The lack of a direction chosen by the Chicago Bulls‘ front office has the ball club in the crosshairs of another analyst, who has the Bulls as one of the worst offseasons in the league due to their inability to decide on how to move forward as a franchise.
“How about the Chicago Bulls’ decision to keep their veteran nucleus together?” asks the Athletic’s Josh Robbins. “Not moving DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine and also re-signing Nikola Vucevic is laudable in the sense the Bulls are trying to win. But that core group has topped out, and the Bulls are 20th out of 30 teams in the standings.”
“In other words, they’re mediocre, and in the NBA, it’s difficult for a franchise mired in mediocrity to make marked long-term improvements,” he adds.
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“At this moment, the Bulls seem stuck in the mud,” writes Robbins. “That, along with DeRozan’s expiring contract, makes the Bulls a fascinating team to watch as the trade deadline approaches.”
For the sake of all our eyeballs, let’s hope the Athletic analyst is correct.
