 What's the word y'all these Chicago Bulls are cursed and I guess that's a price you pay when you win six in a decade But the entirety of my life as a Bulls fan feel like it's misfortune after misfortune Important injury after important injury. I'm fed up and I'm tired. Yeah, I'm being kind of hyperbolic But still like it's been pretty bad. Let's go through some of the just a point guard misfortunes as as a Bulls fan in My lifetime in 2002. We had the second overall pick and we draft J Williams a young promising point guard who was really good in college He plays his rookie season. He was subpar but he's a he's a rookie point guard, right? Then he gets into a motorcycle accident and completely ends his NBA career He doesn't play NBA basketball again after that. Luckily in 2003 We draft like the greatest point guard in Bulls history other than Darren Rose At least that's what it feels like Captain Kirk Hirage even today people are talking about Captain Kirk because we miss just just decent and Consistent point guard play we had it, but then of course the first overall pick we draft there grows He becomes the youngest MVP in NBA history He's leading the Chicago Bulls to a number one seed in the Easter conference leading the Chicago Bulls to one of the best defensive teams in The years and then you know what happens to that store and then on a very lesser scale because it's not a lot of people We're looking at Chris Dunn is the point guard of the future the guy that was gonna save the organization Chris Dunn have some bad injuries in his last couple seasons with the Chicago Bulls and then lastly we have today We're Lonzo ball. We knew it was bad. We made a video about it like two weeks ago. We knew it was bad We was just waiting for for how bad and uh, it's basically the worst-case scenario if I'm being honest with you Starts off here 25 days ago Chicago Bulls Lonzo ball expects to miss training camp down for for the start of the season And then it gets to this point breaking Chicago Bulls Lonzo ball to undergo knee surgery ahead of training camp And then we get here Lonzo could miss entire season. Oh My god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I just gotta say I feel so bad for Lonzo ball. He's what 24 He's 24 close to 25 years old and he's had three different knee surgeries three different And we knew Bulls fans We knew that signing Lonzo ball came with his risk again before he even got here He's had some knee problems and there's one of the reasons why the pelicans feel confident enough to say Hey, even though you're a solid player and you're okay with us We're okay with basically use losing you for nothing because we don't really trust your health like that Bulls fans knew what they were getting into but now they were actually into it is terrible, bro It feels terrible, especially with the East around us getting so much better. It's just so much better This is about to be a dog fight of an NBA season in Eastern Conference. And guess what? Hypothetically the Bulls fall off a cliff in a sense that they don't they make the play in and don't make them Don't make the playoffs or whatever. We ain't got that big I think it's top four protected your lendo magic are looking at this news and and though They don't want to wish injure on anybody because they have their own stuff of Mark Hill folks His toe and then John Isaac not having a timetable, which is Hello, it's been two seasons, you know, um, they not wish injuries on anybody But they like a we got windail. We got Frans with your pick a couple years ago You tell me we got one more coming this year W Foss But the Bulls fans we like man like this might not be a big story for anybody else out of Bulls nation But if you watch the Bulls this season when Lonzo was healthy It was a whole different story the defense was turned up to a thousand The way this team ran in transition was better than anything I've ever seen as far as a Bulls team post Derek Rose and it was just like poetry And that's weird to even say cuz it's not like Lonzo ball is magic Johnson Even even though some people thought he might turn into magic John's he wasn't magic Johnson But when it came to that that fast court break not a lot of people better and seeing the floor on the break Of course like any other player. He has deficiencies He doesn't get to the rim as much you would want a guy with this athleticism to do He doesn't do anything other than take threes and do a step back three occasionally But that was cool for what the Chicago Bulls needed and now we trying to plug in holes that we didn't really Think that we were gonna have to go into the season I guess you can say that's not completely true because we signed Gorin Drogic which might have been the writing on the wall for his Bulls fans We should have looked in that a little while and I'll be like a we sign a Gorin Drogic Lonzo ball Alice Caruso I'll assume who Kobe why who feels forgotten about why we get another point guard? This is the reason why and in the media day They were basically said at the point guard positions up for grabs right now between I owe Alice Caruso and Gorin George and we don't really know but there's there's no great outcome from this bro Say he was struggling to walk upstairs, man Think about he was struggling to walk upstairs when things start to get into personal life That's when you know it's a rough situation. Like yeah, you can't run you can't jump That's for a normal person that ain't that big of a deal because we ain't working out like like we supposed to anyway But if you can't walk upstairs, it's a whole different monster. So again, I'm gonna stress this again Bulls fans And we don't want to hear it. This this might be a very very rough season for us I'm subverting my own personal expectations I'm gonna go to the United Center as much as I can because I love the Chicago Bulls and I love basketball But my expectations for this Bulls team is every single day It feels like it's getting lower and lower and lower I we have to hope that I owed the sue moves like him I guess it's a