Reggie was a high scoring guard for the bulls who couldn’t guard
a flagpole, so they traded him and drafted Jordan the following year.
We should do the same thing with Lavine, considering how deep the
draft is going to be with elite 2-way guards...Ayo,Suggs,Mitchell,Cunningham,etc.

Look at it from Billy’s perspective, you go from coaching the best defensive
backcourt last year in Dort, Paul, Shai, and Dennis to coaching Lavine,White
and Sato. That’s a huge drop off.

And like you said, he is one of the best offensive players in the league, but that’s
all that he is. If this were 10-20 years ago, you would have a point.
However, in this era scoring, scoring isn’t hard to do, because of the open play of
the league. It is 2 way defensive players that are hard to find, and that is
something that Lavine is physically and mentally unable to do.

He is very thin, so he gets outmuscled in the post and around the perimeter, and he
simply doesn’t know how to get in a defensive stance, and he hasn’t shown any
interest in playing defense. Coby White is the same.

I told you guys that Theis was the only one that I liked in the bulls’ most recent
trade, because of his 2-way ability. I also said that Vucevic was the big man version
of Lavine, because he doesn’t play defense. We are worse defensively than what we were with Carter and Porter. And that forces Young and Williams to work even harder
on defense, which takes away from their offensive ability. That’s why there isn’t any
offensive contribution from other players. They are too busy covering Lavine and
Vucevic on defense....

This is why Lavine has to go, and why Vucevic was a terrible pick-up.
Those two players cannot be the foundation of this team. They are not Billy
Donovan type players, and it’s only going to get worse.