Latest / Kenny For Real / The Chicago Bulls Are...Good?
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The Chicago Bulls are one of the last three undefeated
- 0:03Speaker 1: teams left in basketball?
- 0:05Speaker 2: What is this league that we love?
- 0:08Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, before the season started, I
- 0:10Speaker 1: made a video about the one thing slash one player
- 0:12Speaker 1: on the Chicago Bulls, so I was the most excited for.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Of course, that was Modis Bozello's and my expectation going
- 0:17Speaker 1: to the season was fun but not so good NBA team.
- 0:21Speaker 1: So far, through the first five games, we've been good.
- 0:24Speaker 1: And I don't I don't know how to balance the
- 0:29Speaker 1: feelings and emotions attached to being five and oh right
- 0:32Speaker 1: now right the people that are in the numbers will
- 0:35Speaker 1: let you know that the opposing teams are shooting historically
- 0:38Speaker 1: bad against the Chicago Bulls, and maybe just them, the
- 0:42Speaker 1: teams that we go against shooting league average, that five
- 0:44Speaker 1: and oh start is not nearly five and oh, that
- 0:47Speaker 1: real time regression is coming.
- 0:49Speaker 2: But is it really just that simple?
- 0:52Speaker 1: Like, are the reason that the Bulls are five and
- 0:54Speaker 1: oh just because the opposing teams can't shoot against them
- 0:56Speaker 1: right now?
- 0:57Speaker 2: Or is there something else happening? Is there a combination
- 0:59Speaker 2: of the two? I don't know.
- 1:02Speaker 1: I want to say this. The last twenty five games
- 1:06Speaker 1: the Bulls to play again. Dating back to the last season,
- 1:08Speaker 1: the Bulls are twenty and five.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Twenty five is.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Something we say about the OKC Thunder, about the Cleveland Cavaliers,
- 1:15Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets, not the Bulls. Our Chunis Carney Show
- 1:22Speaker 1: is a guy who I've been so damn critical of
- 1:24Speaker 1: over the last four years that he accidentally find something
- 1:28Speaker 1: or was it even an exit to start off with?
- 1:30Speaker 1: Was his whole plan was to get the Ragtime group
- 1:32Speaker 1: of mixed misfits to run the NBA. One of the
- 1:36Speaker 1: questions I had going to the season on the Kenny
- 1:38Speaker 1: beach In podcast, Oh It's not even called that no more.
- 1:40Speaker 1: On Small Ball with Kenny Beacham, when I did an
- 1:42Speaker 1: episode where I was talking about one question I had
- 1:45Speaker 1: about all thirty teams in the NBA going into the season,
- 1:47Speaker 1: The question I heard about the Bulls was, will any
- 1:50Speaker 1: of your reclamation projects work? The way the Bulls have
- 1:53Speaker 1: ran their organization over the last couple of seasons. All
- 1:56Speaker 1: of the trades they made are getting pieces that have
- 2:00Speaker 1: showed that they can be okay basketball players but haven't
- 2:03Speaker 1: been working out at the previous stot. Kevin Herder was
- 2:05Speaker 1: a part of a team that went to the conference
- 2:06Speaker 1: finals with the Atlanta Hawks. He got to the Sacramento Kings.
- 2:09Speaker 1: They were lying to beam it was great, and then
- 2:10Speaker 1: the second year of that it wasn't good.
- 2:13Speaker 2: Jalen Smith was a.
- 2:14Speaker 1: Former top ten pick that had been on a couple
- 2:16Speaker 1: different teams. Josh Getty was a young promising player that
- 2:20Speaker 1: before the season where okay See was the one seed
- 2:22Speaker 1: made to the postseason a few years ago, he was
- 2:24Speaker 1: on every twenty five under twenty five list, but he
- 2:27Speaker 1: got to the postseason and he couldn't play. Isca Corro
- 2:30Speaker 1: was the top what five was He number five in
- 2:31Speaker 1: that draft, number five, number six in that year's draft class,
- 2:34Speaker 1: and he was traded away for a role player. So
- 2:35Speaker 1: the entire identity of the Bulls from the front office
- 2:38Speaker 1: perspective is to get guys that we've seen be good
- 2:41Speaker 1: or have steal potential to be good, throw them on
- 2:43Speaker 1: the same team and see what happens.
