For the past two years, the Chicago Bulls have been committed to winning behind a star-studded core of Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan, and Nikola Vucevic. All three players are multi-time All-Stars, but together, they’ve won just one playoff game in two seasons. Obviously, an injury to Lonzo Ball got in the way, but that can’t be used as an excuse anymore.
While Chicago’s Big 3 may not be good enough to win a championship, it should be good enough to make the playoffs. That’s where the questions need to start. What’s wrong with the core around them? Why can’t the Bulls find any young success stories? The latter of those two questions may be the most important, as the Bulls didn’t draft any true young stars despite going through a four-year playoff drought.
The “Chicago Bulls Central” YouTube channel recently discussed this problem, pondering how the Bulls can fix their player development issues.
What should the Bulls do moving forward to help improve their developmental struggles?
