Jim Boylen knows that the Bulls’ offense has been atrocious, but he insists that there is a method behind his madness. The plan, according to Boylen, is to slow down the Bulls’ offense to a crawl in order to instill the basics back into his roster. Once the team has mastered those, he will focus perhaps one day on making it effective.



Break ’em down to build ’em up.



“Nobody’s saying we don’t want to play with pace someday or we don’t want to have more possessions in a game,” Boylen said, according to K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune after the Bulls scored 89 points in a loss to the Toronto Raptors on Sunday. “But right now for this group, I feel in my heart this is what we need to do. We’re going to try to keep it simple. I thought we had to start with spacing. We have to do the basics of the game better.”



There is no doubt that Boylen has accomplished the first part of his plan.