Trying to process what could be (yet another) wasted season

Photo by Joe Pinchin/NBAE via Getty ImagesI fear I may have uttered the dreaded ‘freezing cold take’ when initially assessing the first half of the Bulls schedule and calling it “a bit soft, early”.

Because I read a lot in other places suggesting that this schedule is actually really tough! Dare I say I was more in the mindset of KC Johnson when seeing the schedule, figuring a team that was outright terrible last season and made no meaningful roster improvements has very few ‘gimme’ wins, so seeing the Hawks and Wizards as 50/50 matchups made things seem better.

(in ESPN’s attempt to do a strength of schedule analysis, it wasn’t just that there aren’t a lot of teams worse than the Bulls that…