Even at this season’s many depths, there was no real point where you could give up on the dream of the Bulls making the top TEN seeds in the conference. It wasn’t so much what they were doing on the floor, as the knowledge that:
- They weren’t going to tank by holding out, say, DeRozan and Caruso
- They had too much talent to be truly as bad as their record, and could look more like an average-to-below-average team that got some unlucky clutch bounces (just some unlucky, others were earned)
- They just had to outlast the Pacers and Wizards
So that last one was expected: with this week seeing the Wizards lose to the Magic and the Pacers lose to the Hornets, both are now 2.