Players Only Meeting after night 1 - congratulations to Your Chicago Bulls in establishing a record that will never be broken: CHICAGO -- When Chicago Bulls coach Billy Donovan walked into the locker room following his team's 124-104 season-opening loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, Bulls players were already in the middle of a discussion and asked their coach if they could have the room to talk among themselves. "Guys want to win," Bulls guard Zach LaVine said after Wednesday's game. "You put up a game like this in game 1, you're going to have some conversations. Guys are frustrated and you should be. ... It's a good thing, but sucks that it happened game 1. It happened, and we got to go from there." A players-only meeting after the first game is not how Chicago envisioned the start of their season after bringing back the core of its roster. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...ulls-players-meet-blowout-loss-thunder-opener
I see your point. I am still mad about getting whooped by the Magic. We let Jar Jar Binks take us to school.
The uncertainties are still there: Lonzo unavailable. Contract extension talks with DeRozen and Patrick Wiliams aren't progressing. Initial thought that fans have on the Bulls is that they're stuck in the middle. I agree with this in general, but they're a bit overlooked because the teams on the come-up: Magic, Pacers...etc (who had worse records last year); have to leap frog pass teams like the Bulls, which unless Chicago blows it up, is still an obstacle. Under Donovan, they were #5 in the league in defense (team rating: 111.5). For the criticism that he gets over the years, he got his team to play solid defense. Able to beat contenders and lose to bad teams at the same time. There are traits of an identity that maybe Rockets was striving this year stylistically. Good defense, while acknowledging an offense with poor spacing. Shade of Sengun comparison in an offensive center in Vuc, who's post offense is sometimes under-used; sometimes forgotten after their #1 and #2 in Zach and Demar.
