Chicago guard Bulls Josh Giddi ended the regular season with tears, and it seems that the team wants to re -sign it when he becomes a limited free agent this summer.
“I think that he is very good here,” Arthuras Karnishov, executive vice president of Bulls, told reporters during his accessibility in the media at the end of the season on Thursday, and I hope to see him here in the coming years. ”
Carnishavas added: “I feel very good about Josh and his future here.”
This is not quite a surprise. Chicago exchanged Alex Karuzo for Giddi in June last year, and the 22-year-old guard leaves the most powerful site in his career. Even if you explain his increased minutes downward, his surge at the end of the season was wonderful:
P | RPG | APG | FG% | 3PT% | TS% | USG% | |
The first 50 games | 15.1 | 9.0 | 8.1 | 44.6 | 33.7 | 53.8 | 20.0 |
The last 20 games | 22.1 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 50.0 | 47.1 | 62.4 | 24.3 |
Carnishkis said that Giddi tried to “fit” at the beginning of the season and “found a completely new program” after the All-Star rupture. Giddi said, in fact, the same during his accessibility in the media at the end of the season, telling reporters that he could “play freely and be me” after the deadline of trade.
In a vacuum, there is nothing special that the Carnish signals that the team wants to hold Giddi around. The bulls would not have exchanged Caruso for him if they were not interested in signing it, and the arc of his season was encouraging.
In context, however, it is interesting, and for some fans of Chicago, a little scary. The disadvantage of the fact that Giddi put forward these numbers at the end of the season is that its signing can be much more expensive than the originally predicted a few months ago. Last summer, “bulls” signed striker Patrick Williams for a five -year transaction for $ 90 million, which looks like a huge overpayment. Can a model of 20 games get the maximum contract?
This should not, especially since Brooklyn nets are the only team that should have a significant place in the off -season. But it is unclear where Chicago will draw a line. And although Giddi played himself in a great increase, he will represent everything that the bulls will be upset in the current situation.
On Wednesday, in the third season in a row, the Chicago season ended in a loss in the game. “I think we are on the right track,” Carnishovas told reporters on Thursday.
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Repeatedly, the Karnishovs said that they were trying to “reduce the schedule” of what he called the “transition” phase. Yes, in the last calendar year, they exchanged Caruso, Demara Derosan and Zach Lavin, but the goal is to “quickly turn,” he said, because instead of getting out of order, they are “aimed at young players with experience”. This includes Giddi, who saw how his minutes are reduced in last year’s play -off with the thunder of Oklahom -City. Despite all his gifts as a playmaker in the open yard, he is still not seen as pull -ups or a point threat in a half -college.
Right now, in the front office, NBA will not be easier than creating a team in the game in the Eastern Conference. Bulls fans who are afraid of the next Giddi contract are concerned that this is to doom them to a greater extent mediocrity, especially if the front, it plans to build around the rear of Giddi and Kobi White. (White has the right to expand this summer, but Chicago cannot offer him more than a four-year transaction for $ 89 million.) Based on the recent history, the comments of Karnishov-this are justified.
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