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Is the reconstruction of the bull surfaced?

39 wins and 43 losses, this is the result of the Chicago Bulls this season. Focusing on 22-year-old Josh Giddy, 25-year-old Kobe White, and 20-year-old Boozelis, this young trio seems to have gradually become the new core team of the Chicago Bulls. Although it is difficult to detect the value of the potential of this team, at least on the surface they are taking over the team.

Even if three young players have the potential to become high-quality players in the team's core rotation, from a certain perspective, none of them will become players at the core cornerstone level of the future Bulls. The bigger problem is that even if the Bulls hope that these three people can achieve their maximum value, they still seem to need to start over again more thoroughly.

For the Chicago Bulls, their home team fans have been shouting the reconstruction slogan for several seasons. Even though Gidey played the most efficient season of his career this season, Kobe White averaged 20 points per game, and Boozelis played quite well after leaving the team through Lavender. It seems that the team has found the core team to build the team, but from the team's perspective, they should not stop the momentum of reconstruction.

Especially after these three young players made breakthroughs, it is a signal that the Bulls should completely rebuild next.

Chicago Bulls delivered an excellent record of 10 wins and 4 losses in the last 14 games of the season and also qualified for the playoffs. For a team like the Bulls that has been in an embarrassing state for a long time, this short-term upward momentum can easily make the management mistakenly believe that they have found hope and continue to maintain the status quo. Instead, we missed the opportunity to continue to play badly and accumulate talent, resulting in the continued extension of the reconstruction period.

This seems to be a problem for the Bulls in recent seasons. They often make some outstanding results in the final stage of the season, which leads to the management misunderstanding of the team's reconstruction progress, seemingly finding a winning mode, and then choose to operate the next season in the same way, and finally achieve a weird record that is neither good nor bad. There is neither the chance to play in the playoffs nor the hope of drawing young talents with a high lottery draw.

This is the biggest problem on the Bulls' reconstruction route. They have never lacked young talents, but lacked a clear direction for reconstruction, which has not changed yet.

Combined with the team's current team, Vucevic, Lonzo Ball, Kevin Hult, Zach Collins, and even Patrick Williams, this group of players has considerable trading value in the trading market, and the Bulls' continued staying in the team may not be positive, and will even slow down the team's future timeline.

If you cannot choose to let young players control the team in time, the Bulls can still continue to be stuck in the vicious cycle of being neither up nor down.

As the youngest talent in the team's core rotation, Boozelis is a talented rookie, but if he has been consuming it in a mediocre team that is unwilling to admit that he is mediocre, his future development will definitely be affected.

The best example can be used: Malik-Monk. As the 11th pick in the first round of 2017, when he played for the Hornets in the early stages, he did not get enough room to make mistakes and grow, which also slowed down his cultivation progress to some extent. Especially when a team is not good at cultivating young players and is not competitive, the development of young and talented players is likely to be a difficult and disappointing process.

Winning is a good goal, but if a team's goal is to win and not win much, it means that there is no future on this chaotic road. Whether it is from the present or the future, it is difficult for us to find the meaning of this choice.

No surprise, Gidey, White, Boozelis and others are all very outstanding players, especially Gidey. Although many fans were not optimistic about this big point guard at the beginning, his progress this season is indeed worthy of attention. Even if this group of young players is not the core team of the next Bulls era, they are one of the new players with the most development potential in the years.

But the premise of potential is that management can free them up enough development opportunities, whether in the Bulls or trade to other teams.

Summary of the situation in the Chicago Bulls over the past decade, the biggest feature is that they are conservative and constrained. They would rather choose to stay in the familiar chaotic situation than take a brave step. Whether it is up or down, they are not willing. But the problem is that past choices have proved difficult to succeed in doing so, so maybe it’s time for them to make some changes.

Back to the beginning, the Bulls played an excellent record in the last two months of the season that was inconsistent with the team's bad performance. There were also young players in the team standing up, but this does not mean that they have found the correct answer. On the contrary, what is most worrying is that the team management mistakenly thought they had already settled the reconstruction goal, and then chose to stop when the team just emerged from the water, but in fact they were just starting out.