Defense

There is a couple of things the Bulls need to work on this off season and the most important should be DEFENSE. They the Bulls want to win an NBA title they need to be in the top 5 defensive teams in the leader and history proves that. The very 1^st thing that a NBA title contender team needs to have is defense. It goes the same in pretty much every sport out there that defense wins championships and it’s no different in basketball. If you look back to recent NBA Championship winners you can tell they many of them have been defensive teams. The Lakers Kobe Bryant has been on the NBA defensive team 10 times throughout his NBA career and Ron Artest has been on the team for 4 years. With the Spurs and their Championship run they had Tim Duncan who has been there 13 times, Bruce Bowen 8 times, and David Robinson 8 times. Even when the Bulls made their run with 6 Championships with MJ the team was still defensive minded. Michael Jordan who had been on the NBA’s defensive team 9 times, Scottie Pippen’s been on it 10 times, and they also had Dennis Rodman who was on it 8 times. So out of those teams they all had at least 2 players on the roster who were considered to be elite defensive players. During the regular season you can have a great offensive and put up a ton of points in order to win games and you might win 60 games like the Mavs and Suns did in past seasons but since neither of them have an average defensive team they would always end up falling in the playoffs when teams take their game up a notch.