As time passed, the new season Bulls training camp officially began.

At this point, a question suddenly came to light, that is, how to take the makeup photos of the new season?

Last season, the Bulls also had Ben Gordon and Josh Smith to form a trio with Doane.

And this season's Bulls, except for Doon, are either fledgling rookies or high-paid and low-energy veterans.

Among the championship-winning team, Milicic and Zhu Fangyu, the only two who were left in a decent manner, did not have any star flavor.

Although Milicic has not lost his love for basketball, he is just an ordinary starting center in the league who averages 12+10 per game.

The sudden promotion of Milicic, not to mention whether the Bulls fans agree or not, adds some extra pressure to Milicic himself, and it is not necessarily a good thing.

Of course, the rookies of the Bulls, all of whom are not ambitious, how can they not covet the position of the team's second leader?

In order to level the bowl of water, and also to motivate the rookies in the team, the Bulls finally offered the banner of Doon's single-core leadership.

Fortunately, Doon has proven his personal strength and ability to lead the team with four championships in six years.

Bulls fans also know that these years have been a period of rebuilding and support Doon to develop rookies.

Therefore, Doon can still carry the box office in the new season, of course, a little worse than last year.

The time quickly came to early October, and the preseason of the NBA's 10-11 season began quickly.

Doon thought that the training camp would be opened in advance, and the rookies were training very hard, and the improvement of strength was visible to the naked eye.

With everyone united and rookies fighting for the lead, no matter how bad the preseason game is, it won't be much worse.

Who would have thought, Doon still thought things too simply.

Even if the Bulls still had some advantages in the first half of the preseason, in the second half, because the veterans were off the court, the situation suddenly changed.

The reason why rookies are rookies is because of their lack of defensive experience and game experience.

The rookies of the Bulls are not badly talented, perhaps they are too talented, and they were the core of their respective teams before.

Nowadays, when you play together, under the influence of each other's competitive personalities, it is easy to go your own way.

A team's defense is not only about the defensive ability of the individual, but also about the overall discipline and the ability to work together with teammates.

The Bulls have made extensive changes to their roster due to rebuilding, without Garnett to shape a new defensive system, and even Josh Smith has been traded.

Naturally, there is no good defensive system now.

At the same time, some rookies have exposed some defensive flaws due to lack of physical confrontation or defensive experience, and some rookies have noticed that their teammates are not defensively enough, so they are very active, and then there is a problem of over-assisting.

It is also because of the problems of one kind or another, coupled with the fact that the first-year rookie has just arrived and has not been able to fully integrate into the team for the time being, plus the Bulls are constantly losing, so the atmosphere in the Bulls' locker room has also been affected somewhat.

Fortunately, it's just a pre-season game, and it doesn't matter if you win or lose.

Doon's prestige within the Bulls is high enough, and many times Doon speaks, and everyone chooses to shut up.

It's just that some people choose to practice more during the season, and some people choose to go home from work.

However, as the boss of the team, since Doon has noticed the problems in the team, he naturally has to spend time and effort to solve them as soon as possible.

Soon, Doon approached management to react to the situation, signaling them to strengthen the coaching staff and bring in defensive experts.

Scott Skels is also a coach who started defense, but when he was a player, Scott Skels was often criticized for not being able to defend because of his thin stature.

Scott Skells is not a player who has a shot to defend, and as a coach who wants to teach his players to defend well, it is naturally not convincing.

Over the years, the Bulls have not had any problems defending, mainly using players with outstanding physical talent and very good individual defense ability.

With Garnett's arrival, the Bulls' defense is even less of a problem.

However, Garnett has been away from the Bulls for more than a year, and Scott Skels' defensive system is just like that.

So the Bulls returned to the stage when Doon first came to the Bulls, and the defense was chaotic.

Now if the Bulls want to return to the championship sequence as soon as possible, they must bring in a real assistant coach who can change the team's defense.

The new defensive assistant coach then teaches the rookies how to complete their defensive tasks.

And fully mobilize the team's defensive resources to establish a tougher, more executed, and more united defensive system.

After the Bulls management communicated with Doon, they also took action.

It's a pity that the defensive experts of this year are basically famous.

Dwyane Casey is Rick Carlisle's defensive assistant, Frank Vogel is also Jim O'Brien's defensive assistant, and Monty Williams just became the head coach of the Hornets in the summer.

The Bulls searched around and found Mike Brown, who was fired by the Cavaliers in the summer.

Mike Brown won the best coach last year, and his coaching results with the Cavaliers over the years have been good, so it is not difficult to find a job normally.

But who told James to run away in the summer? Many people also blamed James' run away on Mike Brown's lack of coaching skills to help the Cavaliers win the championship.

So the phone burst in the summer, and Mike Brown, who had not yet found a new head coach job, had to stay at home.

However, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift. Mike Brown is used to being the head coach of the team, and at first he was expecting which unlucky guy would be fired first in the new season.

In the end, because he had been squatting at home for a long time, he was disliked by his family, so he accepted the bull's teaching assistant job.

Normally, in the big city of Chicago, even as an assistant coach for the Bulls, the treatment will not be much worse.

And if you can follow the Bulls to win the championship, your coaching resume can look a lot better, and then if you want to become the head coach of the team, it will naturally be less difficult.

In other words, with Mike Brown officially reporting to the Union Center, the Bulls are on the right track.

However, at the beginning of the new season, there were too many strong teams in the East, the competition pressure was high, and the Bulls did not bargain for anything.

Even though Doon was in excellent form at the beginning of the season, averaging 37 points per game, the Bulls still started the game with 3 wins and 5 losses, and the performance was extremely stretched.

However, just when the outside media thought that the Bulls were completely out of place this season, the Bulls suddenly got better.

In the next seven consecutive road trips to the Western Devils, the Bulls, under the leadership of Doon, first won a wave of three consecutive victories and swept the top three in Texas.

The remaining four games are only two wins and two losses, but they have only lost to the defending champion Lakers and the Jazz due to climate issues.

Overall, in this round of seven consecutive away games in the West, the Bulls performed quite well.

The team's record has also risen from 10th in the East to 8th in the East, and it is back in the Eastern Conference playoff sequence.

There is no doubt that the Bulls will rise rapidly next. (End of chapter)