Tre Jones Just Became Trade-Eligible — How Does He Fit into the Bulls’ Future? ...Middle East

NBA trade season unofficially kicked off on Monday, when most players inked to free agent deals over the summer became eligible to be moved. This year, Chicago only has one such player in point guard Tre Jones.

The Bulls are often averse to making many transactions, given how terrible their front office is at pulling them off. Last season, Chicago acquired Jones from the San Antonio Spurs as part of the three-team blockbuster Zach LaVine deadline deal with the Sacramento Kings.

Jones performed admirably for the play-in tournament-bound Bulls during his first months with the franchise. Off this, he earned a three-year, $24 million free agent deal during the offseason.

Through his first 19 healthy contests this season, the Duke product has been averaging 12.5 points on .506/.258/.855 shooting splits, 4.9 dimes, 3.1 boards, and a robust 1.6 steals.

While he’s not a good or frequent 3-point shooter (he’s made a career 30.8 percent of his 1.5 triple takes per), the 25-year-old has emerged as a fun, high-octane guard. While he’s a bit undersized at 6-foot-1, the younger brother of Tyus Jones fits head coach Billy Donovan‘s preferred downhill, pass-happy offensive style in Chicago.

But Chicago has a bit of a glut of talent (albeit, mismatched talent) in the backcourt, and a deficit on its front line. With Ayo Dosunmu missing his third consecutive game Wednesday due to a pair of thumb sprains, the Bulls are likely grateful to hold onto Jones for at least a bit.

Longer-term, though, does the club need to hold onto all five of Dosunmu, Jones, Jevon Carter (who picked up his generous $6.8 million player option over the summer) and starters Josh Giddey and Coby White? That quintent is earning a combined $60.2 million salary this season.

And there’s only one ball.

So maybe now represents a nice opportunity to take stock of Jones’ play for the Bulls so far, and to determine whether he should or shouldn’t figure into Chicago’s long-term plans.

Tre Jones: The Pros

Jones is a fun energy piece off the bench, with enough quickness to be at least a pesky defender. While White was ailing to start the year, Donovan opted to start him at the shooting guard spot over Ayo Dosunmu. It was a surprise vote of confidence in a relatively new player.

Although Jones may lack Dosunmu’s size or strength (or his brother’s hyper-efficient shooting), he’s a solid off-ball scorer, especially in the paint. He’s also a pretty solid supplemental playmaker. Among the Bulls’ guards, he is definitely the fourth-best player, but is also good enough to become Chicago’s third backcourt option if the team opts to, say, flip Coby White.

Mostly a below-the-rim scorer, Jones is a solid, energy-changing driver, and possesses the expedient first step necessary to leave defenders in his dust.

Armed with a 6-foot-4 wingspan, Jones ranks among the top 10 in total steals so far this season, despite mostly coming off the bench for Chicago. And his ability to muck up passing lines keeps opposing guards on their toes at least.

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Tre Jones: The Cons

In a modern NBA offense, Jones’ ceiling might always be a bit limited by his struggles to connect from beyond the arc. But so long as Chicago boasts some 3-point shooting bigs in Nikola Vucevic (he had been converting 37.9 percent of his 4.8 triple tries heading into Wednesday’s game), Jalen Smith (37 percent shooting on 4.1 looks from deep), and even Zach Collins this year (37.5 percent on 2.0 treys), the team can get away with playing Jones major minutes.

Jones is the kind of nice, young-ish player whose non-minimum contract could be thrown into a larger deal. But Chicago, having gone 5-15 across its most recent 20 games prior to Wednesday, needs to be thinking about tearing down its roster, not combining money for possible win-now pieces on bigger contracts — at least, nothing short of a Giannis Antetokounmpo-level talent.

So I worry that the Bulls’ front office “brain” “trust” of president Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley will make a desperate trade to return to fringe playoff/play-in range in the Eastern Conference, and could ditch Jones as part of a bigger package.

It would behoove the Bulls to hold onto Jones for now, unless the team can extract actual draft capital for his contract — or they need him to match salaries in a package for a long-term superstar (i.e. someone with way more left in the tank than Anthony Davis).

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