Chicago Bulls: Dennis Schroder is not the answer at point guard

Would Dennis Schroder be the best fit for the Chicago Bulls? 

Despite another disappointing year, in which they will miss the playoffs again, the Chicago Bulls will have one of the most intriguing rosters heading into next season. Especially after the team acquired Nikola Vucevic at the NBA Trade Deadline.

With a full offseason, the expectation will be that a duo of Zach LaVine and Vucevic, with a strong complementary of players, should be able to push Chicago up the Eastern Conference standings and, ultimately, into the playoffs.

And heading into the offseason, the Bulls will certainly be looking for other ways to upgrade its roster. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Bulls will be hoping to upgrade the point guard position and they currently are eyeing two potential fits: Lonzo Ball and Dennis Schroder.

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Will the Chicago Bulls have to decide between two point guards during the offseason?

While it’s easy to see why Ball would be a great fit for this team during the offseason, I certainly have my doubts about Schroder as a fit on this roster.

Let’s preface this by saying, this is not a knock on Schroder. He’s proven to be a really good player but simply doesn’t fit on the Bulls for several reasons. It would be no surprise for any team in search of a point guard to potentially target Schroder.

Schroder is coming off another fantastic season in which he averaged 16 points and six assists on 44 percent shooting from the field. However, I don’t believe he fits as well as Ball does in a vacuum.

One thing that the Bulls absolutely need from the point guard position is a player that can come in and automatically take the pressure off of LaVine in terms of being a primary playmaker. LaVine is still largely expected to have the ball in his hands plenty, but his primary focus should be scoring; not playmaking. I’m not sure Schroder would give LaVine that freedom.

Even though Schroder is averaging six assists per game this season, he’s only done that two other times in his career. In fact, in just four career seasons, Ball has averaged more than seven assists twice and is averaging six assists per game this season.

Ball has proven over the course of his career that he can be a willing playmaker and that is often his primary focus. Ball has also evolved as a better 3-point shooter over the last two seasons. Assuming that to be the case, an argument can be made that he’s just about to him the prime years of his career.

Looking at his statistical arc, there’s a chance that Schroder has already had the best seasons of his career – but we can’t hold that against him, he’s still only 27 years old.

There’s also an argument to be made that the Bulls already have a lot of what Schroder does in Coby White, in terms of a point guard that has a score-first mentality. Even though it never hurts to have quality players, if there’s another point guard that would help in other facets, there’s no question that it would be a better fit.

For instance, this season, the Bulls don’t have a player on the roster that is averaging more than five assists per game for the team. Their leading assist leader? LaVine. It just goes back to the premise that the Bulls need to find a playmaker to help take some of the pressure off of LaVine at this stage of his career.

Schroder might be the answer for a lot of teams this offseason at the point guard position, but not for the Bulls. There might be better options out there.