Zach Lavine trade thread: Bulls and Zach will play nice for now

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Porter isn't looking to hoop with expectations. His words.

Zach comes over, it's tug/pull figuring out PnR responsibility with Jamal
Chicago has no expectations, great fan support regardless of them being unserious. The media can be critical, but even at this point, they don't even expect shyt from this team, nor would they put MPJ on some crazy pedestal and deem him the savior for this franchise.

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LaVine has played with DeMar DeRozan and still been efficient. Now he's playing with multiple guards that run the offense and he's one of the most efficient + scorers/shooters in the NBA. He's also an ELITE catch and shoot player. Playing with Joker unlocks more of his slashing and cutting ability. Denver wouldn't even need to or want to spam PnR with LaVine. Him finding spaces to cut and literally just spotting up is ideal, but he can still get a bucket off the dribble
 

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MPJ Stats: 18.5PPG/7.1RPG/2.8AST on 51.2/38.5/68.9 splits
Lavine Stats: 21.7PPG/4.4RPG/4.2AST on 50.1/42.8/80 splits

They're both having better years than Murray at this point
 

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MPJ Stats: 18.5PPG/7.1RPG/2.8AST on 51.2/38.5/68.9 splits
Lavine Stats: 21.7PPG/4.4RPG/4.2AST on 50.1/42.8/80 splits

They're both having better years than Murray at this point
And Zach has lower output because he’s bought into the system. At any time he could turn into a 25/5.5/4 on 50/40/85 guy At minimum.
 

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They're under contract for the same amount of years.

Bulls save 8M in the last year by having MPJ instead of LaVine which will give them more room to work with for signing players, but this is another move made from the middle that doesn't open up that much moving forward so I'm indifferent.
 

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I don’t see the point in having Lavine and Murray especially defensively. I get wanting to shake things up if you’re Denver but this doesn’t make much sense to me
They’d be better served getting more depth and honestly a backup big for Jokic. Lavine still doesn’t really solve their issues as the non-Jokic minutes would still be a problem.
 

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They’d be better served getting more depth and honestly a backup big for Jokic. Lavine still doesn’t really solve their issues as the non-Jokic minutes would still be a problem.

I'd look to move off MPJ if I'm Denver just on GP and I'm not a huge Lavine fan. MPJ's back is a ticking time bomb.
 

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Lavine has his own issues and that’s not even counting Murray’s.

Lavine has made gigantic strides and is more consistently a net positive this season

It’s gonna be disheartening and disappointing when Lavine gets traded to a real team with real talent and flourishes. while the bulls flounder around josh giddey and p*ssy ass passive pat Williams :pacspit:
 

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Lavine has made gigantic strides and is more consistently a net positive this season

It’s gonna be disheartening and disappointing when Lavine gets traded to a real team with real talent and flourishes. while the bulls flounder around josh giddey and p*ssy ass passive pat Williams :pacspit:
Oh I meant injury issues wise and not performance. I know he can get buckets and would help them offensively. They just have other issues that they could use his contract to solve that would benefit them more.
 

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Lavine has made gigantic strides and is more consistently a net positive this season

It’s gonna be disheartening and disappointing when Lavine gets traded to a real team with real talent and flourishes. while the bulls flounder around josh giddey and p*ssy ass passive pat Williams :pacspit:
:what:Leave P Will-He-Do-it alone.
 

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I don’t see the point in having Lavine and Murray especially defensively. I get wanting to shake things up if you’re Denver but this doesn’t make much sense to me

lavine is actually better than porter jr is defensively and offensively. they are definitely getting another shot creating upgrade.

my only question is what kinda draft capital are the nuggets giving up?
 

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lavine is actually better than porter jr is defensively and offensively. they are definitely getting another shot creating upgrade.

my only question is what kinda draft capital are the nuggets giving up?
I think they only have access to one first (2031).
 
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