When Jim Boylen was insisting before the league shutdown that he still had the attention of his locker room, the Bulls coach wasn’t exaggerating.
The players were still buying into what he was selling as far as game planning and attention to detail, especially on the defensive end, even with all the losing that was going on.
For the most part.
Denzel Valentine made his frustrations with the coaching staff very public, toing the line in a Sun-Times article in which he didn’t seem to be the least bit fazed with the masses calling for Boylen’s job.