Take a quick swim in the offshore gambling waters, and you’ll find the Bulls bobbing around at an expected 30 or so victories this season. Over a planned 72 games — let’s hope, right? — that probably would sink their hopes of making the playoffs for the first time since 2017.
Many, if not most, sites list the Bulls with the 11th-most victories in the 15-team Eastern Conference. The top six seeds will make the playoffs, with the seventh through 10th seeds each facing a play-in game for one of the remaining two spots.
But we saw some encouraging things from new coach Billy Donovan’s squad during a blink-and-it-was-over preseason.