The Chicago Bulls have had an abysmal season considering who they are, who they have on the roster and where they have been for the past few years. Being outside the Playoff bubble is somewhere I never saw the Chicago Bulls. Nobody saw this coming.
And you think us, the people are surprised, just try and get your feet in the Bulls’ players shoes. They have been scratching their heads about this all season. Mike Dunleavy, who has spent most of the season recovering from injury, has been in a unique position and has delivered his thoughts on everything.
“It’s a lot. It’s not one thing here or there,” said forward Mike Dunleavy. “It’s not the offense or defense, it’s both. It’s a lot of stuff. To say one thing we’re not doing right and it’ll solve everything, that’s just not the case. It’s a bunch of stuff we’re struggling with. Effort, execution, discipline, continuity, you can go through the whole thing.”
“Just a lack of competitiveness; All we talked about is getting off to a good start tonight, giving ourselves a chance,” Fred Hoiberg said. “We win games, more often than not, when we win the first quarter. They came out and scored 36 on us in the first 12 minutes.”
“Is the answer in the room? Hell, we all we got, it better be in this room,” Jimmy Butler said. “And it better carry from this locker room to on the court. That’s the only way to get this fixed, nobody’s gonna play basketball for us.”
Hoiberg and Butler haven’t had the best of coach/team leader relationships, but that can only get better. This season, if they don’t make the Playoffs, has to be seen as a learning curve. Know what went wrong and how they can get back to the higher echelon of the Eastern Conference.
