2) Draft sleepers the Chicago Bulls could trade down for: Cole Anthony
It would be difficult to see the Bulls make such a significant move as to trading down in the draft lottery to take a point/combo guard out of the North Carolina Tar Heels basketball program this year. Then it would be the second year in a row that the Bulls took a point/combo guard out of UNC in the first round of the draft.
Last year, the Bulls selected former UNC 6-foot-5 point guard Coby White seventh overall in the first round of the draft. White got off to a slow start during his rookie season, as is natural for a volume scoring guard like he is.
Unless the Bulls are thinking about finding an insurance policy, or deepening the backcourt rotation, with a microwave scoring guard in the first round of the 2020 draft, then picking Cole Anthony might seem like the wrong move. Former UNC five-star recruit and 6-foot-3 and 190 pound point guard Anthony had a good start to the 2019-20 college hoops season, but slowed down as his freshman campaign moved along.
Anthony played in 22 games (all but two of which he started in), during his freshman season in Chapel Hill. He averaged 18.5 points per game, 5.7 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 1.3 steals, and 0.3 blocks. Anthony shot 38.0 percent from the field, 34.8 percent from beyond the arc, and 75.0 percent from the free-throw line.
That amounted to a 5.1 box plus/minus rating, .108 win shares per 40 minutes, and a 50.1 true shooting percentage. If Anthony improves as a shooter and develops his court vision and off-ball awareness, then he could be a real solid guard in the NBA. If the Bulls managed to snag him in the late-teens or early 20’s in the first round of the 2020 draft, then he would be worth trading down to get to shore up the depth in the backcourt rotation.