The first half was a thing of beauty.
“Billy Ball’’ at its finest.
The basketball was moving, the paint was under control, and the Bulls were doing what an up-and-coming team should do to a rebuild like the Thunder: Dominating it.
But long before Bulls coach Billy Donovan was hired and “Billy Ball’’ was a thing for this organization, there was an ugliness from the past few years. Bad habits that this group displayed time and time again since the 2017-18 season.
As Donovan was reminded of in Friday’s 127-125 overtime loss in Oklahoma City, these bad habits aren’t dying very easily.