The Bulls Are Terrible

I had high hopes for this team before the season started. And justifiably so. The team had come off it's best season in nearly a decade and looked ready to make the next step with a few key additions and a maturing and improving core. Well so much for that. As of January 27th, the Bulls were 17-26, bad enough to be 11th out of 15 teams in the horrible Eastern Conference. They've already fired their coach (the only team to do so this season) and have not been able to string together a solid group of wins in a row yet this year. I've never seen a team so baffling in all my life. All the talent is there to at least be a playoff team. Maybe the "best in the East" proclamations were a little ridiculous but there is no reason for this. Fortunately there's plenty of people to spread the blame around to. The Ben Wallace signing has been a disaster the franchise hasn't seen the likes of since Eddie Robinson. Luol Deng and Ben Gordon are hobbled and not the players they were last year. Kirk Hinrich has been wildly inconsistent. "Future Stud" Tyrus Thomas's development has come to a complete stand still. And on top of all that, Joakim Noah is being a jackass in the locker room and disrupting team chemistry. Not to mention the Kobe Bryant trade rumors that were hanging over this team all summer and fall. All seaosn I've kept waiting for them to pull it together and play like the team they're supposed to be, but at this point I've pretty much given up hope. I can only hope now that the ping pong balls bounce Chicago's way in a few months and we can draft Kansas State's Michael Beasley.