J.M. Barrie was the creator of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. So he knew something about that process, of which he said it is a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples. And so it is with sports teams taking their first steps again, as the Bulls did starting mostly in the past year.
The year 2018 was a difficult one for the Bulls because, well, growing up is never easy or straight forward. Why do you think they call it growing pains?
And so last year was the first full year of the Bulls youth following the trade of Jimmy Butler with the introduction of Lauri Markkanen and Kris Dunn and with the return from surgery of Zach LaVine.