What are you hoping to get in return? A player like Alex Caruso? Multiple players to make up what Caruso does? Draft picks that can hopefully turn into a Caruso? WE ALREADY HAVE A CARUSO AND AT A GREAT PRICE. And y’all keep wanting to give him up. Honestly what is the logic?
And please don’t let it be “hE dEsErVeS tO bE oN a CoNtEnDiNg TeAm”. That’s the most losing attitude answer possible and doesn’t make any sense. We’re supposed to be the contenders. Did you forget which team you’re a fan of? Cherry on top: the guy already has a ring. And his prowess lately only promotes his legacy in that regard. Showing how much of in impact towards winning he influences when he’s on a team.
You trade away diminishing assets, not assets that are clearly increasing in value and for THE SAME PRICE. He’s literally the best thing going on this team and the same group that whines about the Bulls not buckling down on player development are the first to whine about trading everyone away.
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Imagine this. You’re a GM on any other team, trying to win. Hey, we could really use a guy like Caruso and on his contract. Let’s trade for him. He’s going to impact winning. Ok what can we trade for him? Ideally these pieces that we don’t consider to impact winning as much as him.
Now you’re back on the Bulls side. How would that be an improvement? You just gave away a winning piece for losing pieces.
People like OP frustrate the living hell out of me…. Anyone saying don’t trade “player X” is wrong. This team needs a literal complete tear down and rebuild. Caruso probably has the 2nd most value on our team slightly behind Lavine. Demar and Vuc I don’t think have much value at all and maybe some of the bench guys like Drummond and Craig can net you a second rounder. This team has no future whatsoever and they don’t even have their own picks in the future. They need to trade Caruso tomorrow while his value is at an all time high and before he gets hurt going at it 100% every second
And you know that huh? Because that’s worked before?
A lot of people here want to sell off all out good players for trash and kids in middle school because the idea of making trades to retool a roster isn’t sexy for ESPN’s “rings or rebuild” that a lot of online sports fans buy into.
What, objectively, is so wrong about building into a solid playoff team? Do you guys get paid by Jerry of the team wins a title? Are Bulls going to mail you a ring? If not who gives a fuck. The goal shouldn’t be a title. The goal should be to provide 82 entertaining games a year with the playoffs being a bonus. If that’s not the goal why even have a regular season? Just contract the league to four teams and have them play the conference finals and have the wins go for the title. Apparently everything else is meaningless.
What do you hope to do with Caruso? Sign him to a new, more expensive deal while he gets older on a team going nowhere?
It’s painfully obvious why the Bulls would (and probably should) trade Caruso. I’d suggest reading up on how so many championship teams were formed and then see if you’re still asking this same question.
The fan base in this subreddit is probably the most unsupportive group I can think of. It’s like y’all hate your team. Why are you even fans of the Bulls? Honestly. You hate watching them, you hate their moves, the players, the coach. Like what are you even doing?