Although everyone is paying attention to Dragic, Dragic signing with the Nets is not the first shot in the buyout market, the real first shot is the Bulls.
On Feb. 18, the Pacers officially announced that the team had officially cut Tristan — Cavaliers championship center — James' little brother — the 80 million contract spokespeople — conquered the Kardashian family — let Kohler have a baby for him — and the man who cheated on Kohler's girlfriend and won forgiveness several times — Thompson.
From this name, it can be seen that TT is very long and is a veritable "long man". I believe that TT must have a skill, otherwise if he has no long body, I am afraid it will be difficult to make Kohler Kardashian die for him, and Odom and Harden are obviously counterexamples.
Judging from the 16-year turning warriors, TT is hard enough, long and hard, and the villagers understand it well.
So just two days later, the folks were watching the hot dunk contest, and their hearts kept reminiscing about the peak showdown between Gordon and Lavin, when Lavin's parent team, the Bulls, had cut McKinney and signed TT.
Today's latest report, the Bulls signed TT with a biennial exception. The biennial exception is another extra space that the league gives non-luxury tax teams to do beyond the middle class exception, and as the name suggests, biennials are used only once every other year.
TT signed $1 million with the Bulls this time, and on a pro-rata basis, he could get $774289 with the Bulls, which was exactly the money he and the Pacers gave up in the buyout agreement.
So again, the team will not pay too much extra salary for the players who buy out.
TT's signing is not very remarkable under the cover of the All-Star and Dragic, but his arrival is important for the Bulls.
In Lavin's words: "TT can bring us championship experience, he can help the team a lot. ”
As said at the beginning of the season, the Bulls' biggest problem this season is in the fourth and fifth positions, and they are extremely poor in terms of style and defense.
At the beginning of the fourth position, it was better to have Pavey standing, although Pavey was young, he had a size of 2 meters 03 topped there, and then Pavey was reimbursed for the season, that is, Jones Jr. went to stand in the fourth position, and then Little Jones was also injured, that is, Brown and even The Ball Brother and Caruso went to defend the Fourth position, all of which were dwarfs.
Then some people will say, Bridges and Crowder on the Suns front are not high?
It's true that neither of them is tall, but Claude, who is in the fourth position of the main station, has enough weight, and the Sun's inner line includes Ayton, McGee and Biyombo, and their heights are stacked at the fifth position.
The Bulls' fifth home station is European skilled center Vucevic, and the substitute is Tony Bradley, who has only played seven playoff games in his career.
I have spoken more than once this season about the importance of the center for the team's defensive system, and at the end of 21, I wrote a special article "In the era of small ball, what is the use of the center forward?" Recently, due to the Warriors' internal problems, I have also written a lot, and the core is actually one: the center is the pillar of a team's defensive system.
Outside players can defend, and teams need the help of a center to watch the last gate, especially in the East.
The Bulls are now 38 wins and 21 losses, and because of the win-loss relationship, they are temporarily ranked second in the East under the Heat. With such a good record, the team should not at least look forward to reaching the finals of the divisions, not to mention reaching the finals.
As long as they make it to the second round, they will inevitably encounter one of the Heat, Philadelphia, the Cavaliers and bucks, the three highs and letters of Adebayor, the Emperor, and the Cavaliers, how should the Bulls solve it?
So the value of TT is not in his average of 7+5 per game this season, but that he has given the Bulls a basket-guarding long man on the inside, with height, hardness, and the defensive end is definitely better than Vucevic and Bradley against the above giants.
And the best-looking figure for TT's career is only 12+10, but an interesting thing is that as long as he plays the playoffs, he averages more playing time per game than in the regular season.
The more you get to the stage of fighting defense and short rotation, the value of TT will be more prominent than the more offensive regular season.
On the other hand, TT has played 83 playoff games in his career, which is about the same as the team's second-place DeRozan (58 games) and third-place Caruso (27 games), and he can also speak in terms of playoff experience.
Tristan Thompson, after all, is still the center who followed James to the Finals four times and won the championship.
Some things, whether you have experienced it or not, are completely different things.
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