Cavaliers Ace Deal for the veteran guard; The bulls agree to the exchange of another doubtful player

Lonzo Ball if it was moved on Saturday, when it was the first choice in 2017 in 2017 The American Professional League draft It is said He went to his fourth team of the American Professional League. After four seasons I was injured with Chicago Bulls, he will go to Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for the choice of former lottery, Isaac Oukuro, a defender of the wing with a fragile leap shot.

Cleveland, which came out of an ordinary season of 64 wins, was disappointed by a loss of five games in the second round against Indiana Basars It needs to do something to shake the list despite the overwhelming luxury tax and car challenges. They did now with the ball. Meanwhile, bulls add defense No. 19 last season while they became younger and healthy in this process. Time in mind, let’s establish this trade.

Cleveland Cavaliers: a-

There is not really one reason, this is not a “A” trade for Cleveland, the history of the medical ball. He just missed two full seasons due to knee issues, and last year, he played only 35 games on his return. This is a danger. There is an opportunity at all not healthy enough to help them when they are important. Even if it is, his minutes need to be carefully monitored. Its average reached 22.2 of them last year and did not play in a single consecutive. This formula is likely to move forward.

But Cleveland had a somewhat similar player to the list of last season in Tae Jerome. Despite his injured past, Jerome was a sixth man of the opponent of the year so that on average was less than minutes per game (19.9) from Ball. This will be the formula here. Jerome is an imminent free agent, and with Cleveland already above the second apron before re -signing it, his departure was almost inevitable.

In this trade, Cleveland fills the void that Jerome has left and provides a little money: Ball gets $ 10 million this year while OKoro gets $ 11 million, and the Ball salary does not guarantee 2026-27 due to the team’s option, while the OKoro 2026-27 salary from 11.8 million dollars guaranteed. Cleveland is still far from overcoming the second bilie completely, but this team has a clear heroism window. It is time to spend, and Cavaliers filled an urgent need while reducing salary statements. This is a big victory.

So let’s talk about what the ball brings to the field. It will not be recorded like Jerome. He suffers from a coating allergy, and he is not completely talented, although he has taken great steps since those early struggles with Lakers. Cleveland gets two important things with the ball that you lack in Jerome. The first is a comprehensive defense. The second, and most important for Cleveland, is the brilliance of the transition. Cavaliers team ranked tenth at the pace of last season, but the nineteenth in fast breakfast points and 28 in passes for each game. Now, none of this aims to suggest any shortage of Cleveland’s first -ranked crime, but to show that even it has areas in which it can improve. The ball adds an element of chaos and speed that should give Cleveland a new dimension.

Is Okoro a loss? certainly. Perhaps the best defender of the Cleveland wing in the normal season. But in all after the season, we remember that no one is guarding him on the ocean, so he has become a great obstacle to keeping it. This trade will strive for players, such as De’andre Hunter and Max Strus. Cleveland strongly needs a valley debt to stay in good health, which he has not done before, to defend the championship level.

These health risks are related, but they are associated with players in the 64 team. Cleveland can better manage its minutes throughout the normal season than most teams, and we hope you reach April in one piece. If they can do this, Cavaliers still stands out as a favorite of the eastern conference, as Boston and Indiana stumbled. The ball is an ideal alternative to Jerome as Cleveland could have hoped.

Chicago Bulls: C-

What is with Bulls and trading is really good, the players were entertained to the competing teams over the previous lottery choices that these teams likely prefer to get rid of anyway? This deal is not as bad as Alex caruso-FOR-JOSH GEDEY, but it is the same basic principle. The Bulls team started out of the season with a very valuable support piece and turned it into a younger player with the theoretical upward trend, but those who could not shoot and seemed to have had limited value on any other team. It is possible that a few teams will offer the ball. This was really the best that bulls would do? As was the case in the Caruso trade, they did not even get one draft on the top of the questionable player’s swap?

Chicago needs more surrounding defense. The bulls ranked nineteenth in public defense, but more associated, allowed in half of the courts for each play, according to what they mentioned, according to what they mentioned. Glass cleaning. They are young and athletes enough to reduce bleeding in the transitional stage, but when bulls actually need to get a stop last season, they did not really have a chance. Okoro will help in this front. It is generally a healthy wager more secure than the ball. And if you look at the percentage, the shooter was 3 points above three points for three seasons now.

The problem, of course, is that you cannot look at the percentage. It is the folder that usually determines how the player is defended strongly, rarely releases Okoro and takes only a wide appearance. This was abundant in the dominant Cleveland crime. How will Oukoro survive off off when Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland do not create his shots? The bulls, like Cavaliers, took a ton of 3s last season. The difference is that Cavaliers led the league in a real shooting while the bulls were hanging around the average league. Now, with a spacing okoro spasm, things become more difficult. At least, Patrick Williams, who was chosen against UK in the US Professional League 2020. Williams is also a sports defensive striker without reliable shot.

If you want to try to define the comprehensive list of the Chicago list, you can actually see some of the extensive similarities with the way in which the East Indiana Pesrez champion of Indiana Besrez built. Like Bulls, I like to bring the previous lottery options whose original teams were ready to empty. The bulls may be hoping that Okuro is Aaron Nismith, a small wing that did not make footage with his first team but improves with the second. Josh Joshidi has mysterious similarities with Teres Haleporton as a dynamic passer -by and a transitional player who is often not looking for his own shot. There is a lot of individual and athletic creation here. They want to play quickly.

The key to this construction, however, is that you must already obtain the properly specific additions. It is not enough to be giddey Love Haleporton. He must generate the team’s crime at the same dominant level. The Chicago crime was really great in March and April, but those months do not tend to be reliable indicators of future performance. Play bulls a handful of bad teams that link. Nesmith did not make bullets in Boston, but was marketed as he was divorced as it passed on a practical draft. He had a much more busy record than Oukuro did.

The Bulls team has not won a decisive series since the ARTURAS Karlisovas took over in 2020. They have no Rick Carlisle as their coach. They do not deserve the same benefit from doubting that Indiana gets that Paces has been significantly more successful over the past 25 years, although there are much lower resources at their disposal. None of these teams want to go on long tanks, but Paces has a strong organizational record for construction through the medium so that they can stay away from not doing so. The bulls do not. They may try to imitate Pacers, but without the infrastructure and experience that has led Indiana for a long time, it seems more like a more echo parrot than the team that absorbed the lessons taught by one of the smartest teams in the league.