"IN AUGUST 2024, more than a month before the start of training camp, a group of Chicago Bulls players gathered in Miami for a player-driven minicamp. For years the Bulls had talked internally about their desire to play a different style of offense, and that summer they finally began making changes to their roster to do so. They had already moved on from DeMar DeRozan, who was traded to Sacramento earlier that summer."
"Two weeks before that, in a sign of the changing priorities within the team's front office, the Bulls traded defensive stalwart Alex Caruso to the Oklahoma City Thunder for then-21-year-old guard Josh Giddey. It was Giddey, the team believed, who could be the engine of a new era of Bulls basketball -- faster, more egalitarian."
""These guys hated it at first," Donovan told ESPN. "But I told these guys we have to start playing this way before the start of training camp. We can't just jog up and down the f"
In August 2024, Bulls players met in Miami for a player-driven minicamp to prepare for a new offensive identity. The front office moved on from DeMar DeRozan and traded Alex Caruso to Oklahoma City in a deal for Josh Giddey to accelerate a shift toward a faster, more egalitarian offense. The organization expected Giddey to be the engine for increased pace and more ball movement. Coach Billy Donovan introduced 14-second shot-clock scrimmages to force quicker decision-making, a change players initially resisted. The strategy aimed to move the team away from isolation-heavy play centered on DeRozan and Zach LaVine, who was dealt at the 2025 deadline.
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