{"id":92493,"date":"2025-08-23T09:13:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=92493"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:13:49","slug":"bulls-are-the-absolute-worst-at-one-thing-and-its-about-to-get-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=92493","title":{"rendered":"Bulls are the absolute worst at one thing &#8211; and it&#8217;s about to get worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.nba.com\/manage\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2203494472l.jpg\" alt=\"NBA 2025 Draft Prospects | NBA.com\" \/>The Chicago Bulls have one of the worst defensive starting lineups in basketball, as outlined by Greg Swartz of Bleacher Report, and that\u2019s without even factoring in them re-signing Josh Giddey. They have a chance to be the worst defense in basketball next season:<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\"><em>\u201cIgnoring the Josh Giddey situation for a moment, the other four starters here registered a putrid net rating of minus-22.3 together with a defense that allowed a whopping 135.6 points per 100 possession,\u201d Swartz wrote. \u201cIf Giddey signs a new contract to return, he&#8217;s not improving those defensive numbers and at age 35 in October, Vu\u010devi\u0107 isn&#8217;t going to suddenly turn into a rim protector. The Bulls are enduring a semi-youth movement and have decent depth if Giddey returns, but this starting lineup is bad.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\">Swartz ranked the Bulls\u2019 first five (without Giddey included) of Tre Jones, Coby White, Ayo Dosunmu, Matas Buzelis, and Nikola Vucevic as the 27th-best in the league.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-3\"><strong>How can the Bulls avoid being the worst defense?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\">Honestly, there aren\u2019t a ton of options available to the Bulls outside of internal development. If they don\u2019t want to be the worst defense in the NBA, they\u2019ll have to depend on their young guys improving drastically on that end of the court.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\">Outside of that, they\u2019ve put themselves in a pretty rough position based on the guys they will likely be playing in their starting lineup.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">Even if Giddey comes back, the Bulls will probably have three guards in their starting lineup in Giddey, White, and Dosunmu. And though Giddey is huge for a guard, he\u2019s never been a plus on the defensive end. Past that, White and Dosunmu playing the two and the three means the Bulls will likely be very undersized in most defensive situations.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\">If Giddey doesn\u2019t end up signing with the Bulls, which seems relatively unlikely, putting Jones in the starting lineup in his place would make the starting five even smaller.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\">Regardless of the defense, though, there don\u2019t seem to be many roads forward that would lead the Bulls to a successful next season. Despite how wide open the East is looking, Chicago will still likely finish toward the bottom of the standings.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\">That said, at this point in their rebuild, that might be for the best. Landing a top-five pick could do wonders for the future of the organization, especially with guys like Darryn Peterson, AJ Dybantsa, and Cameron Booker at the top of the draft pool.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\">The Bulls need talent, and while it may not be fun to watch a tanking team, it looks like they\u2019re set up to do just that.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bulls have the worst defensive starting lineup in the NBA, and re-signing Josh Giddey will only make it worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":92494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bulls are the absolute worst at one thing - and it&#039;s about to get worse - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=92493\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bulls are the absolute worst at one thing - and it&#039;s about to get worse - News 365\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chicago Bulls have the worst defensive starting lineup in the NBA, and re-signing Josh Giddey will only make it worse.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=92493\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News 365\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-23T09:13:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/White-and-Red-Modern-Breaking-News-Instagram-Post-1-35.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MrLuu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"MrLuu\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=92493\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=92493\",\"name\":\"Bulls are the absolute worst at one thing - and it's about to get worse - News 365\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=92493#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=92493#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/White-and-Red-Modern-Breaking-News-Instagram-Post-1-35.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-23T09:13:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-23T09:13:49+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4b0ce8eb15dad4ee0f31887a7eb66fb6\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=92493#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=92493\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=92493#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/White-and-Red-Modern-Breaking-News-Instagram-Post-1-35.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/White-and-Red-Modern-Breaking-News-Instagram-Post-1-35.jpg\",\"width\":1080,\"height\":1080},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=92493#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Bulls are the absolute worst at one thing &#8211; 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