When the Chicago Bulls pushed their chips onto the table two years ago, a lot of people were excited. The Nikola Vucevic trade was gutsy, but the signings of DeMar DeRozan, Lonzo Ball, and Alex Caruso raised some eyebrows (in a good way). Then, everything seemed great when the Bulls got off to a hot start in 2021. But then the regression happened.
Ball’s injury certainly hurt Chicago, but they can’t blame all of their struggles on that. The truth is the Bulls are simply a middle-of-the-pack team, and if they want to escape that realm, they need to face the facts. One of which, according to Andy Bailey of Bleacher Report, is that Zach LaVine and DeRozan don’t fit together.
