It's whether or not it's the one you've gotta create. It doesn't make a difference, an identity will be created. "If you don't work, and try to take ownership in the identity and responsibility and ownership, an identity will be created. "The hardest thing to do in team sports is create an identity," Donovan said. As a group in general, that's the identity we want moving forward: We want to play harder than everybody."īut with Ball sidelined indefinitely and with a largely-returned group from the one that finished last season 20th in defense (26th after Ball went down), they will need to prove their mettle before it can be assumed. But that is something we talked about at halftime. "It's preseason so it's hard to put too much weight into it. "We kind of were just going through the motions, which is a little disappointing," Caruso said of the Bulls' defense after the game. That is how, led by Lonzo Ball and Alex Caruso, the Bulls established the identity at the beginning of last season that propelled them to the top of the Eastern Conference. It's a reminder that no matter how much the Bulls emphasis pace or ball and player movement at the offensive end, it all starts with defense. "Even when we got into the halfcourt our pace and our tempo and the way we cut and moved didn't give us any flow at all." And I thought their guards picked us up full-court and made it hard. It's hard to play fast (without getting stops).
"I think that they shot 70 percent in the first quarter. The first quarter saw them cough up twice as many turnovers (eight) as assists (four) and bog down in the face of up-court pressure and a set New Orleans defense. Asked how he will approach that decision during the organization’s media day on Monday, the Bulls. Worse, in Donovan's view, the Bulls' inability to manufacture stops bled immediately on to the other end of the floor, where the Bulls' free-flowing point of offensive emphasis got off to a clunky start. It leaves Billy Donovan looking for a new starting point guard. William Edward Donovan (Octo December 9, 1923), nicknamed 'Wild Bill' and 'Smiling Bill', was an American right-handed baseball pitcher and manager.
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The Pelicans, to their credit, took full advantage of the Bulls' deficiencies, piling on 70 points on 60.5 percent shooting in the first half, including 32 points in the paint and 24 (8-for-17) from behind the 3-point arc, before the benches emptied midway through the third quarter.
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