Chicago Bulls Blown Out by Raptors! What Went Wrong? | Bulls Postgame Reaction

The Chicago Bulls get absolutely worked out in their opening game, but there are some positives when you're a young team trying to make it work. We got to talk about those and talk about some of the struggles coming up next. Now, if you are new to the channel, please hit that like button. Please subscribe to the page. Do talk Chicago sports daily on this channel. It's the only channel talk Chicago sports, how Chicago talks and make sure that you stay in tune with us. And a big thank you to the sponsor of today's episode, Cowshie If you trade $25, you can get $25 added to your account instantly using that promo code breeze. Again, head over to cowshee.com forward slash breeze and all this, all you have to do, go on there, find the market that you feel fits best for you. You invest in that market. And the second that you do trade that $25, you get $25 added instantly to your account. Big shout out to cowshee for being supporters of the windy city breeze. All right, let's get into it. Bulls take a tough loss here in their opening game. There were a lot of struggles to speak of. And so why don't we start from the positive and go work our way back? Because I think that that's the best way to go about this. Listen, game one of Caleb Wilson, I'm not going to say was all sunshine and rainbows. In fact, it was a lot of struggle. But the one thing that I think you can see is the tenacity, the will, the want to, and an ability to get to his move but you have to be able to adjust to what NBA defenses are doing to you because these guys are a heck of a lot better at basketball than the guys that you play in college and so I think you know going from preseason where you saw him play pretty well to now going to the regular season it's another step you were playing one of what I believe is going to be one of the toughest defenses in basketball and so like to me I look at this as you know a rough night but a night where your goal to come out of this is to see okay how does your team compete you you didn't see caleb wilson and Matas Buzelis pouting while they were out there at the end of an absolute blowout as tiago splitter threw them out there i think that what you saw was a team uh that just had some shooting woes in night one versus like i said a team that i believe is going to be incredibly strong defensively this coming season some of the numbers on the day caleb wilson had 16 points he was 7 for 21, 1 for 8 from the three-point line which, you know, the three point shooting for the Bulls overall was abysmal, which is what kind of put them in the situation that they were in. They couldn't find any shots, but four for 36 on the day definitely was tough. Modest Muselis. I thought showed you something in a positive manner though. The shot wasn't falling for anybody today. As I just said, two for eight for Modest, four from the field, but you saw Modest Muselis lock in, in a way that we haven't seen him do before. And I think that that's something that could benefit you in the long run. He was like, the shot's not falling. I'm going to get to the bucket. I'm going to be aggressive. I'm going to attack. And in doing that, he got fouled. He got to the free throw line for 16 free throws. He made 13 of the 16. He also added in five defensive rebounds, one offensive board, six total there, and had three turnovers on the day, but two blocked shots. So, you know, with that 17 points that you saw from Modest, again, not enough, but something that you kind of feel like, okay, at least I can see with Modest, it's ugly right now, bad loss played bad, but you said, I can't let this take me out of the game. I have to find a way to get myself more involved in this game. And you did that by getting to the free throw line. So I would say those are some of the positives that we got to see in the first game here. Let me know how you guys feel down in the comments below, because that's kind of the end of the positives, ladies and gentlemen. I mean, this was a bad game to start things off. It looked like a team that was unprepared. It looked like a team that we said when we talked about this Bull team that, you know, had to figure a lot of things out, had to figure out, okay, what is the next play? What is the next move? Where are we supposed to rotate defensively? It looked like a team that was thinking way too much. And to me, I think that's what led to a lot of the struggles on the offensive end. I think defensively, you know, when you start to see that struggle and you're, and it just feels like you're thinking too much all night, you know, any backdoor pass that the, uh, Toronto Raptors wanted was available to them. And I think, you know, on a, on a night where you get that defensive matchup, you can't give them anything extra. And so I think the Bulls just were really out of sync here in this first game. I think that there was, you know, this is the first taste of Tiago Splitter coaching during the season. This is the first taste