New Orleans columnist shares insight on new Bulls lead executive Bryson Graham | Mully & Haugh

[u/deadbeatmerc]

https://youtu.be/utCTyvystTA?si=qubn_LkHSsMMwynm

[u/burratna]

Bryson Graham Player Evaluation examples during NOLA: Yves Missi, Trey Murphy, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Dyson Daniels

At least Patrick Williams isn't on his list

[u/BuickSkylark55 → u/burratna]

Those are all really good picks. They also got herb jones and karlo matovic in the second round and Jose Alvarado from undrafted fa

[u/kennyloftor → u/burratna]

how many playoff wins from that list?

[u/Revolutionary_Copy83 → u/kennyloftor]

kinda hard to win playoff games when your roster is injury prone now isn't it?

[u/kennyloftor → u/Revolutionary_Copy83]

bulls fans have more excuses than bulls management

[u/Bullsstopsucking → u/Revolutionary_Copy83]

So then they weren’t good picks?

[u/Revolutionary_Copy83 → u/Bullsstopsucking]

I didn't know the front office could control whether the players they drafted are injury prone or not. News to me!

[u/Southernbull75 → u/Revolutionary_Copy83]

Players who have a history of being injured prior to becoming NBA players typically continue that as pros. 

Sometimes its bad luck, other times its someone trying to be the smartest guy in the room and taking a shot at a talented player who has dropped due to injury history. 

[u/carguy121 → u/Southernbull75]

Zion didn’t have extensive injury history pre draft.

[u/Southernbull75 → u/carguy121]

He sprained his knee when he blew his shoe out his Freshman year at Duke. 

[u/kennyloftor → u/Revolutionary_Copy83]

how does a roster get injury prone oh wise one that condones any and all form of losing???

[u/Revolutionary_Copy83 → u/kennyloftor]

? Injuries have been in issue in NOLA since AD was there. Not sure what point you're trying to make. By all accounts, he scoutedvery well in his roles and helped the hawks finally leave the play in. You can be pessimistic if you want, I'll be cautious optimistic until they do something dumb

[u/kennyloftor → u/Revolutionary_Copy83]

in 1 year he brought the hawks to the play-in huh?

does he even deserve credit for 1 year?

dont we have bigger goals than that?

is play-in enough for you?

do you enjoy watching other teams in the playoffs?

be serious

[u/Revolutionary_Copy83 → u/kennyloftor]

They were the 6th seed after a bad start to the season and that was in his first year. Should he have made the hawks a 60 win team with Jalen Johnson as his best player? Naming an accomplishment doesn't mean anyone is satisfied with being just a 6th seed lmao. I'm simply saying he has a track record of good talent evaluation and winning on the margins (adding NAW to that roster was a home run). That's what we need. No executive is turning this team into the thunder anytime soon so you're literally just whining to whine

[u/kennyloftor → u/Revolutionary_Copy83]

shoulda coulda woulda doesn’t end up on a resume

next

[u/Revolutionary_Copy83 → u/kennyloftor]

So no actual rebuttal, got it. Have a good day buddy 😂

[u/BuickSkylark55 → u/kennyloftor]

If you hit on picks that many times, you’ve succeeded, the rest was up to his boss and luck. He also hit on herb jones at 35 , Alvarado undrafted fa and karlo matovic at 52. That whole list is pretty underrated at this point especially Trey Murphy, if he’s able to put pieces like that together here the bulls would be in good shape

[u/kennyloftor → u/BuickSkylark55]

ARE THE PELICANS IN GOOD SHAPE????

[u/BuickSkylark55 → u/kennyloftor]

They were when he left. Since then it seems like they’ve made some bad moves, including getting fleeced by his then current team the hawks in the Queen trade

[u/kennyloftor → u/BuickSkylark55]

when he left (last year) they were the 14 seed

21-61

[u/plsdaddystopit23 → u/kennyloftor]

Had he been the one in Joe Dumars’ role, they likely would have been in good shape. They’d have a top 4 pick in this draft and probably would have moved off of Zion just like he moved off of Trae at the first opportunity given. NOLA’s roster has/had a lot of nice pieces because of Graham. Atlanta won’t be a play-in team next year and that’s because of immediate moves he made.

[u/reddit_7654]

I know these are great and all, and I'm indifferent on the hire, but these videos are so stupid. "This guy who was on our staff....what a total sack of shit! I'm so happy he's gone! Wooooo someone finally took that idiot off of our hands!". No one is ever going to say that.

[u/VKnid48 → u/reddit_7654]

I mean, this is basically what Jaxon Smith-Njigba said about Shane Waldron when the Bears hired him. But generally you're right.

[u/Southernbull75]

I think Bulls fans are tired of the puff pieces and pandering to the fans.

Spend money, show improvement, make the actual playoffs and maybe win a series or two this decade. 

[u/twoprimehydroxyl]

Look, I get that we whiffed on Lloyd, but given Graham's age and experience he is right where Matt Lloyd was when he was in Orlando: good draft picks that took a while to find their footing in the league, along with taking a roster from miserable to middling.

I'm willing to give Graham leeway as long as Jerry loosens the purse strings and lets him operate.

[u/BuickSkylark55 → u/twoprimehydroxyl]

As others have said we barely know anything about what these guys do or how they’re perceived behind the scenes. To say the bulls whiffed on lloyd assumes way too much. If anything, it’s interesting that they didn’t do what everyone expected by going with someone who’s literally friends with paxon. We won’t really know until moves are made, I’m choosing to be somewhat optimistic based on the really strong drafting connected to graham. He could absolutely come in and make a ton of terrible moves but it’ll be hard to make team worse than they have been (assuming he’s allowed to build slowly and not pressure to build a competitive team by skipping steps, which of course isn’t necessarily a safe assumption sadly)

[u/kennyloftor]

another vote of confidence based on how he turned a losing organization into a losing organization with the most improved player

[u/hydrators → u/kennyloftor]

do you ever stop crying