Bulls Fan Here With a Potential Trade and Wondering Your Thoughts

I’m not really good at looking at possible trades, especially with NBA teams. The one big thing that sticks out at me is that if Rick Sund really wanted Caron Butler at the MLE, he’d just offer that to him. I have doubts about whether management thinks we need anything more than a good back-up for Marvin Williams. I have hopes that perhaps, after his back surgery, he can be a solid contributor this year. It’s a far cry from the star we thought we were getting when we drafted him, but it’s not his fault that we took him instead of Chris Paul.

Frankly, I’d hate to see Hinrich go. Mostly because everyone I’ve seen play PG over the past 4 years or so has been a terrible defender, and he is not. Teague’s defense is still somewhat of a question-mark. We don’t know what he’s going to look like with more extended playing time.

That salary for Crawford looks reasonable, though. This does look like a favorable deal for the Hawks-I honestly wouldn’t do this if I were the Bulls, but they’re the ones with the supposed interest in Crawford, not me. I would say that the lack of a decent back-up for Josh Smith is a sticking point-Pape Sy is a 2/3, probably more a SG than anything else in the future. But then, the Hawks were quite content with utterly useless guys like Josh Powell and Etan Thomas on the depth chart last year, so what do I know? They’ll probably try to sign Jason Collins for the veteran minimum yet again as the third string center.

It’s actually a curiosity to me, though, if the Hawks end up doing a S&T of Crawford. There’s almost no way to do that without going into the luxury, something they’ve desperately avoided up until now. Even if they just took back Brewer and Watson, it’s still going into the luxury a fair amount, so I don’t know why wouldn’t maybe package Hinrich in too. So yeah, not a poorly conceived idea.

I’m not completely sold on Caron Butler being a useful piece for the Hawks, though.

Then you go and post this trade on our site, that makes even less sense, SMH

Let me educate you, here is the trade Hawks fans want to have:

Jamal for Asik and Brewer.

If you still have your crush on Captain Kirk, I offered you another trade for him,

Asik and Taj and Korver for Captain Kirk.

Now you are being greedy and want both Jamal and Captain Kirk, so I say give us Brewer and Asik and Taj and Korver.

Remember as I told you before, even your own Chicago writer agreed that you have to give up your big men to get creators to help Rose.

Again quoting from the article because you seem to have short term memory loss,

“But to reach the same level they’re going to have to get better, in part by having a player who can take some of the offensive pressure off Rose and Deng. If that means making a trade that cuts into the Bulls’ depth, which is a clear advantage, then perhaps that’s the way Foreman and Paxson will have to go. I wouldn’t want to trade Asik or Gibson either, but the conference finals proved Rose has to have a better wingman. Is O.J. Mayo still available? Courtney Lee? And if so, is either the upgrade that helps the Bulls slip past Miami? (Probably not.) Would you give up a “big” who can score and defend to get a 15-points-per-game scorer?

And so, this is the game Bulls watchers are going to play for the next month and beyond, particularly if the team isn’t as good as it was in the last regular season, or if Miami gets out of the gate quickly.

Would the Bulls be willing (able?) to get Brandon Roy after amnesty, and if so how much does Roy have left? Where is the trade sleeper, the kid from Golden State or Sacramento who will blossom playing with Rose and Deng, whose value to a contender is much greater than to a last-place or rebuilding team?:

http://espn.go.com/chicago/nba/story/_/id/7299273/chicago-bulls-need-acquire-offensive-help-afford-it

Good luck finding creators to help Rose, who is the only one that matters on your team