I didnt even know they lost all that.
Isnt that your entire bench? Who did they replace these guys with?
cj basically got replaced with kirk hinrich. thats lateral, although i think kirk will play better defense in thibs system than cj did. cj defense went to shyt the end of last season.
korver got replaced with vlad and marco bellinelli. again another wash move, but its not a step down and marco actually has a bit more offensive skill than korver. and maybe marco can hit a damn shot in the playoffs whereas korver shot continued to go to shyt in the offs
brewer is getting replaced by jimmy butler, who did make the summer league all star team, plays defense like him but has better offensive skills including a great rate at getting to the line.
john lucas was def upgraded by nate robinson
our biggest loss will be losing asik, a good asset for nothing. his defense with our 2nd unit will be missed. and its only being replaced with nazr muhammed, who has shaped up but i doubt will be as good defensively. but again in thibs system who knows.
so at worst we will be the same team as last year that didnt play with rose for most of the season. that team still clocked a lot of wins. so as long as the bulls are hovering around the 6th-8th seed by feburary when rose gets back, and rose will get stronger come march/april, we could climb up some seeds seeing as march and april is normally our easiest months we could move up to 5th seed even fight to get into the top 4. then in the offs lets roll the dice and hope to get lucky. what we would have on our side is rose will have fresh legs and if we can get into the 2nd rd, rose by then would have regained his full form and trust in his knee. so who knows what can happen.