The $ 100 million agreement Josh Giddey is a crushed for the point guard, but what are the bulls building?
After more than two months of negotiations, the Chicago Bulls and Josh Giddey found common land with a new contract for a value of $ 100 million in four years.
The Bulls, who wanted Giddey to return to a price of $ 20 million a year, collided with the requests of Giddey of $ 30 million per year.
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Now, after two and a half months, the two sides have divided the difference, which makes the question poses: why the delay, since they ended up with the most obvious solution anyway?
Slam Dunk for Giddey
One hundred million dollars for Giddey are a lot of money for someone who is not particularly efficient, who is not a natural shooter and who is a real poor defender.
Many people will indicate its raw production (14.6 points, 8.1 rebounds, 7.2 assists) and argue that its all -round statistical line deserves the contract. It is an understandable position to take. Players who approach a triple medium double influence the game in many different ways, is certainly a fair topic to do about Giddey.
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Having said that, Giddey’s lack of ability to play out of the ball is what makes it difficult to evaluate this agreement just outside the raw statistics. The bulls must essentially structure their offense around him and adapt their spacing to when he is on the pitch, culminating in the inevitable fact that they are building their team around him.
Is there another level in Giddey’s game? I hope so, since he is only 22 years old. But from what we have seen in four seasons so far, Giddey is not of this quality that Chicago, or any other team, can justify the construction of a team around him. Oklahoma City Thunder drastically improved their spacing and collective defense, simply making it fall from the roster (replacing it with Alex Caruso did not hurt).
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Fortunately for Chicago, in today’s NBA, $ 25 million are not money in franchise. So, from a financial point of view, the bulls could go worse in this sense.
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But only because they did not hand him $ 30 million a year does not remove the obstacles in the field clearly present.
What is the plan in Chicago?
The Giddey contract is not the main problem here. If anything, it is another symptom of the complete lack of a global Chicago plan.
Where do the bulls go from here with Giddey occupies the ball and dictate the offense?
Chicago cannot extend Coby White, who is gaining too little to make sense for him. He is entering the season with Nikola Vučević still on the roster, after years of commercial voices. Patrick Williams is still on the roster, taking $ 18 million a year to score nine points per game.
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Everything aims at another lap of serious mediocrity, perhaps more starting from the games tournament and an uninteresting approach to the construction of the roster. This is a team that does not appreciate the draft choices, has no desire to build through the draft and is not willing to spend the money necessary to go all-in.
The self -imposed limitations of the organization, which transport more than year after year, are only further underlined by this new Giddey contract, as it will bring more or less the same, bringing anything new to the table.
So congratulations to Bulls and Giddey for making this agreement. Absolutely nothing changes.