The mark of some of the league’s elite teams – the San Antonio Spurs of the past decade, the Lebron-era Miami Heat – is their ability to flip a switch and go from pedestrian, average basketball and pull away to clinch ball games. The Bulls followed their lead in using a strong fourth quarter to […]
They were merely fine, then they were world-beaters, then they were the basketball version of a dog trying to walk around with a cone on its head, and now they seem back to themselves. This All-Star break has been a nice respite from an emotional roller coaster of a season for the Bulls. Let’s briefly […]
Rare is the Bulls game that is decided by the start of the fourth quarter. Blowouts in either direction this season have seen either Chicago hang around until deep in the fourth quarter or fail to properly close out poor teams. Saturday night in New Orleans was not one of those occassions. With Anthony Davis […]
The Bulls have made a habit of losing the games they should win, while winning the games they should lose, but they went against the pattern last night, mounting another improbable comeback that came up short. Until a miracle three by Isaiah Thomas at the very end, the two sides played to a draw in […]
Last night’s loss to the Lakers was just the Bulls loss to [INSERT LOTTERY TEAM HERE]. It included: -A lazy start (L.A. had 59 points on 58.7% shooting in the first half), this time one they never really snapped out of, as they trailed by 15 in the second half and wouldn’t take a lead […]
OK, with a night to think, the question becomes: Did that really happen? Did the Bulls, down both starting wings, win a road contest in potentially the best home court in the league against the prohibitive title favorite? Nothing can be considered surprising anymore for a team that has woeful losses to Orlando, Utah, Boston, […]
It’s amazing how much winning can do for the attitude surrounding a team. With a 102-98 road win in Dallas, the Bulls completed a brutal back-to-back set against San Antonio and on the road against the Mavericks unbeaten. Contrast that to the impending sense of dread spreading throughout Chicago’s media and the team’s fans in […]
Seeing as the Bulls have played their best against contenders this year, it only makes sense that they would break out of their slump in emphatic fashion against the Spurs, last year’s champion and the most successful franchise of the last 15 or so years. Chicago came out focused right off the bat, led by […]
This is a bad basketball team right now. https://vine.co/v/OjLehEAYzYH
The Bulls have had a dozen or so lackluster efforts against weaker competition this season, and yet their 121-114 home loss to the Magic was still frustrating. That tells you all you need to know about how extraordinarily poor they were tonight. Some really positive things happened, and I mean really positive, but for every step forward, […]