- 2:44Speaker 2: And again, through five games, it's kinda been working good.
- 2:48Speaker 1: But there's the limb of it all because I just
- 2:51Speaker 1: I've watched the scrimmages of cam Boozer. I watched the
- 2:54Speaker 1: scrimmageron and Danren Peterson. I watched the scrimmages of all
- 2:57Speaker 1: the top end guys who just looked like automatic superstars
- 3:01Speaker 1: in basketball one day, right, and this is the year
- 3:04Speaker 1: we might be.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Might be good Now.
- 3:06Speaker 1: I was listening to No Dunks and Trey Kirby had
- 3:09Speaker 1: a stat that said that we went through all of
- 3:11Speaker 1: the teams that started off four and oh. I'm sure
- 3:13Speaker 1: that number has changed now that the Bulls are five
- 3:15Speaker 1: and zero, and a few teams that started off four
- 3:18Speaker 1: and oh in recent history didn't make the postseason, right,
- 3:22Speaker 1: So that's not out of the realm possibility for the
- 3:23Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls. And maybe we showed that there's something here,
- 3:26Speaker 1: but we still keep a lottery pick.
- 3:27Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 3:28Speaker 1: And one of those things, funny enough, ended up being
- 3:30Speaker 1: a Vosovic team from the Orlando Magic where they started
- 3:33Speaker 1: off four and oh and still miss the posseason.
- 3:34Speaker 2: They won twenty one games.
- 3:35Speaker 1: So there is a scenario where this is lightning in
- 3:39Speaker 1: the bottle, right case right scenario where the Orlando Magic
- 3:43Speaker 1: still haven't figured it out, the Atlanta Hawks still haven't
- 3:45Speaker 1: figured it out, the Detroit Pisson only had one ball handler.
- 3:48Speaker 1: The Sacramento Kings are the Sacramento Kings, and then the
- 3:50Speaker 1: Knicks are still dealing with their own troubles, just trying
- 3:52Speaker 1: to figure out what the hell they're doing under Mike Brown.
- 3:54Speaker 1: So there's a world where the Bulls just there's a
- 3:56Speaker 1: zero point zero, zero one percent chance they started off
- 3:59Speaker 1: five and oh they did it like that.
- 4:01Speaker 2: That's a possibility, right, But it's also a.
- 4:03Speaker 1: Part of me that sees like, what the hell Billy
- 4:05Speaker 1: Donovan's trying to incorporate. I've never like, I mean, maybe
- 4:09Speaker 1: I have matter I think about it. I've talked about
- 4:11Speaker 1: the Bulls so much in my life that maybe is
- 4:13Speaker 1: squeaked out before. But from my understanding, off the top
- 4:15Speaker 1: of my head, I don't think I've ever been a
- 4:17Speaker 1: guy that's disliked Billy Donovan. I've always disliked some people
- 4:20Speaker 1: on the roster. I've disliked the people that are running
- 4:22Speaker 1: the show. But Billy Donovan is a Hall of Fame
- 4:24Speaker 1: Coade for a reason. Like I understand that most of
- 4:25Speaker 1: his successive come in college realm when he won Championships
- 4:29Speaker 1: of Florida, but if you think about his NBA tenure,
- 4:32Speaker 1: he has been able to get the most talent out
- 4:34Speaker 1: of a lot of different rosters a team that is zero
- 4:36Speaker 1: point two percent chance to make the postseason. Billy Donald said, Oh,
- 4:38Speaker 1: we gonna run a triple point guard line up between
- 4:41Speaker 1: Shay Chris Paul and Dennis Shrewder and not just make
- 4:43Speaker 1: the postseason. We're gonna be in the four or five matchup.
- 4:46Speaker 1: Like Billy Donovan has been able to raise the ceiling
- 4:49Speaker 1: on a couple different teams. Maybe that's what's happening right now,
- 4:52Speaker 1: because though the opposing teams are not shooting well from
- 4:54Speaker 1: three behind them, the Bulls are dead last and giving
- 4:57Speaker 1: up threes.
