We didn’t see the dominant perfect preseason Bulls in the season opener, that’s for sure. The pace was sub-100, the offense was not very good nor balanced. But what did carry over is a dominant defense! As of today, the Bulls are 2nd in defensive rating after being 1st in the preseason.
So maybe this is how the Bulls win games? Ugly, low-scoring affairs...nah, I think a lot of it had to do with the opponent. And it being just one game and all.
So far be it from the royal we to try and extrapolate trends from the first game, but we can certainly look back at what went right and wrong for the Bulls in this contest.