Who says a changing of the guard is always a painless transition?
For the first 15 games or so of this season, newly-hired Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg had plenty of success running a free-flowing offensive system. In the first few Bulls wins, the team had up to six and seven players scoring in double figures. The Bulls were hitting nine to 10 threes each game.
Chicago media types called the new second unit the “Rifle Squad”, instead of the former “Bench Mob” in the Tom Thibodeau era.
Then, the Bulls lost some games because the team let opponents come back with 40+ point fourth quarters.