- 4:57Speaker 2: Actually, let me bring.
- 4:58Speaker 1: Up some statistics about it all, because it has been
- 5:02Speaker 1: a super fascinating goal right now, all right, start off
- 5:04Speaker 1: here that goes through the offensive and defensive ratings and
- 5:06Speaker 1: everything of every NBA team filtering out garbage time.
- 5:10Speaker 2: The Bulls right now are.
- 5:12Speaker 1: Top ten in offense and top ten in defense, which
- 5:14Speaker 1: in other cases, being top ten on both means you're
- 5:16Speaker 1: a contender. Obviously, five games sebul size, all these thumers
- 5:18Speaker 1: are gonna shift throughout the course of it all. But
- 5:20Speaker 1: we're the six ranked defense in the fourth ranked offense
- 5:23Speaker 1: right now, and if we continued this, we are playing
- 5:25Speaker 1: like a team that is a sixty two win team.
- 5:30Speaker 2: Holy shit, let's say it again.
- 5:32Speaker 1: The Bulls are playing basketball is if they are a
- 5:35Speaker 1: sixty two win team. There's also team out there playing
- 5:37Speaker 1: like their seventy win team. But that's when Ben Yama's
- 5:39Speaker 1: great defense and all the Dallas mavericks thirtieth and oh
- 5:43Speaker 1: she's the defense.
- 5:44Speaker 2: Good.
- 5:44Speaker 1: So here are the shots that the Bulls are giving
- 5:46Speaker 1: up the last two seasons. As you can see, it
- 5:48Speaker 1: has been a point where Billy Donovan has wanted opposing
- 5:52Speaker 1: teams to not shoot threes. Right now, teams are only
- 5:54Speaker 1: shooting twenty six percent shots from.
- 5:56Speaker 2: Three against the Bulls. That's crazy. The league average is
- 5:59Speaker 2: thirty eight. Let me get that over.
- 6:02Speaker 1: The league average is thirty eight and a half. So
- 6:05Speaker 1: you know, Bulls are forcing teams to shoot eight percent.
- 6:09Speaker 1: This is the I guess it is the different number.
- 6:10Speaker 1: I don't why would be a different number.
- 6:11Speaker 2: Shooting eight percent less threes per game.
- 6:14Speaker 1: And not only are they bottom in the amount of
- 6:16Speaker 1: threes they're giving up their bottom when it comes to
- 6:19Speaker 1: percentage of threes that those teams are making again, leagueaver
- 6:21Speaker 1: is about thirty six percent. There are six or six
- 6:23Speaker 1: percent difference between what players are shooting against the Bulls
- 6:27Speaker 1: versus what they're shooting against an average NBA another NBA team,
- 6:31Speaker 1: And then it's like, how what percentage that is lucky?
- 6:33Speaker 1: What percentage that is good defense? The reality is, if
- 6:36Speaker 1: I had to put it into percentages, I would say
- 6:39Speaker 1: eighty percent of that is luck and twenty percent of
- 6:40Speaker 1: that is schematic. I mean again, I've watched every single
- 6:43Speaker 1: possessing in all these games. Some of these games were
- 6:44Speaker 1: just leaving a certain certain player wide over from three
- 6:47Speaker 1: and it just so happened to miss a hill. Last
- 6:49Speaker 1: night when they went against the New York Knicks, were
- 6:50Speaker 1: up by twenty three points. And part of the reason
- 6:52Speaker 1: why the Knicks were able to bring that game back
- 6:54Speaker 1: is because Michel Bridge is an O John and Nobe
- 6:55Speaker 1: got so many corner open, three pinner shots and.
- 6:57Speaker 2: They made them right.
- 6:58Speaker 1: So there's there's probably like eighty twenty seventy five twenty
- 7:02Speaker 1: five as the number.
- 7:03Speaker 2: Versus luck versus schematics.
