It’s weird, other than the Golden State Warriors, does it look like every other team just doesn’t have it all together? I mean the Chicago Bulls are up there right now, but like most teams there’s always that game where they’re extremely dissapointing? Even Cleveland are having those games.
Jimmy Butler, the official leader of the Bulls (called it) has noticed that lackadaisical games and he thinks that there’s some slacking on the Bulls squad.
“I don’t think we bring that fight every single night,’’ Butler admitted. “I think we’re starting to get back to that, but early on we weren’t the hardest-playing team every night. We always need to and have to be the hardest-playing team.’’
“I just think that at times we take for granted how talented we are as a whole and with all the guys upon this roster,’’ Butler said following the Monday practice. “We think we can come out and just go through the motions at the beginning of a game, dig ourselves a little hole, and think we can just pick it up at any point and time, and it just doesn’t work like that.
“You gotta come out from the jump and try and beat a team for the whole 48 minutes. I think we’ve been really good from the start of games these past few games, and come up short in a few, but I think if we keep pushing, keep playing hard all the time, we’re going to win games.’’
He has to tell that to the squad. Because the league are in a similar position as them in terms of record, they don’t want to be the first team to slip up.
