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Losing is taking a toll as Bulls locker room is starting to splinter

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It was somewhere in between Billy Donovan pulling out the guitar at the campfire and singing “Kumbaya,” and the Bulls coach flat-out publicly sending a message to his team.

A tightrope Donovan was willing to walk in the midst of a seven-game losing streak and a cloud of despair growing over the Bulls these days.

“I think the disconnect is the details,” Donovan said. “We’re not gifted enough or good enough to not do that and we’ve got to stay focused. The disconnect is when they care enough about each other in that locker room, that’s when it will get done.