- 7:05Speaker 1: And again in this video, I'm playing like Devil's advocate
- 7:08Speaker 1: to myself because I'm gonna say that I've loved watching
- 7:11Speaker 1: this team, even dating back to last season. I thought
- 7:14Speaker 1: that again, last year's was lightning in the bottle, right,
- 7:16Speaker 1: So that's why this season I came into it like, yeah,
- 7:18Speaker 1: we're gonna be bad. We were just really good at
- 7:19Speaker 1: the end of the last season. For whatever reason, Josh
- 7:21Speaker 1: Skeatty turned to Superman. This is the thing that scares
- 7:24Speaker 1: me the most. If you're the most optimistic Bulls fan
- 7:26Speaker 1: of Hey, not only are we good, we're gonna be
- 7:27Speaker 1: a top six seed in Eastern Conference, which I can't
- 7:29Speaker 1: say is impossible, but I'm gonna say unlikely. Is this
- 7:33Speaker 1: stat called the location affect the field goal percentage. If
- 7:37Speaker 1: this team allowed the league average field goal from each location,
- 7:42Speaker 1: what would their opponents feel? Go affect the field goal
- 7:44Speaker 1: percentage be basically based on your shot diet. If the
- 7:47Speaker 1: teams you were going against were shooting averagely, how good
- 7:50Speaker 1: would you be? The Bulls are twenty nine, The Bulls
- 7:54Speaker 1: are twenty ninth.
- 7:56Speaker 2: That's not good. If I had to remind you, that's
- 7:59Speaker 2: not good.
- 8:00Speaker 1: Now, twenty ninth is by like two percentages, right, So
- 8:04Speaker 1: maybe I'm being a little bit dramatic, but the difference
- 8:06Speaker 1: between twenty ninth and I don't know, fifteenth is literally
- 8:10Speaker 1: two percent, right, He's literally two percent.
- 8:13Speaker 2: So maybe that's not even we don't even care about that,
- 8:14Speaker 2: no one. I'll tell you my mad damn, it don't matter.
- 8:16Speaker 2: We're here the opposite side of that.
- 8:18Speaker 1: On the offensive side, we're number one, and that same
- 8:20Speaker 1: exact statistic by a percentage between us and the.
- 8:23Speaker 2: Number two spots. So it's it's just interesting.
- 8:26Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many players that are currently on
- 8:28Speaker 1: our roster that are having career years, right, Josh Getty
- 8:31Speaker 1: has been phenomenal. I know that, Like he's one of
- 8:35Speaker 1: those players that there are times where you watch and
- 8:38Speaker 1: you would look at the box go and say, oh,
- 8:40Speaker 1: he ended up with eighteen seven to seven, and it
- 8:41Speaker 1: feel like.
- 8:42Speaker 2: His impact was that positive.
- 8:44Speaker 1: And then there's other times you watched, like last night
- 8:46Speaker 1: against the New York Nicks, like, oh shit, he is
- 8:48Speaker 1: the best player on the entire court. I don't think
- 8:50Speaker 1: there's ever gonna well maybe not ever, but like sometimes
- 8:53Speaker 1: the advanced stats are on off numbers or yeada ya YadA,
- 8:56Speaker 1: don't really tell the full story of Josh Getty, and
- 8:59Speaker 1: I feel like that might be the case. Earlier in
- 9:00Speaker 1: the season, there was times where, especially during the preseason,
- 9:04Speaker 1: maybe the first couple of games of the year, that
- 9:06Speaker 1: the Bulls start off the game, they were down sixteen
- 9:08Speaker 1: to six, and then Josh Kitty went to the bench
- 9:10Speaker 1: and Iotasumo came into the game, and then the Bulls
- 9:13Speaker 1: tied the game up while Josh Getty was on the bench. Also,
- 9:17Speaker 1: Iyodasumo was another one of those advanced stats hate. Like
- 9:19Speaker 1: the advanced stats hate Josh Kitty, I mean Iyodassumo. He's
- 9:23Speaker 1: like one of the worst players in the entire league
- 9:25Speaker 1: according to his advance stats. And that's why I always
- 9:27Speaker 1: tell people you can't just be a stats orange person.
- 9:29Speaker 1: You gotta watch these games because Iodassumo has hit at
- 9:32Speaker 1: like a clutch shot in every fucking game we've had
- 9:34Speaker 1: this season, at least won some games three clutch shots
- 9:36Speaker 1: in a.
