“It’s not sustainable to play like that!”

Hero of the week with these two “game winner” against Denver and then Portland, Nikola Vucevic he didn’t want to celebrate the Bulls’ success against the Wizards at all. His training went very close to remedial while he was partners of Alex Sara have only won once this season, and have 14 losses in a row!

“We just didn’t play at the NBA level” he said. “I don’t think we really understand that it’s just not sustainable to play that way. We won, obviously. It’s hard to win in this league. We know we’ve had a tough time, a lot of matches. It’s good to win, but we have to understand that it’s not going to continue like this, finding solutions at the end, counting on steals, recovering friendly opponents…

“We’re not there to help each other in defense. We don’t focus on the game plan, on scouting: when we say we’re going to go under the screen for a certain player, or take away his right arm, something like that…”

While the Bulls have a good 9-7 record, six of their wins have come by four points or less. On the side of the Bulls, we could congratulate ourselves on the “clutch”, but Vucevic sees the glass as half empty and warns that it cannot continue like this.

“It’s not always going to work in our favor. Sometimes we’ll play well and win close games, but most of the time, if we keep playing like this, it’s going to result in bad losses.” he continues. “Like last night against Miami: we’re not there at the beginning of the game, and when we wake up, it’s too late. They were such a good team, well organized. These teams aren’t just going to let you get back into the game. You have to be aware of these things.”

The reporter reminds him that he already sounded the alarm against the Blazers despite the joy of scoring the game-winning basket at the buzzer.

“I think the frustration comes from the fact that these are things that we can really control. There’s always going to be games where we defend well and the other team is still going to shoot and it’s not going our way. But that’s where, in the last three games, we’ve taken a lot of offensive rebounds. We’re not there to help each other out on defense. We don’t plan to concentrate, when we say we’re concentrating on that kind of play. player, or taking away his right arm, things like that… Little counts in this league, details because they add up, you can take two points here, two points there, it’s maybe six, eight points a game in total, and most games are 5, 6, 10 points, so if you can do that, it makes a big difference.