Chicago Bulls vs Minnesota Timberwolves Takeaways: Rough day in Minneapolis
The Trade Deadline Can Definitely Get the Bulls into the Lottery
Sunday’s game against the Wolves taught us one thing for certain: the Bulls are a hot mess when Jimmy Butler and Dwyane Wade aren’t playing.
We caught a glimpse of this when the duo came off of the bench against the Miami Heat in late January, but against the Wolves we were able to witness just how terrible the Bulls can be without these two.
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It’s obvious that both Wade and Butler are critical parts to the team’s ability to win games. It can be inferred, then, that if both players were to never play a game for Chicago again, that the Bulls would be awful. Like, really awful.
All of this circles back to what Gar Forman and John Paxson decide to do before the upcoming NBA trade deadline. Do they decide to abandon ship and blow up the team? Do they stick through with everyone and settle for a bottom seed in the playoffs? Or do they wait until summer before making any moves?
Whatever the case may be, Chicago’s management should be on notice that without Butler and Wade, this team is very bad. So, if the Bulls want to try and secure a nice draft pick in this year’s “loaded” draft class, then trading the pair would definitely move them up a few spots in the draft.