The Bulls make it better

First-round First and Second Teams, Butch van Breda Kolff can't borrow a feeling

The Bulls make it better

When this year’s Bulls were good, it was superb.

Thibodeau’s Bulls were simply the sum of dem parts, Skiles’ playoff teams were too cheap to compete: Chicago’s 2021-22 crew never had championship paper potential, but because its brains were so big you could spot trails toward June.

They were weird, different, little. A 6-4 power forward and a second-round rookie doing day-to-day damage in the months after Chicago swung the largest surprise of the trade deadline, and a summer spent molding the most free agent opinions.

The opinions were correct, these Bulls were all forced turnovers (when healthy) to get stops and midrange jumpers to get buckets. Like a random high school club you used to pay attention to, maybe your own. Plus a couple of MVP chants.