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Analysis: DeMar DeRozan Needs To Facilitate
The Chicago Bulls are inching closer and closer to their first playoff berth since the 2017 season. The team has plenty of playoff experience, but no more than their best player -- DeMar DeRozan. DeRozan's MVP-caliber season has fortified a crutch for the Bulls on offense. His 31.8 usage percentage...
Bulls Analysis: Zach LaVine's Defense Needs Improvement
The Chicago Bulls are an average defensive team in the NBA. They rank 15th, exactly average, in opponent points per game allowed. They allow 110.9 points per game this season, dropping out of the top-10 from earlier in the season. Bulls fans will use injuries as the scapegoat for the downfall....
Analysis: Bulls' Defensive Lapses Allowed Cavaliers Comeback
The Chicago Bulls entered a crucial game against the then sixth-place Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday. A loss in the Bulls' column would have shot the Cavs above the Bulls for the fifth-place spot in the Eastern Conference. Nevertheless, the Bulls prevailed 98-94. Not after, however, the Bulls...
Ayo Dosunmu Needs To Be A Cookie-Cutter Lonzo Ball
The Bulls now have single-digit games remaining in the regular season. Come playoff-time, the matchups are unpredictable. They’re currently in place to play the fourth-seed Boston Celtics. If they drop Saturday’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, they’ll play the 76ers, who have beaten the...
Are The Bulls A Playoff-Ready Team?
The Chicago Bulls’ season this year can perfectly be described as serendipitous. DeMar DeRozan is an MVP candidate, Ayo Dosunmu could result on the All-Rookie team and the Bulls have held the first spot in the Eastern Conference for long stretches. However, one must contend with the idea that the...
Raptors Are A Microcosm Of Daunting Playoffs For Bulls
On the night of Patrick Williams' long-awaited return to the floor for the first time since Oct. 28 and conveniently enough -- free hat giveaway at the United Center -- the Chicago Bulls pulled out an important win over the Toronto Raptors. The Raptors were on the second night of a back-to-back....
Lonzo Ball setback creates rough outlook for Bulls
Lonzo Ball might not be ballin' anymore this season. Only an hour before the Chicago Bulls square off against the Toronto Raptors on Monday night, head coach Billy Donovan admitted Ball's recovery from his partially torn meniscus back in January is not going in the right direction. Donovan said...
Zach LaVine Injury Timeline Shows His Determination
Zach LaVine is a tough player. Any Chicago Bulls fan knows LaVine desperately wants to be on the floor at all times. If there's a will there's a way, and LaVine's willingness to play through the pain is admirable. The star shooting guard recently had fluid taken from his knee and an injection to...
Bulls Find Answer To Frontcourt Help With Tristan Thompson
While defeating the Sacramento Kings, 125-118, on Wednesday night to extend their win streak to five games, the Chicago Bulls added some frontcourt help to their team with Tristan Thompson. Pacers head coach, Rick Carlisle, announced the news during his postgame press conference Wednesday night,...
The Eastern Conference Is Getting Stronger
The Eastern Conference picture is getting sharper as the NBA trade deadline approaches. The Cleveland Cavaliers got the ball rolling on Sunday. They traded for Caris Levert from the Indiana Pacers in exchange for Ricky Rubio, a 2022 first-round pick and two second-round picks, according to Woj. The...
Nikola Vucevic Joins The Bulls Injury List
Nikola Vucevic sneakily landed on the Bulls' injury list hours before their game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Vucevic (knee) is listed as questionable for the game. His injury came against the Orlando Magic last night after he fell over Wendell Carter Jr., hitting his knee on the floor....
Bulls lose gritty, short-handed contest to Bucks
The Chicago Bulls sure do know how to fight. That was the tone of the game all night, facing off against the reigning NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks and one of the most dominant players in the league -- Giannis Antetokounmpo. Tyler Cook started the game on Antetokounmpo, symbolizing the degree of...
Bulls Snap 4-Game Losing Streak Versus Cavaliers
A rare, ear-to-ear smile and hug with DeMar DeRozan took place from head coach Billy Donovan as the seconds counted down a relieving win for the Chicago Bulls. Nikola Vucevic and others laughed with their old teammate, Lauri Markkanen, as the team defeated the gigantic and legit Cleveland Cavaliers...
Dosunmu Shows Why His Jersey Was Hung In Illinois Rafters
Ayo Dosunmu may have just had the best 24 hours of his life. Just one night ago, Ayo Dosunmu, walked across his old stomping grounds at the University of Illinois's State Farm Center in Champaign, Illinois, for his ceremonial jersey hanging. Becoming the 34th Illini to receive the honor, Dosunmu...
A Recap Of Coby White's Rollercoaster 2021
Coby White, the former seventh overall pick for the Bulls in the 2019 NBA draft, has had a rollercoaster-type 2021 year. Recently, White updated his 2021 year with a season-high 24 points against the Houston Rockets, shooting 7-of-15 from the floor and 5-of-9 from three-point range. This...
DeRozan's Fourth-Quarter Fuels Bulls Revenge Game
No LaVine, no problem. DeMar DeRozan went back to his fourth-quarter ways in the Bulls' first game back since a little over a week ago. As the Bulls continue to navigate the Covid-19 outbreak that caused them to postpone two of their regular-season games, the current team is back to picking up...
NBA Grants Bulls Two Game Postponements
Finally, the moment Bulls fans were waiting for -- postponement. The NBA announced Monday the Bulls' next two games against the Detroit Pistons and Toronto Raptors are postponed to a later date. The Bulls are up to 10 players in Covid-19 protocols, with Alize Johnson as the most recent entry on the...
Vucevic Struggles, Seven Players in Protocol As Heat Rout Bulls
The Bulls dropped to third in the Eastern Conference after losing to the Miami Heat on Saturday night, 118-92. A quote from Draymond Green's post-game press conference from the Warriors' loss to the 76ers felt applicable to the Bulls' loss against the Heat. "We missed a lot of good shots," Green...
Bulls Stark Offensive Differences Leading To Success
The Bulls' front office gifted second-year head coach Billy Donovan with one of the best rosters in the NBA. With the additions from this past offseason, the roster this year compared to last season's is far more talented. I say this with all due respect and happiness for the success of last...
BREAKING: Bulls Derrick Jones Jr. Enters Health And Safety Protocols
The Bulls' starting center for the last two games, Derrick Jones Jr., entered the league's health and safety protocols on Thursday, first reported by Adrian Wojnarowski. Jones became the fifth Bulls' player to enter Covid-19 protocols joining Coby White, Javonte Green, DeMar DeRozan and Matt...