of this Bulls team working together as a unit. So as time goes on, I think that you'll see them start to step up and play a little bit better. But yeah, man, listen, it was a very, very rough night to start things off. I think when you look at the other end of things and you see four guys able to get over 20, RJ Barrett, Emmanuel Quickley, Kawhi Leonard and Scotty Barnes. I mean, defensively, the Bulls weren't able to do anything really. And you could, you saw kind of the big man rotations come in. I think it got to a point where Tiago was playing with some different rotations. You saw Norman Powell in, in the fourth quarter and it was just like okay we're we have kind of thrown in the towel we're gonna let the young guys go out there and figure it out we're gonna let them fight through their shots we're gonna let them feel this in the beginning and we'll see kind of how we get better as this time goes on we have another game coming up uh we're going to be playing the Milwaukee Bucks coming up next and it's one of those where you're just like okay these are all the mistakes you made now we get to see the tape on it now we get to go back to the drawing board and this is a rough first start for an NBA career for Caleb Williams uh I'm sorry Caleb Wilson but this is how you get to experience it sometimes this is how you learn you learn the hard lessons by losing tough games and this was a very very tough game to start things off with here um hit that like button if you have not done so subscribe to the page leave a five-star review y'all know what to do as we look ahead uh to this next Chicago Bulls game the things that you want to see improve versus Milwaukee and I had that Milwaukee game on as well. Milwaukee looks like they are a team that is going to compete That is going to be scrappy That is going to fight you tooth and nail They were going at it versus Washington. And maybe it's because you know, both teams aren't going to be that great this year, but I think Washington probably will be a little bit better. But I mean, Milwaukee came out and like I said, they fought tooth and nail and you're going to have to definitely improve. Number one on the defensive rotations One thing that you noticed a lot about Milwaukee was as Tyler Herro was trying to get to his shot as he was trying to get through his spots there was a lot of closeout happening on him and they were able to find some easy dump offs under the basket. I think that that's something that, you know, when the, when you get a chance to watch the film, you can kind of learn you can kind of start to understand. I think, you know, even seeing how Tiago is preparing this team in practice, where he's giving them certain scenarios or he's giving them certain players. And he's saying, tell me, you know, what, what the tendencies of this player are, or tell me in this scenario, what the right move is keeping them on their toes, getting them thinking again, why I think they're thinking a lot here or we're thinking a lot in this first game is because I think they've been given a lot of information. It's kind of like what we saw with the Chicago Bears when Ben Johnson first got here, right? Like everything wasn't perfect early on. And we knew that there were going to be some struggles, especially with this tough schedule. But on the other side of this, I think that you're going to have a team that is able to look at the mistakes, is able to learn from the mistakes. And hopefully you have a team that starts to be able to build off of some of the successes from those mistakes being turned around it at the end of the day, you know, it's a tough loss here to start things off. This is not the way that you want to be competing by the time you get into the middle of this season, but for one game and the first game of everything coming together, this is kind of how it just ends up going again. Let me know you guys thoughts down in the comments below. We're going to be doing post-game shows uh for every Bulls game during football season so i wanted to do Bulls live calls it's probably not going to work as much you know what i mean because of um number one people really don't like the online play-by-play and i'm kind of in a space where they can get to me so i got to be careful with that but number two and uh most importantly you know like i don't want to give you guys a stream uh that i'm not energized for that i'm that my heart isn't in it's not because of the Bulls it's not because of you guys being there it's just because i kind of am being neutered in the sense of can't go out there and do play by play for the online side of things so um at the end of the day i think we're just going to do post-game shows throughout the year videos like this post-game videos um that will drop and of course you can catch me and Hayes live over on Locked On Bulls probably right now so make sure to tap in with us over there as well as always though it is your boy Pat the Designer back at it again y'all stay safe out there Chicago, see red, one love peace