How do the Chicago Bulls need to improve their offensive ability in NBA 2023 to achieve their expected goals?

The team with three attacking talents like DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine, and Nikola Vucevic ranked 24/30 in attack and 5/30 in defense in 2022/23 is hard to comprehend. This lackluster offensive effort draws criticism on the Bulls’ three stars. However, all three had strong offensive seasons, pitched well, and performed as expected.

Two issues hinder the Bulls’ offensive. First, their state transition ability is poor, enabling them to miss easy scoring chances. From then, they confront harder attacks when the opponent can defend.

Second, the attacking team has poor role players. Averaging 10 points per game, Patrick Williams is the Bulls’ greatest scorer outside the big 3. The starting back three—Ayo Dosunmu, Alex Caruso, and Patrick Beverley—did little offensively. Even worse, these players move poorly, limiting the Bulls’ three stars’ offense.

If the Bulls can solve these two problems, they will take a big step forward on offense. In the 2021/22 season, when the Bulls had a defender with the ability to pass the ball and launch attacks as quickly as Lonzo Ball, how scary they were.

Ball has good 3-point shooting and can launch accurate counterattacks quickly. After pick 2 of the 2017 NBA Draft was injured, the Bulls couldn’t replace him. Only Goran Dragic and Patrick Beverley, who cannot dominate the game like Ball, were signed by the Bulls. Due to this, the Bulls placed 4th in scoring % but last in 3-point shooting previous season. The United Arena team cannot fix that.

Despite the challenge, the Bulls are beginning anew in preseason. These alterations can be seen in the Bulls’ pick-and-roll and attack in all five spots against Milwaukee Bucks. It takes time for the Bulls to experiment and discover each player’s tendencies and strengths.

Every summer, DeRozan’s 3-point shots are discussed. Last season, he rarely made a 0-degree three-point shot.

The Bulls are also making some adjustments to make DeRozan more valuable off the ball. This includes using him as a screener and opening up 0-degree shots for other teammates.

“DeMar, Zach and Vooch, they all throw the ball well. Throwing the ball is not the problem, they are all very good at it. What we have to do is move the ball a lot, and find the gaps.”

In the preseason match against the Bucks, the Bulls players moved without the ball more, which may have come from a change in playing style, to help the players have more space to throw.