Tony Snell hasn’t had a great year so far for the Bucks. His most valuable skill, his three-point shooting, has regressed badly; he’s shooting barely above 30 percent on mostly open looks. He’s still a good defender, which is nice, but on offense, as Bulls fans know, he is mostly invisible. Still, he helps the Bucks majorly with one key attribute:
He is not Michael Carter-Williams.
It can not be understated how much not having MCW and his ball-hogginess helps this team. I would’ve been fine giving him up for nothing, and the Bulls went and gave the Bucks a semi-kinda-okayish-starter-quality player for him. Granted, Bulls fans will readily say about MCW, “He is not Tony Snell”, and that’s fine. I think both teams won this trade. The Bucks needed a stopgap Khris Middleton replacement, and the Bulls needed another ball-pounding guard who can’t shoot.
Oh wait.