Bulls vs. Magic game preview and thread: things can always get worse

Had to rush this one. Hopefully the Bulls take it seriously, though they are on a road trip and there’s that hot Orlando nightlife that may tire them.

The Magic are the ones who should be tired, playing last night and losing to the Heat down state in Miami.

So the Bulls should win, and Vegas agrees with the Bulls being a slight -2.5 favorite.

But I think it’s a cop-out to say the Bulls play down to competition like this. In looking at their last game against the Hornets...is Charlotte’s mostly-full-strength squad actually that much worse than the currently-slightly-banged-up version of the Bulls? And Orlando is a tanker but they do have talent. They have beaten the Bulls already and somehow…