Chicago Bulls: Building the all-time worst starting five

Shooting Guard: Pete Myers, 1993-94

The production that the Chicago Bulls got from former shooting guard Pete Myers during the 1993-94 season was less than stellar. But the Bulls had to find something to do to replace the production of MJ. This was the first season the Bulls had to deal with the void of MJ in the rotation, since he went to join the Chicago White Sox minor league system in the MLB.

Baseball didn’t suit MJ all too well, and he would wind up coming back to the Bulls for the legendary 1995-96 title run alongside fellow superstar Scottie Pippen. But the Bulls tried to plug the gap at the shooting guard position during the 1993-94 season with Myers. He was just getting back from a two-year stint in Italy and wasn’t ready to assume this big of a role.

Myers played in 82 games during the 1993-94 season, and started in 81 of them. This was really the only season that any NBA team would trust Myers to fill a starting role. Yet, in the 82 games he played in during the 1993-94 season he averaged 7.9 points per game, 3.0 rebounds, 2.2 assists, and 1.0 steals, while shooting 45.5 percent from the field and 27.6 percent from beyond the arc.

Moreover, the advanced numbers didn’t really help the case of Myers either. He would post a player efficiency rating of 10.6, -2.2 box plus/minus rating, 50.7 true shooting percentage, and a -0.1 value over replacement player rating. The high turnover rate of about 18 percent, and very low rebounding rate of about five percent didn’t do Myers any favors either.