"Ayo I want to put the Paws on em"...- The Chicago Bulls 2022-23 Season thread.

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zach lowe has the bulls #8 in terms of watchability this year

Lowe: Ranking the top 10 most fun NBA teams to watch this season

8. Chicago Bulls (36)
Gimme the hot sauce! (If you're too cool to appreciate Stacey King's catchphrases, we can't be friends.)

Lonzo Ball and Zach LaVine should be a perfect match: the league's willingest hit-ahead passer bombing to the best open-court dunker since prime Vince Carter. Benny the Bull won't be able to control himself during his popcorn fiendings.

Melding the Ball/LaVine show with the, umm, more patient stylings of DeMar DeRozan and Nikola Vucevic will be an ongoing challenge for Team Floor-Raiser. DeRozan has shown -- including in the bubble with the San Antonio Spurs -- that he is adaptable to run-and-gun pace. Chicago needed another closer anyway; the crunch time burden on LaVine was too big -- even if he rose to it. More of LaVine off the ball -- spotting up for 3s and cutting for dunks -- is good for him and the Bulls.


Vucevic can trail for 3s and toggle in the half-court between post-ups and ball screens, depending on matchups. DeRozan likes the midrange too, and it will take time for these four to master their steps and settle a hierarchy. Watching that discovery process will be catnip for X's and O's nerds.

Crafting a workable defense will be tougher. Patrick Williams is one of the league's most important players, given how few young guys acquired directly via Chicago's lottery picks and the Jimmy Butler trade remain on this roster -- and the picks Chicago now owes the Spurs and the Orlando Magic. (Coby White's long-term role is uncertain too.)

Williams is built for switchy defense, and his stop-on-a-dime midranger is pure silk -- launched so high, the ball drops through without generating much more than a ripple.

Derrick Jones Jr. is one of LaVine's only true dunking rivals. DeRozan is the king of high-fiving phantom teammates between free throws if no one approaches -- or while attempting technical foul shots. It's a subtle bit, and DeRozan is supercommitted.

Hypothesis: Billy Donovan is the least funny coach in the NBA.
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Hip-Hop-Bulls said:
Bulls and Hornets should switch spots. Ridiculous that a team of Lonzo, Zach, DDR, Vuc, DJJ and Caruso can't be a team that's only exciting because of lamelo and bridges
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I'm trippin more off the warriors. they haven't made the playoffs in the last 2 seasons and still don't know when klay thompson is returning nor do they have anyone we care about watching outside of steph currently.
 
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