10/27. Bulls at Hawks

[kg01]

Hawks and Bulls both started rebuilding at the same time. Bulls are considered ahead because they traded their best player and got valuable assets in return. That is noteworthy.

The Bulls and Hawks lost 50+ games last year, but the squads are at two different points in their rebuilds. Atlanta is in the first year of their rebuild, with new head coach Lloyd Pierce—so far—building a successful offense around polarizing rookie Trae Young and a mixture of effective young and veteran shooters. Fred Hoiberg and the Bulls have been together for three seasons so far, but this year represents year two of the Bulls rebuild, as the current core of Zach LaVine, Lauri Markkanen and Kris Dunn was expected to get considerable playing time together this season...

the Bulls could be in position to add another young talent come June. But on Saturday night, Chicago showed that their rebuild is definitely ahead of Atlanta on the talent of LaVine alone.

NBC Sports

I don't understand how, in the same article, a guy can tout how CHI's tank-build is ahead but also admit they're in year-2 vs us being in year-1.

Well, duh? They're a year ahead, what else would you expect?

For the record, this was a shot at the author not at @jamalllll ... the shots at @jaamallll will come later probably.

[ChokeFasncists]

Teaching moment for the youngsters. Probably got cocky after two great wins.

Can't be cocky in this league unless you have all these elite players bandwagoning. Especially nowadays with the lottery change, teams aren't tanking hard anymore.

Seems like LP can capitalize on this for development.

The vets did pretty well tho. VC was the best shooter, Dedmon was a beast and Lin looked better distributing. (he is obviously still rusty, couldn't score)

Collins being back should make this kinda situation easier to go thru.

The Bulls are very talented. They're missing Dunn, Portis and Markkanen. They were kinda lucky with their timely threes tho.

Probably can't beat the Sixers but hope they bounce back after that, Cleveland again, with Larry Drew this time.

[ChokeFasncists]

Wow, the Bulls almost beat one of the hottest teams in the league, still being without Dunn, Portis and Markkanen. That was no fluke.