Josh Giddey has taken his game breakdown skills to YouTube, and the Bulls guard is putting his own late-game tape under the microscope.
On Sep. 20, 2026, Giddey posted a video to his personal channel that revisited the final five minutes of Chicago’s 119-117 home win over the Los Angeles Lakers during the 2024-25 NBA season. The game ended with Giddey burying a buzzer-beating 3-pointer, and the video walks through how the closing stretch unfolded.
It is, by all accounts, an informative watch. But it also plays a little like an NBA L2M report - the kind that lays out a string of mistakes without changing the outcome after the fact.
What makes Giddey’s video stand out is that he doesn’t just spotlight the good stuff. He also goes back over a number of his own defensive mistakes from those final minutes, where breakdowns showed up more than once. That kind of honesty takes real confidence, and Giddey deserves credit for being willing to put those moments on camera.
At the same time, the point has to be clear: if he’s going to keep leaning into this sort of film-room commentary heading into the 2026-27 season, the next step is turning that awareness into cleaner play on the floor.
Giddey is a solid NBA player, and there’s value in hearing him explain what he saw. But knowing when he was late on a rotation or when he should have been more aggressive in a passing lane only goes so far. What matters now is whether he has a real plan to cut down on the defensive issues that have followed him into his third season with the Bulls.
There’s also the bigger context of that Lakers game itself. Giddey’s film session was built around a Bulls roster that was already dealing with obvious structural problems, and those issues weren’t created by him alone. The video touches on how teammates were filling gaps, but some of the matchups were always going to be rough sledding.
Nikola Vucevic and Kevin Huerter up top with LeBron James attacking on the ball is not exactly a mystery that needs solving on video. Some possessions are just plain obvious when the matchup tilts that hard.
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