Examining the Roster

Looking at the Bulls’ roster, I think the team should be pretty competitive this season, but improve as the year progresses, much like last season.  The subtraction of the team’s leading scorer of the last three years, Ben Gordon, will be felt initially, as the extra shot attempts are divvied up among the rest of the players.  Most of those attempts figure to go Luol Deng’s way, as the team will be looking for Deng to be the second option behind Derrick Rose.  Deng has the ability to produce efficiently on offense, as he showed three seasons ago, and he could really help pick up the slack early on and moving forward.

Derrick Rose’s improvement will greatly factor into the team’s success this season and the point guard has been working hard this offseason, especially on his jump shot.  Rose’s quickness is nearly unparalleled in the league and the addition of a consistent perimeter shot would make him nearly unguardable.  This certainly won’t be a one or two-man show, though, as the Bulls will need solid contributions out of a number of players in order to fare well this season.  Kirk Hinrich and Joakim Noah will play very important roles in 2009-10, as should John Salmons.

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