- 9:36Speaker 2: Single fourth quarter.
- 9:37Speaker 1: So they won't tell the full story if Iyodasuma was
- 9:39Speaker 1: a player, but I would say he's having a career.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Josh Gitty is having a career year. Monus Bzzalis obviously
- 9:44Speaker 1: with him only being in year number two. Kevin Herder
- 9:47Speaker 1: looks like the player that we saw a few years back.
- 9:49Speaker 2: But not only just that.
- 9:50Speaker 1: Kevin Herder has sneakily been a really good defensive player.
- 9:52Speaker 1: His hands are really active when people are trying to
- 9:55Speaker 1: get blown by him and he's getting his hands in
- 9:56Speaker 1: a cookie jar. Trey Jones was kind of like this
- 9:59Speaker 1: misfit player of a guard that can't shoot, but somehow
- 10:02Speaker 1: when the ball is in his hands, good things happen
- 10:05Speaker 1: time and time again. Patrick Williams, who we gave up
- 10:07Speaker 1: hope on, looks like a real ball player. Like everybody's
- 10:10Speaker 1: looking good, and that's unless your name is Isaac Corral.
- 10:14Speaker 1: It's gotta be scary. Vusivich continues to look at It's
- 10:16Speaker 1: gotta be scary because this had to be some type
- 10:18Speaker 1: of regression. Seven out of the eight players their rotation
- 10:20Speaker 1: can't all have career years. It's it's I'm presidented. It
- 10:25Speaker 1: just doesn't happen.
- 10:25Speaker 2: And we don't even have Kobe White.
- 10:28Speaker 1: We don't have Kobe White, who if you ask the
- 10:30Speaker 1: majority of people going into the season, even though Jade
- 10:31Speaker 1: Getty ended very well, most people tell you that Kobe
- 10:34Speaker 1: White is the best player on the Chicago Bulls. Yes,
- 10:36Speaker 1: I played a single second to HyET, and I don't
- 10:37Speaker 1: even when he's suposed to go back and guess what
- 10:39Speaker 1: they're playing so well, I ain't even thought to google it.
- 10:40Speaker 2: Damn it.
- 10:41Speaker 1: I didn't even I didn't even thought about him being
- 10:42Speaker 1: on the bench right now. So things are going well.
- 10:46Speaker 1: And again kind of toying with the emotions of having
- 10:49Speaker 1: a good team without a good team, because I feel
- 10:51Speaker 1: like that's the best way to describe the Chicago Bulls.
- 10:53Speaker 2: They're a good team that is not constructed to be
- 10:57Speaker 2: a good team.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Even after we traded it Zach Levine away during February's
- 11:02Speaker 1: trade deadline, our tunis Carnie Shouvas was asking Bulls fans
- 11:06Speaker 1: to give him a couple of years. He didn't envision
- 11:09Speaker 1: this team being five and zero, right, this team is
- 11:12Speaker 1: not built to be good. But if you end up
- 11:15Speaker 1: being good while not being built to be good, now,
- 11:17Speaker 1: I think you're lowering the overall ceiling of your franchise.
- 11:22Speaker 1: Let me explain that if the Bulls one were winning
- 11:25Speaker 1: enough to be a real playoff team we talk about
- 11:27Speaker 1: like top six, there still is not a bunch of
- 11:31Speaker 1: avenues to go get a star player, which is what
- 11:34Speaker 1: you need to really win in his league. It is
- 11:36Speaker 1: so cool that the power of friendship has been so
- 11:38Speaker 1: great to be five and oh and hey, I hope
- 11:39Speaker 1: it continues to go to some extent of me. But
- 11:42Speaker 1: I do recognize that unless Josh Getty turns into like
- 11:45Speaker 1: a real superstar, or maybe Modus Bizzellus is gonna be
- 11:47Speaker 1: that guy, finding a superstar is hard to do.
- 11:49Speaker 2: If you don't have a top pick, you obviously can hit.
