Everything feels monotonous lately.
The defensive mishaps, the player reads on the offensive end whether the Bulls are running a Spain action in the halfcourt or a quick read in transition, the injuries, the excuses.
All one big pile of smelly stuff that suddenly doesn’t feel like an easy clean-up.
Maybe that’s why veteran Nikola Vucevic has been so frustrated the last few weeks. Even in a win, the 35-year-old has called out himself and teammates for looking soft and playing an unsustainable style of basketball.
Vucevic wasn’t wrong.
Since making his “soft” comments after a one-point win over then one-win Washington, Vucevic & Co.