"Storms knocked out power at the Berto Center late Tuesday, forcing the Bulls to move their draft headquarters to the United Center for Thursday night's festivities.

Each year, players in the NBA draft get hyped beyond recognition, which is why Bulls general manager Gar Forman's bluntness sounded so refreshing this week.

"If you study the draft with those late picks at 28 and 30, more times than not it's not going to be an impact guy," Forman said Tuesday. "We hope we can get an impact guy. Even if he isn't, we want to get someone who fits us and in two or three years can be a rotation guy."

It's hard to drive matters from so late in the first round, which is why the Bulls' attempts to package picks Nos. 28 and 30 and move up in the draft have been rebuffed thus far. The Bulls will continue to work a dry-for-now trade landscape, but Forman sounded like somebody prepared to use both first-round picks Thursday night, along with the 43rd overall selection in the second round.

At least it beats the boredom of 2005, when the Bulls owned no draft picks for the only time in franchise history.

"Our feeling is really at the back end of the draft, there are going to be some good players for us," Forman said. "We think we'll get two guys who will be serviceable players that will fit with us. Any draft we've spent years studying guys, not only on the floor but getting a lot of background information. That is very important to how we make selections.""