What Happened to the Bulls?! From 5-0 Start to 1-3 Slide 😳🐂
The Chicago Bulls have gone from a dominant 5-0 start to a sudden 1-3 slide, and the numbers tell a clear story. After opening the season as a top-five offense and defense, Chicago has fallen into the bottom 10 in both categories over the last four games. Rim attacks are down nearly 25%, free throw rate has crashed to bottom five in the league, and the Bulls’ assists, rebounds, and turnovers have all dipped to league-average levels.
In this episode, Haize breaks down why the Bulls’ early-season identity has faded, how injuries to Ayo Dosunmu, Zach LaVine, and Coby White have impacted spacing and playmaking, and why Billy Donovan must ride the hot hand instead of sticking with struggling lineups. We dive into the importance of Nikola Vucevic and Matas Buzelis being consistently impactful, plus why Buzelis’ point-of-attack defense is the next leap he must take to approach true two-way stardom.
Then we break down voicemail reactions from Bulls fans on late-game execution, Donovan’s coaching decisions, the Ayo minutes restriction, and Artūras Karnišovas’ trade flexibility with over $60 million in expiring contracts and a $17 million TPE.
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THE VOICE OF THE FANS!
30 Comments
🔥 Bulls Nation, I need your thoughts on this 1–3 slide:
What do YOU think has changed the most — rim pressure, defense, or coaching adjustments? 👀🐂
Ayo, Coby, and Zach coming back soon will help… but the Bulls still need to fix the habits that made them slip.
👇 Drop your take below! I’ll be replying to comments all night.
#SeeRed
The only thing that changed about this team is that we have a couple great players that will fight till the whistle blow, and I’m not giving any credit to the coaching, Billy lost this game despite our two point guards fighting for this win. And he’s a distraction for our success.
I’ve never seen a coach so blatantly lose a game for a team. Ride the hire hand and keep Jalen smith in. He was having the game of his life jeeze
What this means is that some of the pressure now shifts to Coach Donovan and how well he utilizes the rotation. The 1st 2 losses….I blame it on the team. But last night's loss is 100% on the head coach.
I have yet to criticize Coach Billy….but now I'm becoming restless.
Loses happen lakers lost to hawks without their star player
Golden state also just got blew out
It happens
Bulls should not have extended Billy. He's a huge problem of why the Bulls have become stagnant over the past couple of seasons
It’s wild seeing people say rebuild on Twitter. I don’t understand man
This hysteria is hilarious. We were never going to win every game, no team wins every game. We’re playing great ball, and have a winning record. We don’t have our full team that dominated at the end of last year on the court yet. The level of maturity from fans is insane.
The spirit of never say die was expired after our 5-0 start, and what I've seen is the same old Bulls spirit is taking over once more. If this style of play keeps going, we might see another 9 to 10 spot in the east and lost to Miami Heat in the play-in, which would be 4rth in a row.
People on facebook blame Giddey 🤦🏼♂️
I think Ayo being out started it, Vouch and Giddey 2nd half energy has dropped off a bit, also wth teams scheme to affect Josh, Tre has struggled a bit. But all n all good they will learn n get better, showing fight most games
We going good. Our offense is ok without coby. Our defense sucks though
Early days yet, SEE RED Y'ALL
People are cooked. Have any of you ever watched NBA or any sport?? You're not going to win every game and you learn the most from the losses. Bulls are also playing with two stars down. Billy made a mistake yesterday. Let's grill him if he does it again. Let's grill the boys if they make these mistakes again. Lol everyone chill the f out 😂😂😂
Billy Donovan might be the worst ever person, I mean why not give smith more time when he was cooking first half
9 down 73 games to go. Still + in the Wins column. Holding strong on Home Court. Missing Coby and Collins. Nearly stole 1 off the Cavs away. So everyone needs to relax. Vuc is already looking a little tired, maybe being over played in minutes this early. J Smith playing well, Matas playing well. Okoro really coming to life. Still a lot of improvement to go. Its start of the season. First thing first. As long as Bulls hold the FORT at home, steal some away games. Bulls be looking fine.
Welcome to nba hell chicago bulls 😂
They still have a lot of games. Plus they have injured players and still working hard.
We lost to teams predicted to be top 4 teams in the East and out of those games 2 were missing Coby and Ayo and the 3rd Giddey and Ayo weren't 100% we are also missing collins who was a massive part of last year's run
Think Bulls fans just got to keep a level head. If you told me we win 6 of 9 out the gate without Coby and Collin's I would say that's very good. I'm disappointed with the Cavs game but we have to learn from our mistakes and continue to get better as a team. There's going to be bumps in the road but it's how responde and I'm looking forward to seeing how we go up against Wemby and the spurs.
Giddey is basically having to do it all by himself lately. The lack of defence has been very noticeable.
Yall want to hear something crazy when vooch is doing good he wouldn't take him out in situations like that
We might’ve had a 1-3 stretch after starting 5-0 but all our wins have been against quality teams if you ask me. And we’ve lost to good teams we aren’t just losing to bums or bottom of the barrel teams. Also this team has shown fight in every game they haven’t given up in any games
"90 million dollar boy"!? 🧐 Boy is a…nvm 😂 #seered
It's clearly injury bug they gotta shake it off
I don't understand why you're surprised.
It legitimate because it happened
There u go with yo bullshit u do this every time they lose
We will learn from this losses. We are much better and only get better as this team keeps playing together. We’ve had such a hard schedule, to be 6-3 is impressive without Coby and Zach
I feel like opponents are more prepared for our play and are defending us – and Giddey in particular – much better for last few games. We still got close to some really great teams. Let’s get Coby back and keep going.