The Bulls defeated pedestrian opponents in their last two games, a Mavericks team missing half its roster and an uninteresting Rockets team without James Harden.
But that’s how a bad team becomes an average team: consistently beating the bad teams.
While the Bulls 6-8 record won’t impress anyone, most fans would have been thrilled with 6-8 after seeing the opening schedule. It won’t count on the books, but the league’s last two minute report shows the Bulls were definitively robbed in two of those losses as well.
All the trends point towards this team taking a step away from their bottom feeder status towards a middle of the pack team.