Bulls coach Billy Donovan called big deal, blamed for failures

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The Chicago Bulls ended their rebuild two years ago, opting to advance to the playoffs. They traded for Nikola Vucevic at the 2021 deadline and followed that up with a flurry of free agency signings including DeMar DeRozan, Alex Caruso and Lonzo Ball. Unfortunately, things haven’t run their course since.

An injury to Ball 35 games into his Bulls tenure has sidelined the point guard ever since, and Chicago hasn’t been quite the same. They only have one playoff game to show for their moves two years ago, which is not what they would have hoped for. Yet amid all of this, Scoop Jackson of the Chicago Sun-Times sees a different problem.

According to Jackson, the biggest problem on the Bulls isn’t the players, the front office or his coach Billy Donovan.

Because what Arturas (Karnisovas) and Marc (Eversley) did in their takeover of Gar-Pax was masterfully avoid the problem, Jackson wrote. After seeing the heart and soul of their team leave in the first-round series against the Bucks in 2022, after realizing that their 2-20 record this regular season against every other playoff team was much more of a statement than an aberration, having not even been honest enough with themselves to see that the reaction and follow up of the teams was to continue to underperform with a two-game season under .500 with an undeserved spot in the play-in they avoided that hard stare in the mirror and still act like there isn’t a single problem existing, as president and general manager they have the controls for the solve by looking at them.

Whoever could give this core kept intact and currently being built a chance for real for real to find out who they can be as a unit despite playing for an organization where ownership seems perfectly comfortable with be stuck exactly where it is.

The Bulls have a problem with Billy Donovan. Full stop. But it won’t stop.

Should the Bulls fire Donovan?

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