Alex Speers

Vooch, 28%.

Herter, 29%.

Just a team-wide cool-down, other than Io and Giddy, who still have shot it well throughout this.

Another factor is they're not getting out in transition like they were early in the season.

Before this recent seven-game stretch, they were second in the league in percentage of offensive plays in transition.

Wow.

During this skid, they've dropped all the way down to 16th, which means they're in the half court more often where they can't shoot.

They don't get offensive rebounds, so they're not getting a lot of second-chance opportunities.

And to make matters worse, the Bulls announced this week that first-round pick Noah Essengate out for the season.

Not great.

And then you had the report from Chicago sports anchor Lou Kanellis, who said, quote, Giannis and his representatives reached out to the Bulls about a potential deal, and the Bulls said they weren't interested.

They were not interested in breaking up their young core or changing their course of direction.

Now, I didn't know who Lou Kanellis was before this week.

But I did learn that Giannis partnered with Lou to bring the Greek restaurant chain that Lou co-owns to Milwaukee.

So this isn't coming from some random source.

Regardless of whether you believe that report or not, it does fit snugly into my opinion of the Bulls front office.

Like if I was doing an impression of what the Bulls front office would say in response to trading for Giannis, I'd say something like that quote.

Finally...

Let's check in on the surprise team race, all right?

It's brutal.