I’m trying to find the words to describe the feeling of waking up after the Chicago Bulls’ second-straight Play-In Tournament collapse.
It doesn’t quite feel like the morning after some bar hopping. It also surely doesn’t feel like the morning after a one-night stand. Instead, it feels more like the morning after being trapped in a room where 10-year-olds are learning the violin and you’re forced to build IKEA furniture.
In other words, I got up out of bed today relieved that it’s over but still extremely frustrated it happened.
“That’s still where I’m at,” DeRozan said about wanting to be in Chicago. “But, at the end of the day, I hate losing. I hate missing opportunities. I think it really hits you after the season when you look up, the last seconds run off, and you don’t have another game. The next time I play a game will be my 16th season. You realize the window closes for you personally. I ain’t trying to play 25 years or nothing like that.
You want to have an opportunity to give everything great in you an opportunity. Like I said, my stance on wanting to be here is still the same, but I just want to win. More than anything just have the opportunity to win and not have to go home and see the first-round of the playoffs?”
See AlsoFanatics Sportsbook promo: Up to $1K in bonuses for NBA & NHL playoffsDenver wins 10th NCAA Men’s Hockey Championship: Where to buy t-shirts, hats and morePre-Gamin’: Chicago Bulls at Miami Heat (6:00 CT), Projected Lineups, How to Watch, More - Bleacher NationNo. 8 Terps Finish Regular Season At No. 17 Princeton - University of Maryland Athletics
“We’re all aware that is hasn’t worked out the way we wanted it to, and we haven’t achieved the results we’ve wanted. We’re very aware of it. It’s clear. Again, that’s up to management to decide and see what they want to do moving forward,” Vucevic said.
“I think in my conversations with Arturas, the feeling was can we generate and create some continuity with the group. I think that was the overriding thing. That continuity just never happened quite honestly. I don’t believe it ever happened. And the reason it never happened is because we basically have two starters out,” Donovan said.
Read More
- Sounds Like Change is FINALLY Coming for the Chicago Bulls
- Bulls Will Monitor the Availability of a “Star Player” in a Trade (Uh … With What Assets?)
- DeRozan Addresses His Future, Vucevic is Brutally Honest, Donovan Talks “Continuity,” and Other Bulls Bullets
- What the Play-In Loss Means for the Chicago Bulls’ Lottery Odds
- Exhale, Relax … It’s Finally Over: Miami 112, Bulls 91 – April 19, 2024
written by
Elias Schuster
Elias Schuster is the Lead Chicago Bulls writer at Bleacher Nation. He started with BN full-time in 2019 immediately after graduating from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign with a degree in Journalism (yes, he started with the Jim Boylen Era). Since joining, Elias has been the driving force behind Bulls and NBA content for both the site and social accounts. You can follow him on Twitter/X @Schuster_Elias.