I dont ever post in the bulls forum, at least thisi is my first time. I was reading these posts and I can see everyone is passionate in what they think will help the bulls, so I'll add my two cents. Personally I wouldnt want Melo on our team, he can score, true, but he just doesn't fit this team as its built in any way. He scores, thats it, he doesn't play defense, which would drive Thibs insane. He has to have the ball too much to be effective, which takes away from Rose, which we will need. Now I'm not saying we can't get a scoring type to pair with Rose on this team, but it has to be someone that can play within the framwork of how Thibs wants things done. They will have to not only score, but play well with Rose, and most importantly play defense. If Lebron hits free agency, he would be a good fit, IMO. He scores, but he isn't a type to keep Rose from scoring, he seems to be a team first type, and he will play defense. I think he and Rose would be a dominate tandem without a doubt, and if Lebron actually looks at it he'll see that. I don't think Rose would have a problem playing with Lebron at all, it's about championships, and I'm sure Rose wants those badly.
That said, I don't know what Lebron is gonna do, so looking at things, couldn;t we do a sign and trade with Luol? I'm not sure how the rules work but couldn't we offer him more? I don't wanna get into trade scenarios, but I'm sure if we could pull off a sign and trade we could get some good talent back, while leaving us some money to go get some other players, plus we have the bobcats pick, which we could trade with our own pick to move up in the draft, depending where we are with both picks. I'm positive we can get a real good young kid told mold into this team. with either a high pick from the bobcats, or if they actually win enough to push it down, we could package the picks, and go get a young stud who could star with Rose. We could also let Luol walk and sign someone like Granger, who may not be the greatest player, but in all honesty may be the best fit in free agency for our team. He scores, and plays good defense. He and Rose could be pretty good together, throw in a possible high pick in the draft, and Mirotic coming over, with Butler, and we could have something great. Granger wouldn't be too far a drop off defensively from Luol, plus his offense would be better, IMO. I know it isn't the sexiest signing name out there, but I really believe Granger would add some scoring pop, while still not causing us to lose much on the defensive end. Snell hopefully will develop as well, Butler should take another step this year as well.
Looking at this years team, how it's shaping us, our defensive could be extremely dominate, Noah, Butler, and Deng, plus Rose's defense could give teams fits. I don't think much of Boozer, and would love to see us find some poor sucker to trade him to, but it is what it is there. Personally I think Gibson gives us more. He plays good defense, can score when needed, and if he started we would have all five starters playing tenacious defense. Our scoring should go up some with the return of Rose, Butler's further development, and I think the bench will be strong. We"ll have Dunleavy, who isn't too bad on defense, and can score , Hinrich should be more effective coming off the bench, Teague hopefully is gonna follow the same delopmental arc that Butler had, if he does, he spells Rose, and we lose nothing there. Likely Gibson's coming off the bench, and will be very effective, Snell hopefully will play well enough to provide help off the bench. I worry about us not really having a decent backup to Noah. Noah gets injured alot, and I don't know how much whatshisname has left, sorry his name slips my mind.
I'm sorry for the long post, I just wanted to add my thoughts, and once I got started I guess I had a lot more to say than I thought origionally. Don't be to hard on me, I'm usually in the Bears forum, but I'm also a diehard bulls fan as well as the cubs.
