Does anyone care about the Bulls season enough to discuss?

[muntjack]

Good god this organization is a disaster. 

[Outshined_One]

Seriously, guys, this team just needs to be healthy all at the same time for more than a few games and they'll be title contenders!!!

[17 Seconds]

re-signing demar would be so disastrously bad

[UMFan83]

4 minutes ago, Outshined_One said:

Seriously, guys, this team just needs to be healthy all at the same time for more than a few games and they'll be title contenders!!!

Lonzo is coming back next year!!  He’ll be the first player in history to have his surgery and return to the NBA but he’ll somehow be back to save us. 

[17 Seconds]

imagine being told in 2020 that AK would establish himself as being worse than garpax in under 5 years

[Rex Buckingham]

You know who doesn't care enough about this Bulls season to discuss? Anyone in charge of making decisions for this franchise

[Outshined_One]

2 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Lonzo is coming back next year!!  He’ll be the first player in history to have his surgery and return to the NBA but he’ll somehow be back to save us. 

Kendall Gill was spouting off about exactly this a few days ago on The Score. I nearly drove off the road hearing someone make those claims.

[UMFan83]

2022 Trade Deadline - 0 moves

2023 Trade Deadline - 0 moves

2024 Trade Deadline - 0 moves

AKME has made 3 trades since the start of 2022, the lowest amount in the league over the time, and they've all been extremely minor.

[Rex Buckingham]

https://twitter.com/BN_Bulls/status/1755696505992741083?t=CZxiCTpWxtKOqcILblTiXQ&s=19

[Wilson A2000]

They are leading the league in attendance. Why change?

[UMFan83]

He kept saying look at the standings we're all bunched up....so I looked at the standings.  The Bulls have a 3.5 game cushion for a play-in spot, but are 3 games behind the next closest team (a spot that would give them 2 chances to win 1 game to make the playoffs), and 4.5 games behind a guaranteed playoff spot.  Not insurmountable by any means but I'd hardly call it "bunched up"

[Wilson A2000]

The Bulls definitely gave effort last night, but Vooch has to stop shooting threes. He’s just terrible at them and killing the offense with these 1-7 efforts. He says, “But I’m open,” problem is the defense is letting you shoot them because you stink at them. He’s a solid player in the post but continually strays from that. Donovan can’t let that keep happening.

With 14 seconds left and a tie game, you have to get a better shot up than a last second desperate contested three from Demar.

[Sammy Sofa]

https://defector.com/the-bulls-are-parked-in-mediocrity

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The Chicago Bulls declined, for the third year running, to make any moves ahead of the NBA trade deadline, which came and went with little sizzle and even less steak Thursday afternoon. They had some options—other teams with more serious ideas about moving up in the world were hoping for a Bulls sell-off—but chief personnel honcho Arturas Karnisovas, architect of Chicago's unsatisfying present, is fond of the bird in hand, even if that bird is one of the grody ones, like a starling, and even if that starling is mostly dead, having recently been swallowed and regurgitated by, I don't know, a dyspeptic coyote.

The Bulls stink. Since Lonzo Ball's knee dissolved into a putrid slime in early 2022, the Bulls have gone 85–95 in regular-season games. Last season they sat out the trade deadline, immediately lost five straight to drop to 11th in the Eastern Conference, recovered only enough to grab the final spot in the play-in, and were then dispatched by the Miami Heat to finish a maddeningly frustrating campaign short of a second consecutive playoff appearance. So far this season, they are 25–27; since the second week of the season, they have never risen higher than ninth in the East. According to Cleaning The Glass, the Bulls have the league's 22nd-ranked offense and the league's 16th-ranked defense, by points per possession. Last season this same core played this same basketball—better defensively, worse offensively, but the same stew of mediocrity. This is not a team that appears at all primed to explode up the standings, not without some other teams above them kerploding their way in the opposite direction.

 

[BigbadB]

On 2/11/2024 at 11:17 AM, Wilson A2000 said:

The Bulls definitely gave effort last night, but Vooch has to stop shooting threes. He’s just terrible at them and killing the offense with these 1-7 efforts. He says, “But I’m open,” problem is the defense is letting you shoot them because you stink at them. He’s a solid player in the post but continually strays from that. Donovan can’t let that keep happening.

With 14 seconds left and a tie game, you have to get a better shot up than a last second desperate contested three from Demar.

He wasted 10 of those seconds standing near mid court. I hated that choice of last second shot.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Had the Cavs on the ropes again but again couldn't close them out. They keep eeking toward 500 and getting smacked right back down. Vucevis now shooting 28% on 3s for the year. By year:

 

20-21 .400

21-22 .314

22-23 .349

23-24 . 275

 

Of course that horsefeathers happened.

[UMFan83]

3 hours ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Had the Cavs on the ropes again but again couldn't close them out. They keep eeking toward 500 and getting smacked right back down. Vucevis now shooting 28% on 3s for the year. By year:

 

20-21 .400

21-22 .314

22-23 .349

23-24 . 275

 

Of course that horsefeathers happened.

New shooting coach making an impact

[Tim]

1 hour ago, UMFan83 said:

New shooting coach making an impact

He's been spending 100% of his time with Ayo to great effect, tho

[BigbadB]

1 hour ago, UMFan83 said:

New shooting coach making an impact

No matter how many times Vuc tosses one up from beyond the arc, you can always count on him making ONE, which is probably all the confidence he needs to keep doing it.

[mfcubs22]

Can anyone explain Ayo’s turnaround? Particularly his 3 point shooting?

[UMFan83]

Pistons now 2-1 against the Bulls and 7-48 against everyone else. Good stuff. 

[mfcubs22]

Bulls shot 2-29 (6.9%) from 3. Yeesh. 

[jersey cubs fan]

Just now, mfcubs22 said:

Bulls shot 2-29 (6.9%) from 3. Yeesh. 

ni.ce

[UMFan83]

1 hour ago, mfcubs22 said:

Bulls shot 2-29 (6.9%) from 3. Yeesh. 

 

[17 Seconds]

good, they deserve bad things

[Tryptamine]

The exciting part is that they can  use the injury excuse for the 3rd or 4th offseason in a row and then bring the same people back expecting different results.