Biggest Offseason Needs for the Chicago Bulls

May 16th, 2015 by James Davis Leave a reply »
The Chicago Bulls finished the season in a very underwhelming fashion. They were eliminated from the playoffs in game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, courtesy of the Cleveland Cavaliers. With no more basketball to occupy the franchise’s time, the attention now shifts to improving for the 2015-16 campaign.

It’s tricky to look at this club on paper and figure out what is needed to improve. The roster is well-rounded and deep, but their erratic regular-season performance coupled with a complete flop in an elimination game suggests the whole is less than the sum of its parts.

Truth be told, it is that very same makeup that is actually the problem. If this were still the 1990s, this team would be able to run with the best of them. In 2015, the league plays a little faster, and no one can get away with bucking the trend outside of the San Antonio Spurs.

Chicago's balance hindered them from establishing a true identity. This team was built to do a little bit of everything, but instead of picking a specialty and leaving everything else as a supplementary facet, head coach Tom Thibodeau tried to make all the pieces work at the same tim ...

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