In a notoriously haphazard effort to belatedly tank their season, our Chicago Bulls made a whopping seven trades heading into last month’s deadline. After an encouraging 0-11 run in February, the team has frustratingly righted the ship, going 4-5 in March. Granted, they lost to the Toronto Raptors by 30 points on Wednesday night and face the 42-27 Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday, so maybe things are turning around?
The Bulls got eight second-draft picks and one second-round pick swap back, plus a long-term commitment to… Rob Dillingham, for beloved pieces like Ayo Dosunmu and Coby White. And they haven’t been able to effectively maximize their future draft chances thanks to some quality Donovan coaching.
Even though the Bulls are haplessly continuing their mediocrity in the “treading water” part of the NBA standings, we’ll have you covered with draft-related coverage throughout March Madness.
But… speaking of madness…
Alonzo Adams-Imagn ImagesBulls Bullets — March 19, 2026
Now-Minnesota Timberwolves reserve Dosunmu has been making headlines for claiming that head coach Billy Donovan “really prohibited” mid-range shots in his offense.Here's Ayo Dosunmu talking about what he's reading in pick and roll coverage and why he's taking more midrange shots in Minnesota after those were prohibited in Chicago."In Chicago, midrange shots was really prohibited. It was 3s and layups, no midrange shots unless it's the… pic.twitter.com/LtGKsRjVqN
— Dane Moore (@DaneMooreNBA) March 18, 2026 Per CHGO Sports’ Will Gottlieb, Donovan has refuted Dosunmu’s claim, suggesting that he essentially sought to empower players — and that when they were elite midrange scorers a la DeMar DeRozan, they were enabled in that terrain.“If I was opposed to the midrange, I would have been telling DeMar not to take them. You’ve got to play to the player’s strengths. I’m a believer in that,” Donovan said. “The first part of the shot clock you certainly want to try and get something downhill to the basket, and generally what happens is when the ball gets into the paint and the ball gets sprayed out that’s when the 3’s are going to go up.”
Dane Moore asked Minnesota head coach Chris Finch about Ayo’s claim that the Timberwolves are more amenable to midrange scoring than the Bulls were. Finch seemed to offer plenty of caveats to that concept.Asked Chris Finch about Ayo Dosunmu saying last night that Chicago had different parameters around shot selection than Minnesota does, and the concept of different rosters justifying different shot locations."Sounds like my pupil is failing class here," Finch joked. t.co/HApgaQp0If pic.twitter.com/BXFZdUC2so
— Dane Moore (@DaneMooreNBA) March 18, 2026“Sounds like my pupil is failing class here if he’s thinking that,” Finch chuckled. “If you look at most of Ayo’s midrange shots, a lot of them come at the end of the shot clock, and they’re often self-created. That’s the place that you want to or have to be able to use them. So I don’t think he’s there searching, but I think he’s also got the mechanics for a good paint pull-up game. So we’ve never been zero-tolerance, it’s just who takes [midrange shots] and who doesn’t.”
Former 17-year NBA vet Eddie Johnson, now a Phoenix Suns commentator, wrote on his official X account that the idea Donovan stopped most players from taking midrange jumpers “makes me wanna throw up.” According to Gottlieb, Donovan told reporters that the pain in new trade acquisition Jaden Ivey’s left knee has subsided. Ivey has only appeared in four games for the Bulls, and has been fully shut down since Feb. 11. Donovan indicates that Ivey is set to join Chicago on the club’s next road trip, with an eye on playing. Per the Windy City Bulls, two-way Bulls guard Mac McClung now ranks second all-time among G League scorers — including the Tip-Off Tournament preseason, regular season and playoffs. The three-time Slam Dunk Contest champ, 27, is enjoying a banner run through the G League this regular season, averaging 30.8 points on .512/.366/.774 shooting splits, 8.1 assists, 3.3 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 0.8 blocks. He’s appeared in just one NBA regular season contest with Chicago so far this year, trapped behind a backcourt logjam. In what could be a blow to the Bulls’ Tankathon rank, 10-time All-Star Milwaukee Bucks power forward Giannis Antetokounmpo is allegedly at odds with his own team over his status for the rest of the year. Shams Charania of ESPN reports that Milwaukee wants Antetokounmpo to sit out for the rest of the year, but Antetokounmpo is angling to return to the court. The two-time league MVP will miss at least the next week a left knee hyperextension and bone bruise. Injuries have limited Antetokounmpo to just 36 contests this season. Should he sit out the rest of the way, the horrible Bucks will likely lap the Bulls when it comes to losses. The 28-40 Bucks are currently just 0.5 games better than the Bulls by record but a whopping 6.5 contests behind the 35-34 Charlotte Hornets for a shot at the East’s No. 10 seed. The Miami Heat are expected to waive embattled point guard Terry Rozier’s expiring $26.6 million contract later this month, reports The Miami Herald‘s Anthony Chiang. Rozier has been away from the team since an Oct. 23 arrest related to illicit gambling shenanigans.MORE FROM BLEACHER NATION: Go Ad Free | Subscribe to the BN Newsletter
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