Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor and senior NBA writer Dan Devine discuss the Bulls 2024-25 outlook and whether they’re headed in the right or wrong direction as a franchise. Hear the full conversation on “The Kevin O’Connor Show” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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The Bulls say they want to be competitive this year.

They wanna try to make the playoffs, they get Zach Levine back.

They add Josh Giddy.

They have Kobe White who had a great breakout season and maybe Kobe White gets even better this year.

But the Bulls are another one of those teams in the east where I, I can't quite figure out what direction that they're actually going and what's best for them.

What's your overall assessment right now, Dan of the Bulls, the state of the Chicago Bulls, uh underwhelming.

Yeah, I don't know if we can expect anything from Alonzo ball at this point.

I think anything we get is gravy and it's, and you know, it's will be nice to see it.

And it's also probably why the, it's the idea of the Josh Giddy move too, right?

Like big point guard who can see and who can create and who can, you know, maybe inject a little bit of pa of pace and a little bit of uh creativity into our, our stagnant and static offense.

And if you are putting the ball in, in giddy hands is that minimizing Kobe White?

Now, Kobe white is a hell of a shooter and maybe he's better optimized as an off ball player and a complimentary creator, Zach Levine.

I think if, if everybody's given their truth serum, they would prefer if he was somewhere else, including Zach Levine, if he was given his truth serum.

But the remaining $138 million on that contract has rendered it impossible to find a market for him.

They, they need Levine to be good enough to make him a risk worth taking for a team that feels like they have finals aspirations.

That to me is the key for the Bulls getting out of this mess that they're in.

Like it's that Levine mistake that they made.

That is representative of their whole organizational objective, which is like they're happy just being in the middle, just being a solid team.

And that's sad.

It is sad for a team that has the greatest dynasty in the last 3040 years.

If I'm a Bulls fan, man, I'll tell you what dude II, I think that's probably top five most depressing fan bases right now in the NBA.

Yeah, there's just not a lot to get direction.

They hope.

What's the identity of the Bulls on the offensive end?

What's the identity of the Bulls on the defensive end?

There's no identity.

The Bulls should tank their asses off.

That's what they should do.

They might not have to, they might just be bad enough on their own, but the state of the bottom of the east is such that they can be bad and they still might be the 10th best team in the conference.

That's why, that's the fear.

And so I think if that's why if I'm a Bulls fan, I'm like, what are we?

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