CHICAGO -- Forty-three games into what appears to be another lost season, the Chicago Bulls have proven to be what so many people around the league thought they would be before the campaign began: a mediocre team without a direction for the future.
Tuesday night offered another example of how that prediction is coming to fruition as the Bulls dropped a 99-98 affair to the lowly Dallas Mavericks, the second time the Mavericks, now 14-27 on the year, have knocked off the Bulls.
The script was familiar for Fred Hoiberg's team.