{"id":31912,"date":"2025-11-10T22:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/chicago\/2025\/11\/10\/another-loss-another-star-taking-the-bulls-down-as-wemby-is-latest\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T22:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:27:11","slug":"another-loss-another-star-taking-the-bulls-down-as-wemby-is-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/chicago\/2025\/11\/10\/another-loss-another-star-taking-the-bulls-down-as-wemby-is-latest\/","title":{"rendered":"Another loss, another star taking the Bulls down, as Wemby is latest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction to the Bulls’ Current Situation<\/h2>\n

Depth. Check. Conditioning. Check. Three-point shooting. Check. Improved defense. Check. Superstar closer? Uh, repeat, superstar closer? Pencils down, Arturas. Yes, Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas should get some credit for an improved product he\u2019s built for the 2025-26 campaign, but for the third straight game \u2013 and a third straight Bulls loss \u2013 it was the haves taking advantage of the have nots. The incomplete that still sits on Karnisovas\u2019 report card.<\/p>\n

Recent Losses and Star Players<\/h2>\n

In Milwaukee on Friday, it was Giannis Antetokounmpo who finished with 41 and was unstoppable in the fourth. A night later in Cleveland, it was Donovan Mitchell\u2019s turn, as he scored 13 of his 29 down the stretch. And in Monday\u2019s latest blown lead and heartbreak for the Bulls (6-4) it was San Antonio\u2019s unicorn in Victor Wembanyama, who scored 18 of his 38 points in that final quarter to deliver the 121-117 Spurs win. Different night, different star player, same result.<\/p>\n

The Impact of Wembanyama<\/h2>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re the best players in the league, and they\u2019re going to do what they do,\u201d Bulls center Nikola Vucevic said after the latest loss. \u201cSome games we\u2019re going to be able to limit them. When they get it going, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a whole lot you can do. Even against teams that have those great players we\u2019ve played well. (Monday) we had a chance, Cleveland we had a chance as well. Just didn\u2019t close it down the stretch.\u201d The Ninth Wonder of the World was as good as advertised early on, not only on the offensive end with nine first-quarter points, but the way Wembanyama changed the Bulls offense in that opening stanza. More like the way he intimidated it. <\/p>\n

White’s Potential Return and Team Performance<\/h2>\n

White practiced Monday with the Windy City Bulls of the G League to test the strained right calf that has sidelined him since the season started and might make his debut next week. The Bulls don\u2019t have a pure isolation superstar who can get a basket when desperation time comes. In back-to-back losses in Milwaukee and Cleveland, they\u2019ve watched that type of star lead to their downfall. \"Giannis<\/p>\n

Recent Games Against the Cavaliers and Bucks<\/h2>\n

After Giannis Antetokounmpo showed the Bulls MVP basketball Friday night, it was Donovan Mitchell\u2019s turn a night later. The Cavs All-Star scored 29, and, suddenly, after a hot start, the Bulls are 6-3. <img class="Image" alt="Bulls Cavaliers Basketball" srcset="https:\/\/cst.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/540a40d\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4645×3097+0+0\/resize\/840×560!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F4c%2F96%2Fe86f895c4b74a94c1e3034b8d411%2Fbulls-cavaliers-basketball.jpg<\/a> 1x,https:\/\/cst.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/090aa69\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4645×3097+0+0\/resize\/1680×1120!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F4c%2F96%2Fe86f895c4b74a94c1e3034b8d411%2Fbulls-cavaliers-basketball.jpg<\/a> 2x" width="840" height="560" src="https:\/\/cst.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/540a40d\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4645×3097+0+0\/resize\/840×560!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F4c%2F96%2Fe86f895c4b74a94c1e3034b8d411%2Fbulls-cavaliers-basketball.jpg<\/a>" data-lazy-load="true" bad-src="data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introduction to the Bulls’ Current Situation Depth. Check. Conditioning. Check. Three-point shooting. Check. Improved defense. Check. Superstar closer? Uh, repeat, superstar closer? Pencils down, Arturas. Yes, Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas should get some credit for an improved product he\u2019s built for the 2025-26 campaign, but for the third straight game […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cst.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/34ece8e\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3121x1782+0+149\/resize\/1461x834!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fcb%2Fec%2F93967e32463db6c36d9cb24dde36%2F2245571765.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31914,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31912\/revisions\/31914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}