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It’s not a concern that is keeping Billy Donovan up at night.
No, that would infer that it is somehow looming.
Make no mistake about it, it’s here for the Bulls and their coach, and it has been for weeks. An in-the-face realization that the league has the blueprint on how to exploit this flawed roster, and it won’t stop until players start digging their toes into the mud and insisting, “Enough is enough!”
Who knows which opposing team gets the credit. Maybe it was the fourth quarter in Portland when the Trail Blazers used their size and physicality to erase a 21-point deficit, outrebounded the Bulls 18-6 in that final stanza, and forced the Bulls into a Nikola Vucevic game-winner at the buzzer to escape.