Tomas Satoransky, CG
Among the most inconsistent guards for the Bulls this season was the lengthy 6-foot-7 and 210 pound 29-year-old combo guard Tomas Satoransky. In the fifth season of his NBA career, it looked like Sato was going to find more traction in a Bulls uniform. He came out of the gates hot last season but didn’t finish it out well.
This season was a bit of a different story in terms of how Sato’s inconsistencies came and went. But it was largely the same storyline in the fact that it was hard to tell where his production and overall confidence would be at night in and night out. Sato at one point looked like he could assume the role of the starting point guard, but that quickly went away.
The last five or six weeks of the regular season saw Sato get moved back to more of a bench role. It was hard to tell that Donovan couldn’t rely on him on a consistent basis, despite giving him the starting role in February and March.
In 58 games played for the Bulls in the season that was, Sato averaged 7.7 points per game, 2.4 rebounds, 4.7 assists, 0.7 steals, and 0.2 blocks. A lot of the counting stats sat at career lows for the Bulls during the 2020-21 campaign. And while his shooting percentages got better (around 51 percent from the field and 36 percent from beyond the arc), they waned down the stretch.
All told, Sato didn’t finish out this season the way he or Donovan would’ve liked him to. He had high expectations with the Bulls backcourt rotation post-All-Star Break but didn’t live up to them in the end.