The Chicago Bulls have yet to find a winning formula. Their 31-34 record has them at 10th in the East, though they’re just one game out of the no. 8 seed. The truth about the Bulls’ poorly-constructed roster is that there is no winning formula to be found. That hasn’t stopped coach Fred Hoiberg from continually experimenting with rotations. Rajon Rondo criticized this inconsistency on Saturday. From Vincent Goodwill of CSN Chicago:
“Hell yeah it’s hard. Absolutely. I want to win,” Rajon Rondo said to CSNChicago.com recently. “That’s what we’re here to do, is win. I had one goal when I came here: that’s to win. Business or not, that’s part of it.”
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When you develop a business or have a brand, you want it to win, you want it to sell. You want it to do well,” Rondo said to CSNChicago.com. “I don’t think we do it to experiment or go different from that.”
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“There’s no exact answer, you gotta learn through experience,” Rondo said to CSNChicago.com. “We go out there, we’re in sixth place (tied at that point in the East)…I don’t feel like…I feel like we should be trying to move up.”
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“(We should) continue to try to move up in seeding versus experimenting,” Rondo said.
The Bulls have lost each of their last four games now, and Nikola Mirotic, who was a major rotation player for the Bulls all of last season and most of this one, is currently all but out of the rotation. The Bulls have essentially zero team identity outside of “Jimmy Butler is good.” They don’t have the personnel to be a good team. That’s not going to change, regardless of what sort of rotations Hoiberg employs. At this point, he should pick one and stick to it; consistency is important.
