Haugh on the Bulls: 'This is a front office that didn't go into this draft with a win-now mandate'

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00:00This is a very patient front office and it's operating as such.

00:05This is a front office that didn't go into this draft with the win now mandate.

00:10This went into this, they went into this draft and I'm not sure who that would have represented.

00:15I don't know if you go into a draft thinking, you know, but sometimes if that were the case

00:20in the mindset, you might get somebody who fits immediately into rotation, replacing

00:24somebody here or there.

00:25That's not the case here.

00:26Well, we chatted briefly on this question this morning.

00:31How long would it take for him to make an impact?

00:34How long does an 18 year old who's coming from a kind of minor league comparatively, although

00:42having played professionally, how long is that translation into an impactful NBA player?

00:52I think in today's league, that's hard, harder to answer than ever.

00:55Yeah.

00:55Because a year ago, again, we were sitting here and this is the, this is the relevant

00:59comparison because are the more easy to identify with Matus Bozelis a year ago, we came in

01:05the morning after the draft.

01:06Yeah.

01:06We asked the same question about him and we thought it was maybe two years G league.

01:10We thought it was G league and then contribution.

01:13And then, Oh, okay.

01:14That's what they have.

01:15And we'll see it.

01:15It'll be obvious to everyone.

01:16He did not spend five minutes in the G league.

01:20He all of a sudden became a guy good enough to become a cornerstone, a second team, all

01:25rookie, I believe.

01:26And so I don't want to say we were wrong about Matus Bozelis, but we didn't know a lot of

01:32things that they did at the time that they drafted him.