100 million in 4 years, the lottery pick detonated the league! The Bulls may once again accompany the run, and the All-Star center will be embarrassed and useless

In the new season, both the Detroit Pistons and the San Antonio Spurs have shown excellent competitive status to fans, and they are firmly ranked among the top two in the Eastern Conference and Western Conference respectively. Tracing back to the roots, this is due to the fact that both teams have an excellent backcourt core in their lineup. Cunningham has excellent breakthrough, shooting and passing abilities; although Fox has just returned from injury, he showed no mercy at the decisive moment against the Pelicans and ended the game easily. It can be seen that an excellent defender is enough to improve the team's lower limit, and the Chicago Bulls are the biggest beneficiaries of this view.

During the offseason last season, the team management replaced young defender Josh Guidi with "Bald Mamba" Caruso. This seemed to be an ordinary transaction that did not involve draft picks, but it became a good story in the future. After acquiring Caruso, the Oklahoma City Thunder successfully won the O'Brien Trophy. During the Western Conference Finals, his restriction on Jokic became a textbook example. Looking back at the Bulls, they did not get on the train to the playoffs last season, but Gidi's performance still left a deep impression on the fans. The scene of the midfield victory over the Lakers is still vivid in his mind. I thought this was the ceiling for Australian defenders, but I never expected that he still had endless potential that had not yet exploded.

After a long period of anticipation during the offseason, the two parties finally reached a four-year, $100 million contract. Since then, the young defender has been on fire and continues to show impressive growth. So far this season, Gidi has averaged a near-triple-double of 23.1 points, 10 rebounds and 9.1 assists per game. Such a dazzling performance quickly put him in the MVP discussion. However, this is just the beginning of all the wonderful stories, he has successfully compared with the basketball god Michael Jordan. Became the first Bulls player to achieve a triple-double in two consecutive games since the 1988-1989 season. It is no exaggeration to say that he has become an indispensable organizer in the Bulls' offensive system.

Although facing the Milwaukee Bucks and last season's Eastern Conference regular season champion Cavaliers, he still showed more shortcomings, but Gidi has done his best, but his teammates can't do their best. Since entering November, All-Star center Vucevic's performance has been extremely unstable. In the past four games, his scoring has not exceeded 20 in a single game. Even with the inside combination of Mobley and Allen, scoring and rebounding have been completely destroyed, and even outside shooting poses no threat at all. Such internal lineup reserves are simply a waste of resources. An old man in a family is like a treasure. The 35-year-old Vucevic does not provide the team with more security. He even has no sense of presence in the court. The protection of rebounds is not as good as Gidi. Considering that Vucevic still has a one-year contract worth a total of 21.48 million, he has to worry about the management.

You must know that the Bulls wasted a lot of high-quality resources when building a team around Vucevic. They gave up Wendell Carter Jr. and subsequently sent out a first-round pick to acquire the German player Wagner Jr.. The two young men have now grown into cornerstone players for the Magic's future. As for the Bulls, they would rather pay for DeRozan's incompatibility with the system and find a solution for LaVine's mistake of renewing LaVine's contract at a high price, but they are unwilling to choose to rebuild for Vucevic. Considering the quality of the 2026 draft, the Bulls can use Gidi as the core of the future and match him with more high-quality championship puzzles instead of relying too much on the performance of veterans. You know, the 33-year-old Biyombo has no playing time with the Spurs.