You can start tracking the Bulls 2nd half collapse to the Spurs on Wednesday night mid-way through the 3rd quarter when the bench came in. As we know, the younger and worse players were finally moved to the bench a couple games ago. It was exacerbated further in the final minute of the 3rd when Billy Donovan deployed three ‘point guards’ in starter Tomas Satoransky (more of a ball-mover than distributor), backup Coby White (a ball-loser), and cheerleader Ryan Arcidiacono (why?) all at the same time.
This is a very coach-y move (I’d call it ‘Skiles-ian’ but a lot of teams do it) to get more ballhandling and spacing to protect a lead.