Bulls Get Trashed in ESPN Power Rankings

The Bulls got off to a bad start in 2007-’08, but they rebounded nicely, made a sweet playoff run and now they are poised to take on the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals. That’s the sentence this blogger hopes to be bale to copy and paste into a blog in a few months, but for now, only the first part of that statement has been true. The Bulls got off to a bad start. As you are well aware, the Bulls dropped five of their first six games, leading many people believe that they were overrated before the season began. In fact, in the latest NBA Power Rankings the Bulls are ranked 30th, dead last. How much worse could it get? As the Power Ranking comment says, the good thing is that there’s nowhere to go but up.

But Bulls fans, let’s try not to get into a panic too quickly. It’s a long season. There is plenty of time for the Bulls to find their groove and get to the top of the meaningless rankings systems, which are basically designed to breed false confidence and needless panic by their very nature. On the one hand, you can’t blame the writers at ESPN and the other sports media websites for being hard on the Bulls. The facts and stats stand for themselves so far. But since Power Rankings are more subjective than anything, you would think that the Bulls would get more of a pass, especially right out of the gates. There are plenty of examples of sports teams not playing well at the beginning of the season only to become the best team in the league by the end. The Bulls are just saving the best for last.

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