The only thing worse than narrative backlash is backlash-to-the-backlash, but ultimately that’s a bit of what motivates the following post on the Bulls defense last season.
Because ‘I hear a lot’ of national analysts and statistical projectors say the Bulls are going to be a below-average team this coming year because their defense will be so bad. But then in response to that, there’s a more and more frequent mention of the team defense not only being ok but better than we thought last year. It’s a fact that the Bulls wound up 12th overall in defensive rating, and more importantly were top-10 after acquiring Nikola Vucevic to man the middle.