There was no shootaround on Thursday morning.
There won’t be a shootaround on Friday, either.
The next logical practice day? Maybe on Monday, and that’s written in pencil, not pen.
The NBA coaching manual has a lot of information in it, but five games over a seven-night span and a lot of the same throughout the second half of the season? There’s no chapter on how to navigate that.
That’s what Bulls coach Billy Donovan, and really all the NBA coaches, have to figure out.
“There’s three parts to that; just your eyes what you are watching to see how guys are moving and playing,’’ Donovan said, when asked how he and his staff will try and load manage.