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As time goes by, the Bulls training camp for the new season officially begins.

At this point, a question suddenly emerged, that is, how to take makeup photos for the new season?

Last season, the Bulls still had Ben Gordon and Josh Smith, who could form a three-core team with Duan.

As for the Bulls this season, except for Duan, they are either rookies or veterans with high salaries and low abilities.

Among the winning team, Milicic and Zhu Fangyu, the only two mediocre players who were retained, did not have any star flavor.

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

The sudden promotion of Milicic, not to mention whether Bulls fans will agree or not, adds some extra pressure to Milicic himself, which may not be a good thing.

Of course, the Bulls' rookies are all very ambitious. How could they not covet the position of the team's second boss?

In order to make things even, and also to motivate the rookies in the team, the Bulls finally adopted the banner of Duen's single-core leadership.

Fortunately, Duen has proven his personal strength and team leadership ability by winning four championships in six years.

Bulls fans also know that these few years are a rebuilding period and support Duan in cultivating rookies.

Therefore, Dune can still carry the box office in the new season, although of course it is slightly worse than last year.

The time soon came to early October, and the preseason of the NBA 10-10 season started quickly.

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

With everyone working together and the rookies fighting bravely to be the first, no matter how bad the preseason is, it won't be any worse.

Who would have thought that Du En still thought of things too simply.

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

The reason why rookies are bad is because they lack defensive experience and game experience.

The Bulls' rookies are not bad in talent. Perhaps their talent is too outstanding, and they were the core of their respective teams before.

Nowadays, when we play together, under the influence of each other's competitive personalities, it is easy for them to fight on their own.

The team's defense depends not only on individual defensive ability, but also on overall discipline and collaboration between teammates.

The Bulls have made extensive adjustments to their lineup due to reconstruction. There is no Garnett to shape a new defensive system, and even Josh Smith has been traded away.

Nowadays, naturally there is no good defensive system.

At the same time, some rookies have exposed some deficiencies on the defensive end due to lack of physical confrontation or defensive experience. Some rookies noticed that their teammates were insufficient in defense, so they acted very actively, and then the problem of excessive defense appeared.

It is also because of these and other problems, coupled with the fact that the first-year rookie has just arrived and has not yet fully integrated into the team, and the Bulls are constantly losing, the atmosphere in the Bulls locker room has also been affected.

Fortunately, it's just a preseason game, so winning or losing won't have much impact.

Duan's prestige within the Bulls is high enough. Many times when Duan opens his mouth, everyone chooses to shut up.

It's just that some people choose to practice extra during the season, and some people choose to go home after get off work.

However, as the team boss, Du En, since he noticed the problems in the team, he naturally had to put his effort into solving them as soon as possible.

Soon, Duen asked the management to report the situation and told them to strengthen the coaching staff and introduce defensive experts.

Scott Scales himself is also a defensive coach. However, as a player, Scott Scales was often criticized for his inability to defend because of his thin stature.

As a player, Scott Skiles has no skills in defense. As a coach, he wants to teach his players to defend well. Naturally, he is not very convincing. The Bulls have had no problems with defense in recent years, mainly because they use players with outstanding physical talents and excellent single defense capabilities.

After Garnett arrived, the Bulls' defense became even less of a problem.

However, it's been more than a year since Garnett left the Bulls, and Scott Skiles' defensive system is just that.

So the Bulls returned to the stage of defensive chaos when Duan first came to the Bulls.

Now that the Bulls want to return to the championship sequence as soon as possible, they must introduce real assistants who can change the team's defense.

Then the new defensive assistant coach will teach the rookies how to complete their respective defensive tasks.

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

After the Bulls management communicated with Duen, they immediately took action.

It's a pity that the defensive experts these days are basically famous.

Dwayne Casey was Rick Carlisle's defensive assistant, Frank Vogel was Jim O'Brien's defensive assistant, and Monty Williams just became the Hornets' head coach over 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. His coaching performance in the Cavaliers over the years has been pretty good. Normally, it is not difficult to find a job.

But who told James to run away in the summer? Many people also attributed James's departure to Mike Brown's lack of coaching skills and his inability to help the Cavaliers win the championship.

So there were a lot of calls in the summer, and Mike Brown, who had not yet found a new head coaching job, could only stay at home.

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

In the end, he was rejected by his family because he stayed at home for a long time, so he accepted the job as an assistant coach with the Bulls.

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

And if you can win the championship with the Bulls, your coaching resume will look much better. When the time comes, it will naturally be easier to become the team's head coach.

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

However, at the beginning of the new season, there were too many strong teams in the Eastern Conference and the competition was high, and the Bulls did not get any benefits.

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

However, just when the outside media felt that the Bulls were completely ruined this season, the Bulls suddenly got better.

In the next seven consecutive games played by the Western Devils, the Bulls, under the leadership of Dunn, first won three consecutive games and swept the top three Texas teams.

Although there were only two wins and two losses in the remaining four games, they only lost to the defending champion Lakers and the Jazz due to weather issues.

Generally speaking, in this round of seven consecutive Western Conference games, the Bulls performed quite well.

The team's record also quickly rose from tenth in the Eastern Conference to eighth in the Eastern Conference, returning to the Eastern Conference playoff sequence.

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