Some days are like that. Your five-year old tells you it's almost impossible to flush a bowling ball down the toilet, but you can. People admire your new driver's license picture and say it's the best you've looked in years. Then someone hits your new car the first day you have it.
And then you get a new puppy. C'mon, smile. Things will get better.
So it was for the Bulls Wednesday in a 124-112 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers. And not just because the Bulls held C.J. McCollum to 26 fewer points than he scored against the Bulls in Portland last year.