Looking at the SummerBulls Before the LVSL Playoffs
After picking up a 79-76 victory over Becky Hammon and the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night, Bulls assistant coach Pete Myers and the SummerBulls will be the No. 2 seed in the Las Vegas Summer League playoffs.
If you thought Bobby Portis was already crazy, wait until he and the Chicago Bulls begin their quest to the precious Las Vegas Summer League title.
The Bulls defeated the Boston Celtics, Philadelphia 76ers and the defending LVSL champion San Antonio Spurs this past Tuesday to go 3-0 in their three-game slate in Vegas. With that undefeated record, the SummerBulls will be the No. 2 overall seed in the LVSL’s postseason, which begins on Wednesday.
As noted by the Chicago Tribune‘s K.C. Johnson, the SummerBulls will play the winner of Wednesday’s first-round matchup between the 18th-seeded Milwaukee Bucks and the 15th-seeded Dallas Mavericks.
(You can look at the full bracket here.)
The 3-0 Summer Bulls get 2nd seed at NBA Summer League, have bye today and play Bucks/Mavs winner Thursday at 7:30 pm Central.
— K.C. Johnson (@KCJHoop) July 13, 2016
If the SummerBulls advance past the winner of Milwaukee-Dallas, they would play the winner of the Washington-Sacramento/Atlanta game on Friday in the quarterfinals of the playoff bracket.
For the Bulls in Las Vegas, it’s been a bag of variety.
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There’s been some good (Cristiano Felicio‘s perfect 8-for-8 outing against the Sixers), some bad (Denzel Valentine going 0-for-9 from three-point range in his Vegas debut) and some ugly (the SummerBulls are shooting 20 percent from three-point range as a team in Vegas).
If you’re betting on these games, please get some assistance for that addiction and if you’re watching because it’s the Bulls, then don’t panic over what’s mostly been bad basketball played from all of the youth-filled teams in Sin City.
Like Stephen Noh of The Athletic Chicago noted in his overview of the SummerBulls so far, both Jerian Grant and Denzel Valentine — two expected rotation players this season — have more turnovers than assists in three games.
Bobby Portis has been aggressive and has been the best player on the floor for the Bulls throughout most of the action in Vegas, but it’ll be more what he can do against better opposition that will tell his story.
The big thing for this version of the Bulls is to improve with each game. The Bulls have shown a little more aggressiveness on the defensive end in their overall scheme and their three-point shooting amount — although the percentages are bad — has been pleasantly high.
Next: The Bulls on defense during the Las Vegas Summer League
Those two factors are going to be key aspects for the main roster of Bulls this season.