When the Chicago Bulls head coach Jim Boylen said the team’s goal this season is to make the playoffs, it might have initially elicited plenty of side-eye looks. After all, they won all of 22 games last season. But an assessment of their offseason and preseason, coupled with an examination of what went wrong last season, and it’s not hard to fathom.
Chicago went 2-3 during the exhibition season; hardly a precursor to another 72-win season in Chicago. But their numbers portend much greater things are on the horizon. At the very least, they will be vastly improved and much more entertaining.