possibility But like it's a low possibility just because of the circumstances and y'all about it Just talking about this by the big me sad because now I'm trying to think about the two-year forecast three-year forecast of the Chicago Bulls And this grim it's extremely grim compared to the rest of teams around basketball It's not like the court that we have is an NBA championship caliber core. It's just not let's be real It's not an NBA championship caliber core. We've got a lot of money tied into the Marta Bros. A lot of money tied into Vucevich who's a Unrestricted for agency season. We'll see how that goes a lot of money tied into Zach Levine A lot of money to lines of all that is the court that we have built and even at a full strength Even though at one point we were the number one team in the Eastern Conference going to the all-star break Everybody knew those fools go everybody knew that this team was cool in the playoffs and fun for some highlights But we was a really good Peter for nothing and in that moment in time. That was cool with me I was completely okay just turning on the Bulls game and not having to expect the loss was a W It's the first time I've been able to do that in like five years, but now I was like, damn Maybe the way we built this roster ain't the greatest. What's the pivot? What's the pivot because as of right now and this bulls team should be pivoting now I'm not saying pivoting the system. Oh, we got a straight display. We got straight display They got triple display. No, but we have to figure out the forecast What is our plan two years from now instead of being like right now? We look I so we cool with that I'm not turning on the front office because again, I'm extremely grateful for having a season that wasn't terrible It seemed like some of the deals that they did were like very short-sighted and Especially with the boost of history. I'm just being honest with especially with the boost of history Maybe I don't say this a boost if it's a silly all-star caliber player that it was two years ago But still the boost of history was a very short-sighted trade considering we already exactly being in who everybody knows It's not a plus defender and boost of it's is one of the worst starting centers when it comes to his defense We were like, okay, not a big deal And in the moment I was excited about that trade because we just got another all-star caliber player for sure But even if you watch that video, I'm like You know We'll see how it goes. So you got the more aging and but The mark doesn't seem like the type that would age terribly even though he does take and make a ton And I mean a ton of tough jump shots I still believe he's gonna be a dude that's gonna be successful in the NBA for for the Majority of his contract or the end of his contract not saying he's gonna be all NBA again Because I don't think that's gonna happen. But just being a very good Very good all-star caliber. We'll say that all-star caliber player. I feel confident about that I feel confident that Zach Levine is gonna be all-star caliber player for the entirety of his contract But let's be real Zach Levine hasn't been the pinnacle of health now these overall playing games I can't be mad at 67 games when you think about when you watch those games It it feels like a few adults bro shouldn't have been out there Let's be real because he was dealing with the entries. He's dealing with the thumb He was dealing with the knee who he also is coming off a knee surgery if you don't remember he hurt himself So it's like knock on wood because I would never wish this on any player or especially not a player in my organization If Zach misses time this season like it What do we do? And then we look at the game log of the last month or so of the NBA season Obviously, it was extremely rough for the Chicago Bulls. They won six games in these last couple I'm a count seven Zach Levine and play this on seven and the last 20 or so This is basically what our roster is gonna look like. There's no Lonzo ball, but this lineup is basically what we're dealing with You know, I do believe that Patrick Williams gonna come in and have a successful season Maybe I'm not believing in it, but I'm wishing it. You know what I'm saying I hope I hope so but either way this is basically our roster I don't look at drumming and look at Gordon's logic as being these saviors of anything because that's just not what they were Signed for you know how it can be you know how it can be still again I don't want anything to be taken out of context even though I already know there's gonna be the seven percent of people that's misinterpreted what I'm saying I'm still excited for Bulls basketball. I will never turn my back on my organization But I'm also being a realist when I'm talking about NBA teams. I'm not gonna give you some extreme bite Actually, I was there's this thing called Reverse bias, which is still just bias but like maybe because it is my team I'm being ultra hard on them instead of being completely Lovey-dovey about everything. You know what I'm saying like normal bias is like man My best player is the best player in the league. That's normal bias my team about to dominate this is the league this year That's normal bias, but reverse bias is like my team is terrible, bro We the worst even basket like reverse by it's like again subverting your expectations So if anything does go bad, you can't feel any pain. That's what we doing That's we doing not to mention last year the Bulls didn't win a single game against a good team I'm just being real up the top team now We won games these good teams a top team and become a storyline and basketball ladies and gentlemen Anytime they lost the game to a top team. My mentors was flooded demar the fraud the frozen in Chicago frauds and let's not do that this year because yes, there's no expectations. So anything we do that's a plus Thank you. Don't don't come up into this. All right lines of all get well soon We we hoping and praying for a speedy recovery for you and hopefully the other guys hold it down while you out