Earlier Friday night, sources told ESPN.com's Marc Stein that the Bulls had reached agreement on a three-year deal with Korver, the Jazz's free-agent shooting guard. Later in the evening, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Ric Bucher that Chicago offered restricted free agent Redick a three-year, $20 million deal. The Magic have seven days to match the contract. http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nba/news/story?id=5368470
Shot 42% from the field, 43% in threes. 19 minutes a game. 7.5 pts a game If he signs we dont have our starting guard yet. JJ could back up the SG korver could see time at SF as back up
I bet it's another third-year non-guaranteed deal. This is a cop out. We're paying JJ to be a starting two guard, and he's just not. The Bulls could get a better player if they were willing to pay the luxury two years from now.
Thornton is a RFA. Iggy and BG I would anticipate could be had for a trade exception; but neither are coming because it would put us over the tax two years from now.
Nothing says championship like J.J. Redick, Ronnie Brewer and Keith Bogans. I feel like we've be sold a bill of goods. This was the off season we were waiting for, where the Bulls would make a real push towards being a contender. That didn't happen.
Korver and Reddick is a decent rotation at the 2, although not particularly solid defensively. They match up fine with Mike Miller. Raja Bell is still out there. The important thing is to get enough decent guys with medium contracts to put them together when a real SG is available like Iggy. Still need a backup point, but maybe Reddick can play there. Backup C and Asik.
I haven't updated everything yet. Thornton is restricted, largely unproven, and the Hornets have obvious reasons to keep him now that they're under the tax. I don't think he's an obviously difference-making player. They need a guy who's an established, big league player, and they're not going to go out and get him.
Hell, Reddick is a better player than people think. He just cant get any minutes playing on a stacked team like the Magic.
The Bulls are not making the offers that would get him now. I have to imagine he's available for a trade exception. The reason the Bulls haven't made that offer is because it would put them over the tax in two years. That isn't acceptable to me. I think we are too close and too far away from a championship not to try to make a move for a legitimate starting two guard. We've been following this franchise for too long to go back to trying to hit a grandslam with the endless KG; Kobe; Gasol; Stodomire rumors that happen every off season.
You mean he can't play minutes on a contending team? Are the Bulls a contending team or are they not a contending team?
I dont even know if Bulls management is looking at Iggy tho. I mean we did hear the Iggy rumor from RealGM. Ive never posted on there but I take stuff I hear from there with a grain of salt.