- 11:52Speaker 1: I mean, Giannest was not a lottery Big Jolkins was
- 11:54Speaker 1: a second round and like we can go on about
- 11:56Speaker 1: success stories, but for every success story, there is a
- 11:59Speaker 1: thousand guys that draft of sixteenth that not that didn't
- 12:01Speaker 1: end up being outbranching gum, you know what I mean.
- 12:03Speaker 2: And it's not as like this.
- 12:05Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls team has done such a great job with
- 12:07Speaker 1: drafting in those back spots that you feel like, oh, yeah,
- 12:10Speaker 1: we have the sixteen pick.
- 12:11Speaker 2: That's fine. We got lucky with Montus well zealous.
- 12:14Speaker 1: He was the projected a top three pick like three
- 12:17Speaker 1: months before the draft started.
- 12:18Speaker 2: He somehow fell to eleven.
- 12:20Speaker 1: Patrick Williams was drafted four with Halliburton, MAXI and hell
- 12:24Speaker 1: of people on the board.
- 12:25Speaker 2: I would assume it was a good pick, that Chicago's
- 12:27Speaker 2: very old. We got love for that.
- 12:28Speaker 1: But this this front office has not drafting well enough
- 12:30Speaker 1: for me to think that, yeah, we'll be able to
- 12:32Speaker 1: put together because I mean Dalen's tear shot out to.
- 12:34Speaker 2: My boy DT.
- 12:34Speaker 1: He was drafted right outside the lottery, don't He got
- 12:37Speaker 1: eight total minutes on the season. Eight this many this
- 12:40Speaker 1: one hit. I think the two hands I can that's
- 12:43Speaker 1: how many minutes he's played again, plays Devil's advocate to
- 12:45Speaker 1: my Devil's advocate. The Bulls have hella cap space this year,
- 12:50Speaker 1: and I think about the players that are currently gonna
- 12:53Speaker 1: be a free agent for us, like a Kevin Herder
- 12:55Speaker 1: or Zach Hollins who has yet to play this regular season,
- 12:59Speaker 1: Jalen Smith, a lot of those guys that feel like
- 13:01Speaker 1: we can retain without bumping two months into that cap space.
- 13:05Speaker 1: So maybe there's a world where most of this team
- 13:07Speaker 1: is back next season and the way we get better
- 13:09Speaker 1: is using cap space to trade or using cap space to.
- 13:12Speaker 2: Sign a star player. I don't know.
- 13:15Speaker 1: What I will say is that I'm having so much
- 13:17Speaker 1: fun watching this team, and I'm fully prepared for the
- 13:21Speaker 1: sky to fall. I'm fully prepared to go through a
- 13:24Speaker 1: stretch of the Bulls lose five straight games, and I like,
- 13:27Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, I'm prepare for it. I
- 13:28Speaker 1: don't know, man, this seems been fun. It's a lovable
- 13:32Speaker 1: group of guys. The social media team. I know, y'all
- 13:35Speaker 1: don't care because you're not a Bulls, and the social
- 13:37Speaker 1: media team has been killing it, giving us these videos
- 13:39Speaker 1: of locker room speech. It's just like the Chicago Bears
- 13:42Speaker 1: the Bear down, and it's been so fun to see
- 13:45Speaker 1: a team with zero expectations go against a team against
- 13:48Speaker 1: like the Knicks, who have championship aspirations and be like
- 13:51Speaker 1: you in Chicago, baby, this is our city.
- 13:52Speaker 2: Now we go against them again tomorrow and they may
- 13:54Speaker 2: spank that ass, but whatever. Whatever.
- 13:56Speaker 1: You know, the entire first couple of weeks of the
- 13:58Speaker 1: season is literally all about overreacting anyway, right, If the
- 14:02Speaker 1: Bulls were not if this same exact team is existing
- 14:04Speaker 1: and doing this not named Chicago Bulls, I'd probably be
- 14:07Speaker 1: more optimistic because it's not my team. This is a
- 14:09Speaker 1: little piece of me that just recognized that Chicago sports
- 14:12Speaker 1: are always shited since nineteen ninety nine. So like, I'm
- 14:17Speaker 1: ready for the sky to fall, and if it does, cool,
- 14:18Speaker 1: if it doesn't cool, I don't know.