LaVine taking accelerated course in Bulls' new offense
The Bulls held their first full team practice Sunday. The first days of training camp were limited to socially distanced individual workouts, per NBA guidelines.
After practice ended, Zach LaVine was asked how much he knows about new coach Billy Donovan's offense. The Bulls will play their first preseason game on Friday against Houston, so there's not much time to figure it out.
"It's always going to be more to learn coming into a new system," LaVine said. "I played against him over the last couple of years (when he coach Oklahoma City), so they have a lot of motion offense, obviously (with) different pieces. But still the same base of a lot of movement, a lot of cuts, playing fast, getting up and down the floor.
"Not have to try to set up plays if you have these athletes just go out and get a good shot, but cutting and obviously getting better opportunities by catch and shoot, so it's been good. We've been working at it.
"I know I've got the playbook and I've been looking through it vigorously to try to get down the plays because obviously if you come into an offense and you only have so many days to work it there is still going to be room for improvement."