Coby White was telling his bosses what they are.<\/p>\n
Sure, the guard dressed it up with a cute little nickname of \u201cCardiac Bulls,\u201d referring to an all too familiar pattern of falling behind early and having to come back to try and win close games, but White wasn\u2019t talking out of turn on the current roster construction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ve gone into games acting like we\u2019re supposed to win,\u201d White said of the last few weeks. \u201cI just think we hit a storm (lately) and we were trying to figure out how to get through it, stay together. We just have to keep that in mind no matter who we\u2019re playing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like every game is going to be tough. We\u2019re not the type of team that\u2019s going to have a lot of blowouts and stuff like that. It\u2019s going to come down to grind-it-out wins a majority of the time. That\u2019s what we need to focus on, how to win those kinds of games.\u201d<\/p>\n
Something White and the Bulls haven\u2019t done much of lately, posting a 2-8 record since Nov. 22 over what was considered an easier part of the schedule.<\/p>\n
Billy Donovan has been telling his bosses what they are.<\/p>\n
The coach has talked about the \u201cslim margins\u201d they operate on in every game and has insisted that there wasn\u2019t a significant talent gap between them and the likes of lottery-bound teams like New Orleans, Charlotte and Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s been obvious, considering the Bulls have posted a 1-4 record against those three teams so far this season. By the way, those three teams are also a combined 20-58 as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Recent home games are telling the bosses what they are.<\/p>\n
Empty seats for the Reinsdorfs to look at are one thing, but expensive suites that are dark and empty because a group decided not to even show up?<\/p>\n
That\u2019s never a good thing for job security. That means frustration has turned into apathy. The fans are telling the organization they would rather watch the money that was spent on the suite go up in smoke than come out and spend more money to support a product they feel is going nowhere.<\/p>\n
While former executive John Paxson walked out the door on his own terms, there was building tension around his job security because the number of darkened suites was growing home game by home game.<\/p>\n
The standings are telling the Bulls bosses what they are.<\/p>\n
Executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas can throw out the injury excuse all he wants, but this team is not going to get fully whole for a while. White has been dealing with calf issues all season long, Isaac Okoro just got over a back issue, Ayo Dosunmu said on Tuesday that both of his thumbs were messed up, as well as a bone bruise that leaves him battling with pain tolerance, and rookie Noa Essengue was lost for the year with season-ending shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n
The idea that Karnisovas was just going to copy the blueprint of the Indiana Pacers and try to use depth as a strength \u2013 forget the fact that the Bulls don\u2019t have an All-Star talent like Tyrese Haliburton or championship DNA like Pascal Siakam \u2013 was fool\u2019s gold. Yes, Indiana used depth to get to the NBA Finals last season, but they were more talented, more physical and better defensively than what Karnisovas has marched out there.<\/p>\n
So with all the noise around this team lately is any of it being heard?<\/p>\n
Not yet.<\/p>\n
Karnisovas isn\u2019t expected to speak with the media publicly until the trade deadline. He might want to change his schedule. The commotion around him is only getting louder and most of it is coming from within his own building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coby White was telling his bosses what they are. Sure, the guard dressed it up with a cute…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-352793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}