team is the most directionless, the answer for most people will be the Chicago Bulls. Zach Levine just signed a match extension last off season. DeMar DeRose is on the last of his deal. Hell, we just extended Nikola Vusevich. We have bought in to this mid three and still I'm kind of excited about the season. And I will say this again, I went into this off season thinking we should have made some adjustments. DeMar, Zach, Vusevich, like all three of them cannot be back. And here they are. Here we go. Because everything about the big three is bad. The eye tests, if you just watch the boys, you can tell that it doesn't really match. But the advanced stats say the same thing. When those three players are on the court together, they are a net negative. What big three? What all-star three is what they wanna call each other. Is a net negative when you're trying to compete. Remember, we traded away window carder Franz Wagner and basically Jeff Howard for Nikola Vusevich a couple years ago. You don't give up that much draft capital in a young promise and player to maybe make the plan to lose in the plan, right? A lot of us thought that, hey, you lost the deal, wipe your hands of it, just move on to the next direction and they decided to double down. With all of that being said, considering the direction of the team, I thought that they had a decent off season. Again, and this is only because they decided to stay pack. The best off season is making the adjustments. But since they didn't make the adjustments, the moves around it kind of help. You got Javon Carter in on a pretty solid deal. Javon Carter has been a flamethrower from behind the arc and obviously he's a hard nose, getting to your Grio type defender. Tori Craig is another wing body that we desperately, desperately needed over the years. They brought back Kobe White who showed us last season a lot of things. Now, maybe not the things that people compared him to Gilbert Areen is coming out of college. Cause that's the real thing. It's player accomplice, Gilbert Areenis. Now he ain't that, but he showed us a lot over the last season from the offensive and defensive stance where I was excited about having him back on the team regardless of the direction. If they decided to sell everything, I wanted Kobe White to stay on his team and he is. Then the last thing of course was bringing back Ayuda Sumo on what a three year, $21 million deal. Obviously you look at that team on paper, you still say, hey, matter of fact, let's do the thought experiment. Let's do the experiment. Is it likely that the Bulls will be better than the Bucks? Nope, that's one team. How about the Celtics? Nope, what about the 76ers? Nope, they don't know what's going on with James Harden. But I still feel confident the 76ers will be better than the Bulls. How about the Cavaliers? Nope, how about the Nicks? Nope, the Nets, I could see a world where the Bulls have a better record than the Nets. I could see a world where the Bulls have a better record than the Hawks. But again, that's saying, I do believe the Hawks are gonna be good this season. The Heat probably not. The Raptors, there's a world where it could happen. And then we not even talking about the teams like the Pacers who could take a jump or the Magic that could take a jump or whatever, whatever. So at the bare minimum, there are six teams that everybody could pretty much say what consensus are better than the Bulls. So what does that put you as a perennial? Is that the word? Playing team. It's not good. Yeah, still here I am thinking, hey, maybe things break a little bit, right? No, no, no, not break in the sense that we about to make a final split because that would be asking that. But break to the sense that we could potentially end up top six. And right now in my fandom, because they decided to do this, that's what I need. You know what I'm saying? I think the perfect example, the perfect off-season was starting fresh, but they didn't. So now we have to tinker the expectations and say, hey, end up top six, that'll be fine. I'm hearing myself talk and I just realizing how much I'm coping with the TV and just not good. I went back and because we're in the off-season, I'm watching a ton of random NBA stuff. And actually, I can show you the exact game I was watching the other day. It was this game versus the Minnesota Timbers. I was watching this game or the highlights of this game. And I was just thinking to myself, we really had this starting lineup with Paul Zipser, David Nwaba, Denzel Valentine, and stuff. Heavy, heavy on the tank. They won 27 games and they won 22 games and they won 22 games. And the end result of our tanking seasons is this roster. Think about it, every time you see a team tank and then they turn the corner, which I would say that's what the Bulls did when they decided to trade all of the stuff away and buy into DeMar Vuch and Zach Levin. They turn the corner. You have to think about the years that you endured as a fan of watching terrible basketball and figure out, was it worth it? Did I just watch three years of 27 wins, 22 wins and 22 wins for this team to be still not good? I did that. But there are, even with all that, considered the bright spots. And this is why I'm excited about the season. Oh my God, I'm doing it. I'm doing it. Oh, I cannot believe I'm doing it. Listen, I'm a hypocrite. I'm saying it right now. There's been times in this channel where I've told people do not fall for no off-season workout stuff because everybody looks like a god in a gym without other NBA players. You can probably compilate all the basketball clips that I have on YouTube and say, dang, Kenny kind of nice on the court. Kenny's not nice on the court. So don't fall for the off-season workout, but I did, all right? I fell for it. Look at this man who, it's Ty, baby. It's Pete Willie Ty, baby. That's against Evan Mobley. Hold on, aren't you really good defensively? Stop that. Who is this? I don't even know who guard you. I can't even see the face. I don't, it doesn't matter, but it's blackout. And I just, I, man, man, man. If there's any player that is going to unlock a mid-roster, it's this man right here. But throughout the course of a young Patrick Williams' career, he's been basically delegated to be the fourth option at best. Zach Levine, DeMar DeRose, and Vucivis, those are offensive first players, which is funny because the Bulls offense sucks. Those are offensive first players, which means that Patrick Williams has been a spot-up three-point shooting. He's a really good one. He was like 16th in the league on catch and shoot threes. He's a really good spot-up three-point shooter. When you draft the guy fourth overall for his potential, I believe you have to put him in the position to maximize that potential. And that's not what we've done. Now I'm not going to look at these off-season highlights and forget about the Patrick Williams that I saw during the regular season last year, where he was hesitant to put the ball on the floor, where sometimes when he did, he still shuffled the puppies in and turned the ball over because he's traveling, or there being times where the teammates on the roster had to tell him to shoot the ball. Like that aggression thing, I can't look past that because of this off-season workout, but he just became old enough to take a sip of alcohol. He just became old enough to take a sip of alcohol, there are people that were drafted in this year's draft that are older than Patrick Williams. And I say all of that to say, there's such a long time left in his career for him to develop, but with him being the fourth option, it's a lot more difficult for him to turn into the player that some of us believe he can be. I'm not a guy that's telling you he's going to turn into a koa or anything like that, but his career shouldn't be spotting up in a corner and hitting corner jump shots. Like there's a lot more to him. This graph right here shows you his play type by usage. All of his, most of his attempts, his play types were just spotting up. 2% on ISO, 7% on pick and roll ball, handling 6% as a roll man, 7% on cuts and then handoffs and screens and stuff. Hold on, this don't even equal a hundred. So it's not a percentage points, but this just shows you that he is primarily a spotter player at this point in his career when he could, he should be able to experiment on all of these different fronts to figure out who he is as a player. But since the team has decided they want to be fake competitive, it prevents him from doing this. I don't know fellas, I just feel like there is a world where the Bulls are at least okay and I'm still super high on Patrick Williams. Did I say anything of value today? Probably not, but hey, it's just, tell me what you think about the Bulls. Actually don't, actually don't do that. I know what you think about the Bulls.