The Bulls were a bad offensive team this year under Fred Hoiberg, but they had a built-in excuse. Lauri Markkanen (one), Kris Dunn (one), and Bobby Portis (four) played in only six combined games through Hoiberg’s 24 games, and he was forced to play fringe NBA talent for most of that stretch.



“We’re just trying to hang in there until we get our guys back,” Hoiberg said bluntly during the middle of his 5-19 start to the year.



The thought was that once those three scorers came back, the Bulls would start to see some improvements on offense. Hoiberg was fired before he got a chance to work with those players, and Jim Boylen didn’t quite follow that same plan. The team’s defense has improved drastically to around league-average under Boylen, but the offense has completely fallen off a cliff.



Only two teams in the last 15 years have put up a worse offensive rating than the 95.1 points per 100 possessions of Boylen’s Bulls...