It wasn’t just the 3-25 record.
That was embarrassing enough for the Bulls to suffer through last season when going head-to-head against teams with a winning percentage of .600 or better.
What cut even deeper was that many of those 25 losses weren’t even close.
That’s why the Bulls were the only playoff team in the Eastern Conference with a negative point differential last April.
Not only an indictment on the effort against the NBA’s elite, but the talent level.
Better believe that was discussed more than a few times in the offseason.
“One of the things we talked about before the season started was, against those top four teams in the East and the West, we didn’t play particularly well,’’ Bulls coach Billy Donovan said.