Ronzo Ball is in good shape, followed by the other Bulls, and are the Lakers and Pelicans envious?

As journalist Stephen Noh said in his coverage of the Bulls' win over the Toronto Raptors last night, it was indeed a completely different game in the first and second halves. Thanks to Demar DeRozan's powerful offensive performance in the late game, the Bulls avoided defeat in the end (if you don't pass the ball, it's hard to make mistakes!). For the first 42 minutes of the game, the team's performance continued as it had been since the start of the season: playing a positive, good defense.

It wasn't until the final 6 minutes of the game that the Bulls began to suppress the rhythm, and their defensive efficiency improved from 104.8 points to 95.58 points. The Raptors' turnover rate rose to 17.7 percent.

So far this season, the Bulls have a turnover rate of 17.2 percent, ranking fourth in the league. That's a lot better than when they led the league two seasons ago, when the Bulls, led by Blitz-a-war coach Boylen, were clearly the best in the NBA at forcing mistakes. This fact first tells us that the turnover rates of all major teams in the league so far are high (in general, the changes in turnover rates tend to flatten as the season progresses).

The example of Boylen is also quoted to show that simply forcing the opponent to make mistakes is not a good defense after all. Two seasons ago, the Bulls were 12th in the league, but we know exactly how hard they struggle against teams that are good, especially when those teams decide to increase the intensity of the game, so it's a small statistic for them.

But so far, the Bulls have performed better defensively than they have been this season, and their defensive efficiency ranks fifth in the league. Their opponents since the start of the game have been the worst offensive teams in the league, and these teams are basically ranked in the bottom half, including the Pistons, the bottom team with a large gap in record. Even though it's only a small sample, in these games, the Bulls suppressed the offensive firepower of these teams at the beginning of the game with their strong defense, but we more or less know that these opponents are relatively weak in offensive firepower at the beginning of the season, after all, they need a certain amount of time to grind.

But we also know that as the season progresses, the Bulls could be in trouble defensively. So it's intriguing that even if the defense is less difficult, they can not only maintain the level, but also learn lessons and thrive.

Let's start with Ronzo Ball, who ranks in the top ten in the league for steals, blocks and truncations. Ball is the leader of the team's starting line-up. We can tell from recent games that Alex Caruso will lead the team's bench and perform tactical tasks arranged by the coach (his total number of steals and interceptions currently leads the league, and it is done with his reduced playing time). And even more excitingly, it also happens to help Nikola-Vucevic play to his strengths.

As the season progresses, many people are worried about the Bulls' defense, and most of these concerns revolve around Vucevic, because he occupies the most important position in the team's defense, and he has never been a good frame guard, and his skills are not agile enough to complete the change in time when defending and dismantling. But in terms of his position, what he's best at is steals, and the Bulls can use that to develop the right tactics to mask his weak rim-guarding abilities.

Vucevic once again guided an offensive-defensive transition with his flexible hands, and he has been very good, averaging 4 interceptions, 2 steals and 1.7 blocks per game before tonight's game.

Then they can have forward players like Patrick Williams come to town to guard the basket.

It all started to work. It's also given the needs of the team, as in Boyren's defensive plan, their original intention was that in order not to expose their weaknesses they had to take risks and seize on the mistakes and mistakes of the opponents to fight back.

This may not be sustainable, at least not at the current level of competition. Opponents can break them up with a higher level of offense, and just one more pass can put the Bulls on the hold of many of the Bulls' good defensive plans.

However, the Bulls don't have to have this level of defense to be a good team, they just don't get caught up in the struggle. Ball has rarely had a bad performance on the defensive end (with Caruso on his bench), and even though Ball's performance over the past two seasons with the New Orleans Pelicans suggests that this is indeed possible, his defensive level has always been on the line. We hope that Vucevic and Williams (as well as monsters like Javent Green and Aliz Johnson in the rotation lineup who try to play as soon as they get on the pitch) will play a good defensive performance, and they have the ability to improve their defense to the league average.

Then, when you realize that Ball and Caruso are not Chris Dunn and Shaq Harrison (Ball shot more three-pointers in the last game than Dunn shot in three weeks), you start to be optimistic about the overall net efficiency value of the team and, dare we say, the overall winning percentage of the record. The Bulls will have to finish 31-47 in the remaining games to meet John Hollinger's predictions, which seem unrealistic in terms of what we've seen so far, given the relatively weak opponents lately and they will face more difficult challenges in the future.