Chicago Bulls coach Billy Donovan placed the burden of a recent string of losses on the shoulders of the team's best players: Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan and Nikola Vučević. 'They’ve got to drive whatever it is: defense, offense, everything,” said Donovan.
Coach Billy Donovan placed the burden of a recent string of Chicago Bulls losses on the shoulders of their best players: Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan and Nikola Vučević.
The Bulls are the eighth-lowest scoring first-quarter team in the league, averaging 27.7 points. They have carved out a worrying pattern — the starters allow opponents to take an early lead, then the secondary unit comes off the bench to pull the Bulls back into contention.It’s an untenable trend. A strong bench can elevate a team from good to great, but not if it’s constantly playing catch-up to atone for the mistakes of the starting unit.
“We’ve got to be able to respond better to start the game coming out of the locker room,” Donovan said. “There’s no work-around. For us to be the team we need to be, at the starting point, those three guys need to raise it up. They are the leaders of our team. They’re guys that ... have been in the league for a long time. They’ve got to drive whatever it is: defense, offense, everything.”
Both have struggled with inconsistencies in the early season — Dosunmu with his 3-point shooting and Williams with his lack of aggression. But Donovan placed the full burden of the team’s slow starts on its veteran starters.
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