It hasn’t been the best basketball played within the Bulls bubble, but that’s not what the new front office was going to dwell on.
This was about getting basic questions answered.
This was about building relationships.
This was about just getting back on the floor as a team and embracing the business of basketball after months of uncertainty.
“These guys have not played basketball since spring,’’ general manager Marc Eversley said Wednesday, when asked about the quality of hoops on display through the first week. “And the little basketball that they were able to do was really just one-on-zero with one coach or one coach rebounding, so for them to go from not being able to play basketball this spring to now we’re in [late] September, clearly they were not in basketball shape.