These are small samples, of course, but it’s likely causal that once Nikola Vucevic started hitting shots, like he did against the Hornets on Monday, the Bulls offense suddenly looks a lot better than what they had shown the past few games.
(It’s also likely that playing a bad defensive team in Charlotte, which didn’t have their starting center, also helped)
Vuc had a breakout game with 30 points going 12-19 from the field and a perfect 6-6 from three.
(hey, we used the same photo!)
You can see with the threes and several face-up long twos that Vuc was providing great spacing and a pick-and-pop option that has been there all season but were instead resulting in misses.