So assuming he's a stretch 4/can't guard the 3, now the Bulls have 3 PF's - you've got to think one of Gibson, Mirotic, Gasol is going to be moved for a perimeter scorer, because they've got creaky Rose and that's it, right? Or is Gasol just a bridge until Mirotic is ready?
I think they drafted McDermott for that reason and they have Butler. I think your latter theory is correct.
Yeah they would have had to in order to make the Gasol deal official. After the Boozer amnesty they would have just enough to sign Gasol. Which says to me that they are using the full MLE to sign Mirotic & the BAE on resigning Hinrich. I would think the Boozer amnesty wire should get a decent amount of traction though. I know the guy gets alot of grief, but on the right deal he's still a half-way decent player. Since he's essentially going to be a one year contract, I fully anticipate that Morey will go after him.
Snell is tearing up summer league for them too, could get some play at SF or SG if Butler slides over. I see Gasol being a 20 minutes a game guy, mostly backing up Noah. Mirotic is a question mark until he takes the floor. Bulls are DEEP. Rose/Hinrich Butler/Snell Dunleavy/Dougie Gibson/Mirotic Noah/Gasol Even if Rose is 70% of his old self, that is a very strong all around team. Less Rose-centric which is good.
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Interested to see how this plays out, since the Rockets drafted Mirotic and traded him for Dmo and Johnny Flynn.
The trade was agreed to before the #23 pick was made. The Rockets selected Mirotic for the Bulls as a formality. Mirotic was never "the Rockets' pick."
The Mirotic-Donuts trade does make me wonder. I'd sure like to see the scouting report and hear Morey's reasoning for Donuts over Mirotic at that time.
Truth be told Dunleavy and McDermott should be play a 50/50 split between the 3 and 4. I don't see how they are going to make this work.
Not just can, he's a center at this point, he shouldn't play at 4. He's less agile than Kaman now. He should be fine as a nominal starting 4 next to Noah for some minutes, with Noah acting as more of a 4 defensively in that lineup. But I suspect that most of Gasol's minutes will be as a backup 5.
My guess is that the Rockets liked both, but D-Mo got the edge because they knew Mirotic wouldn't be able to come over for at least another 3 years.
Yeah probably I suppose. While I'm not sold on Donuts, neither am I sold on Mirotic. I see a lot of Vlad Rad in Mirotic. Good shooter. But slow as a snail. Don't know if the rest of his offensive game is going to click in the NBA and I'm pretty convinced he'll always have negative value on the defensive end.
And we got one of our awesome '09ers in that trade, Johnny Flynn, who in 2009 was better than Stephen Curry. (according to Minnesota) btw: didn't we also give up a future first rounder in the trade. Curious what happened to that. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2011/news/story?id=6698564
