The Bulls make it better

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

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.