Especially when that team spent the exhibition program taxing its turning players than many — A preseason would ordinarily raise questions regarding the fitness of a team for name contention.
However, the Chicago Bulls got what they wanted from this month of October: Derrick Rose looked like himself. Sam Smith of Bulls.com stated Rose”generally bordered involving fabulous and magnificent in his preseason progression,” and the former MVP closed things out with a boom. He scored 57 points. Over the entire preseason, he connected on 43 percent of the triples.
And do not worry: He seemed reckless and as quickly as he did.
It’s probably reasonable to be worried about the recklessness.
At any speed, Chicago struggled to adapt to new pieces in the spinning, which largely explains its record. Tom Thibodeau remains currently experimenting with Gasol’s role alongside Taj Gibson and Joakim Noah. In addition, some shaky defense was to be expected with Doug McDermott and rookies Nikola Mirotic getting familiar with Thibs’ system.
Jimmy Butler’s thumb injury marred an otherwise healthy preseason, but if the most important setback merely renders a role player”daily,” based on K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune, the Bulls will take it.
With Rose the Bulls are very, very scary.