The Chicago Bulls' up-and-down, turbulent 2015-16 season might be more than an anomaly or a team struggling with effort.
Perhaps they have gotten the most they’re going to get out of this particular core. Maybe they’re just not good enough. And maybe that realization is hitting them.
It was a good run—not a great one, but a good one. The Bulls have made the postseason every year since 2008-09. Only the Atlanta Hawks and San Antonio Spurs can make the same claim. Chicago has been to the Eastern Conference Finals once, was ousted in the second round twice and has won 364 games, good for fifth in the NBA during that span.