The Latest Breaking News from Billy Donovan

CHICAGO — In the waning minutes of the Chicago Bulls’ 108-107 loss to the Orlando Magic on Friday night, Zach LaVine found himself in an unfamiliar place: on the bench, watching his team attempt to finish a comeback at the United Center.

LaVine sat the final four minutes of Friday's loss to Orlando.

After a late-game benching in the Friday loss to Orlando, LaVine expressed his disappointment in his coach’s decision. But there’s a bigger picture here, and if the Bulls want to get out of mediocrity in the life of this LaVine contract, someone needs to start answering some hard questions.

Billy Donovan opted to bench LaVine in the final minutes of Friday's loss.

The two-time All-Star disagreed with Billy Donovan’s decision to keep him on the pine amid a dismal shooting night.

Whatever it is, this group clearly doesn’t bring it every night.

The Bulls lost their fourth straight game Friday as Orlando’s Jalen Suggs hit a game-winner in the final seconds. But Donovan pointed the finger once again at a slow start to the game and put it on Nikola Vucevic, DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine to figure it out.

According to coach Billy Donovan, Ball continues to take positive steps in his left knee rehab, but the steps are slow. So slow that the coach still couldn’t offer up any sort of timetable.

While it’s easy to get caught up in slamming the panic button down after Wednesday’s performance in New Orleans, it’s way too early in the season to turn the Advocate Center into a demolition site. That doesn’t mean some in-house changes can’t be made.

Ayo Dosunmu wants to be pushed. That was the first request he made to coach Billy Donovan when the former Illinois guard joined the Chicago Bulls as a rookie.

With Zion Williamson sidelined Wednesday, it seemed like the Bulls — and Patrick Williams — would have a much easier go of it. But an all-too familiar problem again haunted the starting unit, and now there are more questions for the Bulls after a third straight loss.