2. Injuries at the wrong time
The laundry list of injuries that hits the Chicago Bulls that this fan base is so used to took a while to hit this season. The Bulls were bitten by the injury bug early in the 2018-19 regular season, which was just not the case this season. The two key players in this Bulls rebuild have missed various spans of time this season due to injury.
The injury bug waited until the months of January and February to really strike the Bulls. Power forward Lauri Markkanen went down in the last two months with a pelvic injury that held him out for a while. Point guard Kris Dunn is out for the rest of the season with a knee injury he suffered against the Toronto Raptors.
Center Wendell Carter Jr. just worked his way back from an ankle sprain he suffered back in January against the Dallas Mavericks. And small forward Otto Porter Jr. just got back into the rotation finally after recovering from a foot fracture. Getting OPJ might be the most important of the bunch since the Bulls are really lacking wing depth beyond him on the roster.
Any additional impactful injuries could really bog this Bulls rotation down. The Bulls already can’t form a playoff-caliber rotation, or anything close to that. But part of that reason is that they haven’t had most of their best players available of late. Markkanen is up and down since his return from injury, as was WCJ.