There’s an old expression about the best-laid plans. Often, they don’t go the way you’d hoped. It happens to frequently apply in the NBA.
Sometimes, a player acquisition makes more sense on paper than it ends up making in practice. A player may regress, or simply not fit with the pieces they already have in place.
Such was the case with the Chicago Bulls and big man Nikola Vucevic. Between him, Zach LaVine, and DeMar DeRozan, the Bulls surely thought they were assembling an offensive superpower. As it turned out, they could have used more defense in the middle.
After all, LaVine and DeRozan were the focuses of their offense anyway, which relegated Vucevic to a floor-spacing role. His three-point accuracy declined, and his other offensive skills weren’t put to proper use.
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