I love how you typed out a whole paragraph without actually stating anything or listing any “rumors” or teams that are interested in derozan. This shit is honestly embarrassing. How does the “king of the fourth” perform in the playoffs? Is there a playoff team willing to ignore a 35 y/os lifetime playoff stats at 20 ppg on 40% shooting in 40 MINUTES?? No there isn’t. Keep living in your fantasy world where the playoffs don’t matter I suppose
There is no trade value. We were the only team willing to pay derozan in the first place when he was a free agent. Who was going to match his salary as well as give us picks on top?? He was untradeable as soon as we signed him at 3/27
Demar at 30 mil is almost worse. No one is going to give that to a 35 y/o
The funny thing is as far as a mentor goes Derozan would be one of my last choices. Do we really want our young guys to look for their own shot first always and barely play defense?? He is actually a terrible example to look up to
Demar specifically needs to take a seat on this team. Even among his biggest fans there is no one that truly believes he can compete with top 20 players in the league. So why tf are we giving him 25 isos a game?? If even demar himself knows that when we get to the playoffs he can’t hang with the giannis/tatums of the league then why are we still pretending. Give 100% of his touches to someone who could grow into someone that can compete in the playoffs. We are wasting time with this 35 y/o for no reason at all
The way the Bulls PR has been acting these past few year is embarrassing. They’ve posted like 8 things about demar being clutch, king of the 4th etc. They are acting like he was dominant and had a 40 point game. Is anyone watching the rest of the nba?? Games are going up into the 140-130 range with good teams. Demar plays 40 minutes (AGAIN) and puts up 23 pts with an astounding -11 overall. How can anyone believe that is a good game in the modern nba??? And all of bulls social media are treating him like a king when he had a BAD GAME overall. It’s been the same since he got here, massive underperformance followed by endless praise by the media because they all like him…
You can’t be an old vet coming off the bench making 27 mil. That’s like 1/5th of the entire team’s cap
Excuse me, how exactly are we asking him to be anything else but himself? He pretty much gets unlimited touches and everyone clears out so he can 1v5. Are you saying on a different team he would iso in the midrange MORE? That’s all he does!!! Not to mention the fact that we give him the weakest defensive assignment every single time. There is no better fit for derozan. He doesn’t fit anywhere because iso midrange is bad basketball.
The demar comment: just wow. Apparently “real basketball” means iso mid range jumpers. Every successful nba team in the last 10 years have been circus performers because they figured out shooting 3s is a better way to play. Derozan is the clown for pretending otherwise
How can you say this with such confidence when our offensive efficiency numbers have been trash the entire time. His ball-stopping style of play is literally counter-productive to a modern nba offense and mid-range shots are the least efficient way to score in basketball. Yet somehow derozan is still efficient in your eyes
Derozan straight up plays like he is still in high school and needs to take over the game by himself, I’m not sure how anyone actually likes watching him play. I’m glad you pointed out how he’s good at PR, but his actions don’t actualy reflect what he’s saying. He talks about winning but does 0% of the dirty work required for winning. Talks about the team and does nothing except look for his own shot. That’s why I call him a fraud, he has to KNOW at this point that how he plays does not lead to a winning team
If derozan makes the hof it will be on volume alone. He or his team have never accomplished anything of note. That’s the thing about derozan, he “carries” his team to a shitty position every year, and then they lose in the playoffs when he disappears entirely. He’s just a fraud there’s no other way to put it his points don’t translate into success
The funny thing is that Derozan is also not system dependent. It really doesn’t matter what offense we run he is going to do the same thing regardless, it’s just bad. His style of play is truly at the expense of the entire team.