The Bulls opened the season 5-0 and looked like one of the early surprises in the East. That feels like a lifetime ago.
They dropped their sixth straight game on Friday, losing 120–105 to the Pacers, and have now fallen to 9-13. The slide has been steady, frustrating and unavoidable.
Coby White has lived through plenty of Chicago turbulence, and he tried to keep perspective afterward.
“It’s still a very long season,” White said, via Julia Poe of the Chicago Tribune. “I’ve been through the ups and downs here for seven years now. The most important thing is we stick together through this. The season’s always going to be filled with adversities.
“We got a chance to change the narrative right now. The most important thing for me is we don’t let go of the rope and we do this thing together.”
The Bulls are saying the right things. The problem is the standings are saying something else. Chicago has struggled on both sides of the ball during this skid and has not looked like the group that came out of the gate firing.
There is time to fix it, and White is right about one thing: The season is long.
But the Bulls need to find answers soon before the hole gets deeper and the rope gets harder to